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Mike Lee

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Jan 16

Please (1) name any federal regulatory agency whose elimination would negatively impact your life, and then (2) specify whether that agency’s necessary functions couldn’t be performed at least as well at the state or local level, or by a non-governmental body.

I ask because we’re often asked to assume that the problems each federal agency was created to address would go ignored or receive inadequate attention but for the federal government’s involvement. I wonder how often that assumption is warranted.

I also wonder whether the trillions of dollars Americans spend each year funding and complying with the edicts of these agencies is really justified.

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Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

Jan 16

A consumer-facing central bank digital currency would turn America into a dystopian nightmare. wsj.com/articles/digit…

I have introduced a bill, the NO CBDC Act, that would stop that from happening.

This should be an issue that unites Democrats, Republicans, and anyone else who wants to protect privacy and civil liberties.

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Mike Lee

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Jan 1

The Constitution gives unelected bureaucrats no power to make federal law. They make law anyway—costing the U.S. economy trillions of dollars per year and imposing more criminal and civil penalties than the government itself can count. We are all poorer and less free as a result.

The problem is that Congress has enacted literally thousands of laws purporting to authorize lawmaking by bureaucrats. Congress lacks authority to outsource the task of lawmaking, but the Supreme Court has been unwilling in most circumstances to strike down such measures.

That’s a problem because the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to make federal law, not federal lawmakers.

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Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

Dec 24, 2022

1/2 This kind of omnibus was bad enough when Americans weren’t struggling to meet basic needs — crippled by double-digit inflation relative to January 2021 — but it’s passed intolerable now. And it was unnecessary, given that Republicans are about to take charge of the House.

2/2 None of this could have happened without Republicans helping Democrats promote Democratic policies while indulging in the corrupting sacrament of earmarks.

3/3 How many of those Republicans got elected by telling voters that they’d back bills like this—distributing the spoils of cash borrowed from China, picking winners and losers in industry, perpetuating $2 trillion deficits, and making government even bigger and more intrusive?

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Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

Dec 23, 2022

1. “Eighteen Senate Republicans voted Thursday for the ugliest … spending bill on record. As Republicans scratch their heads over their disappointing midterm, they might consider that voters don’t see much of a defining difference with Democrats.”

2. Kimberly Strassel at The Wall Street Journal is absolutely right about Senate Republicans. This may be the best summation I’ve seen—not just of the omnibus problem, but also of Senate Republicans’ lackluster performance in the midterms. tinyurl.com/2p8exe4m

“A handful of powerful leaders took advantage of this dilatory behavior by using it as an excuse to disappear at the last minute into a smoke-filled room and conjure up a ‘top line’ number for funding—with no votes, no debate.”

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Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

Dec 23, 2022

1. Democrats should be as delighted as Republicans are disgusted by the omnibus.
foxnews.com/media/conserva…

2. The Senate Republicans who voted for the omnibus have brought unity and harmony to the Democratic Caucus, but they’ve divided Republicans, and betrayed what our party purports to stand for.

3. But it’s even worse than that; they pushed America even deeper into the death spiral of massive, inflationary spending.

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