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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 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

The hysteria around Supreme Court confirmation hearings is coming from the fact that we have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the Supreme Court in American life now.

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Sep 3, 2018

I am deeply sympathetic to the frustration people feel when they do not have access to documents they want.

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Sep 3, 2018

we are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that can lead to tyranny, it is the very…

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Sep 3, 2018

We are not dealing in a lawless environment here. We are dealing here with the Presidential Records Act.

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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

there is no reason why it should not be something that we can discuss in public.

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Sep 3, 2018

I do not see all discriminatory transfers are not unlawful under the Civil Rights Act.

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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

The Supreme Court is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America.

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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 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

It is not fair to this witness or any other witness in any other proceeding anywhere to not give the witness a copy and allow him to respond to it while he is being questioned about it.

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Aug 22, 2018

Do you support the idea of revisiting that ban so that the U.S. could become a leader yet again in supersonic flight?

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Aug 22, 2018

I certainly understand the need for the government to retain a portion of it.

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Aug 22, 2018

I worry that we're neither being transparent nor efficient in our utilization of the government's set-aside spectrum.

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Aug 21, 2018

I think it is important we make sure that there is a thriving, robust market and that we do everything we can to make sure that we do not put impediments in the way of the development of that market within the United States.

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Aug 21, 2018

I want to impress upon you, as much as I am capable of communicating, and I do so respectfully but with great urgency, the fact that this needs to happen.

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Jul 24, 2018

Spectrum-sharing agreements will need to function as a commonly used alternative to current methods.

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Jul 24, 2018

I am personally a strong supporter of the right-to-try concept, and I am hopeful for the results of policies like that and what they can bring.

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Jul 24, 2018

There is an old saying in politics that goes something like this: Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax the guy behind the tree.

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Jul 24, 2018

That's good to know, and certainly gives a lot of us hope for the future, and hope for how this is all going to work.

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Jul 24, 2018

because Minneapolis, that Senator Klobuchar said is the number one in the United States in wireless speeds, because they have LAA rolled out with small cells--that could also go in the 6 gigahertz band.

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Jul 24, 2018

It's clear that the United States economy has benefited tremendously from the fact that we have been more or less on the cutting edge of technology in this area.

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Jul 24, 2018

It's imperative that we free up more spectrum for licensed use and for unlicensed use, particularly in the 3-gigahertz to 6-gigahertz band.

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