Bob Bennett
Robert Foster Bennett was born on September 18, 1933, in Salt Lake City, and grew up to become an American politician and businessman. He received his education at the University of Utah before moving into professional life across several distinct fields.
Bennett worked as a businessman and lobbyist before entering elected office. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the United States Senate representing Utah in 1993 and served until 2011, an eighteen-year tenure during which he sat on a wide range of committees. These included the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, the Appropriations Committee, the Rules and Administration Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee — a spread that touched on banking, energy, federal spending, and broader economic matters.
His committee assignments placed him across several areas of national governance simultaneously. The Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee brought him into conversations about financial and housing matters, while his place on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee engaged him with questions of energy policy. He also identified as a political scientist, a background he carried alongside his earlier experience in business and lobbying throughout his years in the Senate. That combination of roles — lobbyist, businessman, political scientist, and elected senator — gave his career an unusually varied shape.
Bennett left the Senate in 2011 after representing Utah for eighteen years. He died on May 4, 2016, in Arlington, far from Salt Lake City, where he had been born more than eight decades before.
Quotes by Bob Bennett
I am making it clear that my support for Yucca Mountain . . . does no longer hold in the situation we find ourselves, ... It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center.
I don't think there's any question about it. This is going to be our toughest challenge yet that we've had recently. I'm not the least bit pessimistic, but I think we have a struggle.
He set a high ethical standard for his administration, and in this case he failed to meet that standard, ... There is no excuse for this oversight.
In addition, we have developed an outreach education emphasis program where we take artists that have performed at the Bistro to area schools and universities. We also try to reach as many non-music students as possible. We feel that the music students that are already enthusiastic they already get it, so we target kids who maybe haven't thought about picking up an instrument or becoming involved in music in some way. Hopefully we can inspire some of those students as well.
I'm pleased they're going to consolidate any investigation in Washington. It makes life a lot easier. I wish Congress would follow the same lead.
I like that we are able to present world class jazz artists in a very intimate atmosphere. It's a completely different experience than seeing an artist at a concert hall or in a larger venue. The audience can feel much more in touch with what's going on stage. They can talk to the artists when they get off stage. It almost feels like sitting at your living room listening to a concert.
in light of Tuesday's elections, the prevailing White House view is, let's see what happens.
The issuance of a subpoena is obviously a cover for collusion, and the leaking of the subpoena makes a mockery of grand jury secrecy.
It's not a good way to win. We have been given by the Florida Supreme Court a situation fraught with difficulty, no matter who is president.
