Jeff Sessions is one of this country's fiercest fighters against illegal immigration - in or outside of Congress. I look forward to seeing him continue that fight as our nation's top law enforcement officer, and I urge my colleagues in the Senate to confirm Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General.
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Earlier this week, I was on the House floor talking about the need for a long-term federal Highway Bill. Missouri's roads and bridges are in bad shape, and our local departments of transportation need certainty to plan for these projects. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, I am committed to seeing a long-term Highway Bill passed into law this year.
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This is a clip taken from my helmet inside the airplane I was flying during the 70th Anniversary celebration of Victory in Europe Day. This is the same type of plane - a TBM Avenger - that President George H.W. Bush flew and was shot down in during World War II. We made our way down the National Mall before reaching the U.S. Capitol, which you can see on my left.
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Last year, 135 police officers tragically lost their lives in the line of duty. These men and women sacrificed everything to protect our communities. As we lay our heads down each night, we should remember that our safety did not come without a price.
But somehow we've forgotten that, and police officers are portrayed by the media as enemies - not allies.
Today myself and many other Members of Congress are displaying a blue light in our office window to honor Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Those who put their lives on the line every day to protect us in America deserve better than what they're currently getting from this society.
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Everyone who lives around Mound City knows how important Squaw Creek is to people here. But, in the last days of the Obama administration, bureaucrats in Washington are trying to step in and force us to change its name.
The worst part is that Fish and Wildlife Services didn't ask anyone in the public for their opinion before announcing the change. No one in Holt County asked for this. And no one here wants it. It's purely political.
I'm working to stop FWS from changing the name of Squaw Creek Wildlife Refuge. I sent a letter to its director last month and will continue pushing them until the decision is reversed.
"No matter what your situation is, there is always a way you can overcome it"
Great read this morning in the KC Star. And well timed for the New Year. Check it out if you have a few minutes.
Congratulations to my friend Chris Chinn - Missouri's next Director of Agriculture. Chris is one of the top hog farmers in the Midwest, and she and her husband also raise cattle and grow corn & soybeans. She's been a great voice for the Missouri ag community and I know she'll continue that in her new role.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas with their families. If Santa didn't bring you what you wanted, at least the Chiefs clinched the playoffs today.
There's a lot of things I'm excited about in 2017. For starters, we'll finally have a President with the right approach to our economy, our military, our immigration laws, and most importantly, to life itself.
For the last eight years, we've had to endure the most pro-choice Presidential administration in our history. That will change on January 20, but in the House of Representatives I'm looking to get a head start.
On the first day of the new Congress, I'm helping introduce a bill that fully defunds Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. Our bill - which finally can't be blocked by the Obama White House - will help put an end to the big business of abortion. And it will make sure taxpayers never again have to pay to fund tragedies like these:
Today is the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It's a day that will live in infamy, a day that forever changed the course of human history, and a day that still impacts America in 2016.
2,403 Americans gave their lives that day. Hundreds of thousands more died in the four years that followed, fighting against the very same evil that inspired those attacks on Pearl Harbor.
...Will Lehner was just 20 years old when he was stationed on patrol in the waters off the Hawaiian coast. 75 years later, Lehner is sharing his story about the first shots that were fired that day. And it's not what you think.
I need your input on tax reform. Follow this link to give me your thoughts, concerns, and ideas as Republican majorities in Congress prepare to work with President Elect Trump to overhaul the tax code.
Our tax code was last updated 30 years ago. It needs to be designed for the 21st century - not the 1980s.
That’s why tax reform that closes loopholes for special interests, jumpstarts the economy, and stops the IRS’ from operating for political reasons will be one of my top focuses in the next Congress.
But it’s more than just promises and talking points - tax reform means something for everyone in this country. It means businesses can focus on prosperity - not compliance. I...t means individuals can complete their taxes alone every year without fear of an audit. And it means our GDP grows when businesses can make decisions based on economics instead of IRS guidelines.
Politics is one of the things that has held back tax reform - that’s why it’s so important for everyone to be involved in this process. Real tax reform has to be completed in the most transparent way possible. I set up a website for everyone to submit thoughts and ideas on our tax code. Find the link for that site here, and check out the video on the House's work on tax reform too.
In June, Ways and Means Republicans led the effort to unveil a “Better Way for Tax Reform.” This bold Blueprint delivers a 21st century tax code built for gr...
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Wishing a blessed Thanksgiving to you and your family. A special blessing for all of those missing their loved ones today as they serve and protect us around the world. Great day to remember Psalm 105:1. Count your blessesings today, there's so much we have to be thankful for in this country.
Congratulations to Pike County's Meagan Kaiser on being named to the United Soybean Board.
Meagan is a local farmer, the former director of Upper Mississippi, Illinois & Missouri Rivers Association, and an active member of the business community in northeast Missouri. I know she'll serve our state and all of us soybean farmers well on the board.
The Missouri Ruralist had a great write up Meagan this week. Check it out here.
Today is National Rural Health Day.
We depend on Critical Access Hospitals to provide health care to the 1-in-5 Americans who live in rural areas. That includes most of my district in northern Missouri.
But more than being the only option for so many rural Americans, CAHs create more than 100 jobs and $5 million in economic activity for every community they're in.
...When rural hospitals close, they leave people - especially seniors - at risk. And we could lose nearly half of all the rural facilities in the U.S. we don't act.
That's why I introduced the Save Rural Hospitals Act earlier this year. My bill will stop impending hospital closures to make sure rural Americans can get the healthcare they need. Lives depend on it.
That process we just completed on Tuesday - the democratic election that allowed all of us the opportunity to select the people who represent us in government - you can thank a veteran for that.
You can thank a veteran for the right to freely express yourself in America - the right to protest, the right to free press, and the right to practice whatever religion you want. None of those persists without the men and women who have risked everything to serve and protect the country we love.
Today, we honor them for that, and thank God for all of those who have sacrificed everything for our freedoms.
Interesting story about one of my heroes growing up.
Amelia Earhart was born just across the river from northwest Missouri, in Atchison, Kansas. She made history by becoming the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Then she tried to fly alone across the world, and she never came home. No one for sure knows what happened to her or where she failed along the way. But one group is out to prove that she died heroically, surviving for weeks - or even months - in a tiny remote island in the South Pacific. Her remains could have been those found in Nikumaroro, Kiribati - literally, the middle of nowhere.
Last week, 50 million Americans found out their healthcare costs will go up by more than 25% in 2017. Although this is reason to worry for everyone affected, it’s not surprising to anybody who’s paid attention to Obamacare since it became law.
The administration has failed to deliver on so many of the promises President Obama made before Obamacare was pushed through Congress in the middle of the night. You can’t keep the plan you liked. Your healthcare costs haven’t gone down.... And you don’t have more options than you did before.
Competition is the key to affordable health care. Obamacare established co-ops with the intent of increasing competition with insurance companies. But the free market doesn’t work when the government artificially props up businesses that can’t compete on their own, and only six of those 23 co-ops are still operating today.
This is not how health care should work in America. It is time to scrap this law and start over with market-driven solutions that rely less on top-down mandates from the federal government and more on honest, transparent reforms that make sense for every American.
Our plan gives you more control so you can choose the plan that best meets your needs—not Washington’s mandates. We will: Make it easier to take insurance fr...
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