WASHINGTON — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is delaying a vote on a government spending package over objections to certain policy provisions that he says were included without his approval despite being under his jurisdiction.

Lee, along with two other Republican senators, have placed holds on a package to approve the full-year spending bills for a slew of government agencies such as the Pentagon and other federal offices. The Utah Republican pointed to provisions in the bill that would fund the Interior Department but includes authorizations he says are “not supposed to be there.”

“It’s not supposed to be there without me as the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee clearing it,” Lee told the Deseret News in an interview. “And I just became aware of it. So I’m trying to get bac

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