Mike Lee

I also appreciate your commitment to protecting the rights that we hold dear as Americans, and our security.

I believe it's an issue that Congress and the executive branch have to approach with a great deal of prudence.

Requiring U.S. companies to provide access to government agencies would not prevent foreign app developers from creating encryption software for jailbreak phones.

All Americans should be free to believe and act in the public square based on their beliefs about marriage without fear of government penalty.

Detractors will have you believe that the First Amendment Defense Act would allow hospitals to refuse care to a same-sex couple or turn away a single pregnant mother.

It has never been our intention to give anyone a so-called license to discriminate.

Our bill does not take away anybody's rights, to answer Mr. Cummings' question.

The pendulum of tolerance must swing both ways.

We can get into the fact that he accused my best friend's father of conspiring to kill JFK.

I am worried though. I am worried that Utah's federal partners have been showing a pronounced propensity to ignore suggestions made by the state.

I am proud to have the chance to introduce someone who has been at the center of that, Kathleen Clarke.

This is an issue that is very important to me and to my state. BLM manages nearly 23,000,000 acres of public lands in Utah.

The proposed rule threatens to circumvent BLM's own field managers and state directors at later stages of the planning process.

We need natural gas in the manufacturing sector.

We just want to see them get done, right?

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

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

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.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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

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.