Senators Romney and Murphy (D-CT), member and Chairman, repsectivley, of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, on Monday released a statement on recent developments in Israel.
Senator Romney joined 36 of his Republican colleagues, led by Senator Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee, in introducing a CRA resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan cancelation scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower onto taxpayers, costing an estimated $400 billion.
Senators Romney and Bennet (D-CO), with Congressmen Curtis (R-UT) and Garamendi (D-CA), today announced the reintroduction of their bipartisan, bicameral Making Access to Cleanup Happen (MATCH) Act, legislation to expedite disaster cleanup, save taxpayers money, and prevent further disasters.
Senator Romney joined Senator Johnson (R-WI) and 14 of their Republican colleagues in reintroducing the Guidance Out of Darkness (GOOD) Act, legislation to require federal agencies to publish their regulatory guidance on the internet in an easily accessible location.
Senator Romney served Freshie’s Lobster Co. from Park City, Utah, at a lunch he hosted today for his fellow Republican senators.
Senator Romney joined Senators Kennedy (R-LA), Marshall (R-KS), and more than 40 Republican senators in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to prevent the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from enforcing an anti-Second Amendment pistol brace rule.
Senator Romney, member of the Senate HELP Committee, today joined Senators Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member and Chair of the HELP Committee respectively, in requesting input from public health officials, health care providers, and other stakeholders on policies the Committee should consider during the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA).
At a Budget Committee hearing today to discuss the President’s budget, Senator Romney engaged in a heated exchange with OMB Director Shalanda Young who claimed that members of Congress are proposing cutting benefits for current Social Security recipients.
Senators Romney and Shaheen (D-NH) reintroduced their bipartisan legislation that would direct the Administration to develop a strategy toward the Black Sea region, which has increasingly become a critical inflection point for European and global security amid Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.
President Biden’s proposed budget is designed to satisfy his base, not to actually become law. Raising corporate taxes would cause companies and good jobs to leave America, as they have in the past. Rather than aggressively beefing up the number of border agents and drug enforcement personnel to counter the fentanyl crisis, he balloons the number of IRS agents.
At a Budget Committee hearing on the economic cost of wildfires, Senator Romney highlighted the reality that wildfires are becoming increasingly catastrophic in Utah and across the West and argued the need to adapt our wildfire policies to meet the current conditions, instead of continuing to respond to fires as we have in the past.
Senator Romney joined Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Risch (R-ID), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Duckworth (D-IL) in introducing the 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).