Mike Lee

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

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

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

The general concept we would agree with.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

So the impact on independent labels and unsigned artists would not necessarily be a negative one, in your opinion?

The future of online music is bright but uncertain.

So with this particular merger, do you have an ongoing concern that--creating an even bigger major out of the biggest major that currently exists, aren't you concerned that might cause some problems?

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.

Enforcement of our antitrust laws must be oriented to help foster innovative technologies and enhance consumer welfare.

A number of individuals and organizations, including some Members of Congress, the FTC, and industry groups, have expressed some concern to the International Trade Commission regarding the use of exclusion orders in cases involving…

Then you had the President taking military action in Libya without a declaration of war, without any kind of congressional authorization.

I, like many of my constituents, have some concerns with regard to how this President and his administration have viewed certain constitutional restrictions.

the President commented not too long ago that he believed that it would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.

the President may decide when the President deems the Senate to be in recess, regardless of what the Senate's own rules say.

The President's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, contains an individual mandate that many consider constitutionally problematic.

With Treasury yield rates being at all-time historic lows, I think it becomes difficult to dispute that at some point in the next few years we will start to see a normalization and we will start to see yield rates return to their historic…