Mike Lee

In its 2015 Open Internet Order, the FCC claimed its unprecedented and sweeping Title II reclassification was necessary because broadband providers, to quote the order, 'have the incentive and ability to limit,' close quote, the openness…

By our count, there were several hundred instances in which this happened, and it looks even worse considering the fact that the FCC's chief economist at the time called the order an economics free zone.

There's a natural inclination in any government entity to look to the preservation of the entity. There's also an obligation, as these comments reveal, to serve the people, and, as he said, we need free markets.

We're very good at punishing people that do something that didn't quite work, and we're not very good about rewarding those people that took a risk.

We wouldn't survive at all.

This is the kind of judge we want sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court. Someone who reads the law in an effort to decide what it says rather than what he wishes it said.

This is an outstanding nominee. I've argued in front of this judge when he was sitting on the 10th circuit where he announced it. He's an outstanding judge, extraordinary.

He stated that he would have the Secretary of Commerce, the person holding the seat that we're now considering you for and that you will hold if you're confirmed, along with the U.S. Trade Representative to, quote, identify all foreign…

I appreciate your willingness to look at spectrum.

It must be enforcement because we are a country of the rule of law.

There are appropriate things for the Federal Government to get involved in.

A passion of mine involves federalism, involves the concept that the constitutional system created by our Founding Fathers works best when we reserve most powers in a way that will allow them to be exercised at the state and local level.

I hope that's something you would be willing to consider, at least that you wouldn't dismiss if you were confirmed to this position.

U.S. Government officials in all three branches of government...are expected...to look out for basic structural protections in the Constitution like federalism.

We have seen a slow but steady drift over the last 80 years away from this principle of federalism.

Federalism is an issue that is near and dear to many of us, and I know it is important to you.

Our Federal Government was always intended as a limited-purpose national government, not a general-purpose national government.

I have enjoyed working with you over the last 6 years and always found you to be someone who treats colleagues, regardless of differing viewpoints, with dignity and respect.

[R]emoving Director Cordray would be consistent with President Trump's oath to `preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States' and his duty to serve as an independent guardian of the U.S. Constitution.

I cannot imagine anyone as well-qualified to take this post as U.S. Ambassador to Russia as my friend and former boss, Governor Jon Huntsman.

Twenty years later the verdict is out. The people of Utah were right. The Grand Staircase has been devastating for the people of Utah's Garfield and Kane Counties.

My bill would simply put Utah on an equal footing with Wyoming and give the people of Utah, who have been severely harmed by the abuse, the flagrant abuse, of the Antiquities Act, some piece of mind about the future of their lands and…

Please, I implore you, I beg of you, let us continue to work toward consensus. Tell the President not to declare a national monument in San Juan County, Utah.

Just like the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, the proposed Bears Ears Monument would deprive these vulnerable communities... of vital economic, recreational and cultural resources.

This threat is exactly why I have introduced S. 3317 which would prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in the State of Utah, except by express authorization of Congress.