(People) ought to be guaranteed no electricity bills will go up by a cent because of a data center. It sends a clear message that these AI companies and these data centers can't just come into local communities and strip mine out (land). Raise the electricity…
Meantly / Josh Hawley
Rhetoric profile
Josh Hawley
Across 16 statements tracked since 23 Sept 2026, Josh Hawley's most frequent rhetorical moves are threat & fear and absolutes.
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What these companies need is not more power… but some long-overdue accountability. One way to give that to them is to let the people they harm sue them in court.
President Trump has proposed to suspend the federal gas tax and he’s exactly right.
Flock has assembled an unprecedented national surveillance network. They boast more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states and more than 20 billion vehicle scans every month.
These AI agents are committing cyberattacks. If Big Tech companies are going to design AI agents that wreak havoc, these companies better be on the hook for any damage that is caused. With this liability regime in place, AI companies will have every incentive…
At the end of the day, they’re a product, and if you make that product in a reckless kind of way, and that product causes … significant harm and damage — they crash a hospital ER, they shut down a bank so that folks can’t get their money — if that happens,…
My view is that people would love some relief in the price of their gas. They would love some relief in the price of their health care. They would love some rights vis a vis these data centers. If it were me, I’d make those thing priorities.
If that’s what the House is able to pass, I’m certainly happy to take that and to work with it. As I say, I’d like to see something stronger. I’d like to see tougher penalties. I’d like to see an across the board ban on any kind of stock trading in stock…
a nightmare for individual liberties unless Congress enacts meaningful rules and accountability.
That’s why I’m introducing the STOP Flock Abuse Act to establish basic safeguards for AI-powered cameras and protect Americans’ fundamental constitutional rights. Law-abiding Americans should not be treated like criminals. I think that that’s unfortunate and…
My legislation would give prosecutors the power to charge companies with crimes when the firms know their agents are capable of criminal conduct and fail to create reasonable safeguards.
on October 3, 1945, a Mr. Franc L. McCluer of a liberal arts college in Fulton, MO, set pen to paper to write to then former-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was enjoying his retirement, having recently lost an election in the midst or just after the…
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