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February 27, 2015
Lee: Congress Should Use It’s Power of the Purse to Prohibit the Implementation of Executive Amnesty
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Lee spoke on the Senate floor before attempting to offer his amendment to H.R. 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.
February 27, 2015
Internet Freedom
Earlier this week three of the five unelected, politically appointed bureaucrats who currently sit as commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission voted to grant themselves and their agency the power to regulate the Internet – its millions of American users and trillions of dollars in economic activity – with the same antiquated rules designed for the monopolistic landline telephone industry in the 20th century.
February 27, 2015
Lee Releases Statement on the FCC’s Decision to Regulate the Internet
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee issued the following statement regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to subject the Internet to federal regulation as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act
February 27, 2015
Building Bipartisan Support for Conservative Reforms
This week I attended a bipartisan meeting at the White House to discuss the need to modernize and reform our criminal justice system.
February 26, 2015
Principled, Positive, and Proven
Because true conservatism isn’t just about the kind of government we don’t want; it’s about the kind of country we do want.
February 25, 2015
Senator Lee and Senator Booker Discuss Criminal Justice Reform with the Doug Wright Show
Yesterday I attended a bipartisan meeting at the White House to discuss the need to modernize and reform our criminal justice system. President Obama invited me and several of my colleagues in Congress – from both parties – to join him and Vice President Biden for a conversation on how we can work together to address the challenges of over-criminalization, over-incarceration, and over-sentencing in America.
February 25, 2015
Lee Attends Bipartisan Meeting at White House on Criminal Justice Reform
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee attended a bipartisan meeting at the White House to discuss the need to modernize and reform our criminal justice system.
February 20, 2015
Reporting to the Utah Legislature
Earlier this week I delivered my annual report to the Utah House of Representatives and the Utah State Senate. During every year of my Senate service, I have taken the opportunity to visit with the fine men and women of these legislative bodies that make Utah one of the best-managed states in the nation.
February 13, 2015
Criminal Justice
America’s criminal justice system is in need of reform not because current policies have failed, but in many ways because those policies have succeeded. Prevailing law-enforcement strategies have helped make communities safer around the country, but not without a high cost. Although America has only 5% of the world’s population, it has more than 25% of the world’s prison population. America now incarcerates more people than any other country.
February 13, 2015
If you can keep it
America is often described as an “experiment,” in the sense that the fate of the nation is never a foregone conclusion. This is what Benjamin Franklin meant when he famously declared that our constitutional convention had produced “a republic… if you can keep it.”