Mike Lee

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?

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

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Being dependent on the whims of Washington has not worked out well for Utah's ranchers.

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

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…

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

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.

In the last Congress, Senator Leahy and I proposed legislation to deal with abusive patent practices directed at small businesses.

We are pleased to report that in the PATENT Act, with the support of a bipartisan array of cosponsors, we will finally be able to enact these reforms.

Will this not inevitably extend the period of time that it takes to get regulatory approval, given that the rule contemplates a need to either get this approval from BLM as part of the APD process or outside the process separately?

This appears to me to be something that could well be a solution in search of a problem.

If that is the case, if you have got a number of states that do not have any regulations at all and you have got other states that do have regulations, none of which are inadequate, why not allow those states that have regulations that you…

The heart of the problem really is to clarify the standard of intent that is required.

That is why I am a cosponsor of the FAIR Act, along with my colleague, Senator Rand Paul.

Thank you Mr. Chairman and thanks to all of you for your testimony it has been very informative today.

The Constitution says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Now, many of the problematic forfeitures tend to arise in the context of structuring and the Department of Justice and IRS recently announced new policies regarding structuring forfeitures.

Right. My understanding is that some trace the civil forfeiture laws that we have today back to what was known at common law as the Deodand, which was based on a theory that the object--an object that was used in killing somebody…