Mike Lee

So can I get a commitment from you that you will work with local officials to increase access to recreational opportunities in the county?

The people who depend on these rights-of-way deserve to have their claims heard.

This is their land. I mean, an R.S. 2477 right-of-way is an ownership interest.

We will try to bring a little bit more of Alaska into this room to make sure that it is a little bit less tropical.

Thank you very much, Senator Hatch, and thanks for telling us about the dune buggy.

This is not an appropriate place for a mine, not at the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, nor at the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park.

This bill is the result of locally-driven collaborative processes that empower local stakeholders instead of federal bureaucrats.

This bill preserves recreational access to nearly 20,000 acres in the Hurricane Sand Dunes in Washington County, Utah.

The Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order is the perfect example of the intrusive, heavy-handed government regulation causing delay in industry.

If our goal is to encourage domestic investment by and promote competition between Internet Service Providers in the United States, shouldn't we return to the Clinton era light-touch approach to the Internet?

The bill does not go far enough to lower premiums for middle class families.

I have decided that I cannot support the current version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act. In addition to not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families.

We are ramped up to shore ourselves against a cyber weaponry that Russia is using, elections and others.

The spreading across this Nation in terms of provokers, provoking Muslims, then the idea of people buying into I have to go for the fight or I have to be part of this fight against America, I think it is crucial that we engage in…

So it's a dramatic acceleration of the improvement of the recovery.

Certainly funding is always an obstacle for us.

It's not being written by us. It's apparently be written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership in the Senate.

It's not being written by us, it's apparently being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership in the Senate. So if you're frustrated by the lack of transparency in this process, I share your…

These communities are deeply frustrated because timber harvest not only boosts their economies, but they also improve forest health and they help protect them from the risks associated with forest fires.

Another prominent issue in Utah involves timber harvesting. According to your agency's own numbers, the volume of timber harvested on Forest Service lands has decreased by about 80 percent just over the last 30 years.

Can you tell me, Chief, why is it that we are not allowing more timber harvesting when doing so would produce not only economic opportunities and aid a lot of these rural communities who have suffered so much in recent decades?

In your research you've noted a connection between, on the one hand, low rates of marriage and high family instability among working-class whites and, on the other hand, 'deaths of despair.'

There is a sense that our social fabric is fraying.

The U.S. economy has become less dynamic and innovative in recent decades.

Our Nation, today, faces very real economic challenges.