Josh Hawley

It is not an optional command. It is mandatory.

The reason that the President signed this into law, I am sure he did not want to, but the reason he did, and well, the reason it passed so overwhelmingly in both Houses is the American people want to know what their government knows about…

I think maybe it's time to call the Director of National Intelligence, and any others, and have an oversight hearing about their total failure to comply with a law that we passed unanimously out of the Senate.

I think is such a great case study in the failure of the Federal Government, the Executive Branch, to even comply with the law.

in March of 1865, President Lincoln said this: Let us strive on to finish the work . . . to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. That is why we are here today. We…

When I have come to this floor in weeks and months past to talk about this cause--because it is more than an issue. It is a cause. It is a cause of justice. It is a cause of doing right by other fellow Americans. When I have come in weeks…

a few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg and a train of other tech executives traipsed in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took their oaths, and answered questions. Mark Zuckerberg did something really quite remarkable for the first time…

I am here tonight to talk about the foreign aid supplemental that is the pending business on this floor, but before I do that, I have to take a moment of personal privilege, if my colleagues will allow me, in light of recent events, just…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Missouri.

last week, the executives of some of the largest tech companies in the United States came before the U.S. Senate. And the world got to see, with all too vivid detail, just what these companies and these executives are doing to our…

there you have it. There are the Big Tech talking points. The problem is that they are entirely false. I have the bill text in front of me--the bill text that, again, passed unanimously out of the Senate Judiciary Committee--that…

Your product is killing people. Will you set up a victim's compensation fund with your money? The money you made on these families sitting behind you? Yes or no?

I mean, you would think in this country--I think people who do not know anything about farming often think, oh, there is plenty of land. There is no--there is no land problem.

To me, this is such a huge issue. At a time when our younger folks cannot afford to buy land, farmland in our country, to have foreign nations and foreign corporations coming in and buying up that land, it just seems unbelievable.

I mean, you would think in this country--I think people who do not know anything about farming often think, oh, there is plenty of land. There is no--there is no land problem.

To me, this is such a huge issue. At a time when our younger folks cannot afford to buy land, farmland in our country, to have foreign nations and foreign corporations coming in and buying up that land, it just seems unbelievable.

I've got major concerns with--with how it is playing out, and particularly when it comes to fentanyl.

Do we really want chatbots telling people to kill themselves? Is there social good in that, that I am missing somewhere?

We’ve got 190 people a day in the United States who die of fentanyl overdose.

Senator Blumenthal and I, who you were just talking to a second ago, he and I have a bipartisan bill that would say that parents and others who are harmed by AI should be able to get into court.

Why should the biggest, most powerful technology companies in the history of the world, why should they be insulated from accountability?

Why should the biggest, most powerful technology companies in the history of the world, why should they be insulated from accountability?

What 230 has absolutely, for sure done is help the companies who are your members pad their profits.

I think your position is just absolutely extraordinary.

That is, as one witness said at that Committee hearing, that's like a 737 crashing every single day.