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Mike Lee Press Release Dec 1, 2022

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced bills that would prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from placing any vaccine for COVID-19 on the child and adolescent immunization schedule unless the Secretary provides clinical data relating to the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Sens. Rubio and Hagerty joined as cosponsors to Sen. Lee’s version in the Senate.

Twitter is still not a place where free speech is allowed.

Republican Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has joined the mounting collective outrage against the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee after the tapes from the U.S. Capitol were just released to the public.

Sen. Lee has accused the lawmakers on the committee of “deliberately” hiding information from the American people.

Lee is now calling for a full investigation into the former and current lawmakers who served on the House committee.

The senator’s comments came after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) began releasing more than 40,000 hours of footage taken at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The unedited video shows what actually happened when protesters angry about the 2020 election results entered the halls of Congress.

The Friday release of the footage has triggered a major backlash as the videos show a very different narrative to the anti-Trump claims being peddled by the Democrats.

Highlighting the release of the footage in a series of posts to Twitter/X, Lee called into question the character of former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

“Why didn’t Liz Cheney and Adam Kizinger ever refer to any of these tapes?” Lee asked.

Senator Mike Lee called for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to be abolished on Monday, a proposal that would change the way Americans travel.

The TSA is the federal agency tasked with overseeing safety measures for mass transportation in the United States, with its scope including air travel, rail travel and highways. It was created in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center amid an environment of heightened concerns about national security.

Today, the agency is best known for performing security checks on anyone traveling through a U.S. airport. But it has faced some scrutiny from conservatives, who argue it violates peoples' rights while doing little to keep Americans safe while traveling through the sky.

Lee, a Utah Republican, argued that the agency should be dissolved in a post to X, formerly Twitter. ...

Critics of the TSA, however, agreed that it should be abolished, while others said only some changes are needed.

"TSA fails 95% of their red team audits. They are a useless agency that exists solely to secure government contracts for screening machines," wrote podcaster Steve Friend.

In 2015, an internal TSA probe found that undercover investigators successfully brought mock explosives or banned weapons through security checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, according to an ABC News report.

"I actually used to support this myself. I no longer support outright abolishing the TSA, and I certainly don't support leaving terrorism prevention to the airlines, but I do support repealing a lot of the 'security theater' policies," wrote journalist Matthew Chapman.

The TSA was created by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by Congress on November 19, 2001, later becoming part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003. According to the agency's website, it makes up one-quarter of the DHS workforce, with 65,000 employees across the country.

Guys, Republicans might be starting to learn something.

A cohort of US Senators, led by Utah's Mike Lee, have signed a pledge to no longer cooperate in any way with the Democrats in the Senate. No more Democrat bills. No more Biden nominees. Nothing.

We've got the Mike Lee 8 here.

Mike Lee (R-Utah), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Eric Schmitt (R- Missouri), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Rick Scott (R-Florida), Roger Marshall (R- Kansas), and Marco Rubio (R- Florida) have all put their names to this letter decrying the White House's "mockery of the rule of law" which has "fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways."

Biden went a step too far.

1. Congress should be passing the SAVE Act to stop noncitizens from voting—not paying leftists to lobby against it

The Labor/HHS spending bill advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee contains an earmark giving $500,000 to leftists falsely claiming the SAVE Act would “disenfranchise millions of Americans”



2. This earmark must go!

Also, earmarks as a whole are problematic, given their tendency to promote excessive spending and bad policy decisions

They coerce lawmakers in both parties to vote for bloated spending bills in a way that favors the left and other fans of big government

3. We need Congress to pass the SAVE Act and thereby protect election integrity—not use your money to pay far-left activists to undermine it

4. Share if you agree and tell your senators how you feel about this earmark—and all earmarks!

5. Remember: Republicans hold not only a controlling majority in the Senate, but also on the Appropriations Committee

I find it stunning that a bill containing this earmark would pass out of the Senate Appropriations Committee not just with the support of Democrats, but also the support of most of the committee’s Republicans

6. I’m sure many of the Senate Republicans on the Appropriations Committee are (and were at the time they voted on the bill) unaware of this earmark and how the $500,000 might be used by this leftist group

7. That is precisely the problem with earmarks: they operate in obscurity, lead many senators to vote for excessive and problematic bills (to advance their own pet funding projects), and often leave no meaningful opportunity for senators to object to, debate, and remove even the most abusive earmarks on the Senate floor