U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) and fellow lawmakers are asking Speaker Pelosi to avoid partisan politics and allow the House to pass funding for our troops without attaching burdensome, divisive and unrelated measures. Read more »

History was made 20 years ago today when the Iron Curtain first decribed by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Missouri crumbled under the pressure of President Ronald Reagan's policy of peace through strength. Read more »

After a principled "no" vote today on behalf of the 9th Congressional District of Missouri, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) condemned the passage of the disastrous Democratic House health care bill that will raise taxes, increase health care costs, add to our national debt and hurt America's seniors, families and small businesses. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) and his colleagues publicly demonstrated to the American people, during a Republican Reading Room focusing on Pelosi's health care bill, that they are reading the health care bill, and want the public to do the same and make sure their voices are heard as the House prepares to vote on this massive, 20-pound, 1990-page piece of legislation. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) agrees that health reform is needed but opposes Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats' government takeover of health care, while at the same time spending money American families just can't afford. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer's (MO-9) bi-partisan legislation aimed at making one of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) capital access programs more effective and responsive to the needs of America's small business owners passed the full House today and now moves to the U.S. Senate for consideration. Luetkemeyer's legislation would help create jobs by expanding access to small business investment companies without additional costs to taxpayers. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of America's small business owners and urged his colleagues to support H.R. 3854, the Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009. Read more »

Even though the American people spoke loud and clear this past summer against a government takeover of health care, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow liberals in the House have decided to ignore them and instead have chosen to proceed with a bill that puts government bureaucrats in control of health care. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) and fellow lawmakers are again calling on House Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer to avoid partisan tactics and allow the House to pass funding for our troops without attaching burdensome, divisive and unrelated measures. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) and members of the House Republican Freshmen Class today expressed their concerns about the liberal Majority's troubling trend of crafting legislation in secret and forcing votes on legislation no one has a chance to read. Read more »