Press Releases
Hawley, Warren Call on FTC to Release Second PBM Report
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) and Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging them to approve the release of a second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) at the FTC’s Open Commission Hearing on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. "PBMs were originally created to handle the prescription drug benefit on behalf of health plans, negotiating directly with drug manufacturers and setting pharmacy networks for their contracted payers," the legislators wrote. "But over the years, these once little-known middlemen have morphed into giant, vertically-integrated conglomerates that control every link in the drug coverage and delivery...
2024 RECAP: Hawley Notches Record Legislative, Casework Wins to Cap Off First Term
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...
Hawley Introduces Bill Restoring Healthcare Workers’ Conscience Rights
Today, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Defense of Conscience in Healthcare Act, a bill that would restore one of President Trump’s first-term policies and direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to firmly protect the conscience rights of healthcare providers. "Our constitutional and God-given right to religious freedom isn't nullified when someone puts on scrubs or a white coat," Senator Hawley said. "The Biden Administration has spent the past four years waging war on people of faith, often forcing them to choose between their jobs and their sense of right and wrong. I am proud to help reverse the damage by introducing legislation protecting healthcare providers' right to live out their faith." The bill would...
Hawley Demands Senate Haul Mayorkas, Wray in for Testimony After Terrorist-linked Attack on NYE Leaves 10 Dead, Dozens Injured
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote a letter to Chairman-elect Rand Paul of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, demanding the Biden Administration be held accountable following a New Year's Eve terrorist-linked attack on New Orleans' famed Bourbon Street. "When the 119th Congress convenes next week, and you assume leadership of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, I urge you to immediately call Mayorkas and Wray to publicly testify prior to their departure from office," Senator Hawley wrote. "They must give a full account of this attack and any departmental failures related to the incident." Senator Hawley noted that Mayorkas and Wray have been "skipping out on hearings for months" and argued that, "Until January 20, the American...
Hawley Denounces Tyson Foods’ Attempt to Silence Farmers
Today, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King blasting the company’s efforts to allegedly silence Missouri farmers who sued the company following the closure and sale of the Dexter, Missouri chicken plant."You have previously stonewalled my efforts to learn the truth about your shutdown of poultry plants in Noel and Dexter, Missouri," the Senator wrote. “Now, your company is apparently trying to deter injured farmers from speaking out against it. This is wrong and anti-American, and you must immediately stop." “An ongoing class-action lawsuit alleges that your company sold its shuttered Dexter plant to a non-competitor—Cal-Maine Foods—which produces table eggs rather than processing broiler chickens. This left local farmers, who built their farms around...
Hawley Statement on Release of Illegal Alien Who Killed Missouri Boy Travis Wolfe
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement upon reports that the illegal alien—who killed Missouri's 12-year-old Travis Wolfe in a head-on collision last year—was released into Missouri without having to pay a monetary bond. I am told the criminal illegal alien who murdered 12-year-old Travis Wolfe of St. Charles has been released pending a future trial. This is a gross miscarriage of justice. She killed Travis one year ago today. She is present in the U.S. illegally & a flight risk. She should be in…— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 20, 2024 Senator Hawley has repeatedly sought justice for Travis after a judge reduced the bond of his killer, criminal illegal alien Endrina Bracho. The Senator has alsocondemned the Biden Administration's open-border...
Hawley Brings Home Wins for Missouri in 2024 National Defense Bill
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) voted for passage of the Servicemember Quality of Life and National Defense Authorization Act which allocates billions to Missouri defense projects, including updates to Fort Leonard Wood's training barracks and new weapons systems for Whiteman Air Force Base. Senator Hawley led the charge to strip a preliminary provision in this year's defense bill that would have registered women for the draft. This language was notably dropped from final text of the legislation. The bill also supports a 14.5 percent pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers and increases pay for all other military members by 4.5 percent. Specific Missouri investments include: Nearly $2.5 billion for the F-15EX program produced in St. Louis. Roughly $2...
Hawley Statement Following Meeting with RFK Jr.
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement after meeting with Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services: Today I got to sit down with @RobertKennedyJr - we had a substantive discussion about American healthcare & his plans to take on Big Pharma. We also had a good discussion, at length, about prolife policies at HHS— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 17, 2024 He committed to me to reinstate President Trump’s prolife policies at HHS. That includes reinstating the Mexico City policy & ending taxpayer funding for abortions domestically— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 17, 2024 He supports reinstating the bar on Title X funds going to organizations that promote abortion— Josh Hawley...
Hawley Blasts NCAA President for Allowing Biological Males into Women’s Sports, Locker Rooms
Today in a Senate Judiciary Hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) challenged Charlie Baker, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over the NCAA's pro-transgender, anti-woman policies. "No federal court has ordered the NCAA to include biological men in women's sports. There is not a single case that has ordered the NCAA to do so..." said Senator Hawley. "In fact, Title IX explicitly says, 'no person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be denied the benefits of any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.'" "[Your handbook] says that 'transgender student athletes will be able to use the locker room, shower, and toilet in accordance with their gender identity' [...] that means that if a man, a...
Hawley Unveils NEW Child Tax Credit Proposal to Support Working Families
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced a new proposal that would expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to reward work, support families, and put tax dollars back into the hands of working parents. "President Trump won with the support of working people with kids," Senator Hawley explained. "Next year’s tax bill should provide them a big tax cut," he continued, arguing for the inclusion of his CTC proposal in next year's reconciliation bill. Senator Hawley's pro-family, pro-worker CTC proposal would provide tax relief for millions of American families whose costs skyrocketed and real wages declined under the Biden Administration.In sum, Senator Hawley’s proposal would: Increase the maximum value of the CTC to $5,000 per child, up from $2,000 in the...