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October 19, 2011
Lee Announces Mobile Office Hours
Today, Senator Lee announced the launch of his Mobile Office Hours. The project is an effort to reach constituents across Utah who might not otherwise be able to meet with casework officers at Senator Lee’s offices in Salt Lake City and St. George. The Mobile Office will hold events in multiple locations throughout all 29 counties within the State. The full schedule will appear on Senator Lee’s website and be updated periodically.
October 19, 2011
Lee to Offer Motion to Cut Spending
Today, Senator Mike Lee will offer a motion to keep 2012 spending levels on certain appropriations at 2011 levels. Submitted as a motion to recommit on the “minibus” spending bill – which funds areas in agriculture, transportation, and commerce, among others – Senator Lee’s motion would save tax payers $10 billion next year.
October 18, 2011
Another Mandate — Day Lee Briefing 10/18/2011
Today, Senator Lee has an Energy and Natural Resources hearing on offshore drilling and will meet with representatives of Draper City and the UTA Board of Trustees. He will also hold a Utah tele-press conference in the afternoon.
October 17, 2011
Obamacare is Crumbling — Day Lee Briefing 10/17/2011
The Obama administration is scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law, reports the New York Times. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, concluded that the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or Class program, would have driven premiums so high that few healthy people would have signed up, according to the Times.
October 14, 2011
The True Cost of Obamacare — Day Lee Briefing 10/14/2011
Today I discuss the true cost of Obamacare.
October 13, 2011
Lee Introduces the DASH Act
Today, Senator Mike Lee introduced a bill to help dairy and ranch owners maintain the foreign workers they need to keep their businesses operating year-round, without creating a legal path to citizenship for workers. The Dairy and Sheep H2A (DASH) Act would make dairy workers, sheep herders, and goat herders eligible to apply for year-round positions through the H2A visa program. Currently, temporary farm workers are only able to obtain seasonal visas.
October 13, 2011
Letting the Jobs Bill Go and Passing Free Trade Agreements– 10/13/2011
Senator Lee will meet with representatives of QEP Resources, Community Action Partners, Enefit, and Justice Alito’s law clerks. He will also attend the arrival ceremony for President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea.
October 12, 2011
Senators and Congressmen Introduce the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act
In a recent letter to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, several members of Congress wrote in protest of the Secretary’s proposed a one million acre withdrawal of mining rights. The members stated the withdrawal has nothing to do with protecting the Grand Canyon environment but is actually ‘de facto wilderness’ for a region that conservationists previously agreed would remain accessible to the mining industry. The Interior Department’s own environmental study on the proposed withdrawal found ‘no conclusive evidence’ that modern-day mining operations in this area are harming the Grand Canyon watershed.
October 12, 2011
Senator Lee Votes on Stimulus 2 and the Chinese Currency Bill — Day Lee Briefing 10/12/2011
Last night, Senator Lee voted against President Obama’s latest stimulus bill because it’s nothing more than second round of the failed economic measures contained in the original stimulus package. The senator also voted against the Chinese currency manipulation bill because there are better ways to create jobs than threatening to start a trade war.
October 12, 2011
Meeting Utah’s Finest
Today, I had the opportunity to meet the brave men and women of the 744th Engineer Company of the Army Reserve. The company is based out of Ogden, Utah, and was mobilized in October 2010 for deployment to Afghanistan in November of that year.