Regulatory reform has been a top priority of mine since my days serving in the Missouri General Assembly. As a state lawmaker, I passed legislation…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act, which prohibited almost all forms of online gambling. But the law had…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, intends to spend much of August and September pushing major reforms through the Senate Armed Services…
ST. LOUIS — The Carter Carburetor plant in North St. Louis City has become, by almost all accounts, a landfill of hazardous concerns since it…
Ft. Walton, Fla. — During a conference this week, Rep. Michael Butler, D-St. Louis, met with a portion of President Barack Obama’s administration today to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In early July, Congress failed to prevent a doubling of the interest rates for federally subsidized loans for undergraduate college students.…
ST. LOUIS — U.S. Reps. Jason Smith and Billy Long announced Monday afternoon that the House Natural Resources Committee is conducting a hearing later this…
I rarely go to the House Floor to speak on an issue, for a lot of reasons (most of them are negative), because I didn’t…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With tensions rising between the Missouri legislature over a proposed tax reform bill passed by the General Assembly but vetoed by…