Mike Lee: “It is time we started requiring a little more sunlight in this fairly shadowy space.”

Smith’s collection of text messages is un-American and comes uncomfortably close to spying on a coequal, coordinate branch.

So I’m respectfully imploring the people at the Pentagon to reconsider this, not just reconsider but undo it.

It’s also just repugnant to any sense of decency, any sense of our common heritage and our common belief that the government needs to not weigh in on doctrinal disputes between various religious denominations.

I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August — at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act — and hereby request a roll call vote.