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The vote is expected to be the first legislative filibuster by Senate Republicans.

A bill with broad bipartisan support that was supposed to sail through the Senate instead divided the chamber late into Thursday evening.

Special session call Gov. Spencer Cox is expected to send out the call for this week’s special session sometime Monday morning. Legislative sources say there could be two dozen or more bills that lawmakers will consider starting Wednesday. Most of those are technical or budgetary items to deal with more than $1.5 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. Some controversial issues could be on the agenda, including a measure to make Utah a “2nd Amendment Sanctuary,” which we reported on Friday. There could also be a bill to ban the teaching of critical ra...

Sen. Mitt Romney has repeatedly pushed back on fellow Republican lawmakers who have sought to downplay the events of January 6.

Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Sen. Mitt Romney rebuked some of his Republican colleagues after a hearing about the January 6 Capitol insurrection.  Romney reiterated the riots at the Capitol amounted to "an insurrection against the Constitution."  Several Republicans at a hearing on Wednesday downplayed the insurrection, which resulted in five deaths.  Sen. Mitt Romney called the Capitol attack "an insurrection against the Constitution" following remarks from fellow Republicans trying to downplay the events of January 6. The Republican se...