U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) successfully led efforts in the House to pass two critical amendments prohibiting funding of the Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Plan (MRERP) and the Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study (MRAPS). Read more »

This week, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) sent a letter, with the support of the entire Missouri delegation, to President Obama urging that he approve Governor Jay Nixon’s request for a major disaster declaration after the state suffered severe storms, tornadoes, high winds, and flooding in May and June of this year. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today expressed disappointment that Senate Democrats failed to pass legislation addressing student loan rates that doubled today despite having the opportunity to consider the Smarter Solutions for Students Act passed in May by a bipartisan majority of House members that would have stopped the increase and stopped Congress from arbitrarily setting student loan rates in the future. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today voted in support of legislation that would designate the new Interstate 70 bridge, which will connect St. Louis to southwestern Illinois, as the “Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.” Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today expressed significant disappointment that the House of Representatives failed to pass the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill) that would have enacted fiscally responsible reform to farm and nutrition policies, providingcertainty to farm families in Missouri’s 3rd District and ensuring that America would continue to have the most inexpensive and safe food supply in the world. Read more »

Mike Mittler, president and co-founder of Mittler Brothers Machining and Tooling in Wright City, is set to testify tomorrow before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which will be co-chaired by U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3), as part of ongoing efforts to hear from business owners about their successes and how best to improve the economy. Read more »

As a dedicated supporter of life who was horrified by the details of convicted murderer and Philadeplia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell’s killing of infants, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today voted in favor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that bans abortions more than 20 weeks into pregnancy and issued the following statement: Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) has signed onto a resolution (H.Res. 35) of no confidence regarding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s job performance due to his part in the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking scandal and the Justice Department’s probe of journalists’ phone records. Read more »

The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1038, the Public Power Risk Management Act, which will place utility special entities on a level playing field with everyone else in the marketplace and protect public power ratepayers from cost increases by increasing the sources from which public power entities may purchase energy for future needs. Read more »

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has agreed to review the manner in which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) handled U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (MO-3) requests for an investigation of the Humane Society of the United States’ (HSUS) tax-exempt status and will specifically look into IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and her staff. Read more »