On Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, one of the conservative stars of the 2010 freshman class in the Senate, sat down with the Washington Examiner’s editorial board for a wide-ranging discussion. Lee, a former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, explained why he thinks President Obama’s national health care law will be overturned later this month. He also spoke about the types of health care reforms he’d like to see as well as earmark reform, energy subsidies, the use of the filibuster, his bill to ban late-term abortions in the District of Columbia and Romney’s Mormonism. What follows is a transcript of the discussion.
Well obviously you follow constitutional issues quite closely, and clearly later this month we have the decision coming out, the constitutionality of the health law. I guess if you can give your thoughts on where that could go and also if it does get overturned, what implications do you think that will have? Will it sort of put a check on future Congresses, do you think that they’ll consider constitutional issues more closely when drafting legislation?
