In 2024, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) continued to prioritize Missourians and fight for hard-working Americans across the country as he concluded his first term in the Senate and looks ahead to his second term during this 119th Congress.
Highlights of this past year included introducing legislation to ensure automatic refunds for airline passengers, securing billions of dollars for Missouri military bases, and passing Congress’ first-ever bipartisan stock-trading ban through a Senate committee.
2024 Quick Facts
- 94 bills and resolutions cosponsored
- 16 pieces of original legislation introduced
- 3 bills passed in the Senate: Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC)Act, and the America’s National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act
- 2 resolutions passed in the Senate, honoring the Chiefs’ back-to-back Super Bowl victories and celebrating the life of former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.)
- More than 255 one-on-one television and radio interviews with Missouri reporters this year
- All 114 Missouri counties and St. Louis City visited by Senator Hawley’s staff for constituent meetings
- 45 percent more tax-related cases handled in 2024 compared to 2023
- 33 distinguished Missourians nominated to U.S. military service academies, of which 17 now attend the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, United States Naval Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy
Serving Missourians
As a voice for Missouri, Senator Hawley has acted on his constituents’ needs to deliver legislative and casework wins, including:
- Liaising with Veteran Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration to tackle Missourians’ top casework needs
- Defending farmers and landowners through rigorous oversight of Biden Administration agencies and introduced new legislation, the Protecting Our Farmers from the Green New Deal Act, to block federal attempts at seizing Missourians’ land
- Working with the State Department to ensure the safe transport of the remains of Natalie and Davy Lloyd, two Missouri missionaries who were tragically killed by gangs while sharing the Gospel in Haiti
- Bringing to light the unhealthy living conditions and contaminated food Missouri troops were supplied in Europe and secured improvements on their behalf from United States European Command
- Fighting to improve postal service delays for Missourians by holding USPS and the Postmaster General accountable
- Joining the picket line alongside hard-working Missourians outside Graybar’s St. Louis plant, to ultimately clinch a deal for better wages and workplace safety commitments
- Allocating more than $4.6 billion to Missouri military bases, including funds for the F-15EX program produced in St. Louis and investments to upgrade the training barracks at Fort Leonard Wood
- Pushing back against restrictive European Union import mandates that would harm Missouri farmers
- Fighting to support more than 2,000 Missourians who lost their jobs by demanding Tyson Foods come clean about its chicken plant closures in Southeast Missouri
- Coordinating with USPS to deliver her late husband’s military keepsake quilts to a widow in Missouri after the mementos were lost in the mail
Delivering Justice for Radiation Victims
Senator Hawley has fought to deliver long overdue justice to victims of government-caused radiation in the St. Louis, Mo., region and across the country. This past year, he:
- Secured a coveted stand-alone vote in the Senate to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA)
- Rallied with Congressional leaders and nuclear-radiation advocates from across the country in renewed push to pass RECA in the House
- Brought Dawn Chapman—co-founder of the grassroots advocacy group “Just Moms” in St. Louis and longtime advocate for victims of nuclear contamination in the region—as guest to the State of the Union address
Working Across the Aisle
Partnering with colleagues on legislative initiatives, Senator Hawley has consistently placed Americans’ needs above party-line politics. A snapshot of his 2024 bipartisan wins include:
- Passing legislation in the Homeland Security Committee with Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.)—which was co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)—to ban stock ownership and trading for sitting members of Congress
- Unveiling bipartisan legislation to prevent Pharmacy Benefit Managers from owning pharmacies and driving up prescription drug costs for their own benefit
- Drafting legislation with U.S. Senator Peter Welch (I-Vt.) to crack down on big businesses’ corporate misbehavior and claw back the Biden DOJ’s sweetheart prosecution deals
- Introducing legislation alongside U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to hold human traffickers accountable by giving victims their day in court
- Joining U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in introducing the Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act, which would empower rank-and-file employees in the bankruptcy process, allowing them to retain more of their wages, benefits, and retirement savings
Fighting for the American Worker
Supporting American workers has remained a central theme throughout Senator Hawley’s first term, and he looks forward to continue promoting pro-labor policies in his second term. In 2024, he:
- Introduced the Protecting American Autoworkers from China Act to raise tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles and safeguard the jobs of American autoworkers
- Urged colleagues to make capping credit card interest rates a top priority of this 119th Congress
