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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, questions FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

‘Less groping’: Sen. Mike Lee calls for abolishing the TSA

By Staff - The Washington Times

The United States Department of Justice sign in Washington, D.C., on July 12, 2017. Paul Brady Photography / Shutterstock.com

Bipartisan Senate bill would allow closer scrutiny of misconduct by DOJ lawyers

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘Absolutely no reason to trust you’: Senator grills FBI chief over agency’s warrantless surveillance

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Michael Whitaker, of Vermont, during his nomination hearing to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation, on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

GOP senators introduce bill to fund Israel, exclude money for Gaza

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Colette Peters, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons testifies during a Senate Judiciary Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons hearing on Capitol Hill. Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senators clash with U.S. prisons chief over transparency, seek fixes for problem-plagued agency

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee speaks to reporters during an election night party Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) ** FILE **

Mike Lee threatens to delay debt limit deal in Senate unless spending cuts are ‘substantial’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters during a news conference following the Republican policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Payback? McConnell foes Rick Scott, Mike Lee booted from Senate commerce committee

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press, File Photo)

Senate reaches deal to pass $1.7 trillion budget amid showdown over border policy

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Shutdown looms amid fight to save border policy in spending bill

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his leadership team arrive to speak to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

GOP senators: McConnell ‘coercing’ them into backing big Democrat spending

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump stands with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Dec. 4, 2017, at the Utah State Capitol. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Sen. Mike Lee faces an unexpected hurdle in Utah reelection race that’s all about Trump

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks during a news conference on Dec. 19, 2016, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Lee and his independent challenger Evan McMullin are scheduled to face off on Oct. 17, 2022, evening at a televised debate three weeks before Election Day. The debate will be the only time the candidates appear together in the lead-up to next month's midterm elections. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mike Lee, Evan McMullin battle over 2020 election in Utah Senate debate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, of Utah, talks to supporters during a Utah Republican election night party, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in South Jordan, Utah. (AP Photo/George Frey)

Mike Lee asks Mitt Romney for endorsement in final weeks of campaign

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Evan McMullin

Never Trumper Evan McMullin sets out to displace Sen. Mike Lee in Utah

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left’s Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Saving Nine’

By Maureen Ferguson

In this Sept. 30, 2020, file photo, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to examine the FBI &quot;Crossfire Hurricane&quot; investigation. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

Sen. Mike Lee: Leaked abortion opinion draft would bolster democracy, not erode it

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, walks onto stage to give his candidacy speech during the GOP Convention at the Mountain America Convention Center in Sandy, Utah, on Saturday, April 23, 2022. (Adam Fondren/The Deseret News via AP)

Primary elections to take shape at Utah conventions

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah is shown at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in this file photo. Mr. Lee told social-media company executives at a hearing on Oct. 26, 2021, that his staffers recently created a Snapchat account posing as a young teenager in order to look into potential hazards facing minors who use social media, only to quickly find themselves inundated with sexually charged content. (Drew Angerer/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Texts show GOP lawmakers’ waning support for Trump’s bid to overturn election before Jan. 6: Report

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A sign stands at the entrance to Camp Amache, on Jan. 18, 2015, the site of a former World War II-era, Japanese American internment camp, in Granada, Colo. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Senate overcomes objections, passes bill to recognize Japanese American internment camp as historic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah is shown at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in this file photo. Mr. Lee told social-media company executives at a hearing on Oct. 26, 2021, that his staffers recently created a Snapchat account posing as a young teenager in order to look into potential hazards facing minors who use social media, only to quickly find themselves inundated with sexually charged content. (Drew Angerer/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Senator’s staff poses as a teen on Snapchat, gets lewd content, invite to ‘sexualized video game’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times