Building on his experience as a bank examiner, small businessman and community banker, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) has been asked to return as vice chairman to the House Small Business Committee after a two year absence and has been named to continue serving on the House Financial Services Committee where he was promoted to a subcommittee vice chairmanship for the 113th Congress. Read more »

Looking back on 2012, I feel grateful to again have served as your voice in Congress. It has been a year of great turmoil in Washington but it also has been one in which several issues facing the people of the 9th District were tackled head on and I am proud of what we have accomplished for a wide cross-section of folks. Read more »

President Obama has signed into law U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (MO-9) bipartisan bill to eliminate the requirement that ATMs display duplicative signs disclosing their fees in an effort to reduce fraud and protect consumers. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (MO-9) measure to eliminate the requirement that ATMs display duplicative signs disclosing their fees has been sent to President Obama for his signature as part of a bill passed overwhelmingly by the House and cleared last night by the Senate. Read more »

The House of Representatives today passed legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) that will end up saving customers of banks and credit unions time and money by eliminating redundant mailings. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today was honored by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) with the group’s Guardian of Small Business Award for his work on legislation seeking to create jobs for hard-working Missourians by expanding opportunities for America’s small businesses. Read more »

I was more than a little annoyed recently during a committee hearing with a government official who seemed intent on defending an agency created by the troubling Dodd-Frank Act that is more interested in navel gazing than helping our nation’s small businesses. Read more »

In an effort to provide Americans greater insight into major financial decisions affecting the overall health of our economy, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today voted in favor of legislation that would require the U.S. Federal Reserve to conduct a first-ever complete audit of its books and provide details about its monetary policy discussions. Read more »

As the European economic and banking crisis continues to deteriorate, I’m struck, incredulously so, with the direction of the proposed political and financial solutions. Politically, the people of the affected countries seem to have their heads in the sand, and refuse to acknowledge their predicament and reject the market-based proposed solutions. The French have elected a president who ran almost exclusively on an anti-austerity ticket, and despite the fact that the newly-elected Greek government talks the talk on reform it remains unclear whether or not it will have the political fortitude to deliver. Read more »

Bipartisan legislation that eliminates a redundant fee disclosure requirement on automated teller machines (ATMs) was approved on Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee. Read more »