Bill provides supplemental security funding requested by Court and U.S. Marshals WASHINGTON—United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today introduced legislation that provides an additional $10.3 million to the U.S. Marshals Service and $9.1 …
Read More »Hagerty Criticizes EPA for Burdening Small Refineries Despite Energy Crisis
Agency is pursuing policy that increases gas prices by denying small refinery exemptions from the renewable fuel standard WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today criticized Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan for EPA’s denial of all small refinery exemptions from the …
Read More »Hagerty, Hawley, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Restore American Energy Independence, End Reliance on Foreign Nations
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Banking Committees, has joined Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) in introducing the American Energy Independence Act of 2022, which reverses President Joe Biden’s shutdown of the American energy sector and returns American energy to full production. Immediately following Russia’s invasion of …
Read More »Hagerty Statement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following statement commemorating the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday: “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s staunch advocacy unified Americans to stand strong against injustice. Dr. King catalyzed the tide-shifting movement that created a future defined by liberty and justice for …
Read More »Hagerty Statement on Nomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell
Official portrait of Governor Jerome H. Powell. Mr. Powell took office on May 25, 2012, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014…For more information, visit http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/powell.htm NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement on President Joe …
Read More »Hagerty Video Message Honoring Veterans Day
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today released the following message and video honoring our nation’s heroes on Veterans Day: “The love of country—especially that which compels one to put aside his or her own personal ambitions and step into a life of military service—is a virtue that must never be discounted. …
Read More »Hagerty, Rubio, Colleagues write to Sec Def Demanding Accountability for U.S. Military Equipment Abandoned in Afghanistan
An Afghan soldier walking past Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, which were left at Bagram. Rahmat Gul/AP Photo 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 joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and 23 other colleagues …
Read More »Hagerty to launch first-annual Economic Development Tour of Tennessee
Opportunity to visit with business owners, workers, and farmers about ongoing recovery and harmful policies coming from Washington NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations and Banking Committee and former state Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, will launch his first-annual Economic Development tour …
Read More »Hagerty Statement on Inflation and Rising Prices
NASHVILLE, TN—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today released the following statement in response to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), showing that prices rose again in July as a result of inflation: “The Biden …
Read More »Hagerty Files Amendments that take aim at Big Tech, Inflation, Energy Prices, Criminal Illegal Aliens
WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today filed a number of amendments to the budget resolution currently being debated on the Senate floor, which is the vehicle for Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion partisan tax-and-spending spree to implement his socialist vision for …
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