‘If President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party can shut down a city the size of Shanghai, one of the three largest cities in the world, I think they could certainly shut down the flow of fentanyl and its precursors into our hemisphere,’ says Hagerty...
Press Releases
Hagerty, Boozman, Colleagues Introduce Legislation Blocking Biden from Deploying Veterans Resources to Southern Border
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has joined Senator John Boozman (R-AR) and nine other colleagues in introducing legislation to block the Biden Administration from diverting veterans resources to manage the crisis at the southern border. The bill...
Hagerty Presses Attorney General on Hunter Biden Investigation
Garland refuses to say whether he or other senior DOJ officials have been briefed WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today questioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of...
ICYMI—Hagerty Op-ed: Biden’s border neglect has caused a national security and drug crisis
‘Why won’t we prevent our immigration system from being manipulated for a massive, transnational criminal alliance between the Chinese Communist Party and the billion-dollar Mexican cartels to poison America’s youth? With Biden and the media averting their eyes and...
Hagerty Statement on Another Month of Historic Inflation
TOKYO, JAPAN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement in response to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), showing an 8.5 percent...
Hagerty Introduces Legislation to Protect Walking Horse Industry from Stifling Regulations While Optimizing Horse Health
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has led his colleagues in introducing the Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2022, which would end the harmful practice of soring in show horses while preventing inhibitory bureaucratic overregulation to...
Hagerty to Lead Congressional Delegation to Japan amid North Korea’s Escalating Provocations
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today announced that he will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation (CODEL) to Japan next week amid North Korea’s...
Hagerty Opposes Jackson’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement, announcing his opposition to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court: “While I found Judge Jackson to be deeply intelligent and committed to...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins The Ingraham Angle to Discuss Ramifications of the Worsening Southern Border Crisis
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) yesterday joined The Ingraham Angle on Fox News to discuss the ruinous consequences of Biden’s border crisis and how the elimination of Title 42 by the Administration will only add fuel to the fire. *Click the photo...
Senate Democrats Block Hagerty’s Legislation to Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings
“We desperately need Title 42 to fight this drug epidemic. It’s a tool that would quite literally save American lives in every state in the union immediately. […] How much longer will we allow our immigration system to be manipulated by a massive, transnational...