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...
Hagerty Implores State Department for Commitment to Report the Volume of China-Originated Fentanyl Coming Across Southern Border
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today in a hearing questioned Ambassador Todd Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law...
Hagerty to Yellen: Zero accountability for politicized leak of confidential taxpayer information underscores why Americans fear a massive increase in IRS budget
Says, ‘This is the D.C. swamp at its best’ WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today questioned U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Democrats’ planned massive increase in IRS enforcement funding to...
ICYMI—Hagerty Joins Mornings with Maria to Discuss Powell, Yellen Hearing; Democrats’ Inability to Govern
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined Mornings with Maria on Fox Business to discuss today’s Banking Committee hearing where Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Fed Chair Jay Powell will testify on the state of the American economy,...
Hagerty Statement on Nomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement on President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell to a second term: “I’ve known Jay for many years,...