Press Releases
Hawley to Biden: Send in the National Guard to Protect Jewish Students on Campus
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement, calling on President Biden to send in the U.S. National Guard to guarantee Jewish students' safety on campuses as antisemitic protests throughout the country threaten violence. Senator Hawley repeatedly condemned the most recent antisemitic demonstrations taking place at elite universities, calling them a sign of "moral rot" within academia. Eisenhower sent the 101st to Little Rock. It’s time for Biden to call out the National Guard at our universities to protect Jewish Americans — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 22, 2024 Last October, the Senate passed Senator Hawley's resolution condemning Hamas and the antisemitic student groups on campuses that have continued to celebrate...
Hawley Introduces Amendment to Halt Expansion of FBI’s Surveillance Authority into Americans’ Lives
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statements, warning against a new power grab by the FBI through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) section 702 reauthorization—which the House of Representatives has already passed and the Senate is currently negotiating. Senator Hawley announced the introduction of an amendment to protect Americans from this further government overreach. Senator Hawley has repeatedly condemned the FBI for abusing its authority to surveil Americans and colluding with Big Tech to harvest Americans' data. On FISA: Everyone should know about the Turner Amendment. This part of the House bill gives the FBI the power to press even MORE individuals into helping facilitate government surveillance. Could your landlord...
Hawley Condemns Pending Release of Dangerous Criminal Robert Courtney
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Colette Peters opposing the pending release of Robert Courtney. Courtney was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison after diluting tens of thousands of prescription medications for his own profit. Courtney is scheduled for transfer to a halfway house in June, before his sentence is completed. "Courtney’s greed led him to dilute 98,000 prescriptions, placing countless vulnerable Missourians at risk and sparking hundreds of wrongful death lawsuits [...] The protection of the public must always be the Bureau’s primary duty. Releasing Courtney early, even if only to a halfway house, is an abdication of that duty," wrote Senator Hawley. In 2020, Senator...
‘Is this a Record that You are Proud of?’: Hawley Lambasts Mayorkas for Americans Killed by Illegal Immigrants
Today in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, condemning him for repeatedly lying to Congress and willfully implementing President Biden's open-border policies that have caused growing numbers of Americans to die at the hands of illegal immigrants. "You have lied repeatedly to Congress and to the American people about [Ibarra's criminal history]. . . . I just want to know, why did you change your story so often?"asked Senator Hawley. . . . "Well, hopefully [Ibarra] will get more of a trial than you got. Otherwise, they'll be no justice for anyone at all." Senator Hawley specifically chronicled the crimes of illegal...
‘This is Hell’: Boeing Whistleblower Tells Hawley Planes Aren’t Safe & He’s Being Targeted by Execs
Today in a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee Hearing on Investigations, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Boeing's current Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour on the alarming safety concerns surrounding the aviation company's planes. Salehpour outlined Boeing’s repeated retaliatory behavior against him for blowing the whistle on safety concerns and internal engineering problems with the 787 and 777 aircraft. "It is unbelievable to me, that in the midst of this safety crisis at this corporation, that what they're doing is threatening their own engineers whose job it is to help identify potential safety concerns," said Senator Hawley. "And, rather than saying, . . . we need to maybe do something...
Hawley Calls for Granholm Resignation Over Stock Trading Lies & Dark Money Connections
Today in a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) blasted Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm for lying about her personal stock holdings and for presiding over a culture of corruption where senior DOE employees trade and own stocks related to the agency’s work. Hawley also pressed Granholm on her connection to dark money organizations funded by billionaires. "You are presiding over institutionalized corruption in your Energy Department, you have violated the Stock Act nine separate times. You have been referred by the Inspector General for violations of the Hatch Act. It is institutionalized corruption that you are now the face of," said Senator Hawley....
Hawley Presses Postmaster General for Answers on Missouri Postal Issues
Today in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Committee Hearing U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pushed Postmaster General and United States Postal Service (USPS) CEO Louis DeJoy for a timeline to rebuild the Post Office in Baring, Mo. that was destroyed in 2023. Senator Hawley also asked for an update on the ongoing postal delays in Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo. In regard to the Post Office in Baring, Mo., Senator Hawley said, "this is a rural community in my state, and they don't have a post office at all. What bothers me is I haven't heard anything about the timeline for getting it rebuilt [...] I'm frustrated by the fact that it has been months and months, and I was told ninety days in September, and this is now the middle of April,...
Hawley Urges Senate Leadership to Protect Americans and U.S. Elections from Deceptive AI
Today in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the subcommittee, criticized Senate leadership's failure to send legislation to the floor to protect Americans and the U.S. electoral process from the worst effects of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. "Let's not allow these same companies that control the social media technology in this country, that control the news in this country to also now use AI to further their hammer-hold on the United States of America and on our political process," said Senator Hawley. Senator Hawley also warned of the alarming uptick in sexually explicit “deepfake” imagery circulating online. He urged his Senate colleagues to act on...
Hawley, Blumenthal Demand Answers and Action Following UHG Cyberattack
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), who serves as Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter to the CEO of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) following its disastrous data breach by ransomware group BlackCat in February. The senators seek answers as to “how its critical health care systems were breached, why the firm suffered such an egregious and unexplained outage, and whether patient and provider data was compromised in the attack.” The letter goes on to demand that UHG proactively advance payments for all claims – not just UHG claims – to providers and asks what steps the group has taken to ensure such a breach never occurs again. “The result of UHG’s failure to properly safeguard against...
‘Total Failure’: Hawley Reacts to Spending Bill Neglecting Radiation Victims
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statements after his legislation to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was left out of the upcoming government funding legislation: Total failure. Politicians have talked like this for decades. While doing nothing. The time to talk is over. The time to ACT is now. Put RECA on the floor and vote on it. Stop screwing around with Missouri https://t.co/0lAoyvFVXn — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 21, 2024 The Senate has TWICE passed bipartisan legislation - by wide margins - to compensate Missouri radiation victims. The House has done nothing. And continues to do nothing, while politicians talk and make excuses. Time is running out — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 21, 2024 Senator Hawley has...