Mike Lee

The Ute tribe supports this legislation because it will help the tribe develop its mineral resources while also preserving lands of significant cultural value.

Managing that amount of land often, nearly always, requires Federal legislation, even for many parochial issues.

The Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act will resolve a long standing land ownership problem in Eastern Utah.

This legislation will assist SITLA in its goal of ensuring that Utah schools have the resources needed to provide the best possible education for Utah's children.

S. 27 represents an approach to resource development that carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders.

I'd also like to express my support for S. 28, the Y Mountain Access Enhancement Act.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Our constitutional system requires us I think to accord a degree of due process to a U.S. citizen before that U.S. citizen is deprived of liberty or property or most importantly, life.

Do you have any indication as to how this administration believes that it should move forward?

Even if that means possibly bifurcating the proceedings or making some aspects of the determination public and others immune from any kind of transparency?

If the alien was authorized to work in the U.S. during the time in which he or she was legally authorized, would not those taxes have already been collected?

I am very concerned with the near-complete discretion that would be granted to the Secretary of Homeland Security through this bill.

Now, if this same approach is used by an illegal alien who has entered after the enactment of this law, assuming it is enacted into law, will not this 3- or 3½-year period, whichever it is, amount to a de facto enforcement holiday during…

Many conservatives are genuinely willing to discuss fundamental immigration reforms, so long as that reform is founded on a truly secure border.

I could see that there would be consideration based on the age of a conviction, the type of a conviction...

So part of the problem with this is not necessarily that you should not be able to count that figure, because those are resulting from the efforts of DHS.

We are a Nation of immigrants. We always have been. I hope and pray that we always will be.

The reason I raise the concern, as you can imagine, is that we have had a number of delays in connection with the F-35.

Economically we are in a different position now.

How can DOD work to address, anticipate, and mitigate against the so-called bow wave that will be caused by the slowdown in depot inductions that we are seeing?

The BRAC 2015 will not look like BRAC 2005.

Now, we know that sequestration is likely to slow the input, will slow down the induction of some aircraft into depot.

Are you concerned that even if there is not an impact, that this could at least create less of a margin for delays?

The President has made clear on numerous occasions that cooperation with Russia will not in any way limit U.S. or NATO missile defenses.

The United States will not accept limitations on its missile defenses.