WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: (Kansas City, MO) Today, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) is proud to highlight critical grant funding from the Department of Justice to the City of Kansas City to support the essential services provided through the Municipal Court's Adult Drug Court Program. Today, the Department announced it would be awarding a number of grants nationwide to support community safety and recovery support  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 27, 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 year-over-year core inflation rising: "Out-of-touch Democrats are still claiming a 'soft landing' for America's economy is on the h  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Small-business owners across the country have similar stories about the benefits from the TCJA small-business tax deduction. The owner of a pool-installation business in Missouri was able to begin covering 100 percent of his eight employees' health-care costs and offering health-savings accounts (HSAs). A family rental company in Ohio raised wages and hired more seasonal workers for the busy season. A third?gen  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Senator Eric Schmitt announced today that President Joe Biden signed S.1648, The Launch Communications Act, into law. The new law, which Senators Schmitt and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced last year, will establish a new process for the FCC to issue spectrum licenses for commercial space launches. This updated process will not only help eliminate the mountain of regulatory paperwork the agency's perso  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Congress must address fixable problems within the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant that has contributed to mission drift and opened the door to waste, fraud, and abuse, witnesses urged at a Ways and Means Committee hearing on the problems with TANF. The hearing focused on the lack of guardrails and accountability in the non-assistance  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Since April, Ways and Means Committee Tax Teams have held over 100 events and traveled to 18 states to learn how Congress can not only extend the expiring provisions of President Donald J. Trump's signature 2017 tax law and avert the Biden-Harris Administration's promised $7 trillion tax hike on all Americans, but also expand on that success to reform our tax   more