Thom Tillis
Role at the time: United States Senator for North Carolina, responding to questions from Axios
Statement summary
Asked by Axios for his position on Hawley's bill, Senator Thom Tillis said he had not seen it. Asked whether Republicans were talking about the issue in general, he answered no.
“No.”
The fullest available account of Senate Republican reluctance on the bill, with direct responses from Husted and Tillis, Hawley's reply to Axios, and Marjorie Dannenfelser's criticism of the Trump administration's handling of mifepristone litigation.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
Tillis withholds a position on the bill and then closes down the broader subject, which is a refusal rather than a substantive response. The closest competing label is a finding that this is not a position event at all, since not having read a bill can be a simple statement of fact. That loses because the exchange was an express request for his position and he declined it twice, the second time foreclosing discussion of the issue itself.