
Sen. Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeOvernight Defense: Austin takes helm at Pentagon | COVID-19 briefing part of Day 1 agenda | Outrage over images of National Guard troops in parking garage Austin sworn in as nation's first Black Pentagon chief The Hill's 12:30 Report: Next steps in the Trump impeachment MORE (R-Utah) during an interview that aired Sunday warned that putting too much into one piece of legislation makes it more difficult for it to pass.
During an interview on CBS's "Face The Nation," Lee addressed the Senate healthcare bill, saying the government needs to "re-inject free market forces in this environment."
"If we can't get this done ... what we ought to do is ... push full repeal and then embark on an iterative step-by-step process to decide what comes next," he said.
"If we passed a measure of repealing ObamaCare ... with the understanding that at that point after passing the repeal measure, we would undertake a step-by-step process of designing what comes next, I think it's easier."