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December 18, 2015
USA Freedom Act and the Balance of Security and Privacy
In the ongoing debate over how best to protect the nation from security threats like terrorism, while also protecting individuals’ civil liberties there has been a great deal of confusion about the USA Freedom Act, a bill that Congress passed and the president signed into law earlier this year. As one of the lead sponsors of the USA Freedom Act in the Senate, I’d like to clarify what exactly the law does and how it affects the delicate balance between security and privacy.
December 18, 2015
Do We Have the Courage to Earn Back the American People’s Trust?
Well, here we are again: another year of legislative dysfunction capped by an undemocratic, un-republican process that uses the threat of another manufactured crisis to impose on an unwilling country the same broken government policies that have repeatedly failed the people they are supposed to serve.
December 17, 2015
The Secretive, Undemocratic Process Behind the Omnibus
The bill moving through Congress today and tomorrow – made up of the omnibus spending bill and tax extenders package – and the process that produced it are an affront to the Constitution – to they very idea of constitutionalism – and an insult to the American people.
December 17, 2015
Lee Calls For Democratic Process On Omnibus
WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Thursday regarding the omnibus spending bill scheduled for a vote Friday: “The omnibus spending bill soon to come before us is chock full of controversial policies that never would have passed had they been exposed to the light of day,” Lee said.
December 11, 2015
Learning Can’t be Centrally Planned
This week, following the Senate’s vote of approval, President Obama signed into law the “Every Student Succeeds Act,” which reauthorized federal K-12 education policy for five years.
December 11, 2015
Defund Housing Rule through Spending Bill
Who should make local zoning decisions for a community, choosing what should be built, where, and who should pay for it: the residents of the neighborhoods that are affected and their local representatives or distant, unfamiliar, and unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.?
December 10, 2015
Lee Calls For HUD Zoning Rule To Be Defunded
WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement Thursday, reminding Republican leaders that the upcoming government funding bill is the last opportunity conservatives have to stop the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Final Rule.”
December 8, 2015
There’s a Better Way to Improve America’s Schools
Later today the Senate will vote on the “Every Student Succeeds Act” – a bill that reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is the legislation governing federal K-12 education policy.
December 8, 2015
Lee Holds Hearing on Proposed Inbev, SABMiller Merger
WASHINGTON— Today, Mike Lee (R–UT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, is holding a hearing on Anheuser–Busch Inbev’s proposal to purchase SABMiller. The hearing is expected to examine how the proposed merger of the world’s two biggest beer producers would impact competition and consumers across the country.
December 8, 2015
Lee, Klobuchar Hold Hearing on Proposed Inbev, SABMiller Merger
WASHINGTON— Today, 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, issued the following statements following their hearing on Anheuser–Busch Inbev’s proposal to purchase SABMiller.