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May 26, 2016
Senators Demand DOJ Cease Investigation Into Opponents of President Obama’s Energy Policies

WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), David Perdue (R-GA), and David Vitter (R-LA) sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch Thursday demanding that […]
May 26, 2016
Leashing Leviathan: The Case for a Congressional Regulatory Budget
It was almost four months ago that we gathered here, in front of this inspiring portrait, to launch the Article I Project – a new network of House and Senate conservatives working together on a new agenda of government reform and congressional rehabilitation. The starting point for that agenda is the simple observation that the federal government is broken, and congressional weakness is to blame.
May 25, 2016
Lee Unveils Article I Regulatory Budget Act

WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) held an event with Reps. Mark Walker (R-NC), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), and Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) to unveil legislation designed to restore direct, accountable congressional […]
May 23, 2016
Leashing Leviathan: The Case for a Congressional Regulatory Budget
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 25 at 10 AM EDT, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) will be joined by Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Mark Walker (R-NC) to discuss the Article I Project’s Regulatory Budget Act.
May 23, 2016
Senators Commit to Oversight of Consolidation in Agri-Chem Industry
WASHINGTON—Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Amy Klobuchar (R-MN), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today issued the following statements in response to press reports of a potential merger between Bayer and Monsanto. The $62 billion deal, which would combine two of the largest companies in crop sciences and agricultural chemicals, comes in the wake of proposed mergers between Dow and DuPont and ChemChina and Syngenta.
May 20, 2016
Don’t Force Women To Fight, Don’t Force Americans To Serve
The federal regulatory state is out of control. It is out of control economically, costing Americans between $1 trillion and $2 trillion per year in artificially inflated prices. And it is out of control politically, as federal bureaucrats now write upwards of 95 percent of all new federal “laws” without winning a single vote in Congress or at the ballot box.
May 20, 2016
The Case for a Regulatory Budget
The federal regulatory state is out of control. It is out of control economically, costing Americans between $1 trillion and $2 trillion per year in artificially inflated prices. And it is out of control politically, as federal bureaucrats now write upwards of 95 percent of all new federal “laws” without winning a single vote in Congress or at the ballot box.
May 19, 2016
Defunding HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
Mr. President: The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule – which my amendment would defund – is equal parts condescension and willful blindness. The condescension of the rule and its proponents is that local governments and Public Housing Authorities across America can’t figure out how to provide fair and affordable housing to their communities without the help of federal bureaucrats.
May 18, 2016
Defunding HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
Mr. President: In a piece of legislation of this size, there is always much to praise – and, unfortunately, even more to criticize. I rise today, specifically, to correct one major mistake in this bill. As currently written, it permits the Department of Housing and Urban Development to proceed in the implementation of its radical new regulation, the insultingly misnamed “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule,” or AFFH.
May 13, 2016
No National Zoning Board
The Obama economy has been tough on America’s working families. Just this week Pew Research Center reported that in the last 15 years “the middle class lost ground in nearly nine-in-ten U.S. metropolitan areas.”