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.
Would you agree that Facebook ought not be putting its thumb on the scale with regard to the content of speech?
I would think it would be a good idea to limit the application of this tariff to the greatest extent possible in order to accomplish these ends.
When we allow the law to be enforced by people who are accountable at the local level, good things happen.
I want to thank you, in particular, for your leadership and for the President's leadership in addressing the concerns expressed by people in Utah.
Excessive regulation negatively affects productivity growth by misallocating labor and creating restrictions on entry.
That's something that brings me, sort of keeps me up at night at how we respond.
I'm very confident the U.S. Government has a response if a major cyberattack were to occur.
The law should not operate as an arbitrage between which Federal agency you appear in front of.
I think all of us who live in the West share an enthusiasm for the beauty that is found in our land.
In my state, it is about two-thirds of the land, but in New Mexico, in Montana, in basically every Western state, the Federal Government is not just the largest landowner, but the largest landowner by far.
It is noteworthy that in every state east of Colorado the Federal Government owns less than 15 percent of the land.
Most human beings are offended by the thought that attorneys would be in the same classification for them.
I shudder at the thought of what the government might have done had premarket approval been a prerequisite for starting some of the technologies that brought the Internet to life for the American people.
Just about two weeks ago, Secretary Elaine Chao, the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, made an announcement that the Department of Transportation would be seeking public input across the transportation industry to 'identify…
I would commend Senator Thune and Senator Nelson on their opening remarks. I think you guys get it.
One of the things that I worry about in this circumstance is that the only thing that can stop this technological revolution from taking place and from improving the lives of 330 Americans is the government itself.
We live in an exciting world. We live at a time when the companies represented at this table today 15 years ago were just ideas, and today, they've changed the way we interact with the world around us.
My understanding is that saved the District a lot of money because it did not have to go through the NEPA process.
We live in a republic, in a republic where the people are the sovereigns, where ultimately the government is accountable to the people.
It is important, when you are making policy, from time to time to look back and review what you have done.





