[108], On February 8, 2021, after he voted against the nomination of Denis McDonough for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Hawley became the only senator to vote against all of President Joe Biden's cabinet nominees[109] except Cecilia Rouse, whom he voted to confirm as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Senate. [111], On August 3, 2022, Hawley cast the sole vote against the Senate resolution agreeing to Sweden and Finland joining the NATO defense alliance]]; it passed, 951. a new nationalism" during a speech likely meant to serve as an . [74] In a Supreme Court filing, Hawley argued that Bostic's sentencing did not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that Graham v. Florida only applied to a sentence for one crime. When Hawley was AG, his staff used private email instead of government accounts to communicate with his political consultants. Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Missouri, a seat he has held since 2019. ", adding, "It is deeply troubling how focused Senator McCaskill is on doing what's politically convenient instead of doing what's right. Hawley's spokesperson called the letter a partisan attack. [265] Following complaints that, after becoming attorney general, he was not abiding by a statutory requirement that the attorney general must reside within the city limits of the state capital (Jefferson City), Hawley began renting an apartment there, while his family continued to live in Columbia, Missouri. Hawley accused Bogren of "anti-religious animus" in a case he took as a lawyer, in which Bogren compared Catholic views on homosexuality to the Ku Klux Klan's views on interracial marriage. [92], In the November 2018 general election, Hawley defeated McCaskill, 51% to 46%. [96], Hawley was sworn in as a U.S. senator on January 3, 2019. [50], In November 2017, Hawley opened an investigation into whether Google's business practices violated state consumer protection and anti-trust laws. Later accused of ignoring the proceedings, Hawley called them "a total kangaroo trial". Link Copied! [173], In April 2020, Hawley proposed that the U.S. government pay businesses to keep their workers on payroll for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and rehire any workers who had already been laid off. ", "Congress overrides Trump's veto for the first time on major military bill", "Josh Hawley Maintains Streak of Voting Against Every Joe Biden Cabinet Nominee", "Josh Hawley approves first Biden Cabinet nominee after defending opposition to all prior nominees", "The Senate has held floor votes on 118 Biden nominees. [97], In June 2019, Hawley played a major role in preventing Trump nominee Michael S. Bogren from being appointed as a district judge for the Western District of Michigan. Don't cross the border illegally and this won't happen. [101], On November 18, 2019, Hawley announced the National Security and Personal Data Protection Act,[102] which would make it illegal for American companies to store user data or encryption keys in China. [46] In October 2017, he expanded his investigation into three additional pharmaceutical companies (AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson Corporation), the three largest U.S. opioid distributors. [202], In July 2019, Hawley traveled to McAllen, Texas, along the MexicoUnited States border, saying, "the nonstop flow of drugs and human trafficking coming into this country is a crisis, plain and simple. Hawley is just the latest Republican to pick up the mantle of a man opposed to drafting women into the military. Women have served in and alongside the Armed Forces since our nation's founding. The Jewish News of Northern California that Hawley was using his connections with Jewish people as a way to dodge allegations of antisemitism. [105] The bill also prevents the collection of "more user data than is necessary to conduct business". Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Mike Lee, R-Utah. [27] In September 2018, he fully supported Trump's trade actions, saying, "It's a trade war that China started. Will his gambit pay off? [88][89][90] McCaskill criticized Hawley's participation in a lawsuit that could end insurance protections for people with preexisting conditions by overturning the Affordable Care Act. Of the $9.2million raised for the campaign, $4.4million was provided by David Humphreys, CEO of Joplin-based Tamko Building Products. [76] Beetem wrote, "There is no genuine dispute that the AGO knew the Sunshine Law required it to produce responsive documents in its possession when it received DSCC's two Sunshine Law requests, but made the conscious decision not to do so. Right? McCarthy's cuts include slashing benefits for veterans, Medicaid recipients and users of food stamps AKA the SNAP program. [213], During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hawley was one of 11 Republican senators to vote against a $40 billion emergency military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine that the U.S. Senate passed on May 19, 2022. [252], On October 27, 2020, Hawley voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. But Like Trump, He's a Faux-Populist", "Salt-of-the-earth GOP senator humiliates a 'smug, rich liberal elitist', "Sen. Josh Hawley among those traveling to Mexican border Friday", "Senator Hawley calls for sanctions on Mexico", "Hawley blocks quick confirmation of DHS nominee", "Sen. Hawley: Galling for Russia 'hoax' Dems, media to call voters 'nutcase' for election concerns", "Senate advances measure bucking Trump on Russia sanctions", "Hawley says news reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties to kill U.S. troops 'don't square very well', "Josh Hawley calls on Biden to drop support for Ukraine membership in NATO", "In a Debate of Mostly Contrasts, McCaskill and Hawley Agreed on This", "GOP lawmaker: US shouldn't attack anybody on behalf of Saudi Arabia", "Missouri Senator Josh Hawley calls for independent investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden", "Sen. 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Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Today U.S. [243] His proposal faced bipartisan criticism as "poorly drafted, imprecise, and fatally vague. Legion of Merit (2) Brigadier General John F. "Jack" Haley is a retired general officer in the United States Army and served as the 38th Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the U.S. Army Ordnance School at Fort Lee, Virginia. One of the few US senators who led the effort to object to the electoral college results on January 6, Josh Hawley . Senator Josh Hawley did not serve in the military. His proposal faced "swift bipartisan opposition", including from Hawley, leading the restrictions to be dropped. 