North Korea’s Quiet Crimes

Sep 15, 2017

Thirteen years ago a 24-year-old Brigham Young University student named David Sneddon vanished in China’s Yunnan province. After a cursory investigation, Chinese officials concluded that David must have died while hiking alone through Tiger Leaping Gorge.

September 14, 2017 - Mobile Office Visit to Juab County

Sep 14, 2017

What: Mobile Office Visit to Nephi When: Thursday, September 14, 2017 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Where: Nephi City Corporation, 21 E 100 N, Nephi, UT 84648

September 14, 2017 - Mobile Office Visit to Utah County

Sep 14, 2017

What: Mobile Office Visit to Genola When: Thursday, September 14, 2017 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Where: Genola Public Safety Building, 455 N Main Street, Genola, UT 84655

September 14, 2017 - Mobile Office Visit to Utah County

Sep 14, 2017

What: Mobile Office Visit to Springville When: Thursday, September 14, 2017 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am Where: Springville Civic Center, 110 S Main Street, Springville City, UT 84663

Due Process Guarantee Act

Sep 14, 2017

Mr. President, I would like to speak for a few minutes about a bipartisan amendment I have offered to the NDAA, the Due Process Guarantee Act. Alexander Hamilton, writing in Federalist 84, called arbitrary imprisonment one of the [QUOTE] “favorite and most formidable instruments” of tyrants.

September 13, 2017 - Mobile Office Visit to Sevier County

Sep 13, 2017

What: Mobile Office Visit to Glenwood When: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 @ 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm Where: Glenwood Town Hall, 175 E 300 N, Glenwood, UT 84730

North Korea’s Quiet Crimes

Sep 13, 2017

Hello and good morning. It’s a pleasure to be here with you all. I’d like to extend my thanks to Michael Green and the Center for Strategic and International Studies for hosting this important event, and to the Embassy of Japan for inviting me to speak.

Reasserting Congress's Role in Declaring War

Sep 12, 2017

"A decade later, the Founders included a safeguard in the Constitution so that “civil power”—in other words, the people and their representatives—would play an important role in matters of war and peace."

Volunteering in America

Sep 12, 2017

Few countries are as generous as the United States when it comes to volunteering.1 One quarter of Americans donated time to an organization in 2015. One need look no further than the outpouring of assistance in response to recent natural disasters for powerful illustrations of American civic-mindedness. In 2006 and 2007, over a million volunteers joined the recovery effort in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. One year after Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that, “some 173,544 volunteers had invested more than 1 million volunteer hours in the Sandy recovery effort.”2 And already, Americans have responded to the devastation of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma with characteristic generosity.

The Art of Tolerance

Sep 8, 2017

In July 2012, two men entered the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado and asked the owner of the bakery, Jack Phillips, to custom-design a wedding cake for the pair's same-sex wedding. Phillips offered to sell the couple anything else in the store, even a pre-made cake, but citing his Christian faith Phillips declined to design a special cake just for the couple’s wedding.