We consider a class of degenerate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, of the kind \[ \mathcal{A}\equiv\sum_{i,j=1}^{p_{0}}a_{ij}\partial_{x_{i}x_{j}}^{2} +\sum_{i,j=1}^{N}b_{ij}x_{i}\partial_{x_{j}}% \] where $(a_{ij}) ,(b_{ij}) $ are constant matrices, $(a_{ij}) $ is symmetric positive definite on $\mathbb{R} ^{p_{0}}$ ($p_{0}\leq N$), and $(b_{ij}) $ is such that $\mathcal{A}$ is hypoelliptic. For this class of operators we prove global $L^{p}$ estimates ($1
