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For too long, we’ve been kicking around “WOTUS.” Short for “waters of the United States,” it was originally supposed to lay out what was regulated under the Clean Water Act. However, the Obama Administration decided to weaponize it, and we’ve been fighting it ever since.

Imagine working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and being expected to be right 100 percent of the time. Not 99.9 percent of the time—100 percent of the time. You don’t get to choose which days you work, and that means you’re working a lot of Saturdays and Sundays while your kids are home and a whole lot of missed baseball, softball, and other sporting events.

Raising cattle sounds mighty easy until you get kicked in the gut by a thousand-pound steer. 

At 12 a.m. on October 1st, the government shut down. It didn’t have to happen. House Republicans already passed a bill to keep the government open. There were no gimmicks and no partisan politics involved; just a straightforward, clean bill that ensured our troops and Border Patrol agents get paid and the government continued to operate.

North Missouri spans a lot of miles. You don’t have go far to find transportation issues that need fixing. That might be a lettered route in Adair County or traffic snarls in the Northland of Kansas City.

“When disaster strikes…FEMA just gets in the way.”

ast week, I discussed the service medals my office was able to recover for a Northwest Missouri veteran’s family. Over the years, I’ve had the honor of doing that many times. One of the great joys of representing you is helping when the federal bureaucracy isn’t getting the job done.

As World War II raged on, William Taul of Northwest Missouri entered the United States Army and honorably defended our country. His service, like so many others, helped ensure that our country, and the world, remained free.