Mike Lee

The Dirksen Building really is a nice destination even when compared to Barcelona, but I will not say more than that.

As Senator Lee noted, in 2013 America's wireless carriers invested more than $34 billion in their networks.

I think the country prospered when Judge Greene broke up Ma Bell years ago.

So, Mr. Wood, I have heard some concerns expressed regarding the dominant players in the wireless device operating system market.

Competition generally represents the best method of ensuring that consumers receive low-price, high-quality products and services, greater choice among providers, and important innovation.

What will be the effect on Air Force readiness if the A-10 is not retired?

The President's budget proposes a restructuring of Army aviation that would see all National Guard Apache helicopters transferred to Active Duty units.

Last December, Afghanistan agreed to negotiate a cooperation pact with Iran for long-term political, security, economic, cultural cooperation, regional peace, and security.

Iranian nuclear capabilities and the ongoing nuclear negotiations are obviously of enormous interest to this committee and to Congress.

I generally trust that the marketplace will create the right kinds of incentives for retailers to protect the personal data of their consumer base.

I think for purposes of this discussion, even if we were to assume that all of the men and women serving us within the NSA, even if they are acting in good faith and abiding by their own rules, at some point there is a very grave risk of…

This will ultimately be abused unless we put in place some very significant restrictions.

I respectfully but forcefully disagree with the assertion... that he has usurped an extraordinary amount of authority within the executive branch.

It is imperative within our constitutional system that we not allow too much authority to be accumulated in one person

The President's preference to work with Congress and that, wherever possible, he would like to get Congress to agree with him, to pass legislation that he would like.

I appreciate the support you expressed earlier for the Smarter Sentencing Act.

Changes should not be measured on how much money they save, but instead, the true measure of any change should be whether it improves the way we recruit and/or retain a world-class uniformed force.

Avoiding difficult choices, in the name of serving our people or for any other reason, would ultimately risk a future in which our men and women could be sent in to harm's way with less than what they need to accomplish the mission.

Though well less than half of all military servicemembers will be eligible for this benefit, it is still an important tool for recruitment and retention efforts.

How important are retirement pensions for recruitment efforts and for retention efforts separately?

Mr. Carson, the National Guard played a key and essential role in the conflicts of the past decade.

The enduring priority of the Army is to preserve the high-quality All-Volunteer Force.

These, in other words, create effectively poverty traps in which people feel compelled not to do that which might be for their long--inure to their long-term benefit, but in the short term they might face penalties.

I am pleased to say that Salt Lake City and the surrounding area in my home State of Utah out-performed every other major metropolitan region in the country in that regard in this important metric.

There is some consensus that our federal welfare system is clunky and poorly designed, uncoordinated phase-outs of means tested programs where individuals with modest incomes may see astronomical effective marginal tax rates are part of…