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Crime

Hawley Measure to Fight Child Trafficking Passes House, Heads to President’s Desk

Tuesday, June 09, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) provision to combat child exploitation passed the House of Representatives. Hawley's provision, as part of the broader reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security that passed the Senate last week, will provide DHS with $108.5 million to hire 200 new child exploitation investigators and analysts. DHS currently employs only 7 full-time specialists to identify these victims.  “My legislation with Tim Tebow to rescue...

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Hawley Provision to Fight Child Trafficking Passes Senate

Friday, June 05, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) provision to combat child exploitation passed the Senate. The provision, as part of the broader reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, will provide DHS with $108.5 million to hire 200 new child exploitation investigators and analysts. DHS currently employs only 7 full-time specialists to identify these victims. “The Senate just passed my legislation with Tim Tebow to rescue thousands...

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New Op-Ed: Hawley Urges Congress to Pass His Legislation to Rescue Trafficked Kids

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Hawley's Legislation is Included in GOP Reconciliation Bill Being Voted on Today, Awaits Final Passage WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) penned an op-ed in The Daily Wire about the need to pass his legislation to combat child trafficking. The Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which the Senate is expected to vote on today, includes Senator Hawley’s provision that would allocate $108.5 million for hiring 200 child exploitation investigators and forensic...

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Hawley Urges Senate to Pass His Provision Included in Reconciliation Bill to Rescue Trafficked Kids

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

WASHINGTON -- In a floor speech today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urgedhis colleagues to pass his provision added to the GOP reconciliation package to rescue trafficked children. This comes after Senator Hawley successfully included his language in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill to allocate $108.5 million for hiring 200 child exploitation investigators and forensic analysts. The GOP reconciliation bill to fund DHS is expected to be...

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Whistleblower Testifies That Biden Admin Violated Hawley Law to Declassify Lab Leak Info

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, a CIA whistleblower testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) about the intelligence community’s handling of information related to the origins of COVID-19. In January 2023, Senator Hawley’s legislation to declassify "any and all” information related to COVID’s origins—including information that would substantiate the lab leak hypothesis—passed Congress unanimously and was signed into law. Today’s whistleblower testified that...

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Hawley Calls for Congressional Hearing Following Third Assassination Attempt on President Trump 

Monday, April 27, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) sent a letter to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, urging him to hold an oversight hearing on the third apparent assassination attempt on President Trump. The letter comes after the crazed gunman was charged with attempted assassination. Senator Hawley wrote, "On the evening of April 25, a crazed gunman charged past security at the Washington Hilton and attempted to attack...

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Hawley, Schmitt Introduce Resolution Honoring Two Missouri Deputies Killed in the Line of Duty

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced a resolution honoring the lives of two fallen Missouri deputies from Christian County. Deputy Gabriel Ramirez died in the line of duty while attempting to administer a traffic stop when the suspect opened fire. This prompted a massive manhunt for the suspect involving approximately 150 law enforcement officers. When officers located the suspect, they were met with gunfire again. A 30 minute gun battle...

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Hawley Opens Investigation into Google for Failure to Remove Child Sex Abuse Material 

Wednesday, March 04, 2026

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai, informing the company that his Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism is opening an investigation into the role that Big Tech platforms like Google play in the crisis of child trafficking and online exploitation.  "Yesterday, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which I chair, convened a hearing to investigate gaps...

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Senator Hawley Calls for Minnesota AG Keith Ellison to be INDICTED

Thursday, February 12, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-mo.) grilled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for cooperating with fraudsters in his state and called for him to resign. Senator Hawley questioned Ellison, "You are familiar with the $9 billion in historic fraud out of your state, including the $250 million in the Feeding Our Future program alone?" "I am familiar with it," Ellison responded. "Because the people who ran the Feeding Our Future program came to you...

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Hawley Exposes Fraud in State and Federal Programs and Dark Money Funding Web

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) chaired a hearing in his Homeland Security Subcommittee exposing the widespread fraud in state and federal programs, as well as the dark money groups sponsoring radical left-wing subversion in America’s streets. “You testified that about a trillion dollars you think is lost in fraud every year. Where's this money going?” Chairman Hawley asked Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. ...

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