Mitt Romney
American politician and businessman
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| 2025 | Retired from the Senate when his term expired. |
| 2025 | Completes his term as U.S. Senator from Utah. |
| 2024 | Romney was awarded the annual Legislative Achievement Award from the National Emergency Management Association for his efforts in creating the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission in Utah. |
| July 21 2024 | After President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election, Romney released a statement expressing respect for Biden and acknowledging that his decision was in the best interest of the country. |
| June 2024 | Romney proposed a framework aimed at mitigating the existential risk posed by artificial general intelligence, collaborating with Senators Jack Reed, Jerry Moran, and Angus King. |
| 2023 | During President Biden's State of the Union Address, Romney confronted Representative George Santos, stating that Santos 'shouldn't be in Congress'. |
| 2023 | Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024 and would retire from the Senate in 2025. |
| July 2022 | Romney was one of seven Republican senators who voted to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, which provided federal protection for same-sex and interracial marriages. |
| April 7 2022 | Romney voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. |
| 2021 | Mitt Romney was appointed to serve on the Budget Committee in the U.S. Senate. |
| 2021 | Romney received the Profile in Courage Award for being the only member of his party to vote to convict Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial. |
| December 2021 | Romney was one of 14 Republicans in the US Senate to vote with the Democratic caucus to allow Democratic leadership to raise the debt ceiling on a party-line vote. |
| November 2021 | The infrastructure bill passed the House of Representatives, with 13 Republicans joining the Democrats after delayed negotiations. |
| September 30 2021 | Romney was among 15 Republicans in the Senate who joined all Democrats and Independents to pass a temporary spending bill to continue government funding and avoid a government shutdown. |
| August 2021 | Romney was one of 19 US Republican Senators who voted with the Democratic caucus to pass a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. |
| May 27 2021 | Mitt Romney voted to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, alongside five other Republicans and all present Democrats. The vote failed to reach the required 60 'yes' votes. |
| February 13 2021 | Mitt Romney voted to allow other witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. He later voted to convict Trump, making him one of seven Republican senators to do so. |
| February 10 2021 | New video released during Trump's second impeachment trial showed Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman saving Romney from running into Capitol rioters. Romney later expressed his emotional distress regarding the violence and looked forward to thanking Goodman. |
| January 13 2021 | The House voted to impeach Donald Trump a second time for incitement of insurrection. Mitt Romney was one of the five Republicans who voted against a motion to dismiss the impeachment charge introduced by Rand Paul. |
| January 13 2021 | Mitt Romney was one of the Republicans who supported the House's vote to impeach Donald Trump a second time for incitement of insurrection. |
| January 6 2021 | During the violent attack on the United States Capitol by Trump supporters, Mitt Romney yelled at Republican congressmen, condemning the insurrection and attributing it to the actions of President Trump. |
| January 5 2021 | On his way to Washington, D.C., to certify Joe Biden's election win, Mitt Romney was heckled and harassed by Trump supporters at the airport, who accused him of not supporting Trump's false claims of election fraud. |
| 2020 | Romney did not endorse Donald Trump's reelection campaign and publicly stated that he did not vote for Trump. |
| 2020 | After Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, Romney became the first Republican senator to congratulate Biden and Kamala Harris. |
| 2020 | In a Washington Post op-ed, Romney criticized Trump, stating that he 'has not risen to the mantle of the office'. |
| September 2020 | Romney expressed his view that the decision by Republicans to nominate and confirm Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court before the 2020 presidential election was fair and consistent with past practices. |
| July 2020 | Romney, alongside Senator Pat Toomey, condemned President Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's sentence, calling it 'unprecedented, historic corruption'. |
| June 7 2020 | Mitt Romney became the first Republican senator to participate in a Black Lives Matter protest in response to the murder of George Floyd. He emphasized the need for voices against racism and brutality, receiving praise from various political figures, including Senator Kamala Harris, while facing mockery from former President Trump. |
| February 5 2020 | Mitt Romney became the first U.S. senator in history to vote to convict a president of the same political party during the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, citing concerns over corrupting an election as a 'corrupting an election to keep oneself in office'. |
| 2019 | Mitt Romney began his tenure as a U.S. Senator. |
| 2019 | Romney condemned the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, expressing solidarity with the victims and their families. |
| 2019 | Romney was one of two Republican senators who joined all Democrats in voting to allow impeachment witnesses during the impeachment trial of President Trump. |
| 2019 | Romney served as a United States senator from Utah. |
| 2019 | Romney wrote a Washington Post editorial strongly criticizing President Trump's character, which drew criticism from his niece Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair. |
| 2019 | As a US Senator, Romney voted for both Republican and Democratic bills to end a government shutdown, being one of six Republicans to break with his party. |
| November 9 2019 | Mitt Romney was one of three Republican senators who declined to co-sponsor a resolution opposing the impeachment inquiry process into President Trump. |
| October 2019 | Romney revealed in The Atlantic that he used his secret Twitter account to monitor political conversations, confirming ownership of the account shortly after its discovery by Slate. |
| September 25 2019 | Romney was one of 11 Republicans voting to overturn Trump's emergency declaration on the southern border. |
| May 2019 | Romney was the only Republican to vote against President Trump's district court judicial nominee, Michael Truncale, due to Truncale's remarks against former President Obama. |
| May 2019 | Romney was one of eight Republicans voting against a disaster aid bill due to lack of border security funding. |
| 2018 | Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney's campaign for the Senate. |
| 2018 | Mitt Romney participated in the Utah State Republican Convention, where he secured 1,539 votes, representing 46.2% in the first ballot. |
| 2018 | While running for the US Senate, Romney stated he would have voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. |
| 2018 | Romney shifted his stance during a debate, expressing support for medical marijuana legalization with strict regulations. |
| November 6 2018 | Mitt Romney was elected as the U.S. Senator from Utah, defeating Democratic nominee Jenny Wilson with 62.6% of the vote. |
| June 26 2018 | Mitt Romney defeated Mike Kennedy in the primary election with a significant majority of 71.7%. |
| May 2018 | Romney revealed that he had cast a write-in vote for his wife, Ann, in the 2016 presidential election. |
| April 21 2018 | At the state Republican nominating convention, Romney received 1,585 delegate votes (49.1%), finishing second to Mike Kennedy's 1,642 votes (50.9%), leading to a primary election due to neither candidate achieving the required 60% endorsement. |
| March 2018 | During his Utah Senate campaign, Romney initially stated that DACA kids should not all be allowed to stay in the country legally, but later clarified his support for honoring Obama's DACA commitment and supporting legal status for recipients. |
| February 2018 | Mitt Romney formally launched his Senate campaign with a video message posted on Facebook and Twitter. |
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