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Mike Lee

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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.

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Nov 7, 2011

I find this interesting in the sense that here the requirement outlined in Section 2518 of Title 18 requires an analysis at the Department of Justice level.

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Nov 7, 2011

You have acknowledged today that mistakes were made, obviously, within the Department of Justice related to the Fast and Furious program but without specifying who made those mistakes.

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Oct 19, 2011

So once you can acquire that additional data and view your initial warning data in context, you can usually rule out the false, the possibility of a false-positive alert?

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Oct 19, 2011

Right. Once that's used in the fracking fluid, then that changes the regulatory framework that you apply.

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Oct 19, 2011

How often is diesel fuel used in the injection fluid?

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Oct 19, 2011

So as to give them some guidance; they were looking for guidance?

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Oct 19, 2011

Requested that they do them so it could give them----

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Oct 19, 2011

But you were, I assume, somewhat relieved by the findings that you did make, by what you discovered, the lack of contamination that you saw?

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Oct 19, 2011

How would you characterize the quality of the water that you sampled, then?

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Oct 19, 2011

So do you know what it is you're looking for? I mean, what is it you're looking for?

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Oct 19, 2011

The members of our committee know I'm a strong advocate for the domestic production of natural gas.

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Oct 4, 2011

Our oath to uphold the Constitution, our commitment not to overstep the bounds of federalism means more than simply doing that which NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel or Wickard v. Filburn might say that we can get away with in court.

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Oct 3, 2011

You will help the economy recover faster if you focus primarily on cutting expenses rather than on increasing taxes

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Oct 3, 2011

I do want to share just a couple of my own thoughts about the current state of our economy, and share some of my concerns about the Federal Reserve System.

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Sep 20, 2011

I'm a firm believer in the free market. I'm also an almost life-long fan of Robert Bork.

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Sep 20, 2011

We learned from Robert Bork that the animating principle of antitrust justice ought to be consumer welfare.

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Sep 20, 2011

My real interest as a free market conservative Republican is in seeing that actors like Google take voluntary action so that there's no need for antitrust enforcement in the first place

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Sep 20, 2011

Google already possesses unprecedented power to steer users and to stifle competition.

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Sep 20, 2011

The right answer is appropriate antitrust enforcement.

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Sep 20, 2011

Antitrust enforcement can and should play a role.

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Sep 20, 2011

This same practice that I described presents a clear and inherent conflict of interest.

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Sep 20, 2011

This practice seems to me to leverage Google's primary search dominance to give its own secondary services and listings an unnatural and an extraordinary advantage.

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Sep 20, 2011

I am troubled by some of Google's practices, its practice of inserting its own offerings, in the midst of natural algorithmic search results, usually in the most prominent position of the page and with the most eye-catching display.

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Sep 20, 2011

It seems to me that--I don't know whether you call this a separate algorithm or whether you have reverse-engineered one algorithm, but either way you've cooked it so that you're always 3rd.

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