Senator Romney joined Senators Menendez (D-NJ), Risch (R-ID), and Duckworth (D-IL) in applauding the Committee’s passage of their Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations (PARTNER) with ASEAN Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen relations between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Senator Romney joined a group of colleagues, led by Senator Barasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, in introducing legislation to protect multiple use policy on federal lands. This legislation blocks the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Public Lands Rule.
Senator Romney welcomed more than 70 Utah veterans to Washington, D.C., for their Honor Flight, meeting at the World War II Memorial. The Utah Honor Flight group included veterans from World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Cold War, and Desert Storm.
Senator Romney led a hearing to consider the State Department’s FY 2024 Budget Request for East Asia and the Pacific. The 2022 NDAA included legislation from Romney requiring the Administration to create a grand China strategy. During today’s hearing, he urged witnesses to follow through on creating a strategy that is more comprehensive than principles that have been publicly outlined by officials, as well as bipartisan and lasting in nature.
Senator Romney joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raising concerns with the FIO’s efforts to force the Biden Administration’s unrealistic ESG agenda onto the state-regulated insurance industry.
Calls on President Biden to come to the negotiating table to find compromise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdQzzZlNEw SALT LAKE CITY—U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) yesterday joined KSL Sunday
As Ranking Member of the Homeland Security’s Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, Senator Romney holds a key role in addressing the United States’ capacity to respond to 21st century threats. This week, Senator Romney held a Subcommittee hearing on emergency preparedness and interagency coordination in the 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombing.
Senators Romney and Lee reintroduced the University of Utah Research Park Act, a bill to protect and preserve Research Park, a vital center for research and development that serves both the University and the local workforce.
Senator Romney, Ranking Member of Homeland Security’s Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, along with Senator Hassan (D-NH), the Subcommittee’s Chair, today led a hearing focused on the Boston Marathon bombing and its impacts on emergency preparedness and homeland security in the decade since the attack.
This week, Senator Romney grilled members of the Biden Administration on their negligence to address the humanity crisis at our southern border, overt pro-labor union bias, and history of gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars. He also met with key stakeholders from Utah to discuss efforts to address our state’s education, water, economic, and defense industry needs.
At a HELP hearing on the nomination of Julie Su to serve as Secretary of Labor, Senator Romney pressed Su on the nearly $31 billion in fraudulent Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits that were authorized during her tenure overseeing California’s UI program. Specifically, Romney questioned her decision to waive program safeguards to get the money sent out.
At a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Senator Romney pressed DHS Secretary Mayorkas about the Administration’s failure to secure our southern border. He urged the Secretary to prioritize the completion of the barrier along the southern border instead of solely focusing on addressing the root causes of illegal immigration—specifically crime and poverty in Latin America.