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Government waste. It’s not hard to find if you just look.
According to a report just released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 17 federal agencies are currently using "25 percent or less of their headquarters buildings' capacity." That's right, over three-quarters of this office space is just sitting empty. At some agencies, usage rates are as low as nine percent.
These last few months have been dry—too dry. While the rain we did receive recently in parts of North Missouri was welcome, although not with the accompanying storms, it certainly wasn’t enough. The corn crop is withering away in the fields, pastures are picked clean, and farmers are already scrambling to find hay to feed their herds.
On July 4th, 1776, the Second Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence and changed the course of history forever.
The right to keep and bear arms is one of our most sacred, God-given rights. It's so foundational to our republic, that our founding fathers sought to protect it in the second amendment to our Constitution. Despite this, the Left has been looking for every avenue to chip away at this right, and many others for that matter, for years.
Look no further than the endless rules, executive orders, and laws that they've rammed through to erode our 2nd Amendment rights. Each little chip adds up, and before you know it, your rights are gone.
Today, as Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I introduced the bipartisan Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, which reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation infrastructure programs for the next five years.
Our country is barreling down the tracks in the wrong direction. Record spending by the Biden Administration over the last two years has fueled record inflation, rising prices at the gas pump, grocery store, and just about everywhere else. American families who were already struggling to get by are now barely treading water.
In a huge win for farmers, ranchers, small business owners, and families—the Supreme Court delivered a historic opinion today dramatically reining in the EPA’s authority to regulate our land.
The ruling strikes down the kind of overly broad interpretation of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) adopted by the Biden and Obama Administrations that threatened to subject virtually every square inch of American farmland to EPA regulation.
We've spent over five billion dollars building more than 2,700 miles of wall—and no, not at our southern border. All along our nation's highways, we've built noise abatement walls—20 to 30 feet tall in some cases. Protecting neighborhoods from highway noise might be worthwhile, but it isn't a crisis. What's happening at our southern border is a crisis.
Every year I have the distinct honor of nominating a handful of North Missouri's finest young men and women to attend our Nation's service academies—the US Military Academy (West Point), US Naval Academy, US Coast Guard Academy, US Air Force Academy, and the US Merchant Marine Academy. These institutions offer some of the finest educational opportunities in the world in exchange for a five-year commitment to serve our nation.
There are some basic requirements that every applicant must meet:
In July, the United States federal government will hit its debt ceiling. Now you might be asking yourself: what is the debt ceiling and why should I care?
Well, in addition to authorizing and appropriating what funds the government can spend, Congress also sets a limit on the maximum amount of money the government can borrow—called the debt ceiling or debt limit.