By the Scottsbluff Star-Herald. Congressman Adrian Smith filed for re-election on Monday, Jan. 8 to represent Nebraska’s Third District in the U.S. House of Representatives. A press release from Smith’s campaign issued Monday described him as a conservative leader in Congress “while fighting the reckless Biden agenda.” “Last week I visited the southern border and [...]
By Fred Knapp, Reporter/Producer, Nebraska Public Media Members of Nebraska’s congressional delegation had a chance to voice their opinions at an annual summit meeting hosted by the Lincoln, Omaha and state chambers of commerce Tuesday. One of the leading topics brought up by the business groups was how to deal with workforce shortages. The chambers [...]
By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner LINCOLN — U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., has introduced bipartisan legislation meant to increase access to home-based health services and modernize Medicaid reimbursement. Smith introduced the Expanding Care in the Home Act on Tuesday with Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich. The legislation is meant to bring house calls back to Medicare [...]
More than 90% of audits on families and small businesses below $400,000 threshold. Op-Ed by By Steve Scalise and Adrian Smith, FoxBusiness For months, Republicans warned President Joe Biden’s push to hire 87,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in the Inflation Act would pave the way for more audits on small businesses and families across America. The president, his administration, [...]
The House on Monday voted to unwind an unprecedented spending surge at IRS and Republicans promised more such efforts are on the way. By Eric Katz, Government Executive House Republicans are pledging to use their new majority to identify agencies at which to slash budgets, pointing to their vote Monday to do so at the [...]
GOP demand could emerge again later this year to address debt limit and government funding By Laura Weiss, Roll Call The new Republican-controlled House passed a bill to claw back $71.5 billion in funding for the IRS that was part of Democrats’ climate, tax and health care reconciliation law last year. The party-line 221-210 vote [...]
By Don Walton, Lincoln Journal-Star, December 17, 2021, Updated January 3, 2022 — Rep. Adrian Smith is strongly positioned to make a bid for the chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee if Republicans gain control of the House in the 2022 election as most political prognosticators anticipate. Smith and Rep. Vern Buchanan [...]
By Risell Ventura, Nebraska.tv, Thursday, November 11, 2021 — KEARNEY, Neb. — Congressman Adrian Smith voiced his opinion about President Joe Biden's Infrastructure bill with NTV News on Thursday. The White House recently announced the largest federal investment in infrastructure in more than a decade will be signed into law by President Biden on Monday. Members [...]
By Don Walton, Lincoln Journal-Star, September 28, 2021, Updated November 2, 2021 — While the congressional redistricting spotlight has centered on metropolitan Omaha's competitive 2nd District, western and central Nebraska's 3rd District is on pace to grow to encompass 80 counties and spread across an estimated 85% of the state. It would continue to expand [...]
By York News Times, October 7, 2021 — YORK – U.S. Congressman Adrian Smith (who represents Nebraska’s Third District) and Consul of Mexico Guadalupe Sanchez went on an agricultural tour this week, as an opportunity for Congressman Smith to demonstrate the value of the ongoing trade relationship between the United States and Mexico. While they [...]
