Press Releases

Moving Toward a Pro-Family, Pro-Growth Tax System

The most dreaded day of the year is, once again, behind us. Tax Day is more than a bureaucratic filing deadline, it is an ignominious monument to our dysfunctional tax code – everyone’s annual, visceral reminder that our tax code is too costly and too complex, and that complexity is itself a cost.

No Money, No Consent

Today at United Nations Headquarters in New York City Secretary of State John Kerry and representatives of over 130 nations will sign the Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement that was negotiated in Paris last December.

Lee, Klobuchar Urge Careful Consideration of Proposed SABMiller, Anheuser-Busch InBev Merger

Last December, Lee and Klobuchar held an Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on Anheuser-Busch InBev’s proposal to purchase SABMiller for over $103 billion; the hearing examined how the proposed merger of the world’s two biggest beer producers would impact competition and consumers across the country

Judiciary Committee Senators Call For Investigation Of The U.S. Cattle Market

WASHINGTON – The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as well as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), sent a letter today to Government Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro calling for an investigation of the fed cattle market.

Lee, Klobuchar Press FTC On Contact Lens Market

WASHINGTON—Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, sent a letter today to the Federal Trade Commission urging the agency to maintain vigilance over competition in the market for contact lenses.

United States v. Texas

Next week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Texas, the case challenging President Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program (DAPA). This is the program the president created through executive action in 2014 to suspend federal immigration law for more than four million aliens living in the United States illegally, granting them “lawful presence,” work authorization, and access to a host of government benefits.

A Teaching Moment

More than seven years into the Obama administration, one would hope that Congress would have come to grips with the president’s will-to-power approach to politics.

Bipartisan Email Privacy Act Moving Forward

This bill has unprecedented support from all corners of Congress and for good reason: It ensures that the same privacy protections that apply to documents stored in our homes extend to our emails, photos, and information stored in the cloud. These critical updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will bring that law into the 21st century. The broad, bipartisan coalition that cuts across industry, civil society, and academia deserves credit for their members’ tireless work to move this bill.

Sens. Lee and Cruz Take Aim at DOJ’s Operation Choke Point

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) today introduced legislation fighting the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative that unconstitutionally sought to choke off access to banking services for sellers of firearms and other lawful business enterprises. This legislation sponsored by Sens. Cruz and Lee serves as a companion bill to U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (R-Mo.) Financial Institution Customer Protection Act (H.R. 766), which passed the House with bipartisan support in February.

Congress Has Duty to Respond to FCC’s Open Internet Order

Many condemned this week’s news that Netflix has reduced the quality of its video stream for certain wireless customers as a violation of the Federal Communications Commission’s year-old Open Internet Order, or what’s commonly called “net neutrality.” However, several FCC commissioners have stated that they have no power to prevent Netflix from doing this, as net neutrality applies only to Internet Service Providers.