WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking and Appropriations Committees, today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will consider the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth...
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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...