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<title><![CDATA[Sen. Mike Lee - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23321.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sen. Mike Lee]]></description><category domain="23321">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Solution for DC Residents Is Not DC Statehood]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1953954044621521121</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any solution should involve reverting land ceded by Maryland for the creation of DC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'excepting only a narrow corridor encompassing the White House, Capitol, &amp; Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to Maryland]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Secret Service Knew of Grave Danger, Left Trump Out on Stage]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1819138104164225459</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After every other error they made that day, they still had time to remove Trump from the stage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NATO Can Have Ukraine or the USA--Not Both]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/nato-can-have-ukraine-or-the-usa-not-both/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A treaty commitment to Ukraine is a dangerous liability with no upside.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senators, Don't Pass Defense Bill Without FISA Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/senators-dont-pass-the-defense-bill-without-fisa-reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' private electronic communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are modern versions of the general warrants used and abused by King George III.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Our New Forever War. How Does It End?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ukraine-officially-americas-forever-war-president-biden-end</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The on-going war in Ukraine has become an obsession for lawmakers and many others in Washington. We are now told to expect the war to last for six to seven years. So what's the endgame?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Religious Liberty Deserves Protection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/respect-marriage-act-religious-liberty-deserves-protection-amendment-provide</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Respect for Marriage Act has been making its way through the Senate and appears to be on its way to becoming law. But my Senate colleagues also need to protect religious liberty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems and Dark Money Plotting To Blow Up Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/06/09/how-democrats-and-dark-money-are-plotting-to-blow-up-the-supreme-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer and others on the left have been pushing to expand the Supreme Court since President Donald Trump first took office.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[H.R. 1 Is Not 'For the People']]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/03/17/hr-1-not-for-people-sen-mike-lee-editorials-debates/4741788001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' voting legislation is not about strengthening democracy; it's about strengthening Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Bring Accountability to Intelligence Community]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-mike-lee-congress-surveillance</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The FBI improperly spied on the Trump campaign in 2016. We must ensure that they can't do it in 2020 or ever again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Must Reclaim Their Trade Powers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/13/congress-must-take-back-trade-authority-mexico-column/1424800001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From trade'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to energy to health care to transportation, Trump is exercising legislative powers past Congresses gave presidents. Time to take them back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-mike-lee-a-conservative-case-for-criminal-justice-reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government's first duty, President Reagan said in 1981 and President Trump recently tweeted, is to protect the people, not run their lives. The safety of law-abiding citizens has always been a core principle of conservatism. And it is why we need to take this opportunity to pass real...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make the CBO Show Its Work]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sen-mike-lee-make-the-cbo-show-its-work/article/2630568</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to hold the CBO to the same standard set for all academic economists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Needs Uber-Level Innovation]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/15/congress-needs-uber-level-innovation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than anything, though, it seemed that what mattered was not who the next speaker is but what the next speaker does. I shared my thoughts with the handful of House colleagues who asked for them, but, as a senator, I didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t feel it was my place to broadcast them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[End Ex-Im, Government's Enron]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/end-ex-im-the-governments-enron/article/2564796</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Plan to Fix Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/06/mike-lees-plan-to-fix-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After years of frustration and months of feverish work, the Republican Party has finally won back the U.S. Senate, and with it, undivided control of Congress. But no sooner had Tuesday night'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s balloon drops hit the floor than Republicans around the country'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'and especially in certain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Anti-Cronyism and Free-Market Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/mikelee/2014/05/05/an-anticronyism-and-freemarket-agenda-n1833658</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today America faces a large and growing Opportunity Deficit. Up and down our once-flourishing economy, a new and unnatural sclerosis is taking hold. For millions of working families of or aspiring to the middle class, the American Dream is slipping out of reach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Will Be Replaced]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-cant-beat-obamacare-without-effective-health-care-solutions-of-their-own/article/2546725</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only thing missing from President Obama's Rose Garden press conference Tuesday was a "Mission Accomplished" banner. He bragged that 7 million people have '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'signed up'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' through the health exchanges and claimed it was a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'big step forward.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Reform the Higher Education System]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/15/new-school-a-plan-for-state-based-accreditation-of-alternative-higher-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The challenge of American higher education policy today is reconciling two seemingly contradictory facts.First, higher education is more important to economic opportunity and middle-class security than ever before.And second, the standard credential of higher education '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Reform, the Family, and the Pursuit of Happiness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/18/tax_reform_the_family_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness_119975.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remarks to the American Enterprise InstituteSeptember 17, 2013
I am here today because I believe the public policy status quo in Washington '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and in particular, within the Republican Party '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' must once again be challenged and transformed.
As Arthur mentioned, the focus of my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Has Obama Done for the Middle Class?]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-middle-class-or-the-middle-men/article/2533415</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, President Obama will - for the eighth time in five years - officially "pivot" his attention back to the economy.Unfortunately, word is that the president's remarks will not include any new policy initiatives, but merely repackage ones he has proposed before.In other words, five...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Updating America's Email Privacy Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/newsmakers/mike_lee_interview1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Mike Lee</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CARL M. CANNON, RCP: Senator Mike Lee of Utah, thanks for joining us. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re going to discuss digital privacy today and your role in addressing that issue. This spring, you Sen. Pat Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee cosponsored bipartisan legislation to update the...]]></description>
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