Utah Senator Mike Lee spoke out for Sen. Ted Cruz after the CNN debate, explaining why he chose to endorse his friend from Texas instead of his friend from Florida. Lee announced his decision prior to the debate, and was joined by another recent Cruz endorser Carly Fiorina in the debate spin room.
Thursday Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president of the United States. Partial transcript as follows: LEE: He promised he would oppose efforts to undermine religious liberty. He has kept those promises and every other promise
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) will endorse Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as his choice to become the next President of the United States, according to multiple news outlets.
While President Obama assured that illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty would not be put on a path to citizenship, a loophole expanded by the administration has allowed just that, and two Republican lawmakers are demanding answers.
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA — Sen. Marco Rubio co-sponsored legislation this week that would move power to the Congress in determining whether women should be eligible for the military draft, in an apparent contrast of views he expressed just last week.
Republican Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is responding to Donald Trump, who has accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of not having friends in the U.S. Senate, by coming out and saying he is a friend of Cruz.
While the law has dictated for well over a decade that the government implement a biometric tracking system for foreign travelers in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security still has no date set for its implementation, according to a Customs and Border Protection official.
On Sean Hannity’s radio show on Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) dismissed the suggestion that his GOP colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, was a proponent of the so-called “Gang of Eight” bill
During a tele town hall on Wednesday evening, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) dropped the hammer on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)—essentially accusing his colleague of lying in criticisms of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would strip Obamacare of key tax-raising features and would also eliminate taxpayer-funding of abortion businesses, including Planned Parenthood.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday to repeal key parts of Obamacare.
Senate Republicans are planning a strategy this week aimed at making it seem they will repeal Obamacare.
Sen. Marco Rubio criticized Republican rivals Ted Cruz and Rand Paul for supporting legislation that weakened intelligence programs. In the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks on Paris, Rubio says that the United States was just as vulnerable as Paris to another terrorist attack. He argued that supporting U.S. surveillance and intelligence programs was more important than ever, something he had a long record of doing.
The Obama administration has been exploiting immigration parole to enable large groups of foreign nationals to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely, Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members charge.
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wants Sen. Mike Lee to be Speaker of the House.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
The Department of Labor, headed by Thomas E. Perez, a “liberal hero” to CNN and “a hardcore left-wing activist,” to Judicial Watch, continues to expand the Obama administration’s relentless assault on individual liberties and the rule of law with its latest proposed regulation, Definition of the Term `Fiduciary’; Conflict of Interest Rule–Retirement Investment Advice.
With their legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those federal funds to women’s health care facilities that don’t provide abortions, Senate Republicans say they are sending the message that their proposal is not about politics, but about the “moral fabric” of the nation.
On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable—a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless—happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran.
It’s for real. Tonight, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah plans to offer an amendment to H.R. 22, the “Hire More Heroes Act” – that’s the House-passed vehicle the Senate is using as a placeholder for a six-year highway funding bill.
Sen. Mike Lee’s attempt to force a vote in the Senate that would defund Planned Parenthood was blocked Sunday by some of his Republican colleagues.
“At the end of the day, it is about power and money in Washington and the people getting left behind are working men and women,” Cruz said. “Now I will say one thing that’s very encouraging, which is even though the Washington Cartel is coming after me hard—the lobbyists are backing other candidates in this presidential race—out of 16 candidates for the Republican nomination, do you know which candidate raised the most money out of all 16?”
Cruz’s speech stemmed from how McConnell—despite telling the entire GOP conference there was no such secret deal with the Democrats during the Obamatrade process to later bring up Ex-Im reauthorization—actually did cut a deal with Democrats, specifically Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).
He detailed the intended functions for each branch of government: executive, legislative and judicial. “Even if we have a President who happens to have a pen and a cell phone the executive branch doesn’t make the law,” Lee emphasized. As for the judicial branch, “it’s not their job to make the law either.”
Axelrod was sought out by Romney to provide the gathered Republican crowd with the sort of winning advice he gave to President Obama in his successful 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Romney and Axelrod have apparently become friendly of late.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) pushed his alternative to the Patriotic Act, which just expired and its reauthorization has been hindered by the actions of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016
The PATRIOT Act filibuster that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led on Wednesday evening has proven one big thing: That his colleague from Kentucky, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, agrees with his predecessor that there shouldn’t be open process or debate when the Senate considers major pieces of legislation.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), who joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in his filibuster on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview when he came off the Senate floor that he stands with Rand because Montanans want him to.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who had one of his staff say he would not appear on ABC until George Stephanopoulos recuses himself from 2016 coverage, declared that Stephanopoulos is “not in a position of being a neutral arbitrator of the facts” on Thursday’s
Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.
In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to promote his book “Our Lost Constitution” on Sunday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) discussed the role of the U.S. Constitution and what he sees as some its purpose, which is to ensure
Conservative champion Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) explains that abolishing the entire Internal Revenue Service in favor of a flat tax might not be the best idea for Middle Class taxpayers and their families.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a GOP 2016 presidential candidate, joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to discuss their new tax reform plan at The Heritage Foundation.
Several Republican senators—including many who just won re-election and won’t face voters for six more years—voted for more big government and nearly $150 billion to be added to the national debt on Tuesday night. The vote came on the so-called “Doc Fix” which provides taxpayer cash to Medicare provider doctors.
Since Mike Lee doesn’t need to focus on re-election campaigning, he can devote the majority of his time to sticking up for Utahans and all Americans by reforming the Republican Party and pushing forward with his conservative reform agenda.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) said that Marco Rubio’s ability to connect his audience to the American dream would be a “real advantage to him as a presidential candidate” on Monday’s broadcast of “The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart” on MSNBC. Lee
In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) discussed his wait-and-see attitude on the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race and his new book, “Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Document.” Transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS:
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) released a trailer for his new book “Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Document” to Breitbart News on Friday. In the trailer, Lee explains that he wrote the book “for readers who share
Friday on Fox New Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), author of “Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Document,” discussed the latest tweet from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, which contradicted the Obama administration’s framework fact sheet
