In January 2019, Missouri's Jason Smith yelled it at a Latino colleague standing at the podium, then wouldn't own up to it in the room. His excuse was that Democrats had gone to Puerto Rico during the shutdown — a shutdown he voted three times not to end.
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 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.
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.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 182 Republicans we track voted no — the second time Congress has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop Congress from saying it.
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums more than double.
