During an Energy and Public Works nomination hearing to consider Ho Nieh to be a Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Senator Curtis underscored Utah’s growing leadership in the future of clean, technologically advanced nuclear energy, securing commitment from Mr. Nieh for greater collaboration between states and federal regulators.

Senators Curtis and Cortez Masto led four of their Senate colleagues in a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chair Pham reminding the Commission sports betting is regulated by states and tribes, not the CFTC. The Senators underscore that by implicitly allowing some companies to offer sports betting activities as “event contracts,” the CFTC is preventing enforcement of state and tribal gaming laws which inappropriately permits sports betting nationwide.

Senator Curtis issued the following statement today on Senate Republicans’ efforts to avoid a federal government shutdown: “Today, I voted to keep the federal government open and to prevent unnecessary harm to hardworking, taxpaying families in Utah and across America. Sadly, the measure failed without enough Democratic support, and once again Washington’s dysfunction has forced a shutdown.