Cruz, Lee Win War With Harry Reid, Force Vote Against Executive Amnesty

Matthew Boyle Breitbart.com Big Government 13 Dec 2014

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping senators in Washington for a rare Saturday session—and risking a government shutdown—after he went to extraordinary lengths to block Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from forcing a vote to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.

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Mike Lee: Obama Is Opening A Backdoor For Illegal Immigrants To Become Citizens Instantly…

Jarred Stone Weasel Zippers 12/11/2014

…President Obama’s recently unveiled immigration scheme creates a new path for illegal immigrants and those who overstay their visas to become legal citizens nearly instantly, according to Utah Sen. Mike Lee.

Taking to the Senate floor Thursday to reveal the backdoor he said Obama is opening to millions more illegals […]

Source: Senate GOP Refuses to Strategize Against Obama

Joel Gehrke The Corner National Review Online 12/2/2014

Senate Republicans had no appetite for discussing how to thwart President Obama’s executive orders on immigration during the conference’s weekly lunch, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah) and Senator David Vitter (R., La.) tried to broach the topic, but they were […]

Mike Lee’s Plan To Fix Congress

Five Steps To Restore Trust, Transparency, And Empowerment

Sen. Mike Lee The Federalist 11/6/2014

…As a frequent critic of my party’s strategic timidity—and as incoming chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, whose job it is encourage bolder thinking and action—I thought it incumbent on me to offer some concrete, early, and hopefully constructive suggestions about […]

Cruz, Lee Threaten ‘Procedural’ War on Senate Floor to Stop ‘Lawless Amnesty’

 

Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com 11/5/2014

Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho, and David Vitter of Louisiana sent a letter to lame-duck Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada today saying that if President Obama takes unilateral action […]

Sen. Mike Lee: ‘Common Core standards will be the ObamaCare of education’

Victor Skinner EAGnews.org 9/2/2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Lee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have a message for Big Government: stop meddling in local education decisions.

“As a U.S. Senator, I’ve seen the federal government make a mess of everything it touches,” Lee, a Republican from Utah, wrote in a recent email sent […]

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