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2025 in Review
My staff and I have been hard at work during 2025 to make sure you are represented well. Over the last year