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I am a United States Senator from the great state of Utah. Please help me restore constitutional leadership to Washington.

Posted on November 10, 2021

Biden can't make up his mind if inflation is good or bad

Inflation is rising at its fastest pace in three decades, and it’s gnawing away at Americans’ wages, savings, and aspirations. It’s making it harder for families to afford gas and groceries and make ends meet.

If we don’t stop this runaway train of congressional spending, inflation could get worse.

The best way to strengthen our shared prosperity is to rein in spending and return to the pro-growth policies that made the pre-pandemic economy so successful.

Posted on November 3, 2021

Biden’s vaccine mandate is the most egregious incursion on our medical rights in history

Fox News reports, “More than three dozen Senate Republicans are moving to formally disapprove and nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employees Wednesday under the Congressional Review Act — the official process for Congress to eliminate an executive branch rule.

Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana is leading 41 Republican senators on Wednesday to ‘strike dow’ Biden’s rule, which mandates employees — at private businesses with 100 workers or more — to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Republicans blasted the mandate, which Biden introduced in September, and the forthcoming formal rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is expected to be released in the coming days — calling it ‘unacceptable’ and an order that ‘warrants review by Congress.’

Braun is joined by Sens. Dan Sullivan, Bill Hagerty, Roger Marshall, Mike Lee, James Lankford, Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul, Cynthia Lummis…”

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Posted on November 1, 2021

Biden's disdain for the rule of law shown with vaccine mandate

Fox News reports, “A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a minute order Thursday asking the Biden administration to agree that both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs will not be terminated while they await a ruling after they sued the administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.

"None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending," read a minute order from District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly obtained by Fox News.”

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Posted on October 29, 2021

Utahns overwhelmingly oppose Biden vaccine mandate

Deseret News reports, “While businesses in Utah and across the country continue to wait for details and the official implementation of President Joe Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate rules announced last month, a new survey shows Utahns are overwhelmingly opposed to the proposed policy.

The Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah voters shows 62% of respondents somewhat or strongly oppose the mandate, while 37% of those polled said they were in somewhat or strong support of the Biden proposal.”

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Posted on October 28, 2021

Dem deal will make life harder for poor and middle-class Americans

Fox News reports, “Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland over the DOJ memo released earlier this month, saying there is not a "scintilla of evidence" of legitimate threats of violence made against school board officials.

MIKE LEE: "I urge and implore Attorney General Garland to rescind the October 4th memo. This memo by the National School Board Association was issued on a Wednesday. The Attorney General Garland memo was issued the following Monday, just four or five days after the original memo, which has now been rescinded. It's not backed up by a scintilla of evidence of a single threat of violence. It needs to be rescinded, and I call upon the attorney general to do precisely that."

Posted on October 26, 2021

Biden should be ashamed of himself for his unconstitutional vaccine mandate

President Joe Biden has assumed extra and unconstitutional powers with his vaccine mandates.

Hopefully the Constitution will eventually prevail.

"This is the most excessive abuse of presidential federal overreach since April 5th, 1952, which was the moment when Harry Truman seized every steel mill in America in order to support the Korean War effort.

It took a couple of months, but the Supreme Court knocked that down and said the president doesn’t have that power.

I believe that what President Biden is doing now is comparable to that, and in some ways even worse than that."

Posted on October 7, 2021

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 'should never be taken seriously by Republicans again'

U.S. News reports, "The threat of the U.S. government defaulting on its loans became real enough Wednesday for the Pentagon to wade into the political morass, warning Congress that a failure to act would harm America's ability to defend itself and take care of its troops...'

The Pentagon chief's stark warning comes amid an increasingly tense standoff between the White House and Republicans in Congress, who have opposed Democratic attempts to raise America's debt limit as a way to rail against President Joe Biden's domestic investment agenda."

Posted on October 6, 2021

Americans shouldn't have to choose between a government-mandated vaccine and their job

Posted on September 30, 2021

'Don't Jab Me Act' would protect Americans who lose their job for defying vaccine mandate

Deseret News reports: “The Utah Republican proposed legislation he dubbed the “Don’t Jab Me Act” that would allow people who lose their jobs or their livelihoods because of the vaccine requirements to sue the federal government.

“The bill would make these very Americans whole after the president of the United States made working impossible for them,” Lee said on the Senate floor…

Lee, who has received the COVID-19 vaccine and supports vaccination, said his bill is about allowing people to obtain redress for, among other things, the “awful Hobson’s choice” they are facing and increasingly going to face as the mandate kicks in. People shouldn’t have to choose between their jobs and personal health care decisions, he said."

Posted on September 23, 2021

Why I am fighting to end the rubber stamp for war

In Congress, a substantive debate on war powers is long-overdue, and U.S. engagement in Afghanistan over the last decade and the recent blundered U.S. withdrawal present an opportunity for Congress to act today in order to prevent similar mistakes tomorrow. I along with my colleagues Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the National Security Powers Act earlier this year, which would restore Congress’ role in national security decision-making, primarily in the war-powers arena.

Despite political differences, as members of the branch of government most accountable to the people, we all feel the weight of American blood and treasure sacrificed in our nation’s wars. After years of failed engagement in Afghanistan, Congress can no longer serve as a rubber stamp on the sidelines. Never, in our republic, should a president wield exclusive power over our nation’s wars.

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