Press Releases

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today will introduce an effort to recommit the Democrats’ two trillion dollar partisan bill to the appropriate Senate committees to actually address needs related to relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate has wasted over seven hours on the same roll call vote when the legislation has spent zero hours in committees where issues

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today received his appointments to the following Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittees: State Department and USAID Management, International Operation, and Bilateral International Development (Ranking Member); East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy; Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism; and Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement regarding the recent release into Texas of more than 100 illegal immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19 and who are now free to travel anywhere in the country: “A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to President Biden asking some basic questions about his Administration’s termination of the Migrant

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined a Senate Republican Conference press conference to discuss the Democrats’ partisan COVID-19 relief package that is a blue state bailout. Hagerty: “Just to show you how bad this bill is – there’s more money in this to bailout union pension funds than all the money combined for vaccine distribution and

WASHINGTON — United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in today’s Senate Foreign Relations hearing questioned Wendy Sherman, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Deputy Secretary of State, on whether she would commit to submitting any decision to revive the Iran nuclear deal and a modify sanctions penalties against the Iranian regime for congressional review and vote as required under

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to urge the Biden Administration to work with our allies and partners to impose a new arms embargo on Iran. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Hagerty and Ernst write, “As you know in 2016, the United Nations Security Council extended a ban on the