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Smith: Biden Administration diverts funding from COVID testing

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08), House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) in a letter to President Biden, slammed the Administration for its failure to account for how, when, and where funding supposedly meant to address COVID-19 …

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Blunt delivers opening remarks at Rules Hearing on Security Improvements since 1/6 attack on Capitol

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, delivered an opening statement Wednesday at a hearing with U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger about Capitol security improvements since the January 6th attack.   Following his opening statement, Blunt questioned Chief Manger about U.S. Capitol …

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Blunt continues pressing Biden admin for answers on COVID-19 testing crisis

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WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, appeared on Fox News with Martha MacCallum to discuss the ongoing shortage of COVID-19 tests and the Biden administration’s failure to utilize billions in congressionally-approved funding to ensure …

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Smith helps lead legal fight to end Biden administration authoritarian vaccine mandate

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WASHINGTON, D.C.  – On December 30, 2021, Rep. Jason Smith filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States, along with 47 senators and 136 House members, asking the Supreme Court to block enforcement of President Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees. “This unconstitutional vaccine mandate is one …

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Blunt asks what Biden administration is doing about shortage of COVID-19 tests

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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, and Richard Burr (N.C.), Ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter urging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to …

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