Josh Hawley

We should suspend the federal gas tax. I introduced legislation to do that back in April, so we’re way overdue.

They don’t need any tax breaks. That’s just corporate welfare. They don’t need that stuff. If they want to build data centers, then they have to do it on their own dime.

There is a role for Congress, and it is to ban mifepristone.

The time for bold leadership is now.

These AI agents are committing cyberattacks. If Big Tech companies are going to design AI agents that wreak havoc, these companies better be on the hook for any damage that is caused.

I opened an investigation into OpenAI on Sept. 10 after its agents breached New York-based open-weight AI platform Hugging Face in July.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

At the end of the day, they’re a product, and if you make that product in a reckless kind of way, and that product causes … significant harm and damage — they crash a hospital ER, they shut down a bank so that folks can’t get their money —…

If that’s what the House is able to pass, I’m certainly happy to take that and to work with it.

I'm just hoping that this will be the best bill ever passed by the United States Senate considering the ungodly amount of time we've spent on it.

The hearing exposed the 'threat' AI-powered cameras could pose to 'national security and privacy of everyday Americans.

I think that that's unfortunate and I think we need to hear from them about what their networks do.

Law-abiding Americans should not be treated like criminals.

That's why I'm introducing the STOP Flock Abuse Act to establish basic safeguards for AI-powered cameras and protect Americans' fundamental constitutional rights.

AI-powered cameras produced by Flock and its competitors are tracking and creating digital footprints of everyday Americans — a nightmare for individual liberties unless Congress enacts meaningful rules and accountability.

My legislation would give prosecutors the power to charge companies with crimes when the firms know their agents are capable of criminal conduct and fail to create reasonable safeguards.

In Missouri, people are absolutely scared to death that these data centers are going to take all the prime farm ground of the state. And then they're going to raise electricity bills so high, no one will be able to afford them," said Sen…

I’m sure we’ll have a lot of questions about his many illegal activities, spying on members of Congress, violating DOJ procedures. The list is long.

The White House should probably be able to determine who [and] what cameras are in the White House.

I would hope that after today, I hope that they would come in.

It sounds as if, based on the reports we’ve heard, it’s treating every citizen in America, I mean, by now, surely almost all of us have been scanned and logged as if we are criminals, yet without any due process, without any reasonable…

When you have this amount of data available, the temptations to use it are going to be absolutely incredible, if not irresistible.

This just seems very, very strange, to put it mildly, and something I think this committee really needs to hear about.

If you haven’t heard of Flock, all I have to say is Flock’s probably heard of you.