Senator Romney Honors Utah County Commissioner Newell Harward on Senate Floor

Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) Honors Utah County Commissioner Newell Harward (Wayne County) on the Floor of the Senate.

His remarks can be found below:

Mr. President, I rise today to honor the extraordinary service of one of Utah’s most dedicated County Commissioners. Mr. Newell Harward has served Wayne County for the past seven years, but he has taken on responsibility well beyond that, advocating for rural Utah with honor and distinction as Chairman of the Six County Association of Governments.

Newell has had an esteemed career and life of service to family, country, and God. Growing up on the family farm in Loa, Utah, Newell gained an early appreciation for the value of community, family, and hard work. He also developed a spirit of adventure, later serving a mission abroad in Scotland and joining the Wayne County Flying Club.

As the founder of Harward and Rees Construction, Newell is also an entrepreneur whose craftsmanship is literally built into Utah’s infrastructure. His company has undertaken everything from city water projects, designs at Lake Powell, to a new bridge over Hells Back Bone in Southern Utah.

Newell is perhaps most widely known as a public servant who was elected to serve as Wayne County Commissioner. After four years, Newell considered stepping down due to illness, but he was undeterred. With a write-in campaign, Newell Harward was reelected in a landslide. In October of this year, the President welcomed Newell to the White House to recognize him for his lifelong advocacy on behalf of rural Americans.

A true appreciation for Newell’s life of service would be incomplete without recognizing his unwavering faith and service to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Newell has served in three Bishoprics, as Bishop of a large ward, and in the Stake Presidency.

As a loving father to Kelly, Lynette, Sarah, Shonna, Carol, and Travis, a grandfather to 18, and a great grandfather to three, Newell has left an indelible mark on Wayne County, the great state of Utah, and our nation.

All of us should strive to live our lives as Newell does—with an overwhelming love of family and community, an enduring faith, and a boundless spirit of adventure.

Newell, Gloria, and their family continue to be in our prayers as they fight health challenges with great courage. May God bless the Harward family.

[chylenewhipple]

What a great award to an amazing man! Congrats

[Mz-bjzb]

If the House’s case is so weak, ” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, “why is Leader McConnell so afraid of witnesses and documents?”

[ellelloyd]

10 For the a time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people, 2 Nephi 30

[davidhiggins]

I would suggest setting up the Senate Six, yourself as leader (should your comrades be so persuaded) and 5 other Senators to form an Individual group within the Senate, to vote without any pressure at all as to how you really want henceforth. King makers within the Senate. Announced at the appropriate time between now and the start of the Senate trial of the President. Other additional Senators of either parties may well join up within the Senate and even the House representatives becoming affiliated, leading to forming and growing a 3rd National main political party.

Building the party up for a 2024 Presidential bid or if the all round following is there as soon as 2020. The BIGGEST shake up in US politics so far this century. Soon is the best time to act, the opportunity is aligning in the most favourable opportune conditions. (Though maybe 'not' for one particular person). Something well worth considering.

[ellelloyd]

Mosiah Hancock, an early Mormon pioneer, recorded the following prophecy of Joseph Smith in his autobiography.There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, "Let's divide up the lands of the United States", then the people of the U. S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided