Press Releases

August 13, 2014
Answering Reagan’s Challenge
My first real exposure to the Reagan Administration occurred when I was about ten years old. My father, the late Rex E. Lee, served as the Solicitor General of the United States during President Reagan’s first term in office. It is the job of the Solicitor General to serve as the federal government’s advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court. Like every lawyer, the Solicitor General has a client—it’s the federal government, and specifically the presidential administration in power. As a practical matter, that meant that my dad was President Ronald Reagan’s voice in the Supreme Court.
August 12, 2014
Lee, Herbert Host Utah Solutions Summit on Improving America’s Regulatory Climate

SALT LAKE CITY – Senator Lee, Governor Gary Herbert, Salt Lake Chamber, the Utah League of Cities and Towns, and the Utah Association of Counties will host a daylong solutions […]

August 4, 2014
Senator Lee Announces August Town Hall Meetings

SALT LAKE CITY – Senator Lee announced five upcoming town hall meeting that he will be holding during the month of August.  He plans to visit Cache County, Salt Lake […]

July 31, 2014
The solution to border crisis begins with president finally enforcing the law
The situation at the border is heartbreaking. Tens of thousands of single adults, families and children have made an incredibly dangerous journey north from countries like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. They are leaving theses countries because they offer too little opportunity and are mired in poverty and violence. No one begrudges them for wanting to find a better place to live. Americans are compassionate and generous. The American people always have extended and always will extend a helping hand to every corner of the world. And even as the number of illegal border crossings has exploded over the past
July 29, 2014
Lee: A Better Way to Improve America’s Transportation Infrastructure

“Under the Transportation Empowerment Act, Americans could finally enjoy the local infrastructure they want. More environmentally conscious states and towns could finally have the flexibility to invest in more green […]

July 29, 2014
Senator Lee’s Floor Remarks on S. 5021: The “Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014”
We are here today because our federal highway policy status quo is not working. And it hasn’t been for a long time. This is the sixth time American taxpayers have been asked to bail out the Highway Trust Fund since 2008. None of those patches – $52 billion worth of bailouts in seven years – fixed the problem. And neither will the $10.8 billion authorized by the bill before us today. It will buy us only a few months before we are right back where we are now.
July 23, 2014
Senate to Vote on Lee’s Transportation Reform

WASHINGTON – Today, the full Senate agreed to include Senator Mike Lee’s proposal to reform transportation funding in a package of amendments on the Highway Trust Fund. The “Transportation Empowerment […]

July 17, 2014
Lee Introduces Bill to Reduce Costs of Federal Infrastructure Projects

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Mike Lee introduced a bill that would drive down the inflated costs of federally funded construction projects on our nation’s infrastructure and makes it easier for […]

July 16, 2014
Protecting the First Freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment
The most extraordinary feature of the bill before us today is the incongruity between its title and its content. The title—the “Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act”—is clear and straightforward. It suggests the bill is aimed at the important and worthy goal of protecting women’s health. But the text of the legislation plainly demonstrates that the true objective of the bill is to circumscribe Americans’ religious liberties within the narrow confines of the Democratic Party’s partisan agenda and the whims of politicians and bureaucrats.
July 10, 2014
Protecting the First Amendment

Chairman Leahy, Ranking Member Grassley, Members of the Committee: each one of us, upon arrival to the United States Senate, swore a sacred oath—to ourselves, to each other, and to […]