Sen. Mike Lee
The Hill
Utah, United States
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On management of Utah public lands, Biden should pursue an accountable legislative process
We do not believe that anyone, even a president, should be empowered to unilaterally create overreaching national monuments, instantly limiting access to resources upon which local economies depend. → Read More
Sen. Mike Lee: 'The Mob Hates America on America's Dime. It's Time to Cut Off Their Allowance.'
"It’s long past time to expose the shiftless idiocy of the anti-American, anti-science, anti-establishment, anti-Constitution mob," Sen. Mike Lee says. → Read More
Just one agency should enforce antitrust law
Anonymous individuals at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission have recently taken it upon themselves to leak to the media that their respective agencies will soon open investigations of the largest U.S. tech companies. Policing markets with the antitrust laws is key to ensuring that competition benefits consumers. → Read More
Sanders & Lee: Congress just told Trump to get US troops out of Yemen. Next, Afghanistan?
Congress is finally reasserting its constitutional role in war making. We need a serious discussion of when and where to intervene, and who decides. → Read More
Sen. Mike Lee’s Epic Speech Against the Green New Deal
Utah Sen. Mike Lee poses an alternative solution to climate change on the Senate floor before a vote on the Green New Deal. → Read More
Prioritizing our nation’s lands and resources
For future generations to be afforded good experiences with public lands, we must face our responsibility to care for these resources so they will be worth visiting for many years to come. → Read More
TSA Needs Reform. Here's What My Bill Would Change.
Americans are willing to put up with quite a bit to travel, but we can do better than the TSA in its current form. → Read More
Why I Objected to a Bill That Would Ban 3D Gun Designs
Publishing a design for a 3D gun is not the same as having one. → Read More
Trump Is Right. NATO Countries Need to Up Their Defense Spending.
Even President Obama recognized that European countries aren't meeting their defense commitments. → Read More
What Congress Can Do to End Suffering at the Border
Not all of the story that progressives are telling about the border crisis, including a crying little girl, is true. → Read More
Thanks to Trump's New Rule, Fewer Tax Dollars Will Go to Abortion Providers
President Trump is following through on his campaign promise to get taxpayer money out of the abortion industry. → Read More
Trump's Rescission Request a Much-Needed First Step to Restoring Budget Sanity
All the money Trump requested to be cut is sitting unused in government agency bank accounts. → Read More
Everyone Needs a Close Community, but Those Are Fewer and Fewer
In many parts of the country, this breakdown of community has left individuals to fend for themselves in increasing isolation. → Read More
Sen. Mike Lee: Trump must secure authorization from Congress to keep fighting in Syria
President Trump announced strikes in Syria in a televised address last Friday. The strikes, carried out by American, British, and French forces, targeted sites associated with the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. → Read More
Free-Range Parenting Makes for Responsible Kids. We Shouldn't Penalize It.
It is parents who are best suited to gauge what kind of experience a child is mature enough to handle. → Read More
Americans Don't Want Obamacare Bailouts
By including bailout funds in this omnibus bill, Congress would be agreeing to a $10 billion annual corporate bailout with no end in sight. → Read More
My Bill Would Help Restore Congressional Authority on Tariffs
The Constitution gives Congress the power to levy taxes and collect “duties, imposts and excises.” Unfortunately, Congress has ceded this authority to the executive branch. → Read More
Trump Should Withdraw Radical Nominee Who Would Oppose Religious Liberty
Chai Feldblum believes her radical agenda “cannot be adequately advanced if pockets of resistance … are permitted to flourish.” She has described modern-day politics as a “zero-sum game,” where LGBT rights are secured only by curtailing the rights of religious Americans. → Read More
Budget Deal Is a Betrayal of Limited Government Conservatism
The spending increases in the budget deal will drive next year’s budget deficit to almost $1.2 trillion, a level not seen since the beginning of President Obama’s failed stimulus program. → Read More
Unborn Babies Can Feel Pain at 20 Weeks. But Shamefully, Our Laws Don’t Protect Them.
Each year in the United States, more than 10,000 abortions occur after the 20-week mark. We can stop this and we must. → Read More