Mike Lee

It is thus all the more necessary and important that Congress continue to exercise its constitutional role and to check this President's abuse of power wherever it sees that occurring.

President Obama again abused Executive power when earlier this year he announced that he would stop enforcing key provisions of the Immigration Nationality Act.

Historically, you know, these kinds of offenses that would have been prosecuted by States would have resulted in convictions within the State penal system.

In order to change that, we are going to need a change in policy, probably a change in legislation.

Doesn't that create kind of a free-rider problem that we can expect to continue to result in the continued expansion of this kind of problem?

The fact that we have a higher incarceration rate in the United States generally does not necessarily mean that we are just tougher on people.

How does that end up impacting the Department of Justice's ability to do other things that it needs to do?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on national television in America that his government has what he described as unquestionable evidence.

If the Governor feels she did not get good names here, she can reject the whole batch and ask for more names.

I have long shared, by the way, your concerns with States that have contested partisan elections to fill the vacancy at the outset because I think it is difficult to reconcile that with the need for judicial independence.

That is up to each State to decide, what do you feel in your State is the level of voter participation that you need to have to make the system work for your State.

I believe this Committee can assist State and local governments with ideas as to how to more efficiently manage the connection between energy and water.

The general concept we would agree with.

In general, Senator, we agree that it would not be an appropriate remedy.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you, Chairman Leahy and also Ranking Member Grassley, for putting this hearing together.

When the OSHA came to the door 20 years ago, that was not a good day.

At Nucor, as a corporation, our DART rate, days away restricted time, is actually 75 percent lower than the industry average.

Nucor's safety goal, as is OSHA's, is zero incidents and accidents.

The cornerstone of Nucor's continuous safety and health improvements is VPP.

Nucor is made up of more than 20,000 teammates whose goal is to take care of our customers by being the safest, highest quality, lowest cost, most productive, and most profitable steel and steel products company in the world.

To be a successful VPP, you have to trust your employees and empower them to participate in their site safety and health programs.

VPP will not work if it is the sole responsibility of a safety director, a safety cop if you will, looking over an employee's shoulder.

Perhaps I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one. I am also a doer and so are thousands of VPP workers.

I think most of us in the room would have to agree that this merger, if it proceeded, would result in a pretty significant degree of concentration.

The recorded music industry is both a staple of our popular culture and an essential element for our economy.