- Pressed Visa and Mastercard executives on their credit card companies’ record profit margins made at the expense of American card owners and small businesses
- Brought bipartisan momentum to legislation promoting warehouse workers’ safety and prohibiting dangerous work-speed quotas that lead to employees’ injuries
- Held Boeing CEO’s feet to the fire for strip-mining a once-great American company by prioritizing profit over safety
Protecting America’s Families
Protecting and supporting our families should always be top of mind for Congress—that’s why Senator Hawley has:
- Won new protections for airline passengers in the FAA reauthorization bill to ensure customers get automatic refunds for cancelled flights and introduced new legislation to protect Americans from predatory airline practices
- Announced a new proposal that would expand the Child Tax Credit to reward work, support families, and put tax dollars back into the hands of working parents
- Successfully led the effort to strip a provision from the 2024 annual defense bill that would have forced women to register for the military draft
- Condemned the Biden DOJ’s indictment of Dr. Eithan Haim who blew the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital for secretly conducting illegal child sterilization surgeries in the name of transgender healthcare
- Spearheaded bipartisan legislation to expand nationwide background checks required for childcare workers
Holding Secret Service, FBI, & DHS Accountable Following Assassination Attempts Against President Trump
From opening a whistleblower hotline within his office to demanding all documentation related to assassination attempts against President Trump be made public, Senator Hawley has been at the forefront in the fight for transparency from the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Senator Hawley’s oversight throughout 2024 included:
- Reporting live from the site of the shooting in Butler, Pa. as first lawmaker to reveal whistleblower testimony behind first assassination attempt against President Trump
- Releasing a string of whistleblower revelations, shedding light on failed leadership within the Secret Service
- Unveiling comprehensive whistleblower report detailing security failures by Secret Service, the FBI, and DHS that led to the first attempted assassination of President Trump
- Introducing—and unanimously passing through the Homeland Security Committee—legislation requiring Secret Service to disclose all documents related to the failed assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pa.
- Calling for top-down regime change within the Secret Service, leading to former Director Cheatle resigning her post
Combatting Corruption Within the Biden Administration
Senator Hawley has fought to not only expose the corruption within the Biden Administration but also course correct the policy failures it has produced. This past year, he took action to:
- Urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead his fellow Cabinet members in invoking the 25th Amendment in light of President Biden’s lack of mental fitness and his mishandling of classified documents
- Write to DHS Secretary Mayorkas, denouncing his agency’s catastrophic failures to protect unaccompanied migrant children
- Call on Department of Energy Secretary Granholm to resign after lying about her personal stock holdings and connections to dark money organizations funded by billionaires
- Demand President Biden send in the U.S. National Guard to guarantee Jewish students’ safety on campuses in response to Democrats’ apathy toward the moral rot within American universities
- Introduce the No Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Immigrant Identity Cards Act, barring President Biden’s DHS from using taxpayers’ dollars to issue official identification cards to illegal aliens
- Put radical judicial nominees on notice for their antisemitic ties and affiliation with far-left candidates
- Pen a letter to the Biden DHS, initiating a full-scale investigation into FEMA’s discrimination against Trump supporters in need of disaster relief aid
- Debunk claims of Fauci-aligned scientists who peddled COVID-19 “wet market” lies while supporting censorship of the lab leak theory
Keeping Big Tech in Check
Senator Hawley continued to battle Big Tech in 2024 on behalf of American users, as he:
- Forced Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize—during a highly-anticipated Senate Judiciary hearing—to the families of children who were exploited on Facebook and Instagram
- Subsequently challenged Zuckerberg to put his money where his mouth is and justly compensate victims of online exploitation across his Meta platforms
- Sounded alarm on safety concerns within OpenAI while yielding the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee floor to a former board member who voted to oust CEO Sam Altman
Challenging China
Countering America’s greatest adversary has been a policy priority for Senator Hawley since the beginning of his term, from passing his COVID Origins Act into law, to:
- Cracking down on McKinsey & Company for its litany of contracts with companies engaged with the Chinese Communist Party
- Successfully passing the Time to Choose Act out of the Homeland Security Committee to prohibit federal contracting with consulting firms that simultaneously contract with the United States government and entities of the Chinese government
- Introducing the Declaring Our Energy Independence From China Act to counter America’s greatest adversary by raising tariffs on China’s green-energy goods
Notable Speaking Engagement
- Senator Hawley delivered a keynote address at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference on “The Christian Nationalism We Need.”