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Tracking the actions, statements and activities of Representative Adrian Smith, Republican, representing Nebraska's 3rd District.
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Smith, Terry, Fortenberry Fail Nebraska Children Again
Today in the US House of Representatives, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was put forward for a vote. As previously reported, this bill has been a long time coming, being defeated through 2 vetoes from President Bush, and not ...
Nebraska Congressmen Have Chance to Support SCHIP
This week, the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) will be coming up for a vote. According to the New York Times, Democrats will be putting forth a bill that carry’s the same language as the last bill put forth to try and expand the pr...
Assessments of Smith’s Performance in Congress
Today I will highlight the evaluations done by 3 different organizations with regards to how members of Congress are performing. As has continued to be shown, Adrian Smith receives very low marks.POWER RANKINGSThe Congress.org's Power Rankings have b...
House Actions 2/25/2008 - 2/29/2008
After a week off, the House returned, and Republicans still had the chip on their shoulders regarding the FISA reauthorization bill. They didn't want it to go to Conference. They wanted an immediate vote. So they kept up their games, and as usual, Ad...
House Actions 2/11/2008 - 2/15/2008
This week in the House was an ongoing battle over FISA and warrantless wiretapping. A bill revamping the program had gone through the House previously, and then the Senate had considered. The Senate added on amendments that would give telecom compani...
House Actions 2/4/2008 - 2/8/2008
This week in the House focused on 2 major bills: the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, and the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.Adrian Smith supported both bills in the end, and made a couple of floor statements. However, he did not spo...
More Hearing Transcripts
After taking a much needed break, I'm back to catching up on the activities of Congressman Adrian Smith. The following are excerpts from hearings Smith should have participated in, given his membership in those committees. These transcripts are not a...
House Actions 1/28/2008 - 2/1/2008
During this week on the House floor, the biggest debate occurred over the first vote on the Economic Stimulus package. Adrian Smith joined the vast majority in the House to pass the initial version.The only other major bill debated was to designate t...
House Actions 1/21/2008 - 1/25/2008
There was little action in the House during this week. There were a total of 4 roll call votes held.The primary votes were to try and override the veto by President Bush on the SCHIP bill from the end of last year. Adrian Smith joined his fellow Repu...
House Actions 1/14/2008 - 1/18/2008
This week marked the start of the 2nd Session of the 110th Congress.The first bill to be considered was the Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2007 (or S-MINER Act). It improved safety standards for miners. It would requi...
Smith Job Performance: Year-End Summary
Since we reached the end of the 1st Session in the 110th Congress, its a good time to recap what Adrian Smith's performance was for his first year in Congress.CLUB FOR GROWTH KEY VOTESGiven that the Club for Growth paid out over $500,000 to Adrian Sm...
House Actions 12/17/2007 - 12/21/2007
This last week in the First Session of the 110th Congress was the culmination of what has become a sad truth. Throughout the entire year, the Republicans, with Adrian Smith marching lock-step, have tried to stall or prevent most of major work in Cong...
House Actions 12/10/2007 - 12/14/2007
During this week in the House, there was not a lot of action, but what did happen did continue to show where Adrian Smith has his loyalties.Smith voted against extending the Terrorism Insurance Program, which helps those who are victims of a terroris...
House Actions 12/3/2007 - 12/7/2007
This week, there were only 3 days that the House gathered to vote on various bills. Adrian Smith was missing on December 4th and 5th. As a result, he missed 11 votes. Specifically, he was not present to vote on instructing the conferees on the Intell...
House Actions 11/12/2007 - 11/16/2007
As the Congress got ready for the Thanksgiving break, the patterns of obstruction continued, and Adrian Smith continued to support those actions.There were 2 appropriations bills that had votes this week. There was the Transportation & HUD approp...
House Actions 11/5/2007 - 11/9/2007
After a delay and a break, I'm back to catch up on several weeks of information I've been collecting.During this week in the House, we saw a lot of bicking, and political games being played. As per usual, Adrian Smith followed the Republican leadersh...
House Actions 10/29/2007 - 11/2/2007
This week in the House was one where Smith decided to pretty much vote against anything put forth. They were, for the most part, not bills that usually garner a lot of attention, but nonetheless are very important in what the are trying to achieve.To...
House Actions 10/22/2007 - 10/26/2007
This week in the House started out with not a lot going on. There were several bills voted on that dealt with preserving public lands, national historical sites and designating wilderness areas. In each incident, Adrian Smith voted against the bills ...
House Actions 10/15/2007 - 10/19/2007
It was fascinating to see that, during this week of House activity, there were quite a few issues that had very broad support. Even Adrian Smith couldn’t always find ways to go the opposite direct. It’s always a good thing for the American people...
House Actions 10/8/2007 - 10/12/2007
There were only a couple major votes this week in the House. Adrian Smith made no floor statements, and didn’t add his name as a sponsor or cosponsor on any bills.This week saw a vote on the creation of a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The...
House Actions 10/1/2007 - 10/5/2007
There weren’t a lot of major conflicts this week in the House. The primary focus for most of the bills had to do with accountability in government. Most of the bills had wide support, and Adrian Smith appeared to maintain some perspective when it c...
House Actions 9/24/2007 - 9/28/2007
This week was yet another week demonstrating the predictable and ongoing voting pattern of Adrian Smith. Unless the political advantages far outweigh the partisan positioning, he continues to put party before the needs of the normal, average, everyda...
House Actions 9/17/2007 - 9/21/2007
During this week in the House, little changed with Adrian Smith as far as his voting pattern. Every week just solidifies the fact that he is nearly 100% in line with very partisan politics. It's practically as if anything supported by Democrats has t...
House Actions 9/10/2007 - 9/14/2007
There was little action in the House during the week due to many various reasons, but I will highlight what there was.ROLL CALL VOTESThere were only 2 roll call votes this week that passed with full support:H.RES.257 - Supporting the goals and ideals...
House Actions 9/4/2007 - 9/7/2007
Not a lot of votes took place this week, but what did happen continued to show an unsettling pattern to Adrian Smith’s ongoing votes.Once again, when a bill came up that addressed the needs of the Native Americans in our country (usually required b...
Smith on Fixing the Price of Gasoline
The Smith Congressional office had another column published like clockwork at the York News-Times. They appear to be the only publication in the Third District that do this. This time he was discussing gas prices.The article was entitled “Stalling...
The Farm Bill
Last week, the Farm Bill finally came to the floor for consideration and a vote. During the markup, the actual debate, and following the vote, Adrian Smith has been both partisan, and hedging his bets. While he talked about things he thought should b...
House Actions 7/23/2007 - 7/27/2007
This week was another big week going over the appropriations bills that keep our government running. We also saw a bill implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations going to the President to sign. We will see if he does it. Of course, the biggest...
House Actions 7/16/2007 - 7/20/2007
The debates over the various appropriations bills continued this week, and we continued to see Adrian Smith vote along with stalling tactics and games being played by a very small minority of the House. However, we saw Smith and his colleagues provid...
House Actions 7/9/2007 - 7/13/2007
After a brief recess for the week of the Independence Day holiday, the House was back in session. It appears Adrian Smith took a week off as well from his official duties.ROLL CALL VOTESThere were only 2 days with roll call votes this week, and I’l...
