@RepJasonSmith will continue to vote against legislation that benefits his constituents, while supporting reactionary Republicans that are working to dismantle our democracy.
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Appropriation bill that he voted against, which the president signed.
He voted against the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act which was signed by the president.
Additional provisions of the PPP Act.
He was one of 40 House Republicans that voted against the Families First Coronavirus Act. The bill was signed into law in March.
Further Continuous Appropriations Act 2020, and Further Health Extender Act of 2019. You guessed it, he voted against the bill.
Appropriations Act and Health Extenders Act of 2019 that he voted against.
Rep. Smith is not working to improve the lives of Missourians living in the 8th Cong. District. The district has the lowest per capita income and is 2nd in income below the poverty line. It ranks last in educational achievement and 1st in % of the population that are 65+ y. o.
All of the bills that he voted against would have benefited his constituents. Dems need to do a better job of speaking with their neighbors in rural districts to ask them what they want their rep. to do for them. +
After listening to them, explain how Smith has been responding to their concerns.
“US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.”
“[T]he largest obstacle to addressing the US health disadvantage is not a lack of evidence or uncertainty about effective interventions but limited political support among both the public and policymakers to
enact the policies and commit the necessary resources to implement them.”
"There’s a certain amount of denial among the policymakers. What we were explaining ran so counter to the narrative that many politicians have of American exceptionalism and too many believe that, if
you’re a corporate executive or a billionaire, you’re fine.”
“Even with Covid, the US sees itself as a particular model and what happens elsewhere is kind of irrelevant. We are, after all, the greatest country in the world, the richest and the greatest with the greatest health
#Missouri government is fiscally irresponsible with our tax dollars!
The supplemental spending bill proposed by the governor "includes money to hire two attorneys and pay other increased costs as the Administrative Hearing Commission considers more than 850 appeals from +
companies denied licenses to grow, process and sell medical marijuana."
The state will "demand repayment of any unemployment money it paid in error to residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began — regardless of whether the overpayments came from state or federal funds."
A letter to the editor that I submitted over a week ago was also published in the paper yesterday. It's also about the integrity of our elections. I called on Senators Blunt and Hawley, along w/ Rep. Jason Smith, to support a quick passage of the #ForThePeopleAct.
“Just watched as numerous reps voted yes on a bill passing through committee that they don’t support. It’s so frustrating how the budget chair and leadership use their leverage on other issues to make members support things
they know are bad policy.
The bill was to take about 3% of the SLPS and KCP budgets and transfer it to the charter schools in their districts. The argument for doing so being that it makes all of the per pupil dollars follow the students that go to the charter schools
(currently a small share of local dollars stays with the districts).
While this change sounds fair and “equal,” the problem is it’s not so simple to think that charters and traditional public schools have all the same costs and therefore deserve all the same public funding.
“If right doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter how good the Constitution is.
It doesn’t matter how brilliant the Framers were.
It doesn’t matter how good or bad our advocacy in this trial is.
It doesn’t matter how well written the oath of impartiality is.
If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost.
If the truth doesn’t matter, we’re lost.
The Framers couldn’t protect us from ourselves if right and truth don’t matter.
And you know that what he did was not right. That’s what they do in the old country, that Col. Vindman’s father came from. Or the old country that my great-grandfather came from. Or the old countries that your ancestors came from, or maybe you came from.