Hawley's bill, dubbed the No Cash Prizes for Bureaucrats Act, would close those loopholes. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to bar federal employees from accepting cash prizes or soliciting awards. The new legislation would block federal employees from receiving rewards for medicine and research as well as block employees from soliciting such rewards. "You were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally, cash prizes totaling over $1 million," Hawley said. Hawley said the Dan David Award carried a $900,000 cash prize and claimed Fauci used federal employees to help obtain it.