Mike Lee

I have serious concerns about the methodology--and lack of constitutional or legal authority--the administration employed in regards to our military actions in Libya.

I strongly support such hearings.

I will give my complete support to military missions to ensure our safety and their success.

But do you believe that a change in policy, a political calculation-based policy decision should affect the way the Solicitor General operates in deciding when, whether, and under what circumstances to defend a law?

Thank you for joining us today, Ms. Cook.

President Obama recently described those efforts as purely symbolic, and I think he also used the word 'failure'...

I want to return to an issue that you addressed briefly with Senator Lugar...

It should be. It should be.

As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I take seriously our responsibility of shaping U.S. foreign policy.

I think the Supreme Court has been absolutely clear in this particular area, the welfare rights area, that there is that danger that judges, unelected and unaccountable, based on their own conceptions of justice might try to write that…

As you know two-thirds of my State, the State of Utah is owned by the Federal Government.

Absolutely I would, Senator.

I absolutely do not, Senator.

No, I do not, Senator.

Well, you know, you mentioned a while ago, pretty easily, I thought, on the question of privacy. You said that, well, privacy is what society says it is, basically, and how do you find that?

Senator, if I may, I will try to address this in four points.

I would faithfully and fully apply those precedents were I confirmed in this process.

That is exactly what one would do and what one would have to do in the role of an intermediate appellate judge.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has never possessed the power to designate wilderness. That power has always been reserved and is always exercised exclusively by Congress.

every lesson that we've taught to the North Koreans over the last 10 years is that they'd be much better served by relying on a nuclear deterrent than on our good word.

Thank you, Senators Kerry and Lugar for your leadership in discussing the volatile situation in North Korea.

Has the administration taken a close look at this, including on whether and to what extent FERC has authority to issue this and what the effect might be on customers?

We have to make a number of these decisions on our own regardless of whether the courts are going to do them for us.

wouldn't it also be within Congress' power to tell every American... that we must eat four servings of green leafy vegetables each day?

the powers of the Federal Government are few and defined, whereas those reserved to the States are numerous and indefinite.