Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and Senator Sherrod Brown engaged in a shouting match Thursday night at a hearing over the GOP tax reform bill working its way through the Senate.

Hatch, a Utah Republican, took umbrage at comments by Brown saying the�tax bill�will help the rich at the expense of the poor.

�This tax cut is really not for the middle class,� Brown said. �It�s for the rich.�

Calling it �a nice political play,� Hatch told Brown �I�ve been here working my whole stinking career for people who don�t have a chance, and I really resent anybody saying that I�m just doing this for the rich.�

Brown, an Ohio Democrat, meanwhile, shot back that the public believes that the bill primarily benefits the wealthy. �I get sick and tired of the richest people in the country getting richer and richer,� he said over shouts calling for regular order. �We do a tax cut for the rich and the middle class loses.�

Hatch�said that he came from the lower-middle class. �We didn�t have anything,� he said. �So don�t spew this stuff at me.�

�I like you personally very much but I�m telling you, this stuff you throw out really gets old after awhile,� he said.

The fight came during the final day of the Senate Finance Committee debate over the tax overhaul bill. The committee later approved the bill on a party line vote 14-12.