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Jobs and Economy

Hawley, Booker Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Eradicate Child Labor, Hold Bad Actors Accountable

Monday, March 10, 2025

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J) reintroduced the Preventing Child Labor Exploitation in Federal Contracting Act, which would prohibit corporations that engage in illegal child labor practices from securing federal contracts. The bill passed out of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee with strong bipartisan support last year.“Companies that illegally employ children should not be rewarded with lucrative federal government...

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Hawley Op-Ed: Chavez-DeRemer Is The Realization Of Trump’s Pro-Worker Platform 

Friday, March 07, 2025

By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | March 6, 2025 | The Daily Caller  For decades, both Democrats and Republicans put the interests of Wall Street over the interests of hardworking American families.  [...]  That all changed with Donald Trump. He offered a different vision — redefining the GOP as the party of working people, winning victories on promises of better jobs, reshoring manufacturing and industry, and immigration policies that put American workers first. And my Republican...

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New Hawley Legislation to Speed Up Labor Contracts Earns Teamsters Endorsement, Bipartisan Support

Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing new, Teamsters-endorsed legislation to speed up first contracts for new unions. The legislation would ensure that when workers vote to unionize, a labor agreement ultimately becomes a reality. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) joined as original cosponsors.  After workers vote to form a union, they...

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Hawley Reintroduces Bill Blocking Agencies from Partnering with Pro-CCP Consulting Firms

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

 Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) reintroduced his legislation to prohibit the Department of Defense and other federal agencies from contracting with consulting firms, like McKinsey & Company, which provides services to the Chinese government or its affiliates while being contracted by the United States government. The Time to Choose Act would force these firms to choose whether to stand with the U.S. in its efforts to protect America against China’s global ambitions, or forfeit...

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Hawley Secures Pledge from Trump’s Labor Nominee to Put American Workers First, Hold Companies Accountable for Labor Abuses

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Today in a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Senate Committee hearing with Department of Labor nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer, U.S. Senator Hawley (R-Mo.) secured commitments that, if confirmed, Chavez-DeRemer would implement President Trump’s pro-worker agenda to put American workers first and crack down on mega-corporations that are violating labor laws by exploiting children. “Let me just give you an example of bad corporate behavior, Tyson’s Food has closed down two major plants...

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Hawley, Marshall Demand Answers from Ford for Terminating Jack Cooper Partnership, Destroying Hundreds of Missouri Jobs

Wednesday, February 05, 2025

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) sent a letter to Ford CEO Jim Farley, demanding an explanation behind his company's abrupt decision to terminate its long-standing labor partnership with Jack Cooper, a Kansas City-based company. Ford's decision now leaves 400 Kansas City-area employees without a job. The Senators call out Ford for prematurely ending its contract with Jack Cooper before the deadline and without explanation.  "For...

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Hawley, Sanders Introduce Bill to Curb Exploitative Credit Card Interest Rates, Provide Relief to Working Americans

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced bipartisan legislation to immediately cap credit card interest rates at ten percent for five years. The legislation follows President Trump’s campaign promise of a ten percent interest rate cap. “Working Americans are drowning in record credit card debt while the biggest credit card issuers get richer and richer by hiking their interest rates to the moon. It’s not just wrong, it’s...

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‘Moral Imperative’: Hawley Makes His Case To Expand The Child Tax Credit & Support Working Families

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor emphasizing the need for reform and expansion of the Child Tax Credit to more effectively support and cultivate American families.  "The test of this Congress will be whether we strengthen America's families and whether we deliver for America's working people," Senator Hawley said. "Because in those families lies the hope of this nation, and in those working people resides the wellspring...

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Hawley Denounces Tyson Foods’ Attempt to Silence Farmers

Friday, December 20, 2024

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...

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Hawley Unveils NEW Child Tax Credit Proposal to Support Working Families

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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...

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