Hagerty Presses Biden Administration Officials on Taiwan, Indo-Pacific Strategy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing was held after Hagerty, colleagues requested it WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, yesterday pressed State and Defense Department officials on the Biden Administration’s...
Hagerty Resolution to Eliminate Biden’s Private Sector Vaccine Mandate Passes Senate
He was the first member of Congress to call for such a resolution in a letter to the Secretary of Labor after the mandate was announced WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today voted in favor of a...
Hagerty Delivers Floor Remarks in Opposition to Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
“In the coming weeks, members of this body will be asked a very simple question, whether on the vaccine mandate or the [so-called] Build Back Better legislation: ‘Do you believe the federal government should have more control over Americans’ lives?’ Their answers are...
Hagerty, Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Bill Targeting Palestinian Terror Payments
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and 11 other Senate colleagues, in introducing the Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act, legislation aimed at eliminating...
Hagerty Statement on Comptroller of the Currency Nominee Withdrawing from Consideration
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement after Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Comptroller of the Currency, withdrew from consideration: “After witnessing...
Hagerty, Colleagues Urge Foreign Relations Committee to Take Action on U.S.-Chile Tax Agreement
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined his GOP colleagues in sending a letter to Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate...
Hagerty Statement on Biden Admin’s Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today released the following statement after the Biden Administration formally announced that it would impose a diplomatic...
Hagerty, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Prevent Settlement Payments for Illegal Immigrants
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and 27 other GOP colleagues in introducing legislation to prevent payments for legal settlements for illegal immigration. Under the Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from...
ICYMI—Hagerty Op-ed: Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ is the very definition of cradle-to-grave, big-government dependency
‘We [Republicans] want to strengthen the American Dream so that more Americans can move up the ladder of success and free themselves from government dependency. Democrats would pull the ladder from aspiring Americans and create a permanent status of government-run...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Kudlow to Discuss WTA Announcement, Need to Hold Communist China Accountable
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the decision by the Women’s Tennis Association to end tournaments in Communist China amid the Peng Shuai situation, and the Biden Administration’s...