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Heidi Hatch joined by Senator Mike Lee
The interview was recorded in studio with Senator Mike Lee Thursday April 14, 2022.
Friday, all eyes were on a CNN report centering around Senator Lee.
CNN obtained text messages of separate conversations of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas. The tests spanned from the days after the 2020 presidential election and ran through the first week of January 2021.
KUTV Reported on the leaked texts, along with reaction from Becky Edwards, Evan McMullin, and Ally Isom all looking to unseat Utah’s senior senator.
THE SENATOR’S OFFICE RELEASED A STATEMENT TODAY
“The text messages tell the same story Sen. Lee told from the floor of the Senate the day he voted to certify the election results of each and every state in the nation. They tell the story of a US Senator fulfilling his duty to Utah and the American people by following the Constitution.”
Before any word of leaked texts, Heidi Hatch sat down in studio with Senator Mike Lee to talk about inflation, and more importantly his specific plans to help real in spending and lower the rate of inflation.
During the podcast, you will hear us refer to the inflation tracker. The full video will be posted next week.
THE COMMITTEE USED DATA FROM
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Personal Consumption Expenditures; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey; Census
Lee on what Congress can do to roll back inflation. “There are things we can do about it. I’ve introduced a few pieces of legislation that would help. One of them is called the PRICE ACT.
The PRICE ACT says that anytime inflation nationally reaches or exceeds 3% and we’re way above that right now, Congress, to spend any money at that moment has to have the approval of 3/5ths of every member of the Senate. What that does by creating a super majority spending requirement, we make it less possible, less easy for Congress to spend too much money.”
“We’ve also got a significant amount of inflation in the housing sector. I’m trying to ease that through something called the HOUSES ACT, which I’ve introduced, which would allow the federal government to set aside land. That’s not within the portfolio of wilderness area, national park, national forests, or anything like that. Just garden variety, dusty Sage brush filled BLM land and allow it to be sold, sell it at a discounted price to state or local governments who can then develop affordable housing on it.”
While the Senator was in house, we talked about the now viral video as he walked out of the historic SCOTUS hearing where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed.
"This nomination is confirmed."
U.S. Senate CONFIRMS Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-47.#SCOTUSConfirmation #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/8XwQBjstUh
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 7, 2022
We talked about the upcoming election, Lee’s voted for his now rival Evan McMullin in the 2016 Presidential election, and Former President Trump’s endorsement. Does the endorsement hurt or help, and did he accept it?