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Joshua Hawley

 
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Missouri
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555 Independence Street
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#1600
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Cape Girardeau MO, 63703-6235
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573-334-5995
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Columbia MO, 65201-4774
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02/10/2025 --forbes
RFK Jr. passed a key Senate committee vote after a holdout GOP lawmaker, Sen. Bill Cassidy, backed him.
02/10/2025 --rollcall
The welcome sign at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.
02/10/2025 --necn
The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau risk leaving Americans’ nearly $18 trillion in consumer debt with less supervision or regulation, NBC News reported.One CFPB staffer said Monday that every meeting and work item on their calendar, including reviewing investigative actions, had been deleted.“I think at some point, the machinery is going to start to jam up,” said the employee, who asked to speak anonymously out of fear of reprisal. “What is the industry going to do on its own?”As of Monday evening, the CFPB’s homepage said “404: Page not found,” though other parts of the site appeared to be working. The homepage of the CFPB displayed an error message on Monday. ()The confusion comes after a turbulent weekend at the CFPB, whose acting director, Russell Vought, told employees late Saturday to stop most work activities and on Sunday not to report to the office for the rest of this week. He also said in a post on X that the agency “will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not ‘reasonably necessary’ to carry out its duties.”Meanwhile, staffers at the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency project have sought access to CFPB personnel information, part of efforts driven by the world’s richest person to remake or eliminate entire federal agencies from the Education Department to the nation’s main foreign aid body.Both moves targeting the CFPB have already drawn lawsuits from a federal union.The CFPB has been a target of GOP and Wall Street critics since its inception in 2011. That includes Vought, a co-author of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term that calls for abolishing the bureau altogether. The independent agency, a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was set up by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Last year it survived a business-backed challenge to its funding that wound up before the Supreme Court.In his first term, Trump installed Mick Mulvaney as the agency’s director, who had previously called the CFPB a “joke” and stripped the agency’s ability to pursue discrimination cases. He also dropped a lawsuit against payday lenders and fired the agency’s 25-member consumer advisory board.The bureau is again under fire from Trump officials after an aggressive four-year run during the Biden administration, by the conclusion of which the CFPB estimated it had clawed back nearly $20 billion in consumer relief.Congress granted the CFPB the power to supervise banks with more than $10 billion in assets and to regulate lending by nonbank entities, including mortgage, auto, payday and private student loan issuers. In addition to writing and enforcing rules for making consumer financial products fair and efficient, the agency also solicits, tracks and publishes consumer complaints.One of the agency’s biggest recent wins over industry players has been limiting overdraft or insufficient funds fees. After years of CFPB scrutiny of these surcharges, many banks started dropping the fees on their own. In fact, the revenue banks derived from overdraft fees dropped more than $6 billion between 2019 and 2023. That agency push culminated in a final rule in December that would have capped overdraft fees at large banks to $5, but its fate is now uncertain.Consumer advocates told NBC News shortly after the election that the popularity of the CFPB’s overdraft crackdown might lead Trump officials to leave those protections in place. But last week, the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee presented a draft resolution to overturn the bureau’s overdraft rule.The CFPB issued a separate rule last March that appears to be all but defeated. That move slashed the typical credit card late fee from $32 to $8, drawing swift legal pushback from card issuers. A federal judge in Texas recently rejected the CFPB’s request to lift an injunction barring the rule, and it’s unlikely that the agency will submit further appeals under Vought’s leadership.“I wonder if the new approach is just, ‘We’re not going to even bother to formally change the effective [rule] dates,’” the CFPB staffer said. “We’ll just not do anything, and we expect the industry to also know that we’re not going to do anything.”Russell Vought, the acting director of the CFPB, has instructed agency staffers to halt most work activities.Some relief for cardholders could come legislatively, though that path is steeper and narrower than the CFPB’s typical rulemaking process.Earlier this month, Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, echoing one of Trump’s campaign promises. However, the measure is expected to meet fierce opposition in Congress and from the financial industry. Lindsey Johnson, president and CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association, said in a statement that the effort reflected “Socialist-type pricing policies” that are “the best way to drive up costs for consumers.”The agency has made other strides in protecting borrowers’ credit health, including surfacing violations made by student loan services and uncovering errors in medical debt reporting.In 2023 — following a CFPB report on medical debt complications — the three major reporting bureaus announced they were wiping medical collections under $500 from consumers’ credit reports, causing an estimated 22.8 million people to see at least one medical bill dropped from their files. Last month, the agency finalized a rule that would remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of around 15 million consumers.Consumer advocates have pointed out that the medical debt rule, like the rule capping credit card fees, is vulnerable to being overturned by Congress.Under the Biden administration, the CFPB had also been positioning itself as a watchdog of Big Tech and artificial intelligence, as the industries crept deeper into consumers’ wallets. It created guardrails around “buy now, pay later” installment loans and increased its scrutiny of tech companies that have expanded into digital payments.Musk himself, who called to “Delete CFPB” following Trump’s win, has participated in the latter trend. In January, his social media platform X announced a deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, allowing X users to move money between bank accounts and make peer-to-peer payments.This article first appeared on NBCNews.com. Read more from NBC News here:Wasabi worries and truffle troubles: Tariffs threaten crops that U.S. farmers struggle to growTimberwolves sale to Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore back on track after arbitration rulingTrump says Palestinians wouldn’t be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
02/10/2025 --capitalgazette
Trump and allied Republicans aim to cast aside the party’s long-held antipathy toward unions and lure more voters.
