WASHINGTON. – United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) applauded President Joe Biden’s Major Disaster Declaration for the State of Tennessee, which will release federal funds to help communities across the state recover from the severe...
Press Releases
Hagerty Statement on COVID-19 Hate Crimes Legislation
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after voting for final passage of S. 937, the COVID-19 Hate Crimes legislation: “No person should be discriminated against or face hate or bigotry of any kind. As the former...
Hagerty Statement on Colin Kahl Requiring the Vice President’s Vote
WASHINGTON— United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN)— who requested the FBI conduct an immediate investigation into whether Colin Kahl, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, improperly disclosed classified information— released...
Hagerty, Blackburn Urge SBA to Implement the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant as Congress Intended
WASHINGTON—United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers in a letter to Small Business Administrator (SBA) Isabella Guzman urging her to ensure the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG)...
Hagerty Statement on Democrats’ Green New Deal
WASHINGTON—Unites States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after Democrats re-introduced their Green New Deal in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate: “While Tennesseans still live in the real world, it is clear that...
ICYMI—Hagerty joins The Sean Hannity Show to talk Democrats’ Destroying Institutions, Climate Negotiations with Communist China
WASHINGTON— United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined The Sean Hannity Show on Friday to discuss how Democrats are working to destroy our institutions through abolishing the filibuster and packing the courts. He also discussed recent reports regarding John...
Hagerty Statement Welcoming Japan Prime Minister Suga to U.S. for Meeting with Biden
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today released the following statement welcoming the Japan Prime Minster Yoshihide Suga for his summit with President Joe Biden:...
ICYMI –Hagerty Presses State Dept. Nominee to Hold Communist China Accountable for Failing to Halt Export of Fentanyl
WASHINGTON— United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee nominations hearing urged Uzra Zeya, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Under Secretary of State, to hold Communist China accountable to its 2018 pledge to halt the...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Kudlow to Discuss the Biden Admin’s Climate Negotiations with China
WASHINGTON – United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined Larry Kudlow on the Fox Business Network to discuss reports surrounding the Biden Administration’s recent climate negotiations with China. *Click the image above or here to watch* Partial Transcript...
Senate Support Grows for Hagerty Bill to Block Iran Sanctions Relief
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty’s (R-TN) Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act of 2021 (S. 488), a bill that would enable Congress to vote to approve—or block—any Executive Branch proposal to lift sanctions against the Iranian regime, has secured its 34th...