{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/30/icymi-hagerty-joins-varney-co-on-fox-business-to-discuss-iran-democrats-economic-agenda/", "ICYMI\u2014Hagerty Joins\u00a0Varney & Co.\u00a0on Fox Business to Discuss Iran, Democrats\u2019 Economic Agenda", "2026-06-30", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Bill Hagerty", "H000601", "www.hagerty.senate.gov", "hagerty", "https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington\u2014On Monday, United States Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Varney & Co. on Fox Business to Discuss Iran and Democrats\u2019 socialist price control agenda.\n\n*Click the photo above or here to watch*\n\nPartial Transcript\n\nHagerty on Iran: I do think we are close to the end [of the conflict]. If you think about the target package that [Central Command Commander Admiral Brad Cooper] was executing before we stepped back and had the ceasefire, we were 75-80% of the way through with that target package\u2026 But these are final steps as the regime tries to hold on. You have this debate going on internal to the Iranian regime between\u2014and I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this\u2014the moderate terrorists versus the more hardline terrorists. They are both fighting for control over the steering wheel\u2014if you remember the Thelma and Louisescene where they are about to drive over the cliff. [Iran needs] to come to reality here. [President Donald Trump] has met them with resolve at every turn; America is going to respond at every turn with 10 times the force\u2026 Again, they were the ones that reached out to ask for these meetings in [Doha, Qatar,] this week. I think the Iranian regime needs to get the message loud and clear: President Trump is only going to base any type of relief on performance.\n\nHagerty on Sen. Chris Murphy\u2019s, D-Conn., $25 minimum wage proposal: I think it may be a winning issue within Democrat primaries, where the Democrat socialists are taking over the party\u2014that clearly seems to be where Chris Murphy is going. [Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.,] was at $17, now Chris Murphy is coming in at $25. Who is going to bid $30, $50 an hour? This is all about price control; control of the economy. [Democrats] act as though they have had experience in business\u2014clearly, they do not. What [raising the minimum wage to $25] does is lead to unemployment for young people\u2026 You look at what happened in California\u2014more unemployment, more automation, and higher poverty. You look at what happened in Connecticut when they actually tried this\u2014more people on the Medicaid rolls after [the state government] actually implemented more price controls on wages. This is not the way the American economy needs to be focused right now. We need to be focused on international competitiveness. You think about what [Democrats] did in the Biden administration\u2014adding $4-8 trillion of incremental compliance cost to the American economy, the war they waged on energy here in America\u2014all of these actions that they have taken to make life less affordable. We are working to deal with it right now, but rather than help us address it\u2014rather than work with us\u2014they want to come up with these socialist ideas. Again, I think it is all politics for people here. They may be considering presidential runs, but they are [detached] from reality.", 1, "2026-07-01T06:34:07Z", "2026-07-01T06:35:35Z"]], "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/2026/06/30/icymi-hagerty-joins-varney-co-on-fox-business-to-discuss-iran-democrats-economic-agenda/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8927679155021906, "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"}