Senators Curtis, Padilla, Hickenlooper, and Sheehy today applauded the advancement of the Senate version of the Fix Our Forests Act through the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The legislation would help combat catastrophic wildfires, restore forest ecosystems, and make federal forest management more efficient.

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.