Mike Lee

We need natural gas in the manufacturing sector.

We just want to see them get done, right?

Those hurdles are magnified. They are compounded to a very significant degree in a public land state like mine.

Without pipeline infrastructure you cannot rely on natural gas as a way to generate electricity.

I am increasingly worried about the politicization of infrastructure projects.

The endless litigation that we are seeing and the political pressure campaigns that we are seeing waged by anti-development, fringe activists will inhibit Utah's growth.

I would also like to wish Senator Klobuchar a very Happy Birthday.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Water is for fighting.

Any drought bill must be fully paid for.

If a political solution to the Syrian conflict continues to elude diplomats in Geneva, there will not be a political sovereign to unite the various rebels.

This is an important issue to our state.

I would hope that you would simply exempt Utah from the rule in light of the fact that we have had great success with it.

With regulations like this one, regulations that I consider unnecessary and extraordinarily onerous, regulations like this one, I can only wonder whether the Administration wants to snuff it out completely.

I think this is significant, the existing regulatory structure and those being developed by the EPA. In light of these state regulations, in particular, this rule appears to me to be utterly unnecessary.

The Administration has made the claim, a claim that I consider absurd, that its ability to implement policies to reduce waste somehow enables the BLM to regulate air emissions.

So there is a lot at stake if we do not reform it. If we do not do that we could stand to lose it.

If the government is going to assist young people to attend college and to read Shakespeare, I think it should also provide assistance to students of all ages, who want to attend technical school.

I believe this imbalance is not only unfair, it is economically misguided.

According to the U.S. policy standards and procedures for the use of force put out by the White House, the United States will use lethal force only against a target that poses a continuing imminent threat to U.S. persons.

Yet, media reports, based off of leaked documents, seem to suggest that the amount of time between when a target is identified, the President authorizes the use of lethal force on a target, and the execution of that strike can take a lot…

But if low-paying jobs are the ones that are most threatened, most potentially threatened by automation, doesn't raising the minimum wage just raise the cost of low-skilled work and incentivize employers to accelerate the process of…

If our goal as a society is that an honest day's work should earn an honest day's wage, and machines are going to make it harder, and in some cases perhaps impossible for low-skilled, entry-level Americans to find an honest day's work…

The current Administration supports of course raising the minimum wage.

It worries me that the U.S. accounts for about three-fourths of NATO funding even though the European members have an even larger combined economy and population.