Every other member of Missouri's congressional delegation voted yes. A fellow Missouri Republican brought the resolution to the floor. Burlison voted no — and never said why.
Burlison said Missouri already had laws covering AI deepfakes. Missouri didn't. Lawmakers there have now failed to pass one five times running.
Missouri's congressman went on cable TV and said House Republicans are investigating Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance — then admitted, 'I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?' He also sits on the subcommittee that writes the FCC's budget.
Missouri voters buried two Republican ballot measures on Aug. 4 — one to hand a single congressional district veto power over citizen initiatives, one to swap the income tax for higher sales taxes. Four of Missouri's five Republican congressmen backed the gerrymander that made the first one work.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
In July 2021, as Missouri led the nation in COVID cases, Jason Smith told his constituents Biden wanted to knock down their doors to force vaccines on them. Weeks later he admitted he'd taken the vaccine himself and that it works.
Missouri's Jason Smith chairs the tax committee. He used that power to slip a doubled prison sentence for tax-return leakers into a 1,082-page budget bill — while telling his own committee there was nothing to see in DOGE's access to taxpayer data.