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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Consumer Price Index showed inflation continuing to run at the highest pace in 40 years:  “Families are being crushed under this continued explosive spike in prices. And the only answer from Washington Democrats has been to spend more. The […]

WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt(Mo.) questioned Gigi Sohn, who has been nominated to serve as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, about information she withheld at a  previous hearing relating to the settlement reached between Locast, where she served as a board member, and television networks

By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Winter Olympics kicked off, and the spotlight of the world is being shined directly on China and the brutal record of its communist regime. Inexplicably, the International Olympic Committee ignored the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) record of murdering its citizens and censoring anyone

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaker Pelosi and her Washington Democrat counterparts this week advanced a partisan bill that, if enacted, would put China in the driver’s seat for the global economy at the expense of hardworking Americans. Rep. Jason Smith offered an amendment to the bill to highlight President Biden’s lack of strategy or vision on

WASHINGTON – In a letter sent Thursday to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig, Missouri’s U.S. Senator Roy Blunt and Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley demanded the IRS immediately discontinue any programs that collect, store, and use any type of biometric data to identify American taxpayers. The lawmakers’ letter comes after the IRS announced

Washington, D.C. — The President announced this morning he is ‘reigniting’ his commitment to ‘end cancer as we know it,’ building on the initial and robust cancer moonshot investment in discovery, prioritizing increased uptake of prevention and addressing health disparities. The American Cancer Society (ACS) and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – On Tuesday, Representatives Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) reintroduced the bipartisan Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act. This legislation is the House companion bill to the bipartisan Senate version, reintroduced by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).   “There is nothing more horrific than the sexual abuse and

LYONS, NEBRASKA – As state and local officials across the country consider bills addressing broadband service and decide how to allocate funding received through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, a new white paper from the Center for Rural Affairs offers ideas and solutions for improving access in rural areas.      Molly Malone, senior policy associate