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[169] In July 2020, Hawley said he would not support any Supreme Court nominee who did not explicitly say that they would vote to overturn Roe v. Greitens' use of secret texting app", "New lawsuit seeks to stop Missouri governor from using secretive phone app", "Report: No laws broken for secret messaging app use in Greitens' office", "St. Louis circuit attorney launches investigation into Gov. 'The Kansas City Star' took aim at Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley for his stance on Russia. [107] Alongside Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Hawley attempted to force a vote to increase the checks, but it was blocked by other Republican senators. "[133] John Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and Hawley's political mentor,[134] said that supporting Hawley was the "worst mistake I ever made in my life". Not Anymore", "Josh Hawley: 'We need answers' on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's record", "Josh Hawley lists seven "lenient" Ketanji Brown Jackson child porn sentencings", "Analysis: Josh Hawley's misleading attack on Judge Jackson's sentencing of child-porn offenders", "Fact check: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson child porn sentences 'pretty mainstream', "Attacks on Judge Jackson's Record on Child Sexual Abuse Cases Are Misleading", "Senator Hawley's Disingenuous Attack against Judge Jackson's Record on Child Pornography", "Hawley's attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson fuel a surge in online conspiracy chatter", "QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Before the bill went to the House of Representatives, he visited Hong Kong to see the protests. In 1981, the Hawleys moved to Lexington, Missouri, after Ronald joined a division of Boatmen's Bancshares there. [251], Hawley's first commercial in the 2018 Senate campaign focused on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, which he supported. Perhaps nothing Republican . [152] Conversely, the Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative political action committee, began raising money for Hawley and aggressively supporting him following the riot, raising $700,000 and spending nearly $400,000 to send texts and emails in support of him. [249] During Trump's second impeachment trial in the Senate, Hawley was in the Senate gallery rather than at his desk with the rest of the senators on the Senate floor. [69] Hawley later published an op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader explaining that he supported protecting those with preexisting conditions by creating a taxpayer subsidy to reimburse insurance companies for covering these high-cost patients. He led Senate efforts to overturn the Electoral College vote count[7][8][9][10][11] and rallied supporters of the notion that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, which subsequently motivated the January 6 attack on the U.S. His proposal was similar to programs that various European countries, including Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK, had implemented. [66], On May 29, 2018, Greitens announced that he would resign effective June 1, 2018. He commented on Twitter that Beijing was trying to turn Hong Kong into a "police state". [185][186], During the Biden administration, Hawley systematically blocked quick confirmation of Biden's nominees for foreign policy and intelligence posts, forcing the Senate to take extra steps to confirm nominees and delaying the filling of posts. But he embeds these ideas in a broader argument that is so wildly misleading as to call the entire project into question. [77][79], The investigation, which was inherited by Hawley's successor, Eric Schmitt, charged 12 former priests with sexual abuse of minors in September 2019. [210], After the 2019 AbqaiqKhurais attack, Hawley said, "we shouldn't attack anybody on behalf of Saudi Arabia for Saudi Arabia's national interests" and instead should "preserve the security of the American people and the prosperity of our middle class. "Hate Crime Hawley, it's right on brand," the narrator says. [240][241] Previously, Hawley had called the app "a Chinese-owned social media platform so popular among teens that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked". As attorney general of Missouri, he joined a lawsuit with 20 other states seeking to have it declared unconstitutional. [7] He was the first senator to do so. [253][254] Multiple news media fact-checks disagreed with Hawley's assertions. Hawley has been denounced nationwide for challenging the legitimate election of Joe Biden and, his critics say, helping to fuel . [21][31] From 2011 to 2015 Hawley was with Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He was a law clerk to Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell and Chief Justice John Roberts and then worked as a lawyer, first in private practice from 2008 to 2011 and then for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty from 2011 to 2015. Wade. When asked if he thought Trump should release his returns, Hawley did not say. Politics. "[1], On January 6, 2021, when Congress met to count the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election, they were interrupted by pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building, forcing members of Congress to evacuate. [178] He acknowledged the irony in his maneuver, saying "it turns out the best way to help President Trump pursue his agenda of rolling back federal overreach is to sue him. [17][18], Joshua David Hawley was born on December 31, 1979,[19] in Springdale, Arkansas, to banker Ronald Hawley and teacher Virginia Hawley. 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[101] Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam called Hawley's assertion "irresponsible and unfounded". [21] While at the Supreme Court, Hawley met his future wife, Erin Morrow, a fellow Yale Law graduate who was also clerking for Roberts. 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