Press Releases
Hawley Leads Colleagues in Opposing Potential NDAA Provision Forcing Women to Register for Draft
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led colleagues in opposing any potential language in the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require American women to register for the Selective Service System. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) joined in opposition.“For the third time in four years, Democrats are attempting to force women into the draft. Let’s be clear: American women have a proud legacy of service in our Armed Forces, especially so because their service has always been voluntary. Never in our history have women been forced to register for the draft. Yet the Biden administration and Senate Democrats want to discard...
‘Terrible Experience’: Hawley Exposes Airline Execs for Unfair Fees, Passenger Harassment
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) confronted executives of America's major airlines today for charging billions in nonsensical fees and harassing passengers who have already paid for their flights. "You guys do appreciate that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don't you?" Senator Hawley remarked. "Flying on your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjj54B522F0 Senator Hawley specifically called out the corporate greed of Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines for charging customers radically different prices for bags. " . . . You made clear that money is your bottom line—I get that. But, why is it that you're charging some people, what, triple, quadruple the amount [for luggage]?" Senator Hawley asked. Senator...
Hawley Demands DOJ, FBI Halt Destruction of Records & Vows to Investigate Justice System Abuses Under Garland, Wray
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, condemning reports of agency personnel destroying documents and vowing to investigate their misconduct, including the targeting of President-elect Trump, pro-life Americans, and Catholics throughout the country. "With sunlight now on the horizon, I’m not surprised by last-ditch efforts to stonewall the incoming administration. But those efforts will fail," Senator Hawley wrote. He committed to investigating these abuses in the years to come, noting, "As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who will hold the chairmanship of a Subcommittee in the forthcoming Congress, I intend to investigate your respective agencies’ illicit...
Hawley Leads Missouri Delegation in Urging Biden to Issue Disaster Declaration
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led members of the Missouri Congressional delegation—including Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (Mo.), Rep. Mark Alford (Mo.), and Rep. Jason Smith (Mo.)—in urging President Joe Biden to approve Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s request for a major disaster declaration following severe storms and flooding in Missouri last month. The storms generated at least two tornadoes, high winds, six to ten inches of rain, and flooding across eastern and southern Missouri. "These storms caused significant damage to private and public property and tragically took the lives of at least seven people. State and local governments continue to grapple with the fallout from these severe weather events," the Missouri lawmakers wrote. "We...
Senate Committee Passes Hawley Legislation Honoring National Churchill Museum as National Historic Landmark
The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed U.S. Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) legislation to designate America’s National Churchill Museum as a National Historic Landmark. “Nearly 80 years ago, Sir Winston Churchill marked the beginning of the Cold War with his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Fulton, Missouri. I am proud to honor one of the world’s greatest leaders, and one of America’s closest allies, with this legislation," Senator Hawley said at the time of the bill's introduction. The museum, located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, was the site of Churchill's famous words, “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent" on March 5, 1946. In the 1960s to...
Hawley Praises Trump’s AG Pick, Calls for New Church Commission to Investigate DOJ & FBI Abuses
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statements, praising President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and urging the incoming Department of Justice to investigate all corruption within the agency and begin reforming it top to bottom. Congrats to my friend @PamBondi! She’ll be a fabulous AG. Now we need a new Church Commission to investigate the abuses of DOJ & FBI - the persecution of Trump & conservatives, the spying on Christians, the targeting of prolifers. I will lead the charge in the Senate. And I know… https://t.co/N4ubU2A9hE— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 22, 2024 We need a new Church Commission to bring to light ALL the abuses at DOJ & FBI of the last decade. From the Russia hoax to the illegal spying to...
‘Brazen Attempt to Avoid Oversight’: Hawley Slams Mayorkas & Wray For Canceling Public Testimony
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement slamming Biden's DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray for canceling their scheduled public testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Secretary Mayorkas and Director Wray’s refusal to testify publicly today in the Senate is an outrage - and a brazen attempt to avoid oversight for the political abuses at FEMA, the FBI and more. I look forward to Director Wray’s resignation— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 21, 2024 Secretary Mayorkas' latest instance of avoiding responsibility comes the day after Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant convicted of murdering 22-year-old Laken Riley of Georgia, was sentenced to life in prison without parole....
Hawley, Blumenthal Hold Hearing On Dangers of Chinese Hacks and Offshore Supply Chains
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, held a hearing on China's cybersecurity threat and the implications of American tech companies’ dependence on China-based supply chains. Senator Hawley questioned experts and CEOs in the cybersecurity space—including Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike Senior Vice President; Sam Bresnick, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; and Isaac Stone Fish, CEO of Strategy Risks—on the threats of China's role in American security, American jobs, and Taiwan's independence. "I hope it is a wake up call for our entire government, our entire country that we face with China a peer competitor of a kind we...
‘Classic, Collusive Monopoly Behavior’: Hawley Calls Out Credit Card Companies for Killing Competition, Demands Congress Cap Interest Rates
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned executives from Visa and Mastercard on their credit card companies' record profit margins made at the expense of American card owners and small businesses. Addressing Linda Kirkpatrick, President of Mastercard for the Americas, and Bill Sheedy, Senior Advisor to Visa Inc.'s CEO, Senator Hawley noted the credit card debt crisis that’s crushing Americans: "You've got debt like we've never seen before in American history." "[Visa and Mastercard's] profit margins are as high or higher than they've ever been. You have 80 percent of the relevant market in the credit card interchange fees that we're talking about, and, yet, you couldn't survive if...
Hawley Urges USPS Nominees to Protect Rural Mail Delivery
Today in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) nominations hearing for the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Val Demings, William Zollars, and Gordon Hartogensis on their commitment to combatting rural mail delivery issues. Senator Hawley confronted the nominees about the Postal Service’s proposed “Regional Transportation Optimization” plan that would harm mail delivery in rural areas across the country, including in Missouri. He referenced the letter the Missouri Farm Bureau sent yesterday to the Postmaster General raising similar concerns. The Senator asked for the nominees’ commitment to “reconsider this proposal and make sure rural Americans […] are getting full and regular delivery of...