Press Releases

WASHINGTON— United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after receiving the response of Colin Kahl, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, to his letter seeking information regarding tweets in which Kahl likely disclosed sensitive, including classified, national security information. Hagerty intends to continue objecting to Kahl’s confirmation until questions are

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today pressed USAID nominee Samantha Power during her confirmation hearing for a commitment to implement the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP), which Congress has already appropriated funding for on a bipartisan basis and was launched by the previous administration.

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after five days have passed since he sent a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) leadership seeking information on Colin Kahl’s, President Biden’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Twitter account, especially whether Kahl knowingly leaked, or otherwise disclosed, sensitive or classified national security information:

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement after the United States imposed sanctions against two additional Chinese officials—Wang Junzheng, Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee, and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau—for their connection to China’s serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. The

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and other colleagues in calling for regular public updates on the reopening status of our nation’s schools and accountability for how the hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money that is going to the federal Department of Education for COVID relief is being spent. “We know

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has sent a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to express concern about the judgment and temperament of Colin Kahl, President Biden’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and to determine if Kahl may have been knowingly leaking, or otherwise disclosing on Twitter, sensitive