(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah education leaders say major changes to the U.S. Department of Education will require congressional approval and legal challenges. This comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the agency yesterday. The Utah State Board of Education said the full impact […]
(Washington, DC) — Congressman Burgess Owens is hiring a member of Senator Mike Lee’s staff and giving him a promotion. The Utah Republican announced yesterday that Lee Lonsberry will be his new chief of staff. Lonsberry has served as Senator Lee’s director of communications since 2021. The Fourth District congressman […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah’s Republican congressional delegation is remaining united in its support of Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be Speaker of the House. Congressmen Blake Moore, Burgess Owens, Chris Stewart and John Curtis supported the California congressman during three separate votes yesterday. A group of hardline conservatives is vowing never […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four Republicans are attempting to maintain the party’s stranglehold on the Utah’s congressional delegation. Reps. Blake Moore, Chris Stewart, John Curtis and Burgess Owens are expected to be re-elected with decisive victories in the midterm elections, helping Republicans win back control of the U.S. House […]
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens is scheduled to debate Democrat Darlene McDonald in suburban Salt Lake City on Friday in their first and only meeting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The first-term Republican elected not to participate in a televised Utah Debate Commission event […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Republican Congressman Burgess Owens is citing racism as the reason he skipped last night’s Fourth District congressional debate in Salt Lake City. In a video posted to social media, Owens said he would not take part in a debate moderated by the executive editor of […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Congressman Burgess Owens is not confirming his participation in tonight’s District Four candidate debate at the University of Utah. The Utah Debate Commission said the Republican congressman hadn’t contacted them as of yesterday afternoon. The debate commission said they were still planning on having all […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah’s congressional delegation introduced legislation that could pipe more water into the Great Salt Lake. Republican Senator Mitt Romney and Congressmen Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens are pushing the Great Salt Lake Recovery Act. The bill would direct the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to monitor and […]
(Park City, UT) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is supporting the re-election bid of Utah Congressman Burgess Owens. Pence appeared at a private fundraiser for Owens last night in Park City. The former vice president tweeted out several pictures of the event, along with a statement saying he was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Republican voters are giving four Utah congressmen the chance to return to Washington, D.C. for another term. John Curtis, Blake Moore, Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens are leading their GOP primary races by significant margins in unofficial returns. Moore and Owens led by the smallest […]
