Next Tuesday at 8 p.m., conservative star Sen. Mike Lee will address students at the Roche Sports Complex.
Lee is quickly becoming one of the most influential of the conservatives in Congress. Last month, he was appointed chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, inheriting the position from Sen. Pat Toomey.
“Mike Lee is a knowledgeable and principled movement conservative, and he has done a terrific job as vice chairman of the Steering Committee this Congress,” said Toomey, in a press release. “I’m pleased to hand the gavel to him. I look forward to continuing to work with Mike, and my colleagues, to advance innovative conservative ideas that help create jobs and grow the economy.”
A fervent admirer of Hillsdale College, Lee is a passionate defender of America’s founding principles, the rule of law, and the endurance of America as a free republic. He has spoken several times at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C., but this will be his first visit to Hillsdale’s Michigan campus.
Lee has most recently joined forces with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to advocate a pro-family, pro-growth tax plan.
“Perhaps no function of the U.S. government is more antiquated and dysfunctional than its tax system,” Lee and Rubio wrote in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal last month. “Our reforms seek to simplify the structure and lower rates. How? By consolidating the many existing income tax brackets into two simple brackets — 15% and 30% — and eliminating or reforming deductions, especially those that disproportionately benefit the privileged few at everyone else’s expense.”
Lee ousted seasoned Republican Sen. Bob Bennett from office in 2010 as one of the first successful tea party candidates. Utah’s 16th Senator took office just three years ago, but has quickly earned a reputation as a conservative firebrand, often working with conservative Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Rubio.
Staunchly principled, he has strongly advocated against funding the Affordable Care Act, standing with Cruz during his filibuster last fall.
“I am particularly honored to be standing side by side with my friend and colleague Senator Mike Lee from Utah,” Cruz said at the outset of the evening. “Senator Lee has shown visionary leadership in standing and taking the mantle of leading the effort to defund ObamaCare and to challenge this train wreck of a law, and Senator Lee has been repaid at times with vilification from official Washington.”
