U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement today, commemorating the fourteenth anniversary of the EF5 tornado that touched down in Joplin, Mo., leaving a trail of devastation and claiming the lives of 161 Missourians.
Senator Hawley spent this past Monday on the ground in St. Louis, meeting with victims and surveying the damage inflicted by this past Friday’s tornadoes that struck Eastern Missouri.