Senator Lee praises the Utah National Guard’s 1-211th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion
Senator Lee praises the Utah National Guard’s 1-211th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion and discusses his concerns about transferring Apache helicopters out of the National Guard.
Lee Plans to Offer Amendment to End Comp-Time Discrimination Against Private-Sector Employees
When the Senate moves to the Fair Pay Act, Senator Mike Lee plans to propose an amendment that would give private-sector employers the ability to offer their employees the option of compensation time or overtime pay.
Ex-Im Bank and the GOP’s Cronyism Test
Imagine a reformed Republican party seizing the moral high ground against political corruption and economic dysfunction. Imagine its leaders, advocating populist, free-market reforms to restore jobs, growth, and fairness to the economy. Faster than you can say “TARP,” we could pin the Left between their egalitarian facade and their elitist agenda, and force them to choose between K Street and Main Street.
Ending our Opportunity Crisis by Developing our Abundant Natural Resources
A vote to confirm Rhea Suh is a vote against energy production. A vote against energy production is also a vote against increased energy exports, because you can’t export natural gas that is still in the ground.
Lee Files Amendments to Create Jobs, Make Higher-Ed More Accessible, and Improve Work-Life Balance
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee filed three amendments to a Senate bill being considered this week that would extend the time people have to collect unemployment insurance beyond six […]
Staying Connected to Southeastern Utah
Utah Association of Conservation Districts – March 25, 2014 The Utah Association on Conservation Districts is an organization of political subdivisions of the State of Utah that are responsible for identifying […]
Graham, Lee, Ayotte, Feinstein Introduce Bill to Prohibit Online Gambling
Today, I joined Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to introduce the Restoration Of America’s Wire Act In 2011, the Department of Justice released […]
It will be our ideas that win in 2014
With things shaping up to be a positive year for Republican candidates, conventional wisdom in Washington says that the best thing conservatives can do is nothing. That our strategy should be to sit on our hands, keep our heads down and let President Obama’s failures preserve a Republican majority in the House and win one in the Senate.
Keeping the Relationship Strong between My Office and Utah’s State Government
In recognition of the important relationship between the government of the State of Utah and its Congressional Delegation, I sent my mobile office to hold hours at the State Capitol during the legislative session.
Lee, Tester Introduce Bill to Ensure Proper Investigations at DOJ
Today, Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) introduced legislation to increase transparency and accountability at the Department of Justice. The Inspector General Empowerment Act would eliminate a problem in the law that requires allegations of attorney misconduct at DOJ to be investigated by an agency that reports directly to the Attorney General rather than the autonomous Office of the Inspector General.