WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) joined 31 of his Senate Republican colleagues in introducing the Never Yielding Europe’s Territory (NYET) Act to provide the critical support Ukraine needs to defend itself and deter Russian aggression today, while imposing real costs on the Kremlin for its ongoing and potential future aggression against […]
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By Jason Smith, member of Congress This week, the Department of Labor reported that the consumer price index, the measurement of inflation, hit a 40-year high when it came in at 7.5 percent. The numbers shocked many and outpaced even the most dire predictions from economists. Unfortunately, this comes as no surprise to working-class
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KANSAS CITY — Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.8 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. Increases in the indexes for food at home, new and used motor vehicles, household furnishings and operations, and apparel were the largest
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WASHINGTON – On Thursday, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), and Joe Manchin (W.Va.), all of whom serve on the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking answers regarding HHS’s recent funding opportunity announcement that could open the door
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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
BOSTON, Mass. — Average gasoline prices in Missouri have risen 5.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.13/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are 17.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 94.5 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. According
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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
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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
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