Press Releases
Hawley Announces Legislation to Protect Customers and Community Banks From New Fees Following SVB Bailout
Following the news that the Biden Administration will impose special assessment fees on banks across the country to bail out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) depositors, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced new legislation to protect customers and community banks. Senator Hawley also criticized the taxpayer handout to SVB.
Hawley COVID Origins Bill Unanimously Passes House, Awaits Biden’s Signature
Today Senator Hawley's COVID Origins Act of 2023 passed unanimously in the House of Representatives. The bill will require the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the Covid pandemic. "Today the House passed my COVID origins bill with bipartisan support, sending it to the President’s desk,” said Senator Hawley. “This is a great first step in holding China accountable for this crisis, and I urge President Biden to sign it immediately. The American people deserve to know the truth.” Senator Hawley's COVID Origins Act of 2023 passed the Senate unanimously for the second time last week. Senators Hawley and Braun previously introduced...
Hawley Responds to China Opposition to COVID Origins Bill: ‘Time is Up. Come Clean’
After the House unanimously passed Senator Hawley's (R-Mo.) COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, Senator Hawley responded to the Chinese Embassy's letter to his office urging him to abandon his efforts to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the Covid pandemic. "I know you are keenly interested in this bill—your own Communist officials have written to my office demanding we renounce it, in their usual lecturing, idiotic style," wrote Senator Hawley. "But the bill will soon be law—unless you can convince President Biden to veto it. Time is up. Come clean about your role in spreading COVID to the world." Read the full letter here or below. March 10, 2023 Dear...
TIKTOK WHISTLEBLOWER: Hawley Demands Thorough Review of Explosive New Allegations
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, in her capacity as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), demanding a thorough review of the whistleblower allegations recently brought to Senator Hawley. "I write regarding new information brought to my attention by a former ByteDance employee with direct knowledge of TikTok’s operating practices," wrote Senator Hawley. "As Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), you are responsible for reviewing certain foreign transactions in the United States to determine potential threats to national security. This whistleblower’s allegations are deeply concerning. They also appear to contradict public...
New Hawley Bill Bans Chinese Corporations from Owning U.S. Farmland, Protects American Farmers
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley introduced the This Land is Our Land Act, new legislation to ban Chinese corporations and individuals associated with the Chinese Communist Party from owning United States agricultural land. “No Chinese corporation or individual associated with the CCP should be permitted to own American farmland. It undermines the integrity of our nation’s food supply chain, it presents national security threats when the land is in close proximity to military installations, and it hurts American farmers,” said Senator Hawley China’s ownership of U.S. agricultural land has increased dramatically over the past decade. At the end of 2020, Chinese entities held more than 338,000 acres of land, a 350% increase from the...
Hawley Introduces Bill Banning Senior Executive Branch Officials from Stock Trading
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced the Eliminating Executive Branch Insider Trading Act, which would ban the trading and holding of individual stocks by senior Executive Branch officials, many of whom have decision-making power that impacts the work being done in their respective agencies. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that nearly one-third of the Energy Department’s senior officials or their families owned stocks related to the agency’s work, despite being warned they could be in violation of federal conflict-of-interest rules. "Senior members of the Executive Branch – who have access to privileged information – shouldn’t be using it to get rich," said Senator Hawley. "The American people have entrusted these civil...
Hawley, Marshall Demand Full Accounting of All Federal Money Sent to St. Louis Trans Clinic
Today U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra demanding a full accounting of every federal dollar that has been provided to The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (“the Center”) since its inception. "Recently, a whistleblower who was formerly employed at the Center alleged in a sworn affidavit that the Center may have committed multiple violations of federal law, including by fraudulently billing federally-funded insurance programs," the Senators wrote. "As Members of U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, we have a responsibility to investigate her claims that federal taxpayers may have...
Hawley Demands Response from Postal Service for Continued Delays in the Kansas City Area
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to United States Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb Hull urging that the mail delays in the Kansas City area be resolved and an investigation be conducted to prevent future delays. "After months of widespread delays, it is well past time for the Postal Service to determine the root cause of the delays and recommend corrective action. We cannot wait any longer. Without an audit of these areas of concern, residents of the Northland will not get the services they deserve from USPS," wrote Senator Hawley. In September 2022, Senator Hawley requested that the Postal Service investigate the service complaints from Clay and Platte Counties in Missouri and conduct an audit of the offices of...
Hawley, Braun Bill Requiring Biden to Declassify Wuhan Lab Leak Intelligence Unanimously Passes Senate for Second Time
Tonight the United States Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill, the COVID Origins Act of 2023, to require the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origins of the Covid pandemic. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.). Senators Hawley and Braun announced the COVID Origins Act of 2023 on Monday. Senators Hawley and Braun previously introduced the COVID Origins Act of 2021 which passed the Senate unanimously. In March 2020, Senator Hawley was the first member of Congress to call for an international...
Hawley Introduces New Bill to Create Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance
Today U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced the Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance Act to establish a Special Inspector General to oversee the military and non-military assistance to Ukraine. The United States has appropriated $113 billion in aid to Ukraine – more than the contributions made by all European NATO allies combined. "The United States has been sending endless money to Ukraine despite a lack of oversight and without putting any pressure on our European allies to do the same. It is far past time U.S. lawmakers stop writing blank-checks to Ukraine and demand a strict accounting of where these tax dollars are actually going," said Senator Hawley. The Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance...