The AT&T – Time Warner Merger
Dec 9, 2016
We are living in a golden age of television. One TV writer recently wrote that for “the first time I’ve beg[un] to feel like there may, in fact, be too much good TV.”
Make America Energy Great Again
Dec 9, 2016
For the past eight years, President Obama and his allies in Congress have feverishly worked to centralize energy regulatory power in Washington, empowering federal bureaucrats to micromanage how energy producers operate their facilities and run their businesses.
Lee Praises Pruitt Pick for EPA
Dec 8, 2016
WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Thursday in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his nominee for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator:
Examining the Competitive Impact of the AT&T-Time Warner Transaction
Dec 7, 2016
We are living in a golden age of television. One TV writer recently wrote that for “the first time I’ve beg[un] to feel like there may, in fact, be too much good TV.”[1] From Game of Thrones to House of Cards to many other programs across networks and platforms, the quantity and quality of programming content is greater than we have ever known.
Conservatives Should Embrace Principled Populism
Dec 6, 2016
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones,” Calvin Coolidge once said. With a unified federal government soon to be in Republican hands, however, maybe we can do a bit of both.
Floor Remarks on George Will Column
Dec 6, 2016
Over the weekend, syndicated columnist George F. Will wrote about a disturbing ruling in a French court.
The court ruled that a video called “Dear Future Mom” produced by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation must be banned from French television.
What triggered the censorship? Inciting violence? Hate-speech? Discrimination? The opposite, as it turns out.
I’ll let Mr. Will tell the story:
Senators Introduce the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2016
Dec 6, 2016
WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act, Monday, a bill that would improve the business of Congress and increase the public’s understanding of its work by establishing a structured congressional clerkship program for recent law school graduates and young lawyers.
December 5, 2016 – Mobile Office Visit to Holladay
Dec 5, 2016
Mobile Office Visit to Holladay
When: Monday, December 5, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Holladay City Hall, 4580 S 2300 E, Holladay, UT 84117
December 5, 2016 – Mobile Office Visit to Lindon
Dec 5, 2016
Mobile Office Visit to Lindon
When: Monday, December 5, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Where: Lindon City Center, 100 North State Street, Lindon, UT 8404
Stop President Obama’s Last Special-Interest Bailout
Dec 2, 2016
In December 2008, just weeks after President Obama was first elected, environmental activists sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), claiming that the agency had failed to regulate certain “hazardous air pollutants” emitted by power plants pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
