Hagerty, Menendez, Risch, Shaheen Introduce Supporting Americans Wrongfully or Unlawfully Detained Abroad Act of 2023
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S Ambassador to Japan, today joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), along with Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), in introducing...
Hagerty Again Forces State Department to Admit Israel Must Agree Before Biden Can Reopen US Consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today in an oversight hearing questioned Ambassador Richard R. Verma, the Biden Administration’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of State for Management and...
Hagerty, Barrasso, Colleagues Introduce Bill Prohibiting Political Appointees from Aiding the CCP
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along withSenators John Barrasso (R-WY), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Mike Braun (R-IN), today introduced the Cutting-off Communist Profiteers (CCP) Act. This...
Under Questioning from Hagerty, Biden Administration Admits Intentional Refusal to Call Out China for its Role in America’s Fentanyl Crisis
‘If the State Department and the White House will not call out this problem, we will never address it,’ says Hagerty WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today pressed Assistant Secretary of State Todd Robinson and Director of the Office of National...
Hagerty on his resolution to block D.C. Council’s irresponsible crime bill: This is common sense.
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today led members of the Senate Republican Conference in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to discuss the crime wave rolling across our Nation’s capital, and to implore his colleagues and President Joe Biden to...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins America Reports on Fox News to Discuss Latest on Aerial Objects, Biden’s Weakness Against Adversaries
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today joined America Reports on Fox News to discuss the Senate classified briefing on the recent aerial objects shot down by...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on Fox Business to Discuss Debt Ceiling Negotiations, Biden’s Weakness Against China
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees, joined Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on Fox Business to discuss the lack of seriousness from the Biden Administration in both their approach...
Hagerty Calls Out State Department’s Self-Censorship on China’s Fentanyl Trafficking
Deputy Secretary evades questions on State Department’s failure to publicly call out China’s fentanyl links in lead-up to the Secretary’s planned trip to Beijing WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
Hagerty, Colleagues Introduce Resolution to Block DC’s Dangerous Crime Bill
Rep. Andrew Clyde led bipartisan passage of companion resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today led 45 of his Senate Colleagues in introducing a resolution of disapproval to block the D.C. Council's...
ICYMI | The Washington Post — Congress must save our capital
“Americans deserve to visit their nation’s capital without facing fear or violence… Yet the D.C. Council’s bill, coming at a time of heightened crime, will only worsen an already troubling problem… Congress has an obligation — constitutionally and morally — to ensure...