A Visit to Job Corps – Clearfield, UT
My staff and I recently had the opportunity to visit Job Corps in Clearfield, Utah. I took this opportunity to tour the Job Corps campus to see their perspective and approach to providing higher education options to at-risk youth along the Wasatch Front. I am grateful to Job Corps and their staff for allowing my staff and I to stop by.
A Dialogue on Fighting Poverty and Expanding Opportunity
Earlier today I hosted a roundtable in my Salt Lake City office with more than a dozen community leaders involved in fighting poverty in Utah and reforming the most counterproductive of our nation’s criminal justice laws.
September Town Hall Visits – Bountiful and Coalville, Utah
SALT LAKE CITY – Senator Lee announces two upcoming town hall events during the first week of September in Bountiful and Coalville, Utah. On Tuesday, September 1, Senator Lee will be holding a town hall visit at the Woods Cross High School Auditorium, and on Wednesday, September 2, Senator Lee will be stopping by the North Summit High School Auditorium for a town hall meeting in Coalville, Utah. Both town hall visits begin at 7:00pm.
Senators Lee and Klobuchar praise FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright, thank him for his service
WASHINGTON—Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) today issued the following statement on Commissioner Joshua Wright’s last day at the FTC: “While I am saddened to see the Federal Trade Commission lose a fierce […]
Lee Seeks Answers And Accountability On EPA Mine Spill
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) signed two letters calling for accountability and answers from the federal government in the wake of the Environmental Protection Agency’s spill of three million gallons of toxic mine wastewater into the Animas River.
Lee Commends FTC On Issuing Section 5 Guidelines, Commits To Active Oversight
WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) today issued the following statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s Policy Statement on their use of “stand alone” Section 5 authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Celebrating Religious Freedom – The Utah National Guard’s Sunrise Hall
Last Friday, members of my Salt Lake City office attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Utah National Guard’s newly completed Sunrise Hall worship center. As a non-denominational house of worship, Sunrise Hall will be a first-rate spiritual center that will benefit many generations of Utah Soldiers, Airmen, and their families. Located at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah, Sunrise Hall is the culmination of nearly 10 years of development that took Sunrise Hall from concept to completion.
The Truth Will Win
“I haven’t actually looked at them,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told CNN’s Jake Tapper this Monday before the Center for Medical Progress released their fifth of twelve undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal issue.
Mondernizing The Antiquities Act
Mere months before he was re-elected in 1996, President Bill Clinton surprised the entire state of Utah by designating 1.9 million acres of federal land in Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Lee & Leahy Press Senate to Protect Email Privacy
WASHINGTON (Tuesday, August 4, 2015) – As the Senate prepares to take up sweeping cybersecurity information sharing legislation this week, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said lawmakers must also work to protect Americans’ emails and other private information stored in the cloud.