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Mike Lee

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Mike Shumway Lee is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Utah, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has focused on issues such as limited government, individual liberties, and constitutional rights throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for fiscal responsibility and has often emphasized the importance of adhering to the Constitution in legislative matters.

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Sep 28, 2015

That doesn't happen in California, and that's because standard benefit designs for both on and off exchange in the individual market.

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Sep 28, 2015

We review them critically and make sure they have the networks in place, the system to deliver quality care.

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Sep 28, 2015

We hold them to account for delivering quality care.

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Sep 16, 2015

The United States officially does not take positions on sovereignty issues with respect to territorial and maritime disputes in the East and South China Sea.

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Sep 16, 2015

Are we currently on schedule to meet this goal?

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Sep 16, 2015

More than $5 trillion worth of international trade traverses the South China Sea annually.

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Sep 16, 2015

I am having a hard time seeing why it is that a country like the United States that has used its power, its blood, and its treasure to protect navigation all over the world for 200 years has to, in order to gain some moral high ground…

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Sep 16, 2015

I would take issue with one aspect of what you said, though, that regardless of what benefits you might see from this, I would not say that signing onto a treaty is without any cost on our part without us giving up anything particularly…

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Jul 28, 2015

Why on earth didn't we insist as a condition precedent to getting any deal at all that Iran, for the love of God, cease and desist from its terrorist ambitions.

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Jul 28, 2015

Why isn't this a treaty? And as a treaty, why isn't it subject to advice and consent with two-thirds of the Senate concurring?

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Jul 28, 2015

One of the reasons why we are so concerned about Iran getting nuclear weapons has to do with the fact that this is a roguish state, a state that has made not only threats, but taken aggressive actions toward the United States and her…

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Jul 14, 2015

I think that in the long run there could be potential negative unintended consequences for the workers that they are trying to help.

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Jun 16, 2015

And if we are not doing that, then we are fooling ourselves. We are not getting accurate information, or we are presented information saying this is worth it, this is making money, when in fact it is not; we are not making logical…

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Jun 16, 2015

And, Mr. Delisle, we are not really talking here about changing programs; we are talking about analyzing them accurately? Is that correct?

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Jun 16, 2015

What are the risks to the taxpayer when we pretend that programs raise money for the government while CBO finds that they lose money under fair value? What kind of risk does that present?

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Jun 2, 2015

The younger folks that are healthier are looking at it and saying I'm just better off paying the penalty and not getting health insurance at all because I don't really need it.

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Jun 2, 2015

And so while the law might in some circumstances be described by its proponents as driving more people into health insurance, it might actually be limiting their options in terms of actually securing health care.

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May 20, 2015

For constitutional reasons, we ought to be following the process in the Constitution.

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May 20, 2015

The success or failure of the JCPOA (the Iran agreement), will have a significant impact on the threats our forces are posturing for in the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

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May 20, 2015

The ISF is comprised of and led by individuals with varying ethnic and sectarian interests.

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May 20, 2015

The United States has placed specific emphasis on engaging Turkey and incorporating them into the fight against ISIS.

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May 20, 2015

The administration has stated repeatedly that there must be a political solution to the crisis in Syria and Iraq

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May 20, 2015

It's been 1 year since President Obama announced to the world that the United States would undertake a strategy to degrade and defeat ISIS in order to return some semblance of stability to Iraq and create an environment that could lead to…

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May 20, 2015

Nothing in this proclamation shall be deemed to affect existing permits or leases for or levels of livestock grazing on Federal lands within the monument.

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May 20, 2015

While using the Antiquities Act to further limit activity on another 2 million acres of Utah land was wholly inappropriate, at least President Clinton, at the time, looked to enshrine existing grazing rights.

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