“Earlier this afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office released its long awaited score for this infrastructure bill. While we’ve heard for weeks that it would be paid for, it’s not. It didn’t just come up short, it came up a quarter of a trillion dollars short. The...
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ICMYI—Hagerty joins The Evening Edit to talk Infrastructure CBO Score, Rising Inflation
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Liz MacDonald on The Evening Edit to discuss the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the Senate infrastructure bill and rising inflation. *Click the photo above or here to watch* Hagerty on the CBO score...
Hagerty, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Uphold Navigable Waters Protection Rule
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has joined Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and 31 other GOP colleagues in introducing legislation codifying the 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR)....
Hagerty: Democrats Need to Stop Spending Sprees and Work through Regular Order to Solve Problems
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today delivered remarks at a committee business meeting and spoke about how Democrat leadership has twisted and mangled the budget process—on a partisan basis, with...
Hagerty Vows to Keep Pushing Congress to Modernize Military Authorizations and Counter Iran-Backed Attacks on Americans
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today voted to sustain the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMFs) after the committee rejected his...