Senator Romney joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in announcing an agreement to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country.
Addressing the nation’s burgeoning debt and the imminent insolvency of its major trust funds remain two of Senator Romney’s top priorities. This week, he pushed back against unserious and unhelpful partisan proposals to save Social Security by highlighting his TRUST Act, a serious solution that has bipartisan support.
Senator Romney’s TRUST Act was front and center at a Budget Committee hearing as a viable, bipartisan solution to saving Social Security. Romney’s bipartisan and bicameral legislation creates a process to rescue the Social Security Trust Fund and other endangered federal trust funds—while reining in the national debt.
Senator Romney joined a Memorial Day ceremony at the Utah State Capitol where he delivered remarks honoring our fallen servicemembers. Throughout the week, the Senator announced efforts to foster our capacity for technological innovation, support rural communities, safeguard taxpayers from funding abortions, and lower prescription drug costs.
The Office of Senator Romney released a report detailing the policy and constituent service accomplishments at the halfway mark of Romney’s Senate term.
Senators Romney and Rosen announced that they have introduced the Advancing Affordable Medicines for Families Act, bipartisan legislation which would direct the Government Accountability Office to conduct a report on the impact that nonprofit generic drug companies would have on lowering drug costs, addressing drug shortages, and accelerating the development of new drugs.
Senator Romney joined Senator Daines in a letter also signed by 46 other pro-life senators to send a unified message to Democratic Leader Schumer pledging that they will vote to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion, or any other pro-life protections.
While home in Utah during the Senate state work period, Senator Romney joined the signing of the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement in Monument Valley. Later in the day, he curled with the Ukrainian National Curling Team at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns and attended the IFSC World Cup in Salt Lake City.
Senator Romney joined his colleagues in urging the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations to fully fund the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program for fiscal year (FY) 2023. PILT provides payments to counties with non-taxable federal land within their borders to offset the lost property tax revenue.
Senators Romney and Durbin with Representatives Casten and Calvert led a bipartisan letter to Senate-passed USICA and house-passed America COMPETES Act conferees urging them to oppose provisions that would allocate a high, fixed percentage of future research funding based on EPSCoR.
Senator Romney today joined Governor Spencer J. Cox and the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs for a Memorial Day Ceremony at the State Capitol.
Senator Romney joined state, federal, and Navajo leaders in Monument Valley for the signing of an agreement to bring running water to Utah’s Navajo Nation–legislation the Senator helped pass in 2020 and fully funded within the bipartisan infrastructure bill. He ended his week curling with the Ukrainian National Curling Team at the Utah Olympic Oval and attending the International Federation of Sport Climbing World Cup in downtown Salt Lake.