Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and other Republican Senators hold a press conference about stopping the Biden administration’s big tech censorship. A federal judge recently ruled the Biden administration working with social media companies to censor speech was unconstitutional in the Missouri v. Biden case. The Biden administration then filed an injunction to continue censoring Americans, but was…

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday grilled Thea D. Rozman Kendler, assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, on the Biden administration’s responses to China’s increasing spy activities against the United States at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. …

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) blasted the Biden administration’s plan to start a “Disinformation Governance Board” in an April 29 letter (pdf), saying that the plan is likely illegal. The Department of Homeland Security under the command of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas first announced the new board in April, immediately after Elon Musk’s purchase offer for Twitter…

Declaring that it is “illogical and unacceptable” to keep the U.S. Capitol closed “despite the rest of the United States being open,” 27 Republican senators are pushing to restore the public visitation policies that were in place before the CCP virus pandemic began in March 2020. “It is long-past time for the Senate to reopen…

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would strike down a provision of Democrats American Rescue Plan (ARP) spending bill that requires third-party payment processors like Venmo and CashApp to report transactions of more than $600 to the IRS. The ARP was passed just weeks after President Joe Biden took office, making it…

TAIPEI, Taiwan—China sent 19 military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Sept. 5, continuing its aggressive posturing at the self-governing island, which scrambled jets in response. The incident has drawn concern from both current and former U.S. officials. The incursion involved 10 J-16 multi-role fighters, four SU-30 fighters, four H-6 bombers, and…

Eighteen GOP senators are asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to open an investigation into President Biden’s key Pentagon nominee to find out whether he solicited or disclosed classified information after his tenure with the Obama administration. The senators do not want the nomination of Colin Kahl for undersecretary of defense for policy to advance for a full…