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Sen. Mike Lee tells Utah House federal power should return to states; fields questions on Medicaid, lands and sentencing
Summary
U.S. Senator Mike Lee addressed the Utah House in a Committee of the Whole, urging more state control over land management, describing bipartisan federal sentencing reforms he supports, and answering representatives’ questions on Healthy Utah funding, immigration visas and privacy protections for electronic communications.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) spoke to the Utah House of Representatives in a Committee of the Whole on Feb. 17, 2015, urging lawmakers to shift decision-making from federal bureaucracies to state authorities and outlining several federal policy priorities. Lee praised local veterans and mothers before summarizing a 2014 report of his legislative work and inviting questions from representatives.
Lee urged lawmakers to reframe the public-lands debate as a question of who makes land-use decisions rather than whether to have public lands, arguing that more local input would improve accountability and economic outcomes. He pointed to transfers done historically in States such as Illinois and Missouri as…
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