It is common for the Federal Register to reach almost 100,000 pages every year. This is 100,000 pages of new rules and regulations that Americans and American businesses are required to follow.

It is almost unheard of for policy makers to start from the position of creating policies that promote and benefit families. In many cases, we pass policies that unintentionally penalize marriage and families. Many experts are starting to recognize that this needs to change.

All Republicans have more work to do as we chart the proper course for our party. I look forward to a promising future as we tackle the issues at hand, renewing our focus on the principles of limited government, as outlined in the Constitution and afforded to every American.

It is the People who should determine what kind of Supreme Court they wish to have. The president is entitled, of course, to discharge his own constitutional authority to nominate. But it is the Senate’s constitutional prerogative to withhold consent and protect the People’s voice. As James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, ambition must counteract ambition. And the People should decide.

As Republicans, we are at our best when we are neither content with the status quo nor afraid to question the proposed expansion of government power. To that end, we should constantly ask ourselves (and each other) probing questions regarding the nature and proper role of government.

There’s a reason Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is spending $55,000 a week on Facebook ads. Bernie Sanders is spending $200,000 a week. The socialists know that they need to change people’s minds. If they succeed, they have big plans to spend tens of trillions of dollars of your money.

If we’re not careful, Republicans and Democrats alike will continue to legislate our country into an irreversible deficit. And a last minute proposal that only increases our spending, can NOT be taken seriously.

Senator Warren’s vision for the West is nothing more than a theft of America’s natural resources and an assault on the economic foundation of rural western communities.

AOC and her acolytes are lashing out at me because when it came time to vote on this crackpot scheme, not a single Democrat in the Senate voted for it. And since she can’t attack her own party, I have become her number one target.

A little over a week ago the national debt surpassed $22 trillion dollars. During the same week, Congress passed another spending bill that looks just like every other spending bill that has been passed in the last ten years.

Ever since I was elected to the Senate over eight years ago, there have been factions of the political establishment who have had it in for me. I’ve had national Republican leaders tell me to my face the they will do everything to find and fund an opponent who can beat me.

As Congress works to wrap things up for the year, the last ten days have been busy in the Senate. I’m pleased to report that two issues I have been working on for years saw significant progress. I am less pleased to report that two trends that have been the source of much disappointment for conservatives don’t appear to be getting any better.

A little over a week ago, a nurse who was riding as a passenger in an off-road vehicle was shot by an armed BLM ranger in California. While investigations into the incident are ongoing, there are reports that the riders were stopping and putting their hands in the air when they were fired on by the BLM ranger.

At Wednesday night’s U.S. Senate debate at Brigham Young University, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah was asked about the extremely difficult and polarizing topic of religious liberties versus LGBT rights.

Trump adds new names to SCOTUS list, includes Sen. Mike Lee

Eliminating poverty is a key element of the Conservative Reform Agenda that has guided my first term as your U.S. Senator. To that end, next week I will introduce the Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act.

The challenge for congressional Republicans now is not ‘getting back’ to the old way of doing things, but devising entirely new ways of getting things done.

Lee is a tea party favorite who’s been called everything from a rising star to the wonk of the Republican party

It’s time to put a STOP to even one more dollar going to Planned Parenthood.

As we speak, there’s a major debate brewing in the Senate. It’s a debate over the future of education, and the right and wrong way for Washington to spend your money.