Josh Hawley

I do not understand why you were trying to reduce border enforcement capabilities at a time when we were and are experiencing record levels of illegal immigration.

I think you are going to have a hard time explaining to folks who wait for all this time in these lines...

following my submission yesterday, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the next part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no…

TSA established a process where it will accept certain DHS-issued forms for non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals who do not otherwise have acceptable forms of ID for presentation at security checkpoints.

I think for every person watching this hearing who has experienced the TSA screening process, it can often be very onerous, it is very long, and in fact, under your tenureship the times for screening have gone up, up, up at airports all…

I am just glad that a judge blocked the attempt to do this.

How does this policy comport with 18 United States Code (USC) 1325, which criminalizes improper entry into the United States by an alien?

had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 987, Stephen Henley Locher, of Iowa, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. ____________________

following my submission yesterday, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the next part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no…

following my submission yesterday, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the next part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no…

Fentanyl seizures are up 204 percent.

following my submission yesterday, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the next part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no…

following my submission yesterday, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the next part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no…

A parliamentary question, Mr. President: Do I have the floor when I respond? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has yielded for a question. So he has the floor.

No, I have yielded the floor. My remarks were concluded. So the Senator has the floor. I am happy to respond. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the Senator yield for a response?

I would like to have a cloture vote and a recorded vote. I would like to observe regular order on each of these, unless we can make some progress on having a public hearing on this report. That is my position at this time. Again, I am not…

Oh, so your view is that the core of this -- this right then is about what?

Wow. You`re saying that I`m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?

We have a Justice Department that refuses to do so, a Justice Department that is now working with the left to intimidate a separate and equal branch of government.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the first part of an investigation directed by the U.S. Central Command concerning the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan in August 2021. There being no objection, the material was…

You have referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy. Would that be women?

Wow. You’re saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?

had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the confirmations of Executive Calendar No. 1036, Philip A. Talbert, of California, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California for the term of four years…

I would like to have a recorded vote. Are you asking me if I would vitiate cloture, Senator?

I would like to say a word, if I could, about the nature of my objection. It has been now almost a year since the attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul in Afghanistan, almost a year since we lost 13 American servicemembers in that tragic attack…