Senator Romney celebrated the International Olympic Committee’s vote to officially award the 2034 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to Salt Lake City, Utah. The decision was made at the 142nd IOC session in Paris, France, today following a final presentation by the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee delegation for the Games.
Senator Romney secured several measures in the 2025 NDAA, which passed the Senate Armed Services Committee last month. The bill would authorize funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military and other critical defense priorities, ensuring America’s forces have the training, equipment, and resources they need to carry out their missions
Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) have introduced the Military and Educational Data Integration Act, bipartisan legislation to help states access military enlistment data to better inform students on military careers.
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined his colleagues in sending three letters pushing back on the Biden Administration’s disastrous border policies.
Senator Romney joined a group of his colleagues, led by Senator Lankford in sending a letter to President Joe Biden to express concerns regarding his Executive Order that would offer amnesty to illegal aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.
Following reports on a Border Patrol memo exposing President Biden’s executive action on the border to be nothing but political theater, Senator Romney joined his colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden calling out the devastating effects of his lawless action and open border policies.
After years of efforts to improve in-person consular services for Utahns, Senator Romney welcomed today’s announcement from the State Department that Salt Lake City will be the site of one of the six passport agency expansion locations throughout the country.
Senators Romney, Cotton (R-AR), Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Lankford (R-OK), and Vance (R-OH) introduced the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2024, legislation that would require all employers to use the federal electronic E-Verify system to confirm the employment eligibility of their workforce.
Senator Romney, Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Senator Kelly (D-AZ), member of the Armed Services Committee, teamed up to introduce the Bolstering Indo-Pacific Capabilities Act, bipartisan legislation that would shore up U.S. military logistics lines and improve readiness, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
Senators Romney and Rosen (D-NV) introduced the Combating Foreign Terrorist Drones Act of 2024, bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing foreign terrorists—such as Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and Iran-backed groups like the Houthis—from acquiring unmanned aerial systems, or drones, to conduct attacks, collect intelligence, and deliver weapons or supplies.
Senator Romney, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Shaheen (D-NH) and Tillis (R-NC), and a bipartisan group of colleagues in sending a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging Canada to immediately develop a plan to increase its defense spending to meet the two percent of GDP spending threshold that was agreed to by all NATO Allies at the Vilnius Summit in 2023.
At a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator Romney pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Administration’s continued failure to deliver to Congress a comprehensive strategy to counter China, required by law after Romney secured his legislation as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022. The Administration is now nearly one year late in delivering the strategy.