January 17, 2017 – Mobile Office Visit to Layton
Jan 17, 2017
Mobile Office Visit to Layton
When: Tuesday, January 17, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Where: Layton City Center, 437 N Wasatch Drive, Layton, UT 84041
January 17, 2017 – Mobile Office Visit to Plain City
Jan 17, 2017
Mobile Office Visit to Plain City
When: Tuesday, January 17, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Where: Plain City Hall, 4160 W 2200 N, Plain City, UT 84404
The First Step on the Road to Real Health Care Reform
Jan 13, 2017
This Thursday at about 1:30 pm, the United States Senate took the first step on the road to real health care reform: repealing Obamacare.
Sens. Lee, Klobuchar Comment on FTC Chair Departure
Jan 13, 2017
WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, released the following statements on Edith Ramirez’s departure from the Federal Trade Commission.
Elections Have Consequences for Housing Policy
Jan 13, 2017
“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” These were the infamous words President Obama used to scold congressional Republicans just three days after his inauguration in 2009, foreshadowing how he would approach policymaking for the next eight years.
Lee Introduces Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act
Jan 12, 2017
WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement Thursday after introducing the “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act,” a bill which denies all federal funding for implementing the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Final Rule.”
“Every American should be free to choose where to live, and every community should be free to zone its neighborhoods and compete for new residents according to its distinct values,” Lee said. “We don’t need a National Zoning Board. Washington should let Americans ‘govern local.’”
“A better debate would be about how Americans could better spend the money that is wasted every year by the dysfunctional Community Development Block Grant Program,” Lee added.
A study by the Reason Foundation found examples showing how this program contributes to cronyism by channeling taxpayer dollars to politically connected groups while doing absolutely nothing to combat poverty or housing segregation.
The Local Zoning Decisions Act would restrict any federal funding from being used to implement, administer, or enforce HUD’s housing rule. The bill also prohibits any funds from being used for HUD’s “Fair Housing” database which could be used to further the administration’s radical pursuit of using “disparate impact theory” to punish communities that are not as demographically diverse as the administration would like.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has introduced a companion bill in the House.
Utah Speaks Out About Obamacare
Jan 11, 2017
Madam President I rise today to give voice to some of my fellow Utahns who are suffering because of the health care law passed seven years ago this March.
These are not stories from wealthy Utahns who have had to pay higher taxes. Nor are these stories from low-income Utahns who already had insurance through Medicaid.
These are letters from the too often invisible victims of Obamacare: those middle class families who used to be able to afford health care when they needed it, but are now forced to pay for what often amounts to a second mortgage, for a so-called “insurance” plan that never seems to pay out because of high deductibles.
January 10, 2017 – Mobile Office Visit to Highland
Jan 10, 2017
Mobile Office Visit to Highland
When: Tuesday, January 10, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Where: Highland City Hall, 5400 W. Civic Center Drive Suite 1, Highland, UT 8400
The Right Way to Repeal Obamacare
Jan 6, 2017
Last November, the American people voted for change in Washington. They elected Republican majorities to both chambers of Congress and elected a Republican President because, as a party, we pledged to fix the broken status quo of the past eight years. Reforming our dysfunctional federal government and restoring sanity to our nation’s capital starts with relieving the American people from the burdens and excessive costs of our defective health-care system and requiring Washington to once again live within its means.
Use Term Limits to Drain the Swamp
Jan 6, 2017
Our first and perhaps greatest Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, ended his Gettysburg Address by calling on his fellow Americans to rededicate themselves to the “great task” of preserving our “government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people.” I share that commitment, which is why I have always supported term limits for our elected federal officials.
