"If we are really concerned about jobs moving overseas, we must be concerned about creating and maintaining the kind of environment in the United States that attracts businesses," Hatch said. "These changes will go a long way in ensuring that U.S. tax laws do not drive businesses offshore to other nations with more favorable tax laws."

• Hatch's biggest victory of the weekend may have been his hard-fought DNA bill that commits billions of dollars for DNA testing of untested rape kits, upgrading crime labs and using DNA to exonerate those wrongfully convicted.

"This is a groundbreaking crime bill that will allow us to unleash the evidentiary power of DNA," Hatch said. "It will provide law enforcement the ability to find and punish the guilty yet give us the comfort of more certainty in criminal prosecutions."

The bill — co-sponsored by prominent Democrats — includes $755 million to eliminate the backlog of 400,000 untested rape kits and other crime scene evidence; $500 million to improve federal, state and local crime labs and to promote the use of DNA in missing persons cases; and $25 million to defray the states' costs of post-conviction DNA testing to ensure those convicted have not been wrongfully imprisoned.

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