(Andr Chung | special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Hatch in the Senate pro tem office in Washington D.C. on December 21, 2017 with an original portrait of President Lincoln on the wall. This is the same painting that Lincoln actually sat for and is the basis for the penny. Senator Orrin Hatch is the senior senator from Utah, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and President pro tempore of the United States Senate.