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March 1, 2018
Sen. Lee Responds to President’s Tariff Announcement
“The tariffs proposed by the president this week would be a huge job-killing tax hike on American consumers. While I am sympathetic to the issues facing domestic steel manufacturers, there must be a better way to address the steel industry’s concerns.”
February 28, 2018
Sens. Lee, Sanders, and Murphy Introduce Yemen War Powers Resolution

WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced a joint resolution pursuant to the War Powers Act Wednesday, calling for the removal of United […]
February 28, 2018
Sen. Lee Hails Vought Confirmation as Win for Religious Liberty
Article VI of the United States Constitution is clear: ‘No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.’ But that is exactly what some of my colleagues tried to do today.
February 27, 2018
Frederick Douglass Bicentennial
Mr. President, Two hundred years ago this month, a man was born into slavery in a cabin not far from here in Maryland. The child knew his mother only briefly; they were cruelly separated when he was young. He knew his father only by the rumors.
February 16, 2018
The Perpetual Amnesty Act of 2018
Yesterday, eight Republican senators joined with 46 Democrats to vote for a bill that would have established a de facto rolling amnesty for unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants. The final vote total fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate, with three Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans because they opposed the bill’s increased spending. If amnesty supporters can convince those three Democrats that $25 billion in higher spending is no big deal, then they will be just three votes away from moving their bill through the Senate.
February 16, 2018
The Poverty Measurement Improvement Act
Since President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964, the federal government has spent over $22 trillion on means-tested welfare programs. And what do we have to show for it? When the official poverty rate was introduced in 1969, an estimated 12.8 percent of Americans were in poverty. According to the most recent data available, from 2016, that number is basically unchanged at 12.7 percent.
February 14, 2018
Rising Unwed Pregnancy and Childbearing across Educational and Racial Groups

Nonmarital childbearing has increased dramatically in the United States. In 1960, roughly 5 percent of births were outside of marriage. Today, over 40 percent of children are born to single mothers. This trend is troubling, considering that children are on average at-risk for poorer outcomes when raised outside a married-parent home.1 As we explain in our recent report, Love, Marriage, and the Baby Carriage: The Rise in Unwed Childbearing, several factors contributed to the increase in nonmarital births. The most significant factors, however, have been the decline in “shotgun marriage” (unions occurring between a nonmarital conception

February 9, 2018
We need an open, transparent process that can be observed by the American people
February 9, 2018
A Threat to Marriage from the EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may seem like an unlikely threat to religious liberty and the institution of marriage. After all, the federal agency was created to combat workplace discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But sadly, the agency created to fight discrimination now threatens to discriminate itself; one nominee to the commission’s five-member board wants to use the federal agency’s power to undermine our nation’s founding principles.
February 9, 2018
He’s Always Lucas First
Mr. President, There is good news. There is great news. And then there is the story of Lucas Warren of Dalton, Georgia. I do not know Lucas. For he is only 18 months old – and so has the good sense not to consort with politicians. But like millions of Americans who have not met Lucas, I will never forget him.