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Mr./Madam President, It is one of Congress’s main duties – arguably, its most important duty – to provide for the common defense. And that sometimes means providing extra funds for unforeseen costs and emergencies in times of war.

When pioneers first came to the Great Plains, they found them covered with foot-tall rodents they eventually called prairie dogs. Utah is estimated to have had as many as 95,000 of these Utah prairie dogs as late as the 1920s. But due to disease, drought, and poison, that number dropped to almost 3,000 in 1972.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Friday after taking with President Trump about his current Iran strategy: “After speaking with President Trump this afternoon, I am convinced he made the right call last night. It is clear the Iranian regime is a threat, and that such threats cannot be eliminated by wishful thinking like President Obama’s reckless deal with Tehran. But neither does every provocation call for a military response.”

Passed in 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act forces all federal agencies to go through a complex environmental planning process before they can take almost any action. Before the Environmental Protection Agency can issue a permit for a new factory, that factory has to go through the NEPA process.