Josh Hawley
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- False
“The FBI tapped my phone, and the phones of other senators, during the Arctic Frost investigation.”
other·2025-10-07·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Unrated
“I will introduce the American Worker Rebate Act to send at least $600 per adult and dependent child as tariff rebate checks to working Americans.”
policy plan·2025-07-28·1 source·pending
- Unrated
“I will introduce bipartisan legislation with Sen. Peter Welch to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and index it to inflation.”
policy plan·2025-06-10·1 source·pending
- Unrated
“I will reintroduce the PELOSI Act to ban members of Congress and their spouses from purchasing, selling, or holding individual stocks while in office.”
policy plan·2025-04-14·1 source·pending
- False
“Amendment 3 is about an effort to come into our schools behind your backs without your knowledge, to tell our kids there is something wrong with them and to give them drugs that will sterilize them for life.”
other·2024-09-07·1 source·by St. Louis Public Radio · 2 evidence
- Unrated
“I will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act to create a duty of care for online platforms used by minors and require them to disable addictive design features for kids.”
policy plan·2023-05-02·1 source·pending
- Unrated
“I authored the COVID-19 Origin Act requiring the administration to declassify any and all intelligence about potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of COVID-19.”
self record·2023-03-20·1 source·pending
- Unrated
“I will introduce legislation to ban TikTok in the United States because the app is required by Chinese law to share user data with Beijing.”
policy plan·2023-01-25·1 source·pending
- Mixed
“When Joe Biden came to office, the people of Ukraine asked for military assistance. Did he give it to them? No. He denied them military assistance. He denied them lethal aid.”
other·2022-04-07·1 source·by PolitiFact · 1 evidence
- Mixed
“Biden greenlighted Vladimir Putin's pipeline. He turned their pipelines on; he turned our pipelines off. Russian energy production up, Russian revenues up.”
other·2022-04-07·1 source·by PolitiFact · 1 evidence
- Mixed
“In every case, in each of these seven, Judge Jackson handed down a lenient sentence that was below what the federal guidelines recommended and below what prosecutors requested.”
other·2022-03-22·1 source·by FactCheck.org · 1 evidence
- False
“Those are seven cases that represent, as near as we can tell, all of Judge Jackson's cases dealing with child pornography from her time on the district court in which she had some discretion to hand down a sentence.”
other·2022-03-22·1 source·by FactCheck.org · 1 evidence
- False
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gave child porn offenders sentences below the guidelines and below what the prosecutors were requesting.”
other·2022-03-21·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - False
“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”
other·2021-01-06·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Mixed
“When Pennsylvania citizens tried to be heard on this subject before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure, timeliness, in violation of that Supreme Court's own precedent.”
other·2021-01-06·1 source·by FactCheck.org · 2 evidence
- False
“Antifa scumbags came to my home in Virginia and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can't travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.”
other·2021-01-04·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Unrated
“I will force a Senate vote on direct stimulus payments — $1,200 per worker, $2,400 per couple, $500 per child — and push to raise them to $2,000.”
policy plan·2020-12-29·1 source·pending
- True
“USPS currently has the most cash on hand in its history, approximately $15 billion.”
other·2020-08-23·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Mixed
“As the State Department warned Mizzou in July 2019, the Confucius Institute presented security risks for students and the university as a whole.”
other·2020-01-15·1 source·by PolitiFact · 3 evidence
- True
“Meth production in MO has cratered over the last decade. MO Highway Patrol reported 1,326 meth lab seizures in 2006, only 50 in 2018.”
other·2019-09-10·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence