Foreign Policy & National Security

First of its kind legislation establishes federal oversight of frontier AI to guard against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cyber threats.

Congress has passed the bipartisan and bicameral conference report for the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA), annual legislation that authorizes funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military and other critical defense priorities to ensure America’s forces have the training, equipment, and resources they need to carry out their missions.

Senators Romney and Sullivan (R-AK) introduced the Aligning Development and Competition Act of 2024, legislation that aims to reorient U.S. foreign development investments through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to better compete with China.

One year since the October 7 terrorist attacks that killed dozens of Americans, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined every Senate Republican in fully condemning Iran-backed Hamas for its actions, supporting Israel’s right to self-defense, and calling for the safe release of the remaining American hostages.

Senator Romney, along with several of his Republican Senate Foreign Relations Committee colleagues, introduced the STRATEGIC Act of 2024, legislation to set up the United States and its allies and partners for success in the strategic competition against China.

The Senate unanimously passed the Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act, bipartisan legislation authored by Senators Romney, Peters (D-MI), and Lankford (R-OK), that would reduce the United States’ reliance on China and adversarial nations for critical minerals.

Senators Romney and Kaine (D-VA) introduced bipartisan legislation that provides the administration with the authority to sanction foreign adversary entities that provide support to China’s maritime militia. The Targeting Illicit Disruption and Encroachment in Seas (TIDES) Act aims to expand our toolkit to respond to China’s use of its maritime militia to exert excessive territorial claims, harass U.S. ships and those of our partners in the South China Sea, and carry out illicit fishing activities.