Jason Smith

the best ambassadors for America can be ordinary Americans going to travel and embodying our ideals.

I think the recent round of changes that we made were very much focused on the ability of the Cuban people.

Growing up and working on my great-grandfather's farm, I learned many values. One that I was taught is a comparison and, basically, when you are out there working with the hogs, you learn that there is little value in hogwash. I would…

I thank the chairman. So let's look at it. If you have a $30,000 medical procedure, under his old insurance plan, he had a $2,500 deductible. Under this new plan, with his $6,350 deductible plus the 40 percent on top of it, he is going to…

We have heard the comment numerous times, ``If you like your health care, you can keep it,'' what the President had said. Mr. Speaker, we know that that was not true. I would like to give you an example of just one of thousands that I have…

This is a war on rural Americans. It is a war on the middle class.

On rollcall No. 32 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Schock The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by…

I thank the chairman for bringing this legislation to the floor. Mr. Speaker, President Obama, just last week, made the action and said, ``Change the law,'' on immigration granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. The President…

President Obama is violating his constitutional obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

The President cannot make a law without the consent of both houses of Congress.

President Obama should remember his oath of office to uphold all laws, including immigration laws.

President Obama is violating the Constitution, which explicitly reserves immigration policy for Congress.

For months I have said how detrimental the new Waters of the United States EPA regulation would be to the people of my district. We have long protected some of the most beautiful waterways in the world, but once again, bureaucrats think…

Missouri's Eighth District has more than 200 miles of the Mississippi River and is dependent on barge traffic to move our crops. This year, with one of the largest harvests on record, the Army Corps of Engineers closed a stretch of the…

Today, September 17, 2014, marks 82,910 days since the Constitution was signed in 1787. Though I have only been a United States Congressman for 469 of those days, on every one of them, I work to uphold the oath of office I swore: to defend…

I am proud today to stand up in support of legislation that I cosponsored that the House will consider later today, H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. As the creator of U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve is one of the…

I hope that maybe they'll figure out how the legislative process works and decide to govern for the people of the United States.

Even the USCIS union has stated that USCIS adjudicators are being pressured to 'get to yes' on petitions and applications for immigration benefits.

Assuming that the leaked memo is accurate, we have never had a program where individuals in another country have been able to take advantage of the system.

You need to be more diligent to make sure you can understand how much of a financial impact your asks are going to have on private industry and private citizens before you start asking.

My question--I have two. Has anyone at DoJ voiced concerns that Operation Choke Point could go too far and harm entire industries?

I think it is very important that any government agency, any Federal agency, let alone DOJ--that if they are asking or requesting something out of any industry or any individual or any taxpayer, they better know the ramifications of their…

Applying the Federal permitting process to every pond, gully, dry creek bed, irrigation ditch, puddle or other similar collection of water would be a huge increase in our regulatory burden.

If this administration cannot be bothered to explain these proposed regulations to this committee and answer simple questions from Republicans and Democrats in front of this panel of assembled experts, how can we expect them to explain…

I have joined with my colleagues and other members of this committee to ask the administration to withdraw both the proposed 'Waters of the United States' rule and the new Forest Service groundwater rule.