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Lee Statement on Failure of Super Committee

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Lee Statement on Failure of Super Committee

Even after the failure of the Super Committee, Congress still has an obligation to cut spending, balance the budget, and make the necessary reforms to restrain its ability to do significantly greater damage to our
economy. I still believe the principles established in the Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation I introduced earlier this year provide the way forward for
Congress to achieve these goals, get its fiscal house in order, and regain our triple-A credit rating.

Tea Party Debt Commission, Obamacare, and the Balanced Budget Amendment — Day Lee Briefing 11/18/2011

At 2 p.m. Thursday, as New York’s finest were prepping plastic handcuffs and orange netting around the park once occupied by Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party was fighting its own battle with the Man. More than 100 Tea Partiers had traveled to the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill to witness the results of a supercommittee-style Tea Party Debt Commission. They entered the building. They walked to the hearing room. They found their seats. Then they got kicked out. Security snatched placards off the podium.

Senators Demand Details On Kagan’s Health Law ‘Role’

Members of Congress have been trying to determine whether Justice Elena Kagan has a conflict of interest with respect to participating in litigation in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) due to her involvement with and support for this legislation while a member of the Justice Department.

Reexamining Decades of Bad Precedent — Day Lee Briefing 11/16/2011

Today, Senator Lee will meet with representatives of HerFate and the US Olympic Committee, and will appear on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch at 8 PM EST (6 PM MST). He will also hold a “video conference” with members of the Utah Association of Counties over the Internet at 6:30 PM EST (4:30 PM MST).

Republicans Announce Welfare Reform Act of 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) announced that he would soon introduce the Welfare Reform Act of 2011 with original cosponsors including U.S. Senators Tom Coburn […]

The Need for a Strong BBA — Day Lee Briefing 11/15/2011

Congress can pass and the states can ratify language that amends the Constitution to require the federal government to balance its budget. But if the amendment, like a Trojan horse, is filled with loopholes and avenues to circumvent the balanced-budget requirement, it will do little to rein in out-of-control spending.

Sen. Lee: Avoiding the Trojan horse BBA

Not all balanced-budget amendments are created equal, as the American people are about to find out. The recent deal that raised the debt limit and created the so-called supercommittee mandates that both houses of Congress vote on a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the federal budget.

The Supreme Court’s Review of Obamacare: A Chance to Re-visit the Commerce Clause

I join the majority of Americans in opposing Obamacare and welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of that legislation. Not only is Obamacare bad policy, it is clearly unconstitutional. The Constitution grants the federal government only limited, enumerated powers, and none of those powers permits the government to tell individual citizens when and how to buy health insurance. Never before has the federal government claimed the power to force citizens to buy private products, and it must not be allowed to do so now.