Press Releases
Hawley Introduces Bill to Strip Pensions From Members of Congress Convicted of Sex Crimes
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the No Pensions for Congressional Predators Act to prohibit members of Congress convicted of felony sex crimes from receiving their federal pensions. Currently, members forfeit their pensions if convicted of certain felonies, but no such provision exists for sex crimes. "Right now, a member of Congress can be convicted of sexual abuse and still receive a taxpayer-funded pension. That is unacceptable," said Senator Hawley. "I'm introducing legislation to end this loophole and ensure that lawmakers are never compensated with taxpayer dollars after such a breach of trust. The only thing the government should be paying for is a jail cell for these people.” The No...
Hawley Demands State Farm Fulfill Payouts Following Last Year’s Devastating Missouri Tornadoes
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to State Farm President and CEO Jon Farney, demanding accountability for State Farm's reportedly slow walking payouts—or failing to pay out altogether—of insurance claims made by Missourians harmed by tornadoes that blew through eastern Missouri last May. Shortly before the storms, a State Farm executive testified to Senator Hawley's Subcommittee that the insurance company swiftly pays its policyholders. Senator Hawley is demanding answers on why this hasn't proven true for Missourians. After launching a bipartisan investigation last year into the practice of the largest insurance companies subjecting policyholders to delays and underpayments after devastating tornadoes, Senator Hawley continues to demand...
Hawley, Durbin, New Mexico Attorney General Demand Action to Protect Children Online
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez stood alongside child safety advocates to demand that Congress take decisive action to protect America’s children online by passing critical bipartisan legislation, including Hawley's and Durbin’s STOP CSAM Act. The legislation would crack down on the proliferation of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by allowing victims to sue companies that host it. The STOP CSAM Act advanced out of committee unanimously. Today’s press conference comes after a jury in New Mexico found that Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms and enabled sexual exploitation of young users and another jury in California...
Hawley Urges DOJ to Open Investigation into Chemical Abortion Drug Manufacturer
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of the dangerous chemical abortion drug that has harmed thousands of women and ended the lives of countless unborn children. Senator Hawley demanded that the Department fulfill its mandate by investigating Danco’s original FDA approval, ongoing regulatory compliance, manufacture and distribution pipeline, potentially deceptive marketing practices, and disclosure of safety risks pertaining to the company’s sole product—the chemical abortion drug, mifepristone. The letter comes after Senator Hawley opened his own investigation into Danco...
Hawley Sends Letter to HHS Urging Reversal of Title X Grants to Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON -- Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in response to the agency's decision to extend Biden-era Title X grants for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. This action comes despite promises Secretary Kennedy made to Senator Hawley in his 2025 confirmation hearing. “I write to express my alarm at the recent decision to release another year of Title X grant funding to abortion providers. These grants, originally approved by the Biden Administration, will now directly subsidize organizations like Planned Parenthood that perform hundreds of thousands of abortions each year. I urge you to reverse course,” Senator Hawley wrote. He...
Hawley Bill Banning Chemical Abortion Drug Gains Momentum
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to his Republican colleagues in the Senate, urging them to join his new legislation to ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and empower women harmed by the drug to sue its manufacturers. The outreach comes after Senator Hawley's legislation gained 3 new cosponsors: Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.). Companion legislation sponsored by Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger (TN-01) has also picked up multiple cosponsors in the House. Senator Hawley wrote, "I write regarding a grave threat to the health and safety of American women: the chemical abortion drug known as mifepristone. The evidence is now clear. Mifepristone is almost always fatal to the unborn...
Hawley Opens Investigation into FICO, Urges FTC to Investigate Company’s Price Hikes
WASHINGTON -- Today, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the CEO of Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), to inform the company of his investigation into FICO's pricing practices in the mortgage credit scoring market. Senator Hawley also wrote to Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging his agency to also open an investigation into FICO. FICO's recent price increases are contributing to the problem of housing affordability, particularly for first-time homebuyers. Senator Hawley has previously written to the Department of Justice regarding FICO's anticompetitive practices. Senator Hawley wrote, "As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and as a member of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer...
Hawley Opens Investigation into Abortion Drug Companies, Creates Hotline for Victims to Report Harms
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent letters to two chemical abortion drug manufacturers—Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro— to inform them that he is opening an investigation into their business practices related to mifepristone as mounting evidence shows women are suffering alarming rates of adverse-effects after taking the drug.“I write to inform you that I am opening an investigation into Danco Laboratories and its manufacture, distribution, and marketing practices relating to mifepristone. Mounting evidence suggests that mifepristone poses grave risks to women. Yet your company has continued to profit from the widespread distribution of this drug even as serious questions have emerged about hemorrhage, infection, sepsis, and other dangerous complications...
Hawley Urges Supreme Court to Hear Section 230 Case and Clarify Scope of Big Tech’s Liability
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear an appeal in Doe v. X Corp., a case in which the Ninth Circuit held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act absolved X, formerly known as Twitter, from civil liability even though the social media platform knowingly hosted child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Senator Hawley argued that lower courts have distorted Section 230 far beyond its original purpose, extending what was intended as a narrow protection for good-faith content moderation into a blanket shield for social media platforms that knowingly host criminal material.Senator Hawley insisted that Section 230 removed only publisher liability, which does not absolve social media...
Hawley Op-Ed: The Abortion Industry Simply Changed Tactics. Now Congress Must Act.
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) penned the following op-ed in The Daily Wire on his legislation to ban mifepristone for abortion and to empower women harmed by the drug to sue its manufacturers. Read full op-ed here or below. When the Supreme Court finally overturned Roe v. Wade — reversing the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott — pro-life Americans rejoiced. Little did we know the fight was only just beginning. Since then, abortion advocates have dumped millions of dollars in dark money into our states to overturn state laws, and in some cases, state constitutional provisions, protecting life. They’ve relentlessly pushed for pro-abortion judges for state courts and the federal judiciary. But above all, they’ve turned to a drug called mifepristone to...