Day Lee Briefing — 5/24/2011
Today, Senator Lee appears on CSPAN’s Washington Journal and will attend a joint session of Congress featuring the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He meets with the Workers Compensation Fund of Utah and will call in to Lincoln Brown Radio Show in Vernal. Both the Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committee will be discussing nominations.
Day Lee Briefing — 5/23/2011
Today, Senator Lee will give remarks at the Annual Utah Taxpayers Association in Salt Lake City. After travelling back to DC, he has an interview with Bloomberg News to discuss possible spending cuts in the budget
Day Lee Briefing — 5/20/2011
Today’s Agenda Today Senator Lee is in Utah visiting with constituents. From the Senator’s Desk It has now been 60 days since Obama authorized military action in Libya. This […]
Lee Condemns President’s Statement on Israel’s borders
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee criticized President Obama’s call for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders. He released the following statement: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms […]
Day Lee Briefing — 5/19/2011
This morning, Senator Lee will meet with Ryan Crocker, the Administration’s nominee for Ambassador to Afghanistan. He has a Judiciary hearing to discuss the Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Act, and other legislation. This afternoon, the Senator will give a floor statement in opposition of Goodwin Liu’s appointment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and will vote on numerous bills before the Water and Power Subcommittee on ENR, for which he is the Ranking Member. Finally, he has media interviews E&E News, as well as KCPX’s (Moab) Cari and Rob show.
Floor Statement on Goodwin Liu May 19, 2011
Several of my colleagues have expressed a number of concerns about the nomination of Goodwin Liu. I share many of those concerns and do not wish to belabor the points they have already made. I will limit my comments to two fundamental reasons why I find myself unable to support the nomination of Professor Liu to serve as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Lee Opposes Appellate Court Nomination
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee expressed his profound objection to the nomination of Goodwin Liu as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In […]
Day Lee Briefing — 5/18/2011
Today’s Agenda This morning, Senator Lee will meet with a group of policy leaders at an event hosted by Citizens Against Government Waste to talk about the nation’s fiscal crisis. […]
Dailee Briefing — 5/18/2011
Today’s Agenda This morning, Senator Lee will meet with a group of policy leaders at an event hosted by Citizens Against Government Waste to talk about the nation’s fiscal crisis. […]
Congress is its own “walking waiver”
The point is, if all we can get are statutory spending caps – which we do need, they are necessary, I applaud them, I encourage them – but if that is all we have, that is not enough because Congress controls the law. It can waive its way out of the law. In the past, Congress has been its own walking, living, breathing waiver. We have to put into the text of the Constitution so that Congress can’t exempt its way out of it when times get tough.