WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has earned the top score from the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) in its latest NTU Rates Congress report, placing Senator Lee among the top 20 lawmakers in Congress working to protect taxpayers and reduce wasteful government spending. As a result of his “A” grade, Senator Lee was given the NTU’s Taxpayers’ Friend Award.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Flight Risk Reduction Act today to prevent non-U.S. citizen criminal defendants from fleeing and failing to appear for trial. The announcement follows the arrest of a non-citizen rideshare driver who announced plans to flee to Peru following the alleged sexual assault of a university student in Salt Lake City this week.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Gold Reserve Transparency Act today supporting President Trump’s historic transparency agenda by mandating long overdue comprehensive audits of all gold reserves held by the U.S. federal government. A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) announced today that he is leading an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn a century-old precedent that has long shielded professional baseball from the nation’s antitrust laws. Senator Lee serves as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights and is joined on the amicus brief by U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), the subcommittee’s Ranking Member.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today to cut nonsensical bureaucratic red tape preventing life-saving islet transplants for diabetic Americans. The Increase Support for Life-saving Endocrine Transplantation (ISLET) Act corrects a miscategorization of islets as drugs rather than organs – cutting through unnecessary regulations keeping critical surgeries out of reach. The legislation is sponsored by U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) and endorsed by Islets for US Collaborative, The Cure Alliance, and the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.
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