WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement on April 26, 2024: * * * House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) index, showed inflation remaining above the Fed's 2 percent target, coming on the heels of the latest GDP report showing just 1.6 percent economic   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: Today, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO-07) led a letter calling on donors to pull support from Columbia University until significant changes are made, starting with the resignation of President Minouche Shafik. Congressman Burlison released the following statement on his letter: "Why would donors continue writing checks to subsidize illiterate morons? These universities are no longer p  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: This week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Tax Subcommittee Chairman Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania) named Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) chair of the newly formed U.S. Innovation Tax Team, one of ten working groups comprised of committee members to study key tax provisions from the 2017 Trump tax cuts that are set to expire in 2025 and to identify legislative solutions t  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: (Kansas City, MO) - Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Sam Graves (R-MO) wrote Attorney General Garland and Director Colette Peters of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, urging both to keep convicted felon Robert Courtney in prison. "Robert Courtney's violent crimes were heinous," the members wrote. "To this day, it's difficult to find anyone in the region that hasn't been impacted,   more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Vice Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the President signed into law her bipartisan Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Extension Act, legislation to improve U.S. efforts to prevent mass atrocity crimes. Named after the courageous Auschwitz survivor, the legislation honors the legacy of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel a  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Last night, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke with Fox News, updating viewers on his fight to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and compensate Missourians whom the federal government has poisoned by failing to properly dispose of radioactive waste from its nuclear testing programs. In the first segment of a four-part series, Senator Hawley joined members of grassroots advocacy   more