Senator Romney secured several measures in the 2025 NDAA, which passed the Senate Armed Services Committee last month. The bill would authorize funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military and other critical defense priorities, ensuring America’s forces have the training, equipment, and resources they need to carry out their missions
America’s ascent was improbable: our founding was based on a war nearly lost, a set of Articles of Confederation that failed, a Constitution that was barely ratified, and a terrible second war with Great Britain. Less than a century later, we succumbed to a great civil war that claimed more than 600,000 lives.Nevertheless, America not merely endured, but achieved a level of greatness and goodness never before seen in human history. This tradition continues today—I have seen the greatness of the American spirit time and again. We innovate, we persevere, we overcome.
Senator Romney joined a group of colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Consumer Protection Branch and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products Director requesting more information about the recently announced interagency task force to combat the illicit sale and distribution of unauthorized e-cigarettes.
Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) have introduced the Military and Educational Data Integration Act, bipartisan legislation to help states access military enlistment data to better inform students on military careers.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined his colleagues in sending three letters pushing back on the Biden Administration’s disastrous border policies.
Passport demand in Utah is enormous, due in part to our population growth and global missionary efforts. After a years-long push by Senator Romney, the State Department announced that a passport agency is coming to Salt Lake City to provide Utahns with improved, in-person services. Senator Romney also advanced another major priority by introducing bipartisan legislation that would help prevent wildfires and expedite federal resources for when they strike. His bill incorporates recommendations made by a wildfire commission he secured into law in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Senator Romney joined a group of his colleagues, led by Senator Lankford in sending a letter to President Joe Biden to express concerns regarding his Executive Order that would offer amnesty to illegal aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.
Senators Romney and Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Enhancing Mitigation and Building Effective Resilience (EMBER) Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation based on recommendations from the Wildfire Mitigation and Management Commission—which Senator Romney secured in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—to help communities across the country better assess, prevent, and manage wildfires.
Following reports on a Border Patrol memo exposing President Biden’s executive action on the border to be nothing but political theater, Senator Romney joined his colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden calling out the devastating effects of his lawless action and open border policies.
Senators Romney, Hickenlooper (D-CO), Barrasso (R-WY), Bennet (D-CO), and Lummis (R-WY) today introduced the Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act, bipartisan legislation to extend the System Conservation Pilot Program, which was created to test voluntary water conservation measures to manage severe drought in the Colorado River Basin.
In light of the growing illegal e-cigarette market in the United States, Senator Romney urged FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and Attorney General Merrick Garland—heads of the multi-agency task force to combat the illegal distribution and sale of e-cigarettes—to regain control of the e-cigarette marketplace and help curb the rise of youth vaping.
After years of efforts to improve in-person consular services for Utahns, Senator Romney welcomed today’s announcement from the State Department that Salt Lake City will be the site of one of the six passport agency expansion locations throughout the country.