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Trump’s decision to kill the Clean Power Plan put Provo before Paris

But if you aren’t wealthy and famous, if you are a low- or middle-income American, then the economic costs of the Clean Power Plan would hit a lot closer to home.

Mike Lee and Jim Jordan: Make Work and Marriage Great Again

Americans are, on average, wealthier, healthier, and better-educated than we ever have been. We’ve made huge strides in civil rights and racial equality. We have access to technology that would have awed past generations. But fundamentally, our culture and way of life has undergone some changes that are not necessarily positive.

What We Do Together

And yet, despite this real progress, there is a disorienting sense that our social fabric is frayed. We are wealthier in material terms than ever before, but leading thinkers have issued warnings that we are increasingly “bowling alone,” “coming apart” and inhabiting a “fractured republic.”

Get government out of the Internet’s business

Why would the former head of a federal agency write an opinion essay defending a federal regulation he created without ever naming the regulation he is trying to defend? Because he doesn’t want you to know there was a time when the regulation never existed.

Sen. Mike Lee: Don’t give up on health care

When I was first elected to the Senate in 2010, I ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare. When I ran for re-election last year, I again ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare. For more than six years, I’ve made finding a way to make health care more affordable for Utahns my top priority as a United States senator.

January 23, 2017

How Congress And Trump Can Reform Taxes To Put America First

“The bottom line is that federal tax policy, like all federal policy, should serve the interests of the American people, and especially struggling families and communities currently being left behind”

January 23, 2017

Make Trade Policy Accountable Again

Almost one year ago, long before either of our nation’s political parties had settled on a presidential nominee, I joined several conservative colleagues in the House and Senate to launch the Article I Project, a bicameral network of lawmakers working together to reclaim Congress’ constitutional powers that today are being improperly exercised by the Executive Branch.

December 13, 2016

Why Obama shouldn’t unilaterally declare a Bears Ears monument

The administration recently blocked the Dakota Access Pipeline due to strong opposition from local residents. I urge it to give the same respect to the residents of San Juan County, Utah. They do not want this monument. They do not want outside interests from coastal urban areas dictating to them how to live their lives and manage their lands.

December 9, 2016

Repealing Obamacare: Let’s Get This Done

Since 2010 everyone in the Republican party has agreed that Obamacare must be repealed. Most Republican members of Congress — ourselves included — were elected, and reelected, on the promise […]

December 6, 2016

Conservatives Should Embrace Principled Populism

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones,” Calvin Coolidge once said. With a unified federal government soon to be in Republican hands, however, maybe we can do a bit of both.