Mike Lee

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?

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.

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

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.

Antitrust enforcement can and should play a role.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

As a conservative Republican who favors free markets, I believe that ensuring robust competition in this critical area of our Nation's economy will benefit consumers, it will spur innovation, and it will lead to job creation.

Internet search is critical to economic growth in the United States and Google has long been a dominant force in this arena.

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.

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

The right answer is appropriate antitrust enforcement.

The American people deserve more facts about how their taxpayer dollars were wasted and how you, as the nominees, will work to ensure it doesn't happen again.

We don't know yet what role, exact role, the White House played in rushing reviewers to approve a decision on a centerpiece--really the centerpiece--of President Obama's so-called stimulus program.

I agree it was a perfect storm, but I don't think we should be blaming China or the markets or a previous Administration.

The new law requires citizens to get Government permission before they touch a voter registration form from anyone other than their immediate family.

In a free republic, you have got to have the personal responsibility to participate. Voting is one of the highest and best civic transactions we can undertake.

the bottom line is that, after 6 years' worth of elections, Indiana's photo ID law works.

We have not been sued once. We have not even had allegations, legitimate allegations that anyone...has been legitimately--or illegitimately disenfranchised by Indiana's law, because it is reasonable.

I think it is very important to have a grounding in real facts, and so I appreciate this opportunity to share some of them with you here today.

I think this speaks well both to President Obama's nomination process and to the ability of this Committee to work together on a bipartisan basis.