Senator Josh Hawley in conversation with Lanhee Chen on Capital Conversations on September 16, 2020.

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Senator Josh Hawley was elected to the United States Senate in 2018. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading constitutional lawyers. The youngest Senator in America, Senator Hawley serves on the following Senate Committees: Judiciary, Armed Services, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Special Committee on Aging.

 

 

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Lanhee Chen is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution, and Director of Domestic Policy Studies in the Public Policy Program at Stanford. In 2012, he was policy director of the Romney-Ryan campaign and advised Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid.  He was a member of the Social Security Advisory Board and served as a senior appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush Administration. 

 

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