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Mitt Romney is back in campaign mode and reminding Utahns why he lost the last time he ran for something. On Monday Romney spoke to the Utah County Republican Women and reminded Utahns that his views on immigration are starkly more conservative than even the conservatives in Utah County.
Utah Hispanic lawmakers condemned the decision by President Donald Trump's administration to include a question about U.S. citizenship status on the 2020 census. House Minority Assistant Whip Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City; Reps.
Last week's spending bill includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding nonfire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs, which approached $3 billion last year.
The Salt Lake Tribune Volunteer Damon Harris shows users how to use naloxone, a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent overdose by opioids such as heroin, as he helps members of the Utah Harm Reduction Coalition as they exchange needles on 500 west between 200 south and 300 south in Salt Lake City, Thursday July 27, 2017. Users are able to exchange used needles and also receive naloxone during the exchange.
The sun rises Aug. 23 over the Valley of the Gods, at that time a part of the Bears Ears National Monument, near Blanding, Utah. Interior Department emails obtained by The New York Times in a lawsuit indicate that oil exploration was the central factor in the decision to scale back the monument.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Republican Party Central Committee members wait to speak during the committee's meeting at the Park City Library Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. To the annoyance of most of the state's Republicans, a minority group of purist bullies on the party's state central committee have once again met to embarrass themselves and the party at large.
President Donald Trump on Monday night threw his full support behind Mitt Romney's bid to be the next U.S. senator from Utah , writing on Twitter that he would be a "worthy successor" to retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. The endorsement is significant because Trump had previously encouraged Hatch to seek another term, and Romney had been among the most vocal Republican critics of Trump's presidential aspirations, once calling him "a phony" and "a fraud."
A simple solution to the fight against filtering movies would be to update the Family Movie Act of 2005 to clarify that it covers streaming. In the course of his long career, Sen. Orrin Hatch has often gone to bat for Utah's families.
Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is running for a Utah Senate seat, officially launching his political comeback attempt Friday by praising his adopted home state as a model for an acrimonious national government in Washington. Having been one of the Republican Party's fiercest internal critics of President Donald Trump, Romney didn't mention the administration or Trump himself in a campaign announcement posted online.
Mitt Romney is preparing to announce a bid for Utah's Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, a position some hope the 2012 GOP presidential nominee will use to continue his biting criticism of President Donald Trump. Romney, who once called Trump "a phony" who was unfit for office, is not expected to address the president in an announcement video he has prepared for release online, according to people with direct knowledge of his plans.
Tribune file photo) Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo , in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Feb. 9, 2018. The Utah House narrowly approved a bill that could lead to prescription drugs flowing into the state from Canada under a program the bill's sponsor hopes would help lower the cost of drugs.
A bill that would create a new legislative entity to oversee state and local governments was revived Monday after several GOP lawmakers changed their votes. HB175 faltered in a House committee earlier this month as a result of "healthy tension" between the branches of government, the bill's sponsor Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem, said at the time.
Red tape, bureaucratic hurdles and arbitrary roadblocks are pervasive in Washington, D.C. These obstacles not only result in irritation and inconvenience, but also have the capacity to cause great harm to the health and happiness of those suffering from painful disorders and diseases. Barriers to medical-grade marijuana research may be resulting in the preventable and unnecessary pain of countless Americans.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Mia Love arrives at Salt Lake International airport on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Love, a Utah Republican and the only Haitian-American in Congress, called on President Donald Trump to apologize Thursday after reports said he questioned why the United States was allowing immigrants from "s---hole countries" like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.
If there were any doubt about the numerous reports that President Trump referred to Haiti and nations in Africa as "shithole countries" in a Thursday meeting about immigration with lawmakers, it melted away with a statement from the White House that did nothing to deny it. "Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah told the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Tuesday, where he reportedly made the controversial remarks. Lawmakers from both parties joined opinion leaders around the world in condemning remarks made by President Trump during a meeting earlier this week on immigration, in which he referred to "s***hole countries" in Africa and questioned why the U.S. would want to accept immigrants from countries such as Haiti and El Salvador.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat. SALT LAKE CITY - Orrin Hatch's decision to retire from the Senate after four decades lets the Utah Republican walk away at the height of his power after helping to push through an overhaul of the tax code and persuading President Donald Trump to downsize two national monuments.
Orrin Hatch's decision to retire from the Senate after four decades lets the Utah Republican walk away at the height of his power after helping to push through an overhaul of the tax code and persuading President Donald Trump to downsize two national monuments. Retirement also preserves the 83-year-old's legacy by allowing him to avoid a bruising re-election battle that would have broken his promise not to seek an eighth term.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's announcement Tuesday that he would not seek an eighth term cleared the way for an all-but-certain run by the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, who now lives in Utah and is enormously popular among voters there. But that popularity doesn't necessarily extend to Trump's White House, where establishment Republicans such as Romney are often viewed with deep skepticism.