Mike Lee is the senior United States Senator from Utah, having served in the Senate since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Mesa, Arizona, in 1971, and is a graduate of Brigham Young University and BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School. The son of Rex Lee, who served as Solicitor General under President Reagan, Lee clerked for Samuel Alito when he was a federal circuit judge and later for Justice Alito on the Supreme Court. He built his career as a constitutional attorney before his election in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave, which made him one of the founding figures of that movement.
Lee sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He has focused throughout his career on constitutional limits on federal power, civil liberties, regulatory reform, and libertarian-leaning conservatism. He has been one of the Senate's most intellectually distinctive conservatives, consistently applying originalist constitutional principles to legislative debates and often breaking with party leadership on issues he views as constitutionally questionable.
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Chairman
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy
- Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy — Chairman
- Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights — Chairman
- Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights
- Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
- Subcommittee on the Constitution
- S. 4626: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to publish a list of dietary supplement ingredients prohibited for use by members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. — Introduced
- S. 4477: Davis-Bacon Repeal Act — Introduced
- S. 4390: Ending Discrimination in Government Contracting Act — Introduced
- S. 4336: Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act — Introduced
- SRES. 672: A resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should prioritize bilateral security partnerships over multilateral security partnerships and institutions. — Introduced