Honorable Mike Lee
U.S. Senator, Oklahoma, Republican
Senator Lee was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The following is excerpted from a December 4, 2012, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate on ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I rise today to speak in opposition to the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I understand it is a sensitive topic, one about which many of my constituents on both sides of the issue have strong feelings. Certainly most of us,…
