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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – Outside at the Staten Island port, the Ways and Means Committee held a field hearing with Americans on the front line of America’s trade relationships. The conversation highlighted how China’s unfair trade practices are hurting American workers, job creators, and farmers, and how America must use trade enforcement tools to ensure farmers maintain fair ...

As prepared for delivery. "Welcome to today’s field hearing of the Ways and Means Committee about the future of America’s trade policy.   "As America’s front door to the world, New York City and ports like the one here on Staten Island, represent the front lines of America’s global trade. Last year, the total value of U.S. goods traded was approximately $5.3 trillion – ...

Washington, D.C. - House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced that the Committee will hold a field hearing on Trade in America: Securing Supply Chains and Protecting the American Worker. The hearing will take place Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Staten Island, New York.

Working families and small businesses are realizing that Democrats’ latest green subsidy scheme will cost more than promised. Not only will their tax dollars go towards billion-dollar corporations, they will also flow to Chinese entities of concern and put American workers at a disadvantage. Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following fact sheet with this ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – When U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai appeared before the Ways and Means Committee on Friday to discuss the President’s trade agenda, she faced tough questions on whether that trade agenda even exists, why the White House is refusing to work with lawmakers despite the Constitution giving Congress legal authority over trade, and the Biden ...

QUITO, ECUADOR – Today, during a bipartisan meeting with Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and key members of his cabinet, Chairman Smith reiterated the need to increase U.S. engagement in Ecuador to help counter China’s growing influence in the region. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) made the following statement after the ...

Mexico city, Mexico - Today, a bipartisan delegation of the House Ways and Means Committee led by Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to encourage the Mexican government to abide by its obligations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Chairman Smith also voiced disapproval of the President’s recent comments ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Promoting working class families over special interests in the Ways and Means Committee has corporate America in an uproar, said Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Monday evening.

As prepared for delivery "During two years of one-party Democrat rule in Washington, this Committee should have done robust oversight of the Biden Administration – instead, it overlooked the Administration’s worst behaviors. Whether it was rampant spending driving up inflation or tax increases that will only further shrink the wallets of families, farmers, and small businesses, the ...

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 ...