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Sen. Romney Calls For Bipartisan Approach To Keep Child Tax Credit

Sen. Romney Calls For Bipartisan Approach To Keep Child Tax Credit

(Washington, DC) – Republican Senator Mitt Romney is pushing Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to keep the Child Tax Credit in place. On Twitter, Senator Romney said that Republicans and Democrats need to work on a long-term policy to reduce child poverty now that the Build Back Better plan […]

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Sen. Romney Continues Praise Of Diplomatic Boycott For Beijing Olympics

Sen. Romney Continues Praise Of Diplomatic Boycott For Beijing Olympics

(Washington, DC) — Republican Senator Mitt Romney continues to heap bipartisan praise on the Biden Administration’s decision to hold a diplomatic boycott for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. During an interview on MSNBC, Romney said it was the right move as a way to protest China’s ongoing human rights abuses, […]

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Romney Defends Support For Biden Infrastructure Bill

Romney Defends Support For Biden Infrastructure Bill

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Senator Mitt Romney is defending his support of an infrastructure package passed in Congress last week. Romney was one of 19 Republicans who supported the package during an August vote on the measure. Romney tells KSTU-TV that the bipartisan bill will bring billions of […]

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Accepting award, Romney faults extremes of political divide

Accepting award, Romney faults extremes of political divide

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney faulted those on both extremes of the nation’s political divide as he accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Romney was honored on Wednesday for his decision to become the only Republican to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during […]

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Bid to censure Romney for Trump impeachment votes fails

Bid to censure Romney for Trump impeachment votes fails

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republicans booed Sen. Mitt Romney but ultimately rejected a motion to censure him for his votes at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trials. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the measure narrowly failed, 798 to 711, in a vote by delegates to the state GOP […]

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Delegates to consider censuring Romney over impeachment vote

Delegates to consider censuring Romney over impeachment vote

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP delegates attending the Utah Republican Party convention will consider a resolution this weekend to censure U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. The Standard-Examiner reported that the party will consider the issue Saturday. Don Guymon, sponsor of the resolution […]

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Romney gets Profile in Courage Award for impeachment vote

Romney gets Profile in Courage Award for impeachment vote

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah has been named this year’s recipient of the Profile in Courage Award for being the only Republican to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial. The honor was announced Friday on NBC’s “Today” show. Trump’s first […]

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Utah Republican Party chair will not run for 2nd term

Utah Republican Party chair will not run for 2nd term

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party’s chairman has announced that he will not run for a second term. Derek Brown announced Tuesday he would avoid running again in order to spend more time with family and that he is ready to “pass the baton.” The Utah Republican […]

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Romney knocked unconscious in fall, but ‘doing better’

Romney knocked unconscious in fall, but ‘doing better’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney says he was knocked unconscious in a fall over the weekend, but that he is “doing better.” The Utah Republican says the accident happened when he was spending time with his grandchildren in Boston. He told reporters Monday he was taken to a hospital […]

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Utah GOP defends Romney amid criticism over impeachment vote

Utah GOP defends Romney amid criticism over impeachment vote

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has defended Sen. Mitt Romney after an online motion accused him of misrepresenting himself as a Republican and embarrassing the state by voting against former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trials. Over 140,000 people have signed the document that says […]

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