Controversy over a nominee for a position as trustee for Social Security and Medicare found its way to the Senate floor Tuesday, the day before the trustees are scheduled to release their annual report on the state of the entitlement programs, as Sen. Orrin Hatch called Democrats “shameful” for opposing the candidate.

Hatch, the chairman of the Finance Committee, criticized Democrats Charles Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse for campaigning against the confirmation of Charles Blahous for another term as trustee and portraying him as a stooge of the Koch brothers and a threat to Social Security. Blahous, an Obama appointee, would be the required non-Democrat public trustee, a position for which confirmation is generally not contested.