Speeches
116th Public Lands Package
Feb 11, 2019
A little over a month ago, I stood before this body to object to the massive public lands package that it was poised to pass. This bill – 680 pages long – was released at 10am that morning. My staff and I had not seen it beforehand, and were given no time to read it.
This is, of course, bad process. This is not the way legislation should be written and debated; and it is not the way that it should be passed.
But in addition to the bad process, I objected because I suspected that it was also bad policy – bad policy that would disproportionally and negatively affect the state of Utah.
Honoring Major Brent Taylor
Feb 5, 2019
On November 3, 2018, this country lost a true American hero: Major Brent Taylor of Ogden, Utah, who gave the ultimate sacrifice while deployed in Afghanistan.
Major Taylor died as he lived: going above and beyond the call of duty to his country, state, and family.
Remarks on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
Feb 4, 2019
On the morning of April 5, 1977, a 17-year-old girl – scared, alone, and 7 ½ months pregnant – set foot in a Los Angeles abortion clinic.
She had been advised to get a saline abortion – a procedure in which an injected saline solution burns a baby inside the womb, who is then delivered dead about 24 hours later. So she signed some papers, received the injection, and waited for the poison to run its course.
But the child, little Gianna Jessen, had other ideas.
Floor Remarks on the March for Life
Jan 16, 2019
This coming Friday, tens of thousands of Americans will take to the snowy streets of Washington, D.C. to exercise their fundamental rights… on behalf of millions more who cannot.
They will come from every state in the union to march to the United States Supreme Court – fittingly, down Constitution Avenue – in the name of justice and in defense of the innocent.
Sen. Lee Objects to the Unanimous Consent of Chai Feldblum's Confirmation to the EEOC
Dec 19, 2018
My objection to this nominee relates to my belief and religious freedom. You see, religious freedom is very important to me. I am the descendant of people who were ordered exterminated by the Governor of Missouri on October 27, 1837. Religious intolerance cannot be tolerated in this country, and I see a growing wave of religious intolerance. I see a growing wave of sentiment of people suggesting that on the basis of people's religious beliefs, they can be subject to adverse government decision-making.
