PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how policymakers must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from them about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after ...

PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how the Committee and Congress must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from Americans about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of ...

WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement on the January jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Only days away from President Biden’s State of the Union address, the true state of America’s economy isn’t measuring up to the Biden ...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve continued its interest rate increases at the fastest rate in 40 years – raising rates another 25 basis points, for a total of 4.5 percent, the eighth increase since March 2022 and cumulatively larger than the past 15 years combined: “With the price ...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published guidance on February 2 regarding the treatment of tax credits and allocation of tax among countries within its global minimum tax project: “This announcement ...

House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced today that the Committee will hold a field hearing on the State of the American Economy: Appalachia. The hearing will take place on Monday, February 6, 2023, in Petersburg, West Virginia.  “During our first official hearing of the ...

WASHINGTON, DC - In response to the Biden Administration’s failure to provide timely accountings of the size, scope, and severity of pandemic fraud perpetrated on the American public, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)

WASHINGTON, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced a formal request to establish a dispute settlement panel to investigate Canada’s dairy practices under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA): “American farmers deserve a level playing ...

President Biden and congressional Democrats should listen to Americans demanding fiscal responsibility and address record debt and deficits through debt ceiling negotiations, said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) yesterday on Fox Business’s Cavuto Coast to Coast.

WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 382, the Pandemic Is Over Act: “It took House Republicans breaking up one-party Democrat rule in Washington to force President Biden to take the ...