02/06/2025 --foxnews
President Trump and most Senate Republicans are having dinner on Friday at Mar-a-Lago before the lawmakers head to a campaign retreat.
02/06/2025 --kron4
House and Senate Republicans are plowing full steam ahead with conflicting strategies to enact President Trump’s sweeping agenda, putting the two conferences on a collision course. The contrasting game plans — the House’s one-bill track versus the Senate’s two-bill blueprint — have been simmering on Capitol Hill for weeks but are set to come to [...]
02/03/2025 --nbcsandiego
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said Monday he’s placing a “blanket hold” on President Donald Trump’s nominees for the State Department, slowing down his hopes of quickly installing personnel in key positions.Schatz, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said his move is in protest of Trump’s billionaire adviser, Elon Musk, declaring that he and the president will shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.“Dismantling USAID is illegal and makes us less safe. USAID was created by federal law and is funded by Congress. Donald Trump and Elon Musk can’t just wish it away with a stroke of a pen — they need to pass a law,” Schatz said in a statement.“Until and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is reversed and USAID is functional again, I will be placing a blanket hold on all of the Trump administration’s State Department nominees,” he continued. “This is self-inflicted chaos of epic proportions that will have dangerous consequences all around the world.”A “hold” is essentially a threat to prevent a speedy vote for a nominee in the full Senate. It forces Republicans to jump through hoops and burn floor time to confirm them, which adds up when there are many lower-level nominees for the department who might otherwise get fast-tracked to the floor for votes.Trump Administration3 hours agoWhat is USAID? Explaining the US foreign aid agency and why Trump, Musk want to end itTrump Administration2 hours agoUSAID headquarters in Washington is blocked after Musk says Trump agrees to close the aid agencyNominees require a majority to be confirmed in the Senate. Republicans have 53 senators, so Democrats cannot scuttle Trump’s picks on their own. But they can drag out the process and detract from other nominees or bills that GOP leaders prefer to spend time on.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he had been named acting administrator of USAID. Although the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Rubio, there are many high-ranking positions underneath him that also require Senate approval.Democratic lawmakers gathered Monday afternoon to speak outside USAID’s Washington headquarters to blast the “illegal” shutdown of the agency, accusing Trump and Musk of circumventing Congress.“We will use every power that we have at our disposal in the US Senate. My colleagues will do the same thing in the House. This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said. “Let’s not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions of dollars off of his business with China. And China is cheering at this action today. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now is doing it based on self interest.”Holds on nominees were used extensively by Republicans to protest former President Joe Biden’s policies over the last four years.In 2023, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., placed a hold on over 400 military promotions for 10 months in protest of the Department of Defense’s abortion travel policy.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., briefly placed a blanket hold on civilian nominees for the State Department and the Department of Defense in 2021 in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.And a group of Senate Republicans placed holds on Biden’s nominees, including judicial nominees, in the wake of court cases that were brought against Trump in 2024.The Trump administration has yet to formally put forward nominees for many of the vacant ambassadorships and assistant secretary positions that require Senate confirmation. But there are nominees for several key positions within the State Department that are already in the pipeline.Among those waiting to be confirmed are Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, along with those positions immediately under Rubio: Christopher Landau for deputy secretary of state; Michael Rigas for deputy secretary of state for management; and Adam Boehler for special envoy for hostage affairs.Veteran career foreign service officers or civil servants are currently the acting leadership in these positions, but they are not able to act with the same authority as those who have been tapped by the president for the position. There are currently almost 100 ambassadorships awaiting nominations, according to the American Foreign Service Union, including senior leadership at the U.S. mission to the U.N.This article first appeared on NBCNews.com. Read more from NBC News here:Live updates: Trump to discuss tariffs with officials from Canada and MexicoUnder Trump, conservatives reignite a battle over race and the ConstitutionElon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
02/03/2025 --sunjournal
Independent drivers deserve to be treated fairly, not to become targets of predatory practices.
