Mike Lee

I think it is important from time to time to look at whether what we have created makes sense.

That would not be Armageddon. It would not produce an Armageddon type environment. Dogs and cats living together in the streets.

I think we all seem to agree... that there should be more local law enforcement involvement in this area.

Former Attorney General Ed Meese and I have urged Congress to adopt a mistake of law defense...

it's a shame when our entire profession is disparaged on the basis of only eight or nine hundred thousand bad apples.

And to the extent it can achieve that, it saves the taxpayer money.

We recognize the sheriff as the supreme law enforcement official in the counties they serve in.

I am sure you would agree that the BLM-led standoff at the Bundy ranch, out of which those particular criminal charges arose, was ill-conceived and was poorly executed.

I appreciated what you said earlier about the overcriminalization issue and noting that although that is not the precise focus of this hearing, it is closely related to the overcriminalization problem.

Yet nothing in federal law precludes them from using local law enforcement and in some ways it encourages it.

The FAA has banned commercial flight of supersonic aircraft in this country.

I want to thank you for all of the help that you provided hurricane victims in the last few months.

The Bureau is far too powerful, and with precious little oversight of its activities.

The structure and powers of the Bureau are not something the Founders and Framers would recognize.

Would you agree that Facebook ought not be putting its thumb on the scale with regard to the content of speech?

I would consider election interference to fit into that.

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.

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.

When we allow the law to be enforced by people who are accountable at the local level, good things happen.

excessive regulation negatively affects productivity growth by misallocating labor and creating restrictions on entry.

I'm extremely concerned about the disparity between our industries.

I'm very confident the U.S. Government has a response if a major cyberattack were to occur.

That's something that brings me, sort of keeps me up at night at how we respond.

The law should not operate as an arbitrage between which Federal agency you appear in front of.

Most human beings are offended by the thought that attorneys would be in the same classification for them.