Press Releases

Following the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) November 24 decision to rescind the HHS Office of Civil Rights’ authority to affirmatively protect Americans’ conscience rights pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Senator Hawley penned a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra demanding he reinstate the protections and provide answers on why the policy was rolled back.

“As President Clinton remarked when signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law, religious...

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough demanding answers on how veterans in long-term care facilities will be impacted by the COVID-19 federal vaccination mandate and what is being done to protect them.

“We are concerned that implementation of these federal vaccine mandates will cause Missouri’s long-term care facilities to lose their status as federal contractors with the VA and jeopardize the well-being...

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), U.S. Senator Josh Hawley is calling on the Senate to take up a vote on his amendment to remove the provision currently in the bill that forces women to register for the U.S. Selective Service System. Five more colleagues – U.S. Senators Daines, Lankford, Boozman, Lee, and Rubio – have signed on to the Senator’s amendment over the last several days, in addition to five others last week.
  
“Women have...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon calling for answers after the bank canceled their contract with Defense of Liberty, a Missouri-based organization, forcing the group to scrap a long-planned event at the last minute.

WePay, which is owned by JPMorgan, was hired as a payment processor for the event but, upon learning that Donald Trump Jr. had been scheduled to speak, pulled their contract and claimed the event may be “illegal.” After the...

On Monday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) published an op-ed on Fox News on his new Parents' Bill of Rights:

As just about every parent with school-aged kids knows, the Left is trying to shut parents out of education.  

Joe Biden’s Justice Department has tried to turn the FBI into a monitor of school board meetings, with one DOJ official going so far as to draw up lists of federal crimes for which parents could be prosecuted. Failed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe spoke the...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley introduced the Parents’ Bill of Rights Act to defend parents’ fundamental rights against efforts to shut them out of their children’s education. Senator Hawley’s bill would empower parents to sue federally-funded schools that do not protect certain basic rights, such as the right to know what their child is being taught and the right to know what outside groups are receiving school contracts.

Senator Hawley said, “America has long recognized the right of parents...

Hawley also questioned Mayorkas on Biden’s proposed $450K payments to illegal immigrations and VP Harris’s failure as border czar

Today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) grilled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over DHS’s failure to fully vet thousands of Afghan refugees following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Secretary Mayorkas told Senator Hawley DHS is not conducting in-person interviews for all...