01/30/2025 --foxnews
President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the "targeting" of Americans by the government for religious reasons.
01/30/2025 --rollcall
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on Friday.
01/30/2025 --kron4
Hearing-mania is set to consume Capitol Hill on Thursday as a trio of President Trump's top allies appear for high-stakes confirmation showdowns with senators that could make or break their chances of getting across the finish line. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kash Patel will simultaneously appear for confirmation hearings Thursday morning, setting [...]
01/29/2025 --dailycaller
Bans federal agencies from utilizing the 'junk science'
01/29/2025 --axios
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is aiming to be the first Republican in decades to sponsor major, pro-union labor reform, Axios has learned. Why it matters: GOP leaders see an opportunity for a new, working-class coalition, which includes more union outreach. It's a major shift, and fault lines are already forming over President Trump's pro-labor Cabinet nominee, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Zoom in: Hawley has been quietly circulating draft legislation that would prevent employers from stalling union contract negotiations — keeping the process to months, not years, according to a copy obtained by Axios.He is looking for a Democratic co-sponsor.The senator pitched his bill at a dinner Tuesday night with Teamsters president Sean O'Brien and a small group of Republican senators — Roger Marshall of Kansas, Jim Banks of Indiana, and Ohio's Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, sources familiar said."We look forward to advancing meaningful legislation for working people this Congress," Hawley's office told Axios.Zoom out: The effort comes as some Republicans express hesitancy about Chavez-DeRemer.Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told NBC News he is not going to support her, "I think she'll lose 15 Republicans," Paul said, describing her as "very pro-labor."Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told NBC News he found the nomination "concerning."But she is expected to pick up Democratic support, including from fellow Oregonian Sen. Jeff Merkley, who told local reporters of his plans to back her.What they're saying: Others in the party see the nomination as a way for Republicans to win over more of the historically Democratic union voting bloc.Chavez-DeRemer's nomination "came about by Sean [O'Brien] and I working together with the President," Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told Axios. He said she is the "perfect balance" as a former Republican lawmaker and strong pro-labor voice. Mullin and O'Brien have become friends after going viral for challenging each other to a fight mid-hearing. "I think the Republican Party is expanding. I think a lot of that's due to President Trump, and I think that that she should be a solid nomination," Marshall told Axios. He also expressed willingness to back pro-union legislation.Thought bubble: The particular issue of firms delaying contract negotiations has become a huge issue, Axios Markets co-author Emily Peck notes.Unionized workers at Starbucks, Amazon and Trader Joe's have all been stuck trying to negotiate first contracts with their employers — deep-pocketed corporations who are fighting to avoid these deals.
01/22/2025 --whig
Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, unleashing unprecedented executive orders and daring anyone to stop him.
01/21/2025 --nbcnews
Of all the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office, the one that reverberated the most across Washington was his move to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.
01/21/2025 --rollcall
Asylum seekers wait Tuesday to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, after President Donald Trump began his second term in office with a series of tough-on-immigration measures.
01/18/2025 --natlawreview
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.Day One Predictions. Monday, January 20, 2025, is Inauguration Day (as well as Martin Luther King Jr. Day). At the Buzz, we are well stocked with coffee and protein bars, as it is expected to be a busy day. We will obviously have a lot to discuss next week, but here are some policy issues that are on our radar.Immigration. This is obviously a priority issue for Republicans, and President-elect Donald Trump could issue multiple executive orders on the topic. For example, establishing new policies relating to the southern border, travel restrictions, temporary protected status, and “Buy American, Hire American,” could all be the subject of executive orders next week.Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, as well as other members of the incoming... Read the complete article here...© 2025, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., All Rights Reserved.
01/17/2025 --foxnews
Senator Josh Hawley drilled into a migrant rights activist during a Senate hearing on the “Remain in Mexico" policy for saying migrant crime is “not an actual issue."
01/17/2025 --foxnews
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told lawmakers that she intends to end the use of the CBP One on the first day the Trump administration.
01/17/2025 --rollcall
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Homeland Security secretary, greets Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., right, during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing Friday. Noem was introduced by Cramer and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
01/17/2025 --whittierdailynews
Friday's hearing will be her first chance to lay out a vision for the sprawling department that will be central to Donald Trump's plans for cracking down on illegal immigration
01/13/2025 --nbcnews
A growing number of states are considering legislation to ban or restrict cellphones in schools, part of an effort to remove classroom distractions for students.
