This past week, Representative Smith from the 8th District has voted on a few bills to counter the largeness of government. While keeping the debt ceiling in mind, other business is going forward.<\/p>\n
This house bill reforms the government\u2019s hiring process with a focus on skills-based assessments \u2013 rather than simply requiring a degree, which locks many capable Americans out of the job market. Representative Smith voted Yes. Bill passed.<\/p>\n
\u00a0This bill requires the Director of OMB to establish and maintain a public, searchable database. This public database is for agencies to upload information on settlement agreements entered into as a party to a lawsuit. Incidentally, the OMB is the Office of Management and Budget [1]<\/sup><\/a> which oversees the President’s vision for our country. <\/p>\n This bill aims at protecting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by preventing further drawdowns of reserves for non-emergency situations without a plan to increase domestic energy production. This is a simple first step in returning the United States to being an energy-independent nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can keep abreast of Representative Smith’s votes and stands on issues by visiting his website her<\/a>e.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This past week, Representative Smith from the 8th District has voted on a few bills to counter the largeness of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[210,213,203,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20785"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}H.R. 21<\/h3>\n
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