by smw | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford confirmed that Google’s work in China is directly benefitting the Chinese military when responding to a line of questioning from Senator Hawley during today’s...
by smw | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
WASHINGTON – During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, Senator Josh Hawley led a heated back and forth with a Google representative over the company’s tracking and data collection. Senator Hawley scrutinized Google’s lack of transparency around the...
by smw | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation aimed at stopping corporate giants, including social media titans, from targeting and tracking kids online. Among its many improvements, the bipartisan bill updates the Children’s...
by smw | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
New in the Washington Post today, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to FTC Chairman Simons this morning calling on the agency to get tougher with tech giants, specifically Google and Facebook. Critical of the FTC’s lack of enforcement, Senator Hawley’s letter...
by smw | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Neomi Rao outlining his questions about her judicial philosophy and approach to constitutional law. Senator Hawley has additional questions about Rao’s views on substantive due process – the doctrine that activist judges...
by smw | Feb 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Following recent confirmation by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that the agency opened a counterintelligence investigation against the President of the United States, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of...
by smw | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement after the Senate successfully confirmed Bill Barr as Attorney General of the United States: “I’m delighted Bill Barr has been confirmed as the next Attorney General of the United States. I...
by smw | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
After voting against the government spending bill today, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri issued the following statement: “The spending bill we just voted on is the latest exhibit of why Congress is dysfunctional. “The bill is 1,100 pages and it was filed in the dead...
by smw | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Following news reports that Facebook paid teenagers and adults to collect their sensitive personal data, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) wrote to Facebook demanding answers about the Project Atlas...
by smw | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the Attorney General nomination of William Barr to the full Senate. Senator Josh Hawley, one of the newest members of committee, voted in favor of advancing Barr’s nomination and released the...
