Senator Romney applauded an announcement from the Department of Interior that more than $10 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, negotiated by Romney and his colleagues, would be invested in Utah to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects on 43,240 acres of land across the state.
Senators Romney and Manchin (D-WV) testified at the House Budget Committee’s hearing examining the need for a fiscal commission and reviewing the Fiscal Stability Act, a bipartisan solution to strengthen America’s fiscal health and stabilize our nation’s finances for future generations, which the senators introduced earlier this month.
Support grew this week for the Fiscal Stability Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Romney and Manchin (D-WV) to strengthen America’s fiscal health and stabilize our nation’s finances for future generations. The Fiscal Stability Act would create a bicameral fiscal commission tasked with finding legislative solutions to stabilize and decrease our national debt, which now exceeds $33.6 trillion—more than double what it was just 10 years ago.
Senator Romney released a statement to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the bipartisan infrastructure bill negotiated by Romney and his colleagues.
Ahead of President Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit today, Senator Romney urged the President to implement his legislation to develop a grand strategy to counter China, which was signed into law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022.
Senator Romney, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, led a bipartisan hearing with Senator Hassan (D-NH), Subcommittee Chair, examining federal COVID-era spending.
Senators Romney and Risch (R-ID) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking for clarification on whether the United States invited Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, who has been sanctioned by the United States since 2020 for his role in implementing Hong Kong’s draconian national security law imposed by Beijing, to the leaders meeting of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Community.
Senators Romney and Manchin (D-WV) joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the Fiscal Stability Act—a bipartisan solution to strengthen America’s fiscal health and stabilize our nation’s finances for future generations—which they led their colleagues in introducing earlier today.
Senators Romney and Manchin (D-WV) led their colleagues in introducing the Fiscal Stability Act, a bipartisan solution to strengthen America’s fiscal health and stabilize our nation’s finances for future generations. The legislation would create a bicameral fiscal commission tasked with finding legislative solutions to stabilize and decrease our national debt.
Senator Romney joined Senator Sullivan (R-AK) and 20 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the executive director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council demanding the Council rescind its proposal to limit the type of mining projects eligible for the improved permitting process established under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act.
Senator Romney joined Senator Cassidy (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and several of his Republican HELP colleagues in urging Senator Sanders, HELP Committee Chairman, to hold a hearing to ensure the Administration is upholding its legal responsibility to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and attacks on college campuses in the aftermath of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks against Israel earlier this month.
At the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s annual “Threats to the Homeland” hearing today, Senator Romney pressed DHS Secretary Mayorkas on the Administration’s continued failure to secure the southern border and questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about increased threats and violence against religious groups—particularly against Jews and Muslims.