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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

At the moment, there is no such law in Hong Kong even on a case-by-case basis unless we negotiate with Taiwan.

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May 14, 2019

If the U.S. and other governments around the world don't act immediately to pressure Beijing and Hong Kong to withdraw the changes, the Hong Kong government will ram through by early July an extradition law that will legalize kidnapping…

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May 14, 2019

Beijing has rewritten the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

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May 14, 2019

But what good is a deal if it is not honored? And the Hong Kong agreement is not honored.

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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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Mar 26, 2019

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

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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

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 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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Sep 25, 2018

Those are racehorses that can go somewhere else.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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 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

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

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