Mike Lee

This fiscally irresponsible path that our federal budget is on is something that increases significantly the odds of a debt crisis.

It strikes me as one of the most outrageous things my generation has done to the coming generations.

The impact on the economy of the amount of debt we're adding up is 10 times the impact of climate change.

If we want to do something serious about global emissions, we need to put a price on carbon.

Brazen regulatory overreach currently being carried out by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats must come to an end.

Democrats in Congress and in the Biden Administration need to work with Republicans to promote American energy independence rather than promoting less efficient forms of energy.

It's my hope that this Committee will spend more of its time and effort this Congress deliberating ways to reduce our budget deficits.

There has become an all to prevalent quality in American political discourse... who seek to climate alarmism to justify a widespread federal government takeover of our economy.

Let's not fool ourselves. And most importantly, let's not fool those we represent, the American people.

This fiscally irresponsible path that our federal budget is on is something that increases significantly the odds of a debt crisis.

I appreciate the opportunity to serve on the Budget Committee as a new member and especially to do so at a time when the state of our federal budget is in such profound disrepair.

The impact on the economy of the amount of debt we're adding up is 10 times the impact of climate change.

It strikes me as one of the most outrageous things my generation has done to the coming generations.

If we want to do something serious about global emissions, we need to put a price on carbon.

Russia extorted the EU by throttling gas flows into the continent, and member countries started the winter with severely depleted natural gas stores.

If you're trying to force the hand of the agency of the law-making body of the Federal government, by doing that which only Congress can do, how is that constitutional?

If you're trying to force the hand of the agency of the law-making body of the Federal government, by doing that which only Congress can do, how is that constitutional?

It's my hope that this Committee will spend more of its time and effort this Congress deliberating ways to reduce our budget deficits.

There has become an all to prevalent quality in American political discourse and specifically among many in the United States Senate and on the left who seek to climate alarmism.

Let's not fool ourselves. And most importantly, let's not fool those we represent, the American people.

Democrats in Congress and in the Biden Administration need to work with Republicans to promote American energy independence rather than promoting less efficient forms of energy.

This fiscally irresponsible path that our federal budget is on is something that increases significantly the odds of a debt crisis.

I appreciate the opportunity to serve on the Budget Committee as a new member and especially to do so at a time when the state of our federal budget is in such profound disrepair, perhaps more so than at any other time in our nation's…

Brazen regulatory overreach currently being carried out by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats must come to an end.

Not only is this supremely misguided and shortsighted, but it's not remotely necessary.