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June 11, 2015
Conserving Religious Liberty For All
Thank you very much. It’s an honor to be here. Thank you, Matt, for all that you do through Hillsdale’s Kirby Center to advance the cause of liberty in our politics, in our schools, and in our society. It’s always important—in a free society like ours—to have institutions like Hillsdale College and its Kirby Center that teach and defend the principles that have made us who we are as a nation.
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 5, 2015
It’s time to stop delaying democracy
It’s time to stop delaying democracy; it’s time to stop hiding from the American people.
February 4, 2015
Protecting Email Privacy
The Lee-Leahy ECPA Amendments Act of 2015 prohibits an electronic communications or remote computing service provider—like Gmail or Facebook or Twitter—from voluntarily disclosing the contents of customer emails or other communications.
January 13, 2015
Putting Families First
The family is the first and most important institution of our society – and the foundation of American exceptionalism.
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.
December 12, 2014
Floor Remarks on the CRomnibus
I rise in opposition to the spending bill before us today. I rise in opposition to the cynical substance of the legislation. I rise in opposition to the un-republican and undemocratic process by which a small collection of political and economic insiders crafted it, to benefit each other at everyone else’s expense.
December 10, 2014
Remarks on the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act
If we as an institution can accept a legislative process driven by backroom deals, rather than fair and inclusive debate, when we’re dealing with the most important issues, then when are we ever going to do things the right way? We can do better. The American people – and especially those serving in uniform – deserve better. And as we saw in the recent elections, the American people demand that we do better.
October 21, 2014
A Conservative Vision for the Next Generation
“As I saw it, this professor was actually asking two separate questions. First, why should young people care about politics, period? And second, even if young people do care about politics, why should they care about what I – a conservative member of the Republican Party – have to say about it?”
October 2, 2014
Bring Them In – Remarks to the Sutherland Institute’s Center for Utah’s Economy
Despite trillions of taxpayer dollars spent to eradicate poverty since the late 1960s, the poverty rate across the country has hardly budged. And nearly every strategy we have employed in this “war” – dealing with everything from health care to criminal justice – has failed to achieve genuine change in our most vulnerable communities.