Press Releases
Hawley Rips Garland for Encouraging Non-Criminal Prosecutions of Parents, Calls for Oct. 4th Memo to be Withdrawn
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on him to immediately withdraw his October 4th memo directing the FBI to involve itself with local school board meetings, which has led federal prosecutors to threaten to prosecute parents under laws that were repealed long ago. Senator Hawley writes that a memo from the U.S. Attorney in Montana, which directed law enforcement to “contact the FBI” if a parent calls a member of a school board “with intent to annoy," was issued in response to Garland’s October 4th memo and “entirely misstates the law.” Senator Hawley wrote, “When you testified last week about your October 4th memo directing the FBI to involve itself with parents protesting at local school boards, you told me that...
Senator Hawley Continues to Stand with Taiwan, Introducing New Bill to Help Nation Arm Itself
New legislation establishes Taiwan Security Assistance Initiative, accelerates Taiwan’s deployment of asymmetric defenses Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) – a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee – introduced the Arm Taiwan Act of 2021 to strengthen Taiwan’s defenses against a Chinese invasion. It does so by allocating $3 billion annually for a new Taiwan Security Assistance Initiative to accelerate Taiwan’s deployment of asymmetric defense capabilities. It also conditions future conventional arms sales on Taiwan’s progress preparing its military and fielding the weapons required to defeat China’s war plans. “Taiwan is in grave danger, but the future is not yet written,” said Senator Hawley.“The Arm Taiwan Act will ensure Taiwan has the asymmetric...
Hawley, Kennedy, Colleagues Rebuke Biden Plan to Pay Illegal Immigrants with Taxpayer Dollars
U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), John Kennedy (R-La.), and the nine other Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans wrote to President Joe Biden to oppose his administration’s reported plan to offer illegal immigrants up to $450,000 per person in taxpayer dollars to settle lawsuits resulting from those individuals’ violating U.S. immigration law. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) joined Senators Hawley and Kennedy in asking the president to refuse to issue any settlement payments for illegal immigrants who broke U.S. laws. “At a time when respect for our country’s immigration laws is at an all-time...
Senator Hawley Delivers National Conservatism Keynote on the Left’s Attack on Men in America
Last night U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered a keynote address at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Fla. He addressed the future of the American man and highlighted the need to strengthen and empower American men so that they can serve as an “unrivaled force for good in the world.” Speech text as prepared for delivery: Good evening. It is a pleasure to be with you tonight. I had the honor to be at your inaugural conference two years ago. After that speech, the Left called me a racist, a fascist, and a Nazi. So when Yoram invited me to speak again this year, I thought: What’s to lose? I spoke two years ago of the Left’s ambition to create a world beyond belonging—a world where community and shared culture—our culture—count for little....
Senator Hawley Leads Effort to Remove NDAA Provision Forcing Women to Enter Draft
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) will introduce an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week to remove the provision requiring women to register for the Selective Service System. “It is wrong to force our daughters, mothers, wives, and sisters to fight our wars,” said Senator Hawley. “Our country is extremely grateful for the brave women who have volunteered to serve our country with and alongside our fighting forces. They have played a vital role in defending America at every point in our nation’s history. But volunteering for military service is not the same as being forced into it, and no woman should be compelled to do so.” In July, Senator Hawley voted against the Senate...
Hawley Op-ed in NYT: The Only Way to Solve Our Supply Chain Crisis Is to Rethink Trade
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has published an op-ed in theNew York Times on America's supply crisis and his new bill to fix it, the Make in America to Sell in America Act: The failure of the nation’s productive capacity to keep up with its needs was not inevitable. It was a choice. Over the last 30 years, experts and politicians in Washington from both parties helped build a global economic system that prioritized the free flow of capital over the wages of American workers, and the free flow of goods over the resiliency of our nation’s supply chains. We liberalized and expanded trade relations with China under the delusion that it could be influenced into becoming a peace-loving democracy. We ceded more and more of our national sovereignty to multinational organizations like...
Hawley Rips Garland Over Attempt to Weaponize FBI Against Parents, Calls for His Resignation
Today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) ripped Attorney General Merrick Garland over his attempt to weaponize the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against parents and called for his resignation. Senator Hawley questioned the Attorney General on a memo from the District of Montana U.S. Attorney's office outlining federal causes of action prosecutors may bring against parents and encouraging prosecutors to involve the FBI. Garland insisted he was not aware of the memo and had not seen it before the hearing. Senator Hawley said, "I'll leave it at this, General Garland. You have weaponized the FBI and the Department of Justice, your U.S. attorneys are now collecting and cataloging all the ways that they might prosecute parents like Mr. Smith...
Hawley Questions Biden DOD on Email Obtained Alleging Failure to Vet Hundreds of Thousands of Afghan Evacuees
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned U.S. Department of Defense Under Secretary for Defense Policy Colin Kahl on allegations that the Biden administration failed to properly vet hundreds of thousands of Afghan evacuees during the fall of Kabul. Reading from an email shared with him by an American official present during the evacuation, Senator Hawley questioned Under Secretary Kahl on Biden administration directives to prioritize filling planes over vetting evacuees and to “err on the side of excess.” “What I’m driving at is, we know that we’ve got major problems of vetting of the people who were brought to this country, who were evacuated and brought to this country,” said Senator Hawley. “So, you testified in September that those evacuated, about 6,000...
Senator Hawley Calls for Garland Resignation Following NSBA Memo
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called for Attorney General Merrick Garland's resignation following a memo from the National School Board Association revealing that the Biden Administration's plan to intimidate parents with the FBI was premised on misinformation. Merrick Garland mobilized the FBI to intimidate parents without legal basis and, we now know, premised on misinformation he didn’t bother to verify. It was a dangerous abuse of authority that has badly compromised the Justice Dept’s integrity and Garland’s. He should resign. https://t.co/MXKN5j0L5g — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 23, 2021 Earlier this month Senator Hawley grilled Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) memo instructing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to more...
Hawley Joins Tim Scott Effort to Block Democrats’ IRS Snooping Proposal
President Joe Biden’s administration recently unveiled a proposal that would allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to gain access to virtually every working American’s financial information by requiring financial institutions to report account data to the IRS for anyone whose transactions total at least $10,000 over the course of one year. In response, this week U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and 46 of his colleagues cosponsored Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) “Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act,” a bill to prevent the IRS from implementing the Democrat-endorsed plan to give the agency access to transaction information of virtually every American. “Joe Biden and the Democrats want to snoop on the finances of everyday Americans,” said Senator Hawley. “They...