Homecoming for Wounded Marine — Day Lee Briefing 02/08/2012
Today’s Agenda Today, Senator Lee will meet with representatives of the Special Olympics, the Drug Free Community, the Weber Basin Water Construction District, the Utah Association of Elementary Principals, the […]
Utah Congressional Delegation Pushes the Interior Department on Restrictive American Energy Policy
WASHINGTON – Utah’s Congressional delegation today wrote to Secretary Ken Salazar of the U.S. Department of the Interior to urge he overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Draft Programmatic […]
Backstage at the State of the Union — Day Lee Briefing 02/07/2012
Today, Senator Lee will meet with representatives of the Clearfield Jobs Corps Center, Park City, the Center for Persons with Disabilities, the Army National Guard, the Utah Narcotics Officers Association, and the Utah School Board Association.
No Budget this Year — Day Lee Briefing 02/06/2012
Senator Reid says, “We don’t need to bring a budget to the floor this year.”
Lee: Obama ignored Constitution
In drafting the Constitution and establishing our nation’s system of government, the Founding Fathers carefully instituted a system of checks and balances among the three coequal branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial.
The National Prayer Breakfast — Day Lee Briefing 02/02/2012
Today, Senator Lee will join in the National Prayer Breakfast at 7:30 AM EST
DeMint, Lee Bill Would End Corporate Welfare for Energy Companies in Tax Code
Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the Energy Freedom & Economic Prosperity Act (EFEPA) to repeal all energy specific tax credits. The legislation is revenue neutral as it also requires a corresponding reduction in the corporate tax rate. U.S. Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) has previously introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearings on Unconstitutional Appointments
On February 1, 2012, Senator Lee was invited to participate in a hearing on the constitutionality of President Obama’s appointments to the NLRB and CFPB. The following videos contain Senator […]
Lee Statement on Proposed Express Scripts and Medco Merger
The proposed merger between Express Scripts and Medco is a significant transaction. By combing two of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers (“PBM”), the merger will create the nation’s largest PBM.
“He Exercised Power that is not His” — Interview with Tim Farley
He has exercised power that is not his, it belongs to the people and it is supposed to be exercised through the people’s elected representatives in the Senate and not through the President; he has taken that away from them and they feel powerless. So I sympathize with that and that’s why I made the comments that I have made.