WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today are investigating whether the U.S. Office of Speci  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Ahead of the 2025 expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade preference program, the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee considered potential reforms to help the program better meet the interests of the United States, primarily expanding fair market access for U.S. farmers, and combatting China and Russia's aggression on the African contine  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Jason Smith (Mo.) announced that he has coauthored legislation to block the Biden administration's rule mandating electronic identification (EID) eartags for cattle and bison moving interstate. "The Biden administration has no business forcing Missouri ranchers to comply with this overreaching, expensive, and unworkable mandate," said Smith. "Sadly, this is just a  more