Obama broke the law with DAPA. Will the Supreme Court stop him?
Apr 18, 2016
One of the most fundamental challenges facing the United States today is the deep and growing distrust between the American people and their political system in Washington, D.C. And the inconvenient truth — rarely acknowledged by Washington elites — is that the American people’s distrust of their public institutions is totally justified.
United States v. Texas
Apr 15, 2016
Next week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Texas, the case challenging President Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program (DAPA). This is the program the president created through executive action in 2014 to suspend federal immigration law for more than four million aliens living in the United States illegally, granting them “lawful presence,” work authorization, and access to a host of government benefits.
A Teaching Moment
Apr 15, 2016
More than seven years into the Obama administration, one would hope that Congress would have come to grips with the president’s will-to-power approach to politics.
Bipartisan Email Privacy Act Moving Forward
Apr 13, 2016
This bill has unprecedented support from all corners of Congress and for good reason: It ensures that the same privacy protections that apply to documents stored in our homes extend to our emails, photos, and information stored in the cloud. These critical updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act will bring that law into the 21st century. The broad, bipartisan coalition that cuts across industry, civil society, and academia deserves credit for their members’ tireless work to move this bill.
Sens. Lee and Cruz Take Aim at DOJ’s Operation Choke Point
Apr 13, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) today introduced legislation fighting the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative that unconstitutionally sought to choke off access to banking services for sellers of firearms and other lawful business enterprises. This legislation sponsored by Sens. Cruz and Lee serves as a companion bill to U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (R-Mo.) Financial Institution Customer Protection Act (H.R. 766), which passed the House with bipartisan support in February.
How will A1P change relationship between agencies and Congress
Apr 12, 2016
Senator Mike Lee and Congresswoman Mia Love answer questions about how the Article I Project will change the relationship between agencies and Congress at the Hinkley Institute of Politics.
Lee, Klobuchar Praise DOJ’s Comments on Canadian Pacific’s Proposed Voting Trust
Apr 8, 2016
WASHINGTON—Senators Lee and Klobuchar, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights today issued the following statements on the Department of Justice’s determination that Canadian Pacific’s proposed voting trust “risks irreversible harm” to competition.
Congress Has Duty to Respond to FCC’s Open Internet Order
Apr 8, 2016
Many condemned this week’s news that Netflix has reduced the quality of its video stream for certain wireless customers as a violation of the Federal Communications Commission’s year-old Open Internet Order, or what’s commonly called “net neutrality.” However, several FCC commissioners have stated that they have no power to prevent Netflix from doing this, as net neutrality applies only to Internet Service Providers.
The Federal Bureaucracy Strikes Again
Apr 8, 2016
If you want to understand the corruption, deceit, and might-makes-right culture at the core of the federal government’s dysfunction and disgrace today, look no further than the two big stories out of Washington this week.
Lee, Klobuchar to Hold Hearing on Section 5 Competition Methods
Apr 4, 2016
WASHINGTON—Tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. EDT, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, will hold a hearing entitled "Section 5 and 'Unfair Methods of Competition': Protecting Competition or Increasing Uncertainty?” in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
