By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year. This week marked Joe Biden’s first anniversary in the White House. And no matter how rosy of a picture he tries to paint about the state of our nation; no matter how many times he tries to shift blame to Republicans despite his party […]
WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, called out Democrats on their ever-shifting rationale for pursuing a partisan, federal takeover of elections. As Blunt noted, Democrats have pushed similar election legislation for decades, inventing a
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which has jurisdiction over election legislation, delivered the following remarks this evening ahead of the failed votes on the Senate rules change and Democrats’ election takeover legislation. Blunt rebutted the false narrative Democrats used to justify
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) released the following statements after they introduced the Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act, legislation to reduce demand for sex trafficking worldwide. “The pandemic has exacerbated sex trafficking across the United States and in nations across the globe.
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By Jason Smith, member of Congress Since our nation’s founding, American elections have all featured some basic, commonsense rules. Americans – not foreigners, non-citizens, or illegal immigrants – are granted the right to choose our leaders. That’s why folks are asked to show identification when they go to the polls. We elect those leaders
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a letter to NBC calling on the network to air all footage of human rights protests during the 2022 Winter Olympics. Dictatorial governments have historically used the Olympics to legitimize their regimes and soften criticism of human
WASHINGTON – In an interview today on Fox News, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) discussed Democrats’ attempt to federalize elections, the Supreme Court’s recent decision on vaccine mandates, and record high inflation levels hurting working families. CLICK HERE to Watch Blunt’s Remarks Following Are Excerpts of Blunt’s Interview: On Democrats’ Attempt to
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 13, 2022, in the cases of NFIB v. OSHA and the State of Ohio v. OSHA, the Supreme Court of the United States blocked the Biden Administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “emergency” rule forcing private companies to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate from going into effect. OSHA is
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WASHINGTON – This week, 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 calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to provide
WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, continued pushing back on Democrats’ election takeover. Blunt highlighted how Democrats have, from one election cycle to the next, reinvented their justification for federalizing elections, this time relying
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