{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/03/icymi-hagerty-joins-squawk-box-on-cnbc-to-discuss-proxy-advisors-and-acting-dni-nominee-bill-pulte/", "ICYMI\u2014Hagerty Joins Squawk Box on CNBC to Discuss Proxy Advisors and Acting DNI Nominee Bill Pulte", "2026-06-03", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Bill Hagerty", "H000601", "www.hagerty.senate.gov", "hagerty", "https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington\u2014On Wednesday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Squawk Box on CNBC to discuss Proxy Advisors and Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Nominee Bill Pulte.\n\n*Click the photo above or here to watch*\n\nPartial Transcript\n\nHagerty on Proxy Advisors: \u201c[Proxy advisory firms] are the companies that tell shareholders how to vote exactly on management\u2019s proposals\u2026 What we find, though, is that the proxy advisors are actually owned overseas\u2014Canada, Switzerland, but not American companies. They\u2019re using, misusing and abusing their power to achieve political objectives. [\u2026] It\u2019s a total shakedown. It\u2019s corrupt. These are social investing activists that are getting involved in funding proxy advisory services to try to create an outcome that they could never achieve legislatively. [\u2026] I met with the Business Roundtable recently and went through what we\u2019re dealing with in this situation. This is an opportunity for activists to come in through a side door and try to create influence. I think we need to take a very hard look at it and make certain that that power isn\u2019t being abused. This is something that I will look into much more deeply.\n\nHagerty on Acting DNI Nominee Bill Pulte: \u201cBill is a very high-energy person. As we say in the South, he knows how to \u2018get \u2018er done.\u2019 He gets things accomplished. He has earned the trust of the President of the United States, and I think that\u2019s critically important\u2014particularly in an environment where intelligence agencies have been weaponized. [\u2026] Before I came into the Senate, I was the United States Ambassador to Japan. We have an enormous military capability in Japan. In fact, the largest deployment of US military overseas\u2014anywhere in the world\u2014is in Japan. We also have a very large intelligence operation there. I\u2019m a business person. I had a very large intel operation that I was responsible for\u2026 I would have all of the intelligence agencies that reported to me meet in a skiff and explain what they were working on that week, why I wanted them to be aligned. I didn\u2019t want them spying on one another. I wanted them to work with each other and coordinate. That hadn\u2019t happened before, and that\u2019s because a business person has a different perspective. I think that\u2019s the type of approach that would be welcome here in Washington.\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-04T06:38:12Z", "2026-06-04T06:39:44Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/03/icymi-hagerty-joins-squawk-box-on-cnbc-to-discuss-proxy-advisors-and-acting-dni-nominee-bill-pulte/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7690251804888248, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}