Us Senator Mitt Romney (ut)
Recent News About Us Senator Mitt Romney (ut)
-
Foreign Relations Committee Advances Romney Provisions to Improve Passport Services
Romney continues efforts to bring a passport agency to Salt Lake City
-
Senator Romney: 'The DOJ must ensure that our adversaries such as the CCP are not operating intelligence operations or engaging in repression on U.S. soil.'
Utah Senators Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, along with eight other Republican senators, have joined forces to seek answers regarding alleged service centers in the United States that are linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
-
Romney, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Support 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games
U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reintroduced the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coin Act, legislation to support and commemorate the 2028 Games set to take place in Los Angeles, California exactly five years from today.
-
Romney, Colleagues Laud SFRC Passage of their Taiwan Tax Agreement Act of 2023
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, on July 13 joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, in releasing statements following the Committee’s passage of their Taiwan Tax Agreement Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation authorizing the Biden Administration to negotiate and conclude a tax agreement between the United States and Taiwan.
-
Romney, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Wastewater Testing Systems for Public Health Emergency Preparedness
U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Angus King (I-ME) today introduced the bipartisan Public Health Response and Emergency Detection Through Integrated Wastewater Surveillance (PREDICT) Act.
-
Romney, Hickenlooper Introduce Seven-year Extension of Fish Recovery Programs
U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) today introduced the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act.
-
Romney Demands Answers on Chinese Intel Center in Salt Lake City
Senators pen letter to Attorney General Garland regarding reports of Chinese Intelligence outposts operating inside the United States
-
Senate HELP Committee Release Staff Bipartisan Discussion Draft Legislation to Reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act
Staffs of U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chair of HELP, along with U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Bob Casey (D-PA), today released and are seeking feedback on a staff-level bipartisan discussion draft to reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), legislation that would help prepare the United States for the next public health emergency.
-
Romney, Colleagues Statement on Anniversary of Hong Kong Handover, National Security Law
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), SFRC Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, and 27 of his colleagues in releasing the following statement marking the 26th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover and the 3rd anniversary of the Hong Kong “National Security Law.”
-
Romney Applauds New $24.5 Million RAISE Grant to Improve Wasatch Front Area Transit Access
Funds planned for 15 priority projects, including enhancements for pedestrians and cyclists
-
Park City Awarded $7.4 Million Federal Grant to Improve More Than 72 Bus Stops
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today applauded an announcement by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that Park City Transit will receive a $7,393,183 federal grant from the FTA’s Bus and Bus Facilities discretionary grant program.
-
Romney Welcomes Investment from Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to Expand High-Speed Internet in Utah
$317 million in funding awarded to the State of Utah for the expansion of high-speed internet access
-
Utah Congressional Delegation Voices Support for DCA Act
The Utah Congressional delegation has announced its full support of the Direct Capital Access (DCA) Act, legislation to add 28 additional in- and beyond-perimeter flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in the 2023 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization bill. U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) today joined on as co-sponsors of the Senate’s version of the DCA Act, which was originally introduced by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) in the House.
-
Utah files lawsuit to stop EPA rule that could increase energy costs
On June 20, the Utah Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recently released Ozone Interstate Transport Rule. Regarding the lawsuit, Utah’s elected leaders – Gov. Spencer Cox, Attorney General Sean Reyes, Senate President J. Stuart Adams, House Speaker Brad Wilson, U.S. Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney, and Congressmen Chris Stewart, John Curtis, Burgess Owens, and Blake Moore – issued the following statement:
-
Romney, Sullivan, Peters Introduce Bill to Promote U.S. Critical Mineral Independence from China
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, along with Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Gary Peters (D-MI), today introduced the Critical Mineral Independence Act of 2023, legislation to push the Department of Defense to achieve critical mineral supply chain independence from China, Russia, and other geostrategic competitors and adversaries.
-
Romney, Peters, Lankford Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Dependence on China and Other Adversarial Nations for Critical Minerals Advances in the Senate
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has advanced the Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act.
-
Romney, Colleagues Urge Administration to Take Immediate Action on Passport Delays
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today joined Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), John Barasso, M.D. (R-WY), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Katie Britt (R-AL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), JD Vance (R-OH), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Deb Fischer (R-NE) in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to take immediate action to resolve the massive, unacceptable backlog of passport applications.
-
Romney, Fischer Lead Colleagues in Introducing Legislation to Bolster Sentinel Program and U.S. Nuclear Deterrence
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, joined by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), John Barrasso (R-WY), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), and Steve Daines (R-MT), today introduced the Sentinel Nuclear Deterrence Act of 2023, legislation to strengthen and solidify the Sentinel program, which is vital to U.S. nuclear deterrence.
-
Romney, Cassidy, McMorris Rodgers, Hudson Call on Biden Administration to Bolster Oversight of Pandemic Research
U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), HELP Ranking Member, along with U.S. Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Richard Hudson (R-NC), called on the Biden Administration to bolster oversight of research involving dangerous pathogens, which Congress required as part of the PREVENT Pandemics Act.
-
Romney Leads Senate Hearing on Reducing Government Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today served as Ranking Member at a Senate Homeland Security Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee hearing on how to reduce duplication, overlap, and fragmentation in the federal government and save taxpayer dollars.