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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

Why do we not start with why you enabled it? Can we start with that? Why is it that you have enabled 345,000 children to be smuggled across this border and then sent into the hands of modern-day slave traders?

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Sam Graves
@samgraves· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

I am proud to once again rise in support of H.J. Res. 27, which I introduced to negate an ill-timed and ill-conceived rule coming out of the Biden administration. I remind my colleagues on both sides of the aisle that since I last spoke on…

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Sam Graves
@samgraves· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

For the purposes of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Larsen), the ranking member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, pending which I yield myself such time as I may…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

This massive surge began when you came to office. In your first year in office, first year, there was a 342 percent surge of unaccompanied children across the border.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

It does not appear so, based on what we are reading today in The New York Times, and seeing from numbers from your own office.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

You are not going to take any responsibility for the indentured servitude and exploitation of children that is happening on your watch.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

I, for one, am sick and tired of it, and thousands of children are in physical danger because of what you are doing.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

You have, at every stage, facilitated this modern-day indentured servitude of minor children. Why should you not be impeached for this?

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Apr 18, 2023

Why do we not start with why you enabled it? Can we start with that? Why is it that you have enabled 345,000 children to be smuggled across this border and then sent into the hands of modern-day slave traders?

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Eric Schmitt
@ericschmitt· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

I'd like to hear in your words a brief summation because I have limited time why do you believe it's important for us to have a goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050?

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

Madam President, I have never before heard on this floor a defense of the right to spy. I didn't realize that the First Amendment contained a right to espionage. The Senator from Kentucky mentions the Bill of Rights. I must have missed the…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

Madam President, 4 months ago, the U.S. Senate, and then the U.S. House, came together to ban the app TikTok on all Federal Government devices--on tablets, on phones, on computers--on Federal contractors and their devices as well. We…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

Madam President, I would just say in conclusion that the security risk from TikTok led us to ban it 4 months ago for the Federal Government. The facts cannot be denied, which is why the TikTok CEO had nothing to say a week ago. He could…

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Eric Schmitt
@ericschmitt· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

I'd like to hear in your words a brief summation because I have limited time why do you believe it's important for us to have a goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050?

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 29, 2023

Madam President, let me just finish with this, that the Senator from Kentucky decried the collection of personal data by American social media companies--and he is right to do that, by the way. I am concerned about that, too, no doubt. But…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 28, 2023

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Covenant School Shooting

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 28, 2023

Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 40 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Missouri [Mr. Hawley], proposes an amendment numbered 40…

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