23 Senate Democrats Support a Balanced Budget Amendment
Jul 21, 2011
23 Senate Democrats Support a Balanced Budget Amendment
Poll Shows 66% of Americans Support Cut, Cap, Balance
Jul 21, 2011
Today, Senator Mike Lee highlighted a new CNN poll that shows two-thirds of the American people support the "cut, cap, and balance" approach to solving the nation’s debt crisis.
Lee: Merger Deserves Careful Review
Jul 20, 2011
The mobile phone market is a critical component of our nation’s economy and the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile deserves careful review. In my view, the merger has the potential to provide significant network efficiencies that may help alleviate capacity constraints, enable enhanced service quality, and facilitate expansion of a 4G LTE nationwide network, which would in turn create opportunities for handset innovation and continued development of data-rich applications.
Lee: Cut, Cap, and Balance is Plan A, B, and C
Jul 20, 2011
Cut, Cap, and Balance is Plan A, B, and C because it is the only plan that will, a, protect the U.S. triple-A bond rating, b, balance the budget, and, c, raise the debt ceiling with Republican support
Following Utah's Lead -- Day Lee Briefing 7/20/2011
Jul 20, 2011
Paralyzed by politics, Washington rarely makes the difficult choices to fix the fundamental problems we face. In this case, eliminating our deficits and reducing our debt would require immediate and, in some cases, painful spending cuts. We must limit spending over the next decade to eventually zero-out our annual deficits. And above all, we will have to fundamentally change the rules of how Washington spends taxpayer money.
Democrats and the Balanced Budget Amendment -- Day Lee Briefing 7/19/2011
Jul 19, 2011
Unlike the President, some Democrats do support a balanced budget.
Lee: After Vote, President Has Some Explaining to Do
Jul 19, 2011
After the House passes the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, as I expect them to do, the President will have to explain to the American people why he, Harry Reid, and Senate Democrats are blocking the increase in the debt ceiling they requested. So far, we have heard that the President opposes immediate spending cuts and a constitutional amendment that requires the federal government to balance it budget, which puts him directly at odds with the majority of Americans.
Cut, Cap, Balance - Giving the President What He Wants and What He Needs
Jul 19, 2011
Today, the House will vote on a common-sense, reasonable compromise to raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion. In giving the President every penny of debt ceiling he has requested, Republicans have asked for immediate spending cuts and a multi-year framework to balance the federal budget.
Even before the House has begun debate on the measure, the President announced he planned to veto the bill if it came to his desk. One has to wonder why the President believes that spending cuts and balanced budgets are "unrealistic policy goals".
Pledge or Plunge -- Day Lee Briefing 7/18/2011
Jul 18, 2011
First, Congress must make immediate spending cuts that will significantly reduce the deficit. Next, it must enact spending caps that put the federal government on a glide path toward a balanced budget. And finally, Congress must pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that forces Congress to spend no more than it takes in each year, limits spending as a percentage of the GDP, and requires a supermajority to increase taxes or raise the debt ceiling.
Lee Demands President to Explain Social Security Threat
Jul 14, 2011
That begs the question, why are Social Security beneficiaries the first to be threatened? Why is it their checks that the President is threatening to withhold first?
There is no explanation to this that he's offered, and I hereby demand one. I think our current retirees deserve more than to be used as pawns in a high-stakes political game; one that uses fear and uncertainty and doubt rather than reason and discussion and debate and willingness to compromise.