01/13/2025 --stltoday
Hawley apparently ready to continue support for measures that would benefit labor unions, worker safety and increasing penalties for unfair labor practices.
12/30/2025 --stltoday
Missouri’s senior senator and H.W. Crocker III have similar views on America’s moral challenges, embracing calls for a revival of Christian faith.
12/27/2024 --stltoday
Mike Parson, whose term as Missouri governor ends on Jan. 13, says he’s left his successor “a really good foundation to build on.”
12/26/2024 --rawstory
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have yet to be sworn in as president and vice president respectively after their 2024 victory and Fox News is already looking towards the 2028 presidential election when Trump will be ineligible to run.According to Fox's Paul Steinhauser, the Ohio Republican who Trump tapped as his running mate has the inside track to the 2028 GOP nomination but it is not a done deal with the current head of Republican National Committee (RNC) saying they won't put their finger on the scale for any candidate.By all accounts, Vance is the heir to the MAGA crown, with Republican consultant Dave Carney calling the Ohio Republican "the guy to beat," and adding, "The vice president will be in the catbird seat. No question about it."ALSO READ: Why ABC settled a case they knew they would win — and why the Lincoln Project didn'tGOP strategist David Kochel, agreed, but cautioned, "There will be no shortage of people looking at it. But most people looking at it are seeing the relative strength of the Trump victory and the movement."According to Fox's Steinhauser, there will likely be others in the GOP who have long had their eye on the White House who will be testing the waters after having made previous runs.With Carney suggesting a "possible rough four years for the Trump/Vance administration" would hand challengers to Vance "opportunities," Fox's Steinhuaser pointed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, 2024 runner-up Nikki Haley and far-right Sen. Tom Cotton, also of Arkansas, as possible candidates.According to the Fox report, "DeSantis, who sources say Trump has considered as a plan B for Defense secretary if his nominee Pete Hegseth runs into trouble, has his eyes on another White House run," adding that Cruz, once thought to be in trouble in 2024 waltzed away with a six-point win in his re-election bid.As for Huckabee Sanders, Steinhauser wrote, "The first-term conservative governor of Arkansas is a well-known figure in MAGA world, thanks to her tenure as Trump's longest-serving White House press secretary during his first administration. The 42-year-old Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas governor and former two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has also grabbed national attention for delivering the GOP's response to President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address."Also popping up on the list are Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy who will be part of Trump's unfunded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Jan. 20th.You can read more right here.
12/19/2024 --stltoday
Former Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, is a former deputy director at the agency.
12/19/2024 --foxnews
Sen. Rand Paul has floated the idea of replacing House Speaker Mike Johnson with Elon Musk after the chaotic collapse of the continuing resolution spending bill.
12/18/2024 --bismarcktribune
The president-elect proposed a controversial provision to raise the nation's debt limit — something his own party routinely rejects.
12/18/2024 --huffpost
"It is a taste of things to come. The House is going to be ungovernable,” one senator said of this week's disarray over government funding.
12/18/2024 --fox5sandiego
NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel that there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes he is aware of who currently compete in college sports, pouring cold water on an issue Republicans have said is a nationwide problem and one that is increasingly fraught territory for Democrats.
12/18/2024 --bostonherald
If confirmed by the Senate, Kennedy will be charged with leading the Department of Health and Human Services.
12/14/2024 --dailycaller
Andrew McCabe, who abused his power to spy on Kash Patel, now claims Patel is unqualified to lead the FBI.
12/11/2024 --huffpost
Patel would not actually “come after” Trump’s enemies, several Republicans told HuffPost.
12/11/2024 --stltoday
Hawley said he will fight to block plans by U.S. House to speed up passage of smaller version of bill that does not include Missouri, other states.
12/11/2024 --stltoday
To save $30 billion over 10 years and reduce the service’s carbon footprint, Postal Service plans to add one day to deliveries made to rural areas.
12/11/2024 --rollcall
Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Homeland Security secretary, arrives for a meeting with Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., on Tuesday.
12/10/2024 --foxnews
Sen. Josh Hawley's bill bans airlines from offering bonuses tied to amenity fees and prohibits discriminatory pricing, calling practices "offensive."
12/03/2024 --foxnews
The social media account for the House Ways and Means Democrats was ripped Tuesday over a post seemingly dismissing the struggles of those who can't afford groceries.
12/02/2024 --huffpost
The Massachusetts senator said she views the nomination of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as a “test” of whether Trump will be cowed by business groups.
12/02/2024 --stltoday
Reason, a magazine from a Libertarian think tank, published an article Friday which worries that “Republican populism aims to expand the Nanny State.”
 
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