August 21, 2018 – Mobile Office Visit to Washington County
Aug 21, 2018
What: Mobile Office Visit to St. George
When: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Where: 533 E Waterworks Drive, St. George, UT 84770
August 15, 2018 – Mobile Office Visit to Utah County
Aug 15, 2018
What: Mobile Office Visit to Provo
When: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 @ 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: Provo City Offices, 351 W Center Street, Provo, UT 84601
August 14, 2018 – Mobile Office Visit to Summit County
Aug 14, 2018
What: Mobile Office Visit to Park City
When: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 @ 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Where: 445 Marsac Ave, Park City, UT 84060 (East Conference Room, Top floor)
August 14, 2018 – Mobile Office Visit to Summit County
Aug 14, 2018
What: Mobile Office Visit to Coalville
When: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 @ 2:00-3:00 pm
Where: 10 S Main St, Coalville, UT 84017 (City Hall)
Sen. Lee Letter on Possible T-Mobile/Sprint Merger
Aug 7, 2018
Yesterday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) sent a letter to the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission highlighting testimony presented at the June 27, 2018, hearing on the proposed T-Mobile US and Sprint merger. The letter draws the agencies’ attention to important issues raised by witnesses appearing at the hearing, including the resulting increase in market concentration in the wireless telecommunications industry, and the potential for the merger to create a more competitive wireless carrier. In particular, the letter addresses the potential for significant efficiencies that would benefit consumers.
Welfare Reform Worked. Let’s Stop Undermining It
Aug 3, 2018
True bipartisan public policy reform is rare these days. Successful public policy reform is even rarer. But that is exactly what happened in 1996 when a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Democratic President fought through a toxic partisan political environment to pass a historic realignment of the American welfare state.
At the time, President Clinton called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, “the end of welfare as we know it.” And the legislation was a sea change in American welfare policy. No longer would the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program guarantee a check each month with no strings attached. Instead, most welfare recipients would be expected to work, or participate in job training programs, after two years of receiving benefits.
The Truth About 3D Guns
Aug 3, 2018
This Tuesday President Trump tweeted, “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public. Already spoke to NRA, doesn’t seem to make much sense!”
The White House has not offered any clarification on what exactly President Trump’s tweet meant, but if he is worried about plastic guns being sold to the public, he shouldn’t be. The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 already makes the sale, and even the mere possession, of plastic guns illegal.
Make the Rich Insure Their Own Beach Homes
Jul 27, 2018
The National Flood Insurance Program is in desperate need of reform. It creates a government monopoly to insure some of the most expensive real estate in the world. These are homes and home-owners that the private sector should be falling all over itself to insure.
The War on Almond Milk
Jul 27, 2018
A few years ago a small start-up company in California called JUST, Inc., formerly known as Hampton Creek, started selling a vegan brand of mayonnaise called “Just Mayo” in stores nationwide.
This start-up company was the picture of an American success story: a small business that developed a popular and innovative product, in this case an affordable eggless alternative to mayonnaise.
National Flood Insurance Program
Jul 26, 2018
The National Flood Insurance Program is a national embarrassment, and everyone in this building knows it. It is fiscally unsustainable because it is structurally unsound.
And yet, here we are again, for the seventh time in six years, considering a so-called “straight” reauthorization. “Straight.”
