WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. (Sept. 14, 2023)--Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), alongside 12 colleagues, sent a letter to United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concerns about human rights abuses against the Xinka people and urging the State Department to publicly affirm their right to free, prior and informed consent and self-determination. Congresswoman Bush worked closely with her colleagues, human  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2023: Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Strengthening Antitrust Enforcement for Meatpacking Act to empower antitrust enforcers to break up giant meatpacking and poultry monopolies and place power back in the hands of Missouri's farmers and workers. The introduction of Senator Hawley's legislation comes after Tyson Foods announced it will be closing the doors of its poultry pl  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) - Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law - joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to introduce the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act, a bipartisan bill to ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate materially deceptive content falsely depicting f  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) blasted the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday following a series of reports released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) this summer showing the IRS is failing to treat all taxpayers the same, to protect their private information, or to provide a basic leve  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 13, 2023: * * * House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Consumer Price Index showed prices rising 17.4 percent since President Biden took the Oath of Office and inflation rising again for the second month in a row: "The Democrats' reckless spending policies fueled this cost-of-living crisis,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2023: Today, in a Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee hearing entitled, "Implementing Basel III: What's the Fed's Endgame?" Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) questioned witnesses about the effects of new capital requirements for U.S. banks and the economy. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer: "It would appear to me that if we're going to basically repeal the S. 215  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, issued the following opening statement on Sept. 13, 2023: * * * Today, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer and the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled, "Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Other Efforts to Strengthen National Security in the United States." Rep. Luetkemeyer, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: This week, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03), introduced the Safeguarding American Farms from Foreign Influence Act. The legislation would empower the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist in preventing potentially hostile foreign actors from purchasing agricultural land within the United States. "Chinese nationals have breached U.S. military bases as many as 100 times in r  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: Today, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer announced that the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) will receive $20 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to expand their cancer research capabilities. The funding, which Congressman Luetkemeyer secured in the FY23 Appropriations funding, will support construction of a new 20-megawatt research rea  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) announced that the Committee will hold an oversight hearing with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg where Members will have the opportunity to question the Secretary on a range of issues, including the lack of a confirmed Administrator at the Federal Aviation Administ  more