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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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Sep 25, 2018

Those are racehorses that can go somewhere else.

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Sep 25, 2018

It is not the Federal Government's business to coerce, cajole, or lead people into any particular family structure.

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Sep 25, 2018

I don't think the Federal Government should be necessarily in the business of particularly trying to design the American family, but they should get rid of any barriers that make it expensive to be married.

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Sep 25, 2018

As the studies done by my Social Capital Project have shown, families today are twice as likely to be headed by a single parent as they were at the end of the sixties.

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Sep 17, 2018

Republican Panel Member Mike Lee just now saying he fully supports going through with the hearing whether Christine Blasey Ford testifies or not.

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Sep 4, 2018

I've lost track of how many constituents have come to me themselves in tears talking about seeing their daughters, their sons subjected to invasive groping searches.

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Sep 4, 2018

Would you agree as a general matter that within the SPP, private screeners ought to be evaluated on an equal even playing field?

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Sep 4, 2018

Currently, there are 22 airports in the United States that participate in the TSA's Screening Partnership Program, or SPP.

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Sep 4, 2018

I hope we can increase the security and do so in a way that respects the dignity of each American as he or she travels.

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Sep 4, 2018

As a member of the U.S. Senate, I'd be concerned about costs that extend farther than your agency.

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Sep 4, 2018

In both 2015 and 2017, the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General revealed some very alarming fail rates.

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Sep 4, 2018

Shouldn't be that be an apples-to-apples comparison?

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Sep 4, 2018

Is the SPP a viable option? Is that an attractive option? If so, why?

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Sep 4, 2018

In 2015, when the General Accountability Office produced a report, it reported that contract award prices for private screeners within the SPP Program carried an average of 11 percent in savings.

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Sep 3, 2018

If you have questions for Judge Kavanaugh, ask him. He is right here.

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Sep 3, 2018

I consider this most unfortunate given that this was entirely within the control of at least one of my Democratic colleagues to do this.

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Sep 3, 2018

I have colleagues today who have repeatedly asked for an FBI investigation, and there are some ironies in this.

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Sep 3, 2018

I have great respect for teachers. Both my parents worked as educators in different capacities...

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Sep 3, 2018

Our local communities cannot tax the land, and property taxes are where in most States, including my own, a lot of the money comes from to fund schools.

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Sep 3, 2018

The Federal Government owns two-thirds of the land in the State of Utah, even more in Nevada.

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Sep 3, 2018

When you create an entity within the Federal Government, within the executive branch, it is not accountable to anyone

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Sep 3, 2018

The Presidency would not be a monarchy, and it specified all the ways that under the Constitution the President is not above the law, no one is above the law in the United States of America.

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Sep 3, 2018

We are just doing what the law allows us here to do.

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Sep 3, 2018

That demon is a law of our own creation, and it is called the Presidential Records Act.

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Sep 3, 2018

It is incredibly frustrating. In those circumstances, we look for a demon.

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