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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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May 14, 2019

We still have religious freedom. No doubt about it in Hong Kong. But we are concerned because things are happening in mainland China.

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May 14, 2019

In fact the print media in Hong Kong, there is really only one Chinese newspaper which dares to criticize Beijing, and that's the Apple Daily.

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May 14, 2019

I cannot believe that such an important bill would not have the express blessing of Beijing.

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May 14, 2019

It is a breaking of 'one country, two systems' and the Joint Declaration.

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May 14, 2019

The fight is going on even though we face lots of pressure.

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May 14, 2019

We resist every encroachment on any of our freedoms.

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May 14, 2019

I am very thankful to Chairman McGovern and Congressman Smith for mentioning the political prisoner problem now

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May 14, 2019

We are asking you to help us to preserve what is already given to us and promised to us by both the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.

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May 14, 2019

If this terrible bill is not stopped--hopefully the government will be pressed to withdraw it--Hong Kong will never be the same again.

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May 14, 2019

It is not only about human rights. It is also about our city's future, our vibrant culture of business, and it's about rule of law and freedom of information.

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May 14, 2019

Advertisements are actually pulled from free media, to the extent that telephone calls will be made by the Chinese apparatchiks in Hong Kong to the advertisers.

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May 14, 2019

Of course, what is good about the Hong Kong issue in the States is that Hong Kong has always been a bipartisan issue.

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May 14, 2019

I reckon, therefore, that the businesspeople must be persuaded to come around to our cause and your cause so that they understand that it is really in their interest too that human rights are preserved for everybody.

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May 14, 2019

I am very glad to hear that the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is in the pipeline.

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May 14, 2019

We need the international community to speak up before it is too late.

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May 14, 2019

Hong Kong is no longer a safe harbor for businessmen, professionals, NGO workers, activists--safe no more.

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Mar 26, 2019

Absolutely. Any touch point you can have with the local communities, particularly the underrepresented ones, including at career recruiting services, or when they are in elementary school, giving them an inventor baseball card so that one…

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Mar 26, 2019

Any touch point you can have with the local communities, particularly the underrepresented ones, including at career recruiting services, or when they are in elementary school, giving them an inventor baseball card so that one day, they…

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Mar 26, 2019

I do think it is critically important that the data be gathered, because companies, even if they gather it, they sometimes don't publish it.

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Mar 26, 2019

There is an economic imperative as well as a social imperative.

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Mar 25, 2019

The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married and have some kids.

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Dec 11, 2018

And I would be on record saying that our first position would be for it to be a National Recreation Area but I certainly understand the Senator's position on this for it to be a National Park designation.

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Oct 3, 2018

We did not come up with a list of people who the FBI should interview. The FBI was requested to conduct an investigation into any and all credible, current accusations of sexual misconduct by Judge Kavanaugh. And the FBI made the decision…

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Sep 25, 2018

Federal regulations cost the American economy about $300 billion a year, 20 years ago.

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Sep 25, 2018

A Federal privacy law here, because of the nature of the Internet and the nature of these phones which travel across state lines as you talk on them, it is an interstate service and therefore should be regulated by Congress.

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