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Senators Mitt Romney and Jeff Merkley today met with Mitch Zeller, the FDA’s director of the Center for Tobacco Products to discuss the youth vaping crisis. Romney and Merkley are leading bipartisan legislation in the Senate that permanently bans flavors of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), ensures vaping cartridges are tamper-proof, and funds a robust public education campaign by applying the existing tobacco excise tax to e-cigarettes.

Senator Mitt Romney applauded a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ReConnect program to award STRATA Networks a loan-grant combination in the amount $23.6 million, which will be used to provide new and improved broadband infrastructure to more than 3,000 locations in the Uinta Basin.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Tom Udall (D-NM) expressed concerns regarding the FDA’s recently issued January Guidance on vaping. In a letter to the director of the Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller, the senators expressed their concerns and requested answers from Mr. Zeller about devices, flavor requirements, and the Premarket Tobacco Product Applications process as the FDA...

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today spoke on the Senate floor to commemorate the leading role of Utahns in the fight for women’s suffrage. After Romney concluded his remarks, the Senate unanimously passed the resolution he introduced with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) recognizing Utah’s leading role in the suffrage movement and celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first votes by women under an equal suffrage law on February 14, 1870.

Senator Romney applauded today’s vote by the House Natural Resources Committee to advance legislation led by Congressmen Rob Bishop (R-UT) and John Curtis (R-UT) that would settle a decades-long negotiation among the Navajo Nation, federal government and the State of Utah over water rights for Utah Navajos. The Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act, companion Senate legislation which Romney introduced, currently awaits a vote by the full Senate.

Senator Mitt Romney announced the opening of his new Senate office located in St. George. The new office location will assist Senator Romney in serving Southern Utah, including providing assistance to local residents who need help with federal agency matters.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today led the Utah Congressional delegation comprised of U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representatives Rob Bishop (R-UT), Chris Stewart (R-UT), John Curtis (R-UT), and Ben McAdams (D-UT) in opposing a reservation system which the National Park Service has proposed for Zion National Park that would restrict visitor access and have negative impacts on the local economy.
    
“As the fourth most visited national park in the country, ZNP is a pillar of...

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) released the following statement regarding the president’s State of the Union address:

Senator Mitt Romney today joined his colleagues, led by Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), to send a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus concerning Taiwan’s exclusion from the World Health Organization (WHO) and urging the WHO to grant Taiwan observer status at WHO meetings and gatherings.

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today released the questions he has submitted for the question and answer period of the impeachment trial. The questions, which can be directed to House managers or the President’s counsel, will be submitted in writing and read by the Chief Justice during the trial today and tomorrow.