Press Releases

January 16, 2015
Higher Education
Our higher education system – and especially the federal policies that govern access to it – is failing the two-thirds of Americans who never get a B.A., and the large minority of Americans who never set foot on a college campus.
January 13, 2015
Lee: Build a New Agenda Around the Family
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee gave remarks at a policy summit hosted by Heritage Action for America outlining many of the challenges American families face as a result of dysfunctional government policy. He said too often Washington leaves behind hardworking families and that a new reform agenda should focus more on protecting the economic and social capital that married households provide.
January 13, 2015
Putting Families First
The family is the first and most important institution of our society – and the foundation of American exceptionalism.
January 9, 2015
Transportation
The federal government also needs to open up America’s transportation system to diversity and experimentation, so that Americans can spend more time with their families in more affordable homes, and less time stuck in traffic.
January 9, 2015
Republicans for a Positive Agenda
This week Republicans took over the Majority in the Senate, and it could not have come a moment too soon. The American people, exhausted from failures President Obama’s dysfunctional administration, have given Republicans an opportunity to take the reins of Congress and move forward on a positive agenda.
January 9, 2015
Transportation
The federal government also needs to open up America’s transportation system to diversity and experimentation, so that Americans can spend more time with their families in more affordable homes, and less time stuck in traffic.
January 7, 2015
Feinstein, Lee Introduce Due Process Guarantee Act
Washington—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) today introduced the Due Process Guarantee Act, a bill to protect Americans from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial.
January 6, 2015
Lee to Introduce Balance Budget Amendment
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would require the federal government to balance its budget each year.
January 6, 2015
McConnell Names Sen. Lee as Counsel to Senate Majority Leader
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today that he has appointed Sen. Mike Lee, (R-UT), to serve as a counsel to the Majority Leader in the 114th Congress.
December 16, 2014
Our Executive Officials Must Uphold the Rule of Law
As we know, the President has recently announced that he will take unilateral executive action on immigration. In so doing he has circumvented the democratic process, broken the law, and subverted the constitutional order.