Tag Archives: Mike Lee

Glenn Beck’s The Blaze reports: Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah advocated the idea of abolishing the Transportation Security Administration, suggesting that airlines would do a better job of conducting security screenings. “Air-travel security need not depend on TSA. Airlines have many compelling reasons to keep weapons out of planes. They’d do so if a federal agency didn’t do it …

The Hill reports: A bill to avert a partial government shutdown Friday night is running into delays in the Senate. Absent unanimous consent or an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Republicans, the upper chamber might not be able to vote until final passage before Saturday — after the government shutdown deadline but before many effects of …

“The American people have a choice to make. In this circumstance, they have a rare, historically unusual chance to choose between two presidents. They have a chance to choose between order and lawlessness. They have an opportunity to choose between putting America first or America last. Choose order over chaos. And so, whether you agree with him on every point …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) acknowledged Tuesday that it probably wasn’t a federal agent disguised as a Donald Trump supporter in a picture he posted last week. The Utah Republican had said he wanted to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray about a claim on social media that new footage from inside the U.S. Capitol as it was …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Sen. Mike Lee spent the weekend aggressively pushing conspiracy theories and misinformation about the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.  In the months after the Jan. 6 riot, Lee received campaign donations from three Arizona Republicans who signed documents falsely claiming Trump won the 2020 election in that state. James Lamon, who unsuccessfully ran …

The Meidas Touch reports: The new conspiracy, latched onto by Utah Senator Mike Lee and several others, is that one of the J6ers inside the Capitol must be holding an FBI badge. Of course, the problem with this new conspiracy is that we already know who this is and what he was holding because the case has already been adjudicated. …

The Messenger reports: People who were stuck at the Burning Man festival this past weekend had a pretty terrible time, thanks to the inclement weather, and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has an interesting theory about why — but it’s got nothing to do with climate change. In a post to his personal page on X, formally Twitter, Lee shared …

“This is absolutely dreadful. This is an attack on Justice Thomas, a good man who has risen from poverty in the Jim Crow south to a position as one of the most respected jurists in our nation’s history. “They don’t like that. They don’t like the fact he has the audacity to be a conservative as a black man. This …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: The Jan. 6 committee’s report provides several new details about Lee’s actions in support of Trump after the election was called for Biden, most notably a campaign directed by attorney John Eastman to have legislators in some states to appoint electors for Trump. Lee has repeatedly claimed he was merely investigating “rumors” that some states …

ABC News reports: Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee has proposed legislation to officially define obscenity, as it relates to free speech, in a move that would essentially make internet pornography illegal in the United States. According to a one-page explanation by the Utah senator, the new legislation would modify the Miller test, a Supreme Court precedent from 1973 which set …

Via earlier press release from Sen. Mike Lee: My simple, common-sense amendment would prohibit the federal government from retaliating against any person or group for adhering to sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions about marriage. In no way would my amendment impair the RFMA’s ability to perform its simple, stated purpose: to protect same-sex marriage against an extremely unlikely …

From the Family Research Council: Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is urging the 12 Republican senators who voted for the so-called Respect for Marriage Act to oppose cloture on the legislation unless his amendment is added to the bill. “The free exercise of religion is absolutely essential to the health of our Republic,” the senator wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter first obtained …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: The bill enshrines “the government picking winners and losers on the basis of who adheres to a particular, favored religious orthodoxy — and punishing those that don’t adhere to that,” Senator Mike Lee told Tony Perkins. Its provisions are “likely to culminate in the removal of tax-exempt status from religious institutions” that …

Salt Lake City’s Fox affiliate reports: Sen. Mike Lee will remain in office for another six years after defeating challenger Evan McMullin Tuesday night. The Associated Press had not yet called the race as of 11 p.m. However, Lee declared victory in a speech, followed by McMullin conceding in a speech of his own. Evan McMullin ran as an independent …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Lee has turned down an opportunity to participate in a nationally televised, Fox News-hosted debate with independent challenger Evan McMullin. While Lee has made several individual Fox News appearances over the past several weeks to drum up support for his unexpectedly close reelection bid and to attack his opponent, the senator …

“There were rumors circulating in the days and weeks leading up to January 6, rumors suggesting that some states would be shifting out their slates of electors. “As a U.S. senator, it was my job to open and count the electoral votes and we were trying to narrow down what was truth and what was fiction.  “I made phone calls …

Roll Call reports: Retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois came to Utah to make the case for electing the independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin over incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee. “People sometimes come up to me and say, like, ‘Adam, you’re courageous in what you’re doing,’ and I appreciate people saying that. It’s not true, though,” Kinzinger said at an …

“You said the president should listen to legal quack Sydney Powell, ‘Please make time for her, let her in,’ you told the White House chief of staff. “You told the president that you were working overtime – 14 hours a day, I think you said – to unravel this for him, to keep a president who had been voted out …

“Here’s what’s going on: my opponent Evan McMullin is a Democrat running in disguise. Mitt, if you’d like to protect the Republican majority, give us any chance of seizing the Republican majority once again, getting it away from the Democrats who are facilitating this massive spending spree and a massive inflationary binge, please get on board. “Help me win reelection. …

The Deseret News reports: Utahns like Evan McMullin a little more than Sen. Mike Lee, but the independent challenger has a lot of voters who don’t seem to know him and he still slightly trails the Republican incumbent in the heated U.S. Senate race. A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll found 41% of Utahns would vote for Lee …