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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.
Does not Federal law currently say, statute on the books, does not Federal law currently say that if you are in the United States unlawfully and you leave the United States while here unlawfully and then you try to come back that you will…
I think it would strike people as fundamentally unfair for the millions of people who have been waiting patiently in line and playing by the rules.
It is clear that the President and his Administration are removing certain statutory obstacles to citizenship, obstacles that were put in place by law, by acts of Congress.
These instructions say, 'USCIS may in its discretion grant advance parole if you are traveling outside the United States for educational purposes, employment purposes or humanitarian purposes.'
The notion that they can take the decision not to prosecute or not to remove and deport individuals who are here unlawfully and convert that into a lawful presence that gives entitlement to work authorization is beyond anything that this…
Madam Chair, before we close, could I introduce two documents into the record?
But what the President did is actually make it harder because he poisoned the well creating what is already a very controversial subject.
If these four words creates the unfettered discretion that the President and his Office of Legal Counsel claim, there is no intelligible principle whatsoever, no channeling of the discretion given to the Executive.
He has made it more difficult for Congress to move forward and for that I am truly sorry.
I am particularly concerned that the bill might unsettle some legitimate contractual expectations the sports leagues have bargained for.
I am certainly open to examining in the future whether the antitrust exemptions enjoyed by professional sports leagues in their current forms rest on sound justifications.
Those antitrust laws are an important and effective tool for ensuring free markets and protecting low consumer prices.
I take a keen interest in ensuring that our competition laws are functioning well and having their desired effect of protecting competition.
Unwise regulation in this area would do nothing, I fear, but stifle much-needed innovation in Internet service.
The issue of an open Internet has attracted a lot of attention from a lot of Americans.
Subjecting the Internet to heavy-handed regulations... could threaten to do precisely that.
The proposed regulations... would, I fear, do nothing to make the underlying problem better, but instead, I fear, would make it much, much worse.
If the electric utility company in question decided to get into the business of providing its own air conditioning equipment to its rate payers, if it did that and then engaged in practices that favored its own system as compared to…
Do not mess with the most vibrant, expansive, even explosive area of our economy because it has worked and it has worked well.
Americans are sending a consistent message which is, do not break the Internet.
Are the Peshmerga and Kurdish political leaders supportive of a unified and stable government in Baghdad?
Military assistance from the U.S. Government and the coalition has been, and will continue to be, predicated upon the formation of an inclusive Iraqi government.
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