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Mike Lee

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Mike Shumway Lee is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Utah, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has focused on issues such as limited government, individual liberties, and constitutional rights throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for fiscal responsibility and has often emphasized the importance of adhering to the Constitution in legislative matters.

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Mar 28, 2021

Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. This is a bill as if written in hell by the devil himself.

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Mar 24, 2021

I will add another 50 seconds given that Administrator Power clarified her last response.

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Mar 24, 2021

We all have a great responsibility ahead of us to not just act quickly but to act wisely in order that U.S. diplomacy and financing effectively address the climate crisis.

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Mar 17, 2021

Are there rules and regulatory changes that the Federal Government did well at adopting in the telehealth space that we should now look to make permanent?

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Mar 17, 2021

While these data are encouraging, it is obviously still important for seniors who have felt isolated and experience greater emotional struggles to receive help while staying at home.

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Mar 17, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced our whole country to move toward a much more virtual setting.

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Mar 17, 2021

We have had great success with telehealth in Utah, as its advancements provide better opportunities.

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Mar 17, 2021

I think that the police chief who spoke should be immediately stepping back from his position because I don’t think he’s qualified to investigate this.

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Mar 17, 2021

I don’t think that having a bad day allows you to go and kill innocent people who are working class and who are just doing their jobs.

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Mar 17, 2021

I think that the actual impact should represent a real intention as well. He drove to specific sites which were race-based sites.

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Mar 17, 2021

It’s a race-based crime. It’s a gender-based crime and I think that we need to frame the narrative as such.

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Mar 10, 2021

Mike Lee called the idea of voting reform that would help it make it easier to vote like straight out of hell, like the pit of hell.

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Mar 10, 2021

But I think I disagree with every single word in H.R. 1, including the words of 'but' and 'the.' Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. This is a bill as if written and held by the devil himself.

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Feb 22, 2021

A disproportionate share of all national monuments that have been designated on land in the United States over the last 25 years, about 28 percent, as I recall, have been designated in Utah.

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Jan 26, 2021

We need to be independent. And so, I'm eager to work with folks on all sides of the aisle to make sure that the United States has its own critical supply.

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Nov 13, 2020

Democracy isn't the objective. Liberty, peace, and prosperity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy, rank democracy can thwart that.

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Nov 2, 2020

Somebody like Senator Mike Lee saying democracy itself is a problem.

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Sep 22, 2020

You can't separate out preexisting condition protections from subsidies, insurance rules.

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Sep 22, 2020

Returning to that reality, to my mind, would be virtually medieval.

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Jul 22, 2020

I find it a little odd that you are not acknowledging the necessity of federal support to be able to do so.

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Jul 22, 2020

The lack of testing in this country is, number one, why we have rampant unemployment, but number two, why we are faced with this awful decision on how we reopen schools.

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Jan 7, 2020

This, however, is not the biggest problem I have with the briefing. Which I would add was probably the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've served in the United States Senate.

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Jan 7, 2020

I had hoped and expected to receive more information outlining the legal, factual, and moral justification for the attack. I was left somewhat unsatisfied on that front.

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Nov 6, 2019

Forewarning of the action or while the action was foregoing would have allowed my office to be better prepared.

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