Mike Lee

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

I appreciate your commitment on that.

Is there a cumulative cost estimate of the financial impact of all these changes on the Department?

I have been in discussions with the Air Force about the potential of allowing the service under certain conditions to sell spare ICBM motors to private sector companies to be refurbished and used for commercial space launch.

Our test and training ranges are important national assets supporting weapon system development and readiness of the joint force.

Any change to the universe of persons subject to the Selective Service registration requirement needs to be made by Congress, with input from the American people, rather than administratively or by the courts.

We have discouraged China and all claimants from taking unilateral actions, and we continue to encourage China to clarify its claims in accordance with international law.

Long term peace will require a political resolution between the various competing actors inside Yemen.

The future of combat aviation in the Army.

Some of us were skeptical about this initiative from the outset, as we believed that the opposition forces in Syria were much more fragmented than was being assessed.

On Monday, Russian President Putin announced that a significant portion of the Russian military will be withdrawing from Syria and that they had accomplished their strategic goals in the country.

The United States is engaged in equipping and financing the sale of highly-technological, fourth and fifth generation fixed and rotary winged aircraft to Middle Eastern partners for counter-terrorism efforts.

I have a question for our panelists.