Josh Hawley

Have a consistent policy. Send children back to their home country even if they're not from Mexico or Canada. This will stop overnight.

Let the record reflect that this administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

The policy choices of the Biden administration are creating an unending flow of children to this country.

Have a consistent policy. Send children back to their home country even if they're not from Mexico or Canada. This will stop overnight.

The policy choices of the Biden administration are creating an unending flow of children to this country.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

It's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous.

It's a direct violation of child labor laws.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

We've created a demand for human smugglers to get children involved in the smuggling process.

They don't want to take responsibility for this.

The fact that the administration won't come and sit there and answer questions to this Committee is absurd.

What I heard from Secretary Mayorkas--don't take my word for it, you go look at the record, read the transcript. What he told me was, 'Oh, it's not my problem. We don't have anything to do with it. Not my problem.'

It's a direct violation of child labor laws.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

It's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

it is my great privilege to say a very few words in introduction of my friend and fellow Senator, Eric Schmitt, as he prepares to give his maiden speech on this floor. We haven't worked together very long in the Senate, but we have known…

I want to start with a shout-out to firefighters in my state, the State of Missouri.

Why would we want to tie our own hands and make us and the world more dependent on China, who've got to have the worst environmental record of any nation in the world?

We shouldn't be making China richer and America poorer.

We shouldn't be making China richer and America poorer.

Why would we want to tie our own hands and make us and the world more dependent on China, who've got to have the worst environmental record of any nation in the world?

I want to start with a shout-out to firefighters in my state, the State of Missouri.