Today’s Agenda
Today, Senator Lee will meet with representatives of Wells Fargo, Riverton City, Piute County, the Utah Department of Financial Institutions, and a coalition of businesses focused on immigration policy reform. He will also participate in an antitrust hearing regarding Verizon’s desired purchase of bandwidth spectrum from major cable companies and cross-licensing deals between the companies.
From the Senator’s Desk
On Twitter
What we have to show for $15 trillion in debt is a broken economy, manipulated by cronyism and oppressed by incompetent regulation.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) March 16, 2012
Paul Ryan: The GOP Budget and America’s Future on.wsj.com/GzCYms via @WSJ
— Brian Phillips (@SenLeeComs) March 20, 2012
Happy Birthday, @Twitter! You have truly changed the way we share and receive news. Thank you! #Twitter
— Emily Bennion (@SenLeePressSec) March 21, 2012
Last year, the federal government borrowed $41,000 every second: bit.ly/znPyZc #debt #deficit #tcot #tlot
— Joe Tauke (@SenLeeResearch) March 15, 2012
Featured Tweet
Thanks to @SenMikeLee for including the #REINS Act in his ‘Grow America’ Act ow.ly/9LrZI. #regulation
— Geoff Davis (@RepGeoffDavis) March 20, 2012
Around the Water Cooler
Court weighs US power over states in health case
Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can’t lower its drinking age below 21. There’s federal money for colleges, but they can’t discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field.
Federal cash comes with strings. Now 26 states are telling the Supreme Court that President Barack Obama’s health care law has stretched an old rule too far. The new law’s requirements for expanding Medicaid amount, in their view, to coercion that violates the U.S. Constitution’s division of power between the national government and the states.
Who is French shootings suspect Mohammed Merah?
Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old man described by French authorities as a self-styled al Qaeda jihadist, has been named as the chief suspect in a series of shootings that have left seven people dead.
As a standoff with security forces in Toulouse continues Wednesday, a picture is emerging of a man who was already known to the police and had apparently sought out Islamist jihadists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Looking Ahead
Tomorrow, Senator Lee will meet with representatives of the Association for Utah Community Health, Circle Four Farms, Utah credit unions, and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.