A1P: Mission Q&A
Feb 3, 2016
The Article I Project (A1P) is a new network of House and Senate conservatives working together on broad agenda of reform to strengthen Congress by reclaiming its constitutional legislative powers that are now being improperly exercised by the Executive Branch.
A1P: Restoring Regulatory Accountability
Feb 3, 2016
“It’s Congress’s job to make sure federal regulations work
for the American people, not the other way around.”
A1P: Power of the Purse
Feb 3, 2016
“When Congress is back in charge of federal spending,
the American people will quickly be back in charge of the federal government.”
Lee, Grassley, Law Enforcement Officials to Hold Forum on Criminal Justice Reform
Feb 3, 2016
WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, February 9 at 4:00 p.m. EST, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will join members of law enforcement to discuss their perspectives on the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. The briefing follows a pair of letters Republican leaders circulated to colleagues. In the letters, more than 130 law enforcement leaders urged Congress to pass the measure because federal sentencing reform will reduce both crime and unnecessary incarceration.
Who
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, Former Attorney General of the United States for President George W. Bush
Ronal Serpas, Chairman, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration Former Police Superintendent, New Orleans, Louisiana
William McManus, Police Chief, San Antonio, Texas
Richard J. Pocker, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Nevada
Where
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 224
When
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. EST
Who
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Hon. Michael B. Mukasey, Former Attorney General of the United States for President George W. Bush
Ronal Serpas, Chairman, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration Former Police Superintendent, New Orleans, Louisiana
William McManus, Police Chief, San Antonio, Texas
Richard J. Pocker, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Nevada
Where
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 224
When
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. EST
Make Congress Great Again
Feb 3, 2016
This is the Article I Project in a nutshell: it’s a new network of House and Senate conservatives working together on a new agenda of government reform and congressional rehabilitation.
The premise of the Article I Project is simple: the federal government is broken, and congressional weakness is to blame.
The authors of the Constitution made Congress the most powerful of the federal government’s three co-equal branches. Congress was designed both as the most powerful and the most accountable to the people.
Giving Americans a Voice in Land Management Decisions
Feb 2, 2016
"But there’s one story that nearly every Utahn knows: President Bill Clinton’s infamous use of the Antiquities Act in 1996 to designate as a national monument more than 1.5 million acres of land in southern Utah – what would become known as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument."
Rise Of The Licensing Cartel
Feb 1, 2016
"Occupational licensing has grown not because consumers demanded it, but because lobbyists recognized a business opportunity where they could use government power to get rich at the public’s expense."
Leveling the Playing Field for Energy Producers
Jan 29, 2016
Experience teaches that the federal government does a poor job of picking winners and losers in the marketplace and in the public square. Nowhere is this lesson more evident than in our energy sector where the federal government has squandered hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars betting on unviable technologies and unsound companies like Solyndra, the solar panel company that went bankrupt in 2011 shortly after receiving more than half a billion dollars in federal loans.
The Fight to Reform Congress in 2016
Jan 29, 2016
After Republicans won a majority in the Senate and maintained their majority in the House in November 2014 I proposed that the two chambers take five modest steps to repair what had become a dysfunctional legislative branch. This was part of my effort as the recently elected chairman of the Senate Steering Committee to put forward a vision and a plan that would guide the Republican majority toward unity and restore the public’s confidence in Congress.
Bicameral Conservative Group To Launch Article One Project at Kirby Center
Jan 28, 2016
“If conservatives want to reform federal policy, we first have to reform the way policy gets made. The Constitution gives Congress the power to make the laws, but for too long Congress has either shirked its legislative responsibilities or delegated them to the Executive branch. It’s time that Congress reclaim its rightful Article I lawmaking powers,” Lee said.
