Mike Lee
American lawyer and politician
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| January 2025 | Lee called for U.S. withdrawal from the NATO alliance. |
| 2024 | Endorsed Donald Trump for the presidential election. |
| 2024 | Mike Lee endorsed Donald Trump for the upcoming presidential election. |
| January 2024 | Lee voted against a resolution proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders that would have applied human rights provisions to U.S. military aid to Israel, which was defeated by a vote of 72 to 11. |
| 2023 | Mike Lee was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against the final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. |
| 2023 | Mike Lee collaborated with Senator Amy Klobuchar to use antitrust laws against large technology companies like Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. |
| December 2023 | Lee introduced the Disengaging Entirely from the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act, which aimed to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations. |
| March 2023 | Following his deadline, Lee questioned the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement in a Senate floor address. |
| February 2023 | Lee issued a 24-hour deadline to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida regarding the case of Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, threatening to cut off military aid to Japan if action was not taken. |
| 2022 | By April, the January 6th Committee revealed over 100 emails exchanged between Mike Lee, Congressman Chip Roy, and Mark Meadows, discussing their attempts to overturn the election results. |
| 2022 | Mike Lee was reelected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Evan McMullin in the election. |
| 2022 | Mike Lee defeated Becky Edwards and Ally Isom in the Republican primary election, despite Isom's criticism of Lee for seeking a third term. |
| November 29 2022 | Lee voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which mandates federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, despite his church's support for the legal guarantees of religious freedom included in the act. |
| September 2022 | Polling in September showed Mike Lee with 36% support and Evan McMullin with 34%, marking one of the most competitive Senate races in Utah in decades. |
| June 2022 | Lee published his sixth book, 'Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty'. |
| 2021 | Becomes dean of Utah's congressional delegation. |
| May 28 2021 | Lee voted against the creation of an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. |
| April 2021 | Lee expressed support for President Biden's plan to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11. |
| March 2021 | Mike Lee appeared on Fox News and criticized the For the People Act, calling it 'rotten to the core' and describing it as 'as if written in Hell by the devil himself.' He expressed concerns that the act would improperly take power over elections away from state governments. |
| 2020 | Endorses Donald Trump for the presidential election and supports efforts to challenge the election outcome. |
| 2020 | Mike Lee endorsed Donald Trump in the presidential election after initially refusing to endorse him during the 2016 primaries. |
| 2020 | Following the 2020 presidential election, Mike Lee coordinated closely with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to strategize ways to overturn the election results, working extensively to find a compelling defense for alternative slates of electors in states won by Joe Biden. |
| December 2020 | In December 2020, Mike Lee was the sole vote in the Senate against the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2019, which aimed to eliminate the five-month waiting period for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to receive Social Security benefits. |
| October 2020 | Mike Lee sent a series of tweets declaring that the United States is 'not a democracy' and that 'democracy isn't the objective; liberty, peace, and... are.' He argued that the United States is more properly characterized as a constitutional republic. |
| October 28 2020 | Mike Lee compared President Trump to Captain Moroni during a rally in Arizona, resulting in backlash from voters who deemed his remarks as 'shameful' or 'blasphemous'. |
| October 2 2020 | Lee announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a White House event for Amy Coney Barrett where he interacted closely with others who tested positive, and did not wear a mask. |
| September 2020 | In September 2020, Mike Lee supported an immediate Senate vote to confirm President Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, less than two months before the presidential election. |
| September 2020 | During a Senate hearing, Mike Lee took out and waved a pocket-size Constitution published by an anti-government Mormon group founded by conspiracy theorist W. Cleon Skousen. |
| 2019 | Mike Lee chaired the Joint Economic Committee, serving in this capacity until 2021. |
| 2019 | Mike Lee became Utah's senior senator, taking over this role in the state's congressional delegation. |
| September 2019 | Lee faced controversy for refusing to cancel his trip to Russia after visa denials affected other members of his delegation, insisting on the importance of dialogue with Russian officials. |
| July 23 2019 | On July 23, 2019, Mike Lee was one of only two senators to vote against the reauthorization of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. |
| July 17 2019 | On July 17, 2019, Mike Lee was criticized by Jon Stewart and disabled construction worker John Feal on Fox News for blocking a bill that supported the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, which was nearly exhausted. This occurred during a Senate discussion where Lee had placed a hold on the measure despite it having 73 Senate co-sponsors. |
| June 2019 | Lee was one of seven Republicans who voted against Trump's arms deal providing weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan. |
| May 2019 | In May, Lee referred to the Equality Act as 'counterproductive' and argued that it unnecessarily created conflict between communities. |
| April 2019 | He released his fifth book, 'Our Lost Declaration: America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State'. |
| April 2019 | After the House passed a resolution to withdraw American support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Lee signed a letter to President Trump urging him to invoke the War Powers Act to end unauthorized military participation. |
| March 2019 | Mike Lee was one of 12 senators to cosponsor a resolution to impose a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices, following discussions by Democratic presidential candidates about increasing the number of justices. |
| March 2019 | In March 2019, Mike Lee was one of 12 Republican senators to vote against Trump's national emergency declaration, which sought to access $3.6 billion in military construction funding to build border barriers. |
| March 26 2019 | During a Senate debate on the Green New Deal, Lee called the plan absurd and argued that having more babies was a better solution, criticizing the authors for suggesting population control. |
| February 2019 | In February 2019, Lee reintroduced a bill to remove the per-country limitation on employment-based green cards and proposed raising the per-country limitation on family-based green cards from 7% to 15%. |
| February 2019 | In February 2019, Mike Lee was one of 16 senators to vote against legislation aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown, which included $1.375 billion in funding for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 2018 | The First Step Act, a bipartisan bill drafted by Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee, and Dick Durbin, passed the House of Representatives with a significant majority of 360–59, aiming to improve rehabilitation programs for former prisoners and provide judges with greater sentencing discretion for nonviolent offenders. |
| 2018 | Lee defended Jim Bridenstine's nomination to head NASA, despite Bridenstine's rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change and his lack of a science background. |
| 2018 | Lee condemned the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for recommending that Costa Rica legalize same-sex marriage, suggesting the U.S. should better use its funding to safeguard religious liberties. |
| December 2018 | Lee supported President Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, stating that congressional authorization was necessary for such military engagement. |
| November 2018 | In November, Mike Lee criticized Senator Tom Cotton for opposing the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill that Lee supported. He defended the bill against claims that it would give early releases to violent criminals. |
| November 2018 | In November 2018, Mike Lee was among 12 Republican senators who signed a letter urging President Trump to submit the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (the NAFTA replacement) to Congress by the end of the month to enable a vote before the end of the year. |
| September 2018 | In September 2018, Mike Lee voted against a $854 billion spending bill aimed at averting a government shutdown, joining five other senators in this decision. |
| April 2018 | Signed a letter to the Treasury and State Departments expressing concern over a UN report about North Korean sanctions evasion involving Russia and China. |
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