If we cannot use the reliable energy coal provides, lights across rural Missouri and America will be out.
Madison Smith
The Public Record
this administration's war on coal, and more generally, the use of rules and regulations to bypass the policy process, will have disastrous consequences to my congressional district, and to other districts across rural America.
The Senate, controlled by the Democrats, with no assistance from the White House, did nothing about it.
I urge every one of my colleagues to monitor and watch these crazy regulations that come from every department, whether it is the National Park Service or whether it is the IRS.
We do not appreciate it. And I am glad that the local park superintendant did rescind that rule, but the fact that rule was ever in place is unacceptable.
Folks come from all over the State and around the country to be guided on float trips on the rivers and streams contained in my district.
I don't see anywhere in the Constitution where it says that we should create a Blueway in the White River basin.





