Press Releases

December 6, 2016

Senators Introduce the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2016

WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act, Monday, a bill that would improve the business of Congress and increase the public’s understanding of its work by establishing a structured congressional clerkship program for recent law school graduates and young lawyers.

December 6, 2016

Floor Remarks on George Will Column

Over the weekend, syndicated columnist George F. Will wrote about a disturbing ruling in a French court. The court ruled that a video called “Dear Future Mom” produced by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation must be banned from French television. What triggered the censorship? Inciting violence? Hate-speech? Discrimination? The opposite, as it turns out. I’ll let Mr. Will tell the story:

December 2, 2016

Cures for Fiscal Maladies

The U.S. national debt is just a few months away from exceeding $20 trillion – an astronomical sum of such epic proportions that it’s difficult to fathom. Trying to understand the scale of even a fraction of it can boggle the mind. For example, if you were to spend $1 million every day since Jesus was born, you’d still be about $2.5 billion short of spending $1 trillion, and another $19 trillion short of our national debt today. And if contemplating the sheer size of the debt isn’t overwhelming – and terrifying – enough, consider the meteoric speed at which

December 2, 2016

Stop President Obama’s Last Special-Interest Bailout

In December 2008, just weeks after President Obama was first elected, environmental activists sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), claiming that the agency had failed to regulate certain “hazardous air pollutants” emitted by power plants pursuant to the Clean Air Act.

November 18, 2016

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.

November 18, 2016

Toward a Principled Populism

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

November 18, 2016

Lee Backs Sessions Appointment as Attorney General

WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Friday in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his nominee for U.S. attorney general: “Sen. Sessions’ solid understanding of the Constitution and firm commitment to the rule of law is exactly what the Justice Department needs. I have worked closely with Sen. Sessions on the Judiciary Committee over these past six years and I have every confidence that he will make a great Attorney General for all Americans.”

November 17, 2016

Sen. Lee Introduces Poverty Measurement Improvement Act

WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Poverty Measurement Act today, a bill designed to improve the income and demographic data available to lawmakers when analyzing our nation’s safety net programs.

November 17, 2016

Bipartisan, bicameral bill would delay changes to government hacking powers

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Al Franken (D-Minn.), together with Reps. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Ted Poe (R-Texas), introduced legislation to provide Congress the time necessary to seriously consider and debate the proposed changes to Rule 41 that would expand the government’s ability to search computers and other digital devices. The Review the Rule Act would delay the proposed changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 from going into force until July 1, 2017. Without congressional action, the proposed changes will go into effect on December

November 9, 2016

Sen. Lee Congratulates President-Elect Trump

SALT LAKE CITY – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Wednesday congratulating President-Elect Donald Trump: “This entire election year has been humbling for all Americans, and especially so for the political establishment in Washington, D.C. The message of 2016 is that the American people have become increasingly skeptical of the federal government.”