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On Tuesday, July 26 at 7:45 p.m. MT, Senator Mike Lee will be hosting a statewide teleforum to discuss federal land policy. The Obama Administration is considering designating 1.9 million acres in San Juan County as the Bears Ears National Monument. Excessively large national monument designations like this are very controversial, because they ignore state and local government land management policy and silence the voices of local residents impacted by the monument by excluding their elected representatives in Congress from the designation process.

Mobile Office Visit to Cottonwood Heights When: Friday, July 22, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Where: Cottonwood Heights City Offices, 1265 E Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, UT 8404

Mobile Office Visit to Kaysville When: Thursday, July 21, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Where: Kaysville City Hall, 23 E Center St., Kaysville, UT 84037

For the past several years, the Chinese government has aggressively laid claim to important waterways and small island chains in the South China Sea that are contested by many countries in the region. This week, an international arbitration court in The Hague ruled against many of the Chinese claims, rebuking their antagonistic actions, in a suit brought by the Philippines through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST). The ruling was not a surprise to anyone, as China has been brazenly violating international maritime norms for years. China’s response was also predictable: Beijing immediately dismissed the court’s ruling as biased, stating that they will not abide by it.