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September 15, 2017
North Korea’s Quiet Crimes
Thirteen years ago a 24-year-old Brigham Young University student named David Sneddon vanished in China’s Yunnan province. After a cursory investigation, Chinese officials concluded that David must have died while hiking alone through Tiger Leaping Gorge.
September 15, 2017
An Intolerant Secular Creed
Last week, Notre Dame Law Professor Amy Coney Barrett came before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a nominee to be a circuit court judge. Her nomination was endorsed by prominent legal scholars from across the political spectrum, including Neal Katyal, President Obama’s acting solicitor general.
September 14, 2017
Due Process Guarantee Act
Mr. President, I would like to speak for a few minutes about a bipartisan amendment I have offered to the NDAA, the Due Process Guarantee Act. Alexander Hamilton, writing in Federalist 84, called arbitrary imprisonment one of the [QUOTE] “favorite and most formidable instruments” of tyrants.
September 13, 2017
North Korea’s Quiet Crimes
Hello and good morning. It’s a pleasure to be here with you all. I’d like to extend my thanks to Michael Green and the Center for Strategic and International Studies for hosting this important event, and to the Embassy of Japan for inviting me to speak.
September 12, 2017
Volunteering in America

Few countries are as generous as the United States when it comes to volunteering.1 One quarter of Americans donated time to an organization in 2015. One need look no further than the outpouring of assistance in response to recent natural disasters for powerful illustrations of American civic-mindedness. In 2006 and 2007, over a million volunteers joined the recovery effort in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. One year after Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that, “some 173,544 volunteers had invested more than 1 million volunteer hours in the Sandy recovery effort.”2 And already, Americans

September 12, 2017
Reasserting Congress’s Role in Declaring War
“A decade later, the Founders included a safeguard in the Constitution so that “civil power”—in other words, the people and their representatives—would play an important role in matters of war and peace.”
September 8, 2017
The Art of Tolerance
In July 2012, two men entered the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado and asked the owner of the bakery, Jack Phillips, to custom-design a wedding cake for the pair’s same-sex wedding. Phillips offered to sell the couple anything else in the store, even a pre-made cake, but citing his Christian faith Phillips declined to design a special cake just for the couple’s wedding.
September 8, 2017
Let’s Get Tax Reform Done
There is no way to sugar coat it. The last few months have not been good for the conservative movement. This past summer Congress failed to repeal Obamacare and now Congress has yet again kicked the can down the road on tackling our uncontrolled spending and working to reduce our continually growing debt that is about to reach $20 trillion.
September 7, 2017
Sen. Lee Issues Statement on Disaster Relief Bill Vote
WASHINGTON –Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement regarding today’s vote on the disaster relief bill: “Raising the debt limit without spending reforms is bad policy. Tying the debt limit to emergency disaster relief is a disgraceful process. The American people deserve better and I will not vote for this status quo deal that only perpetuates the worst of Washington.”
September 7, 2017
Against Religious Tests
But at a minimum, this body can do its part by respecting the constitutional rights of citizens who come before it. Lest we forget, we work for them, not the other way around. I trust my colleagues, Republican, Democrat, and independent, will take this to heart. Because religious freedom puts all Americans on the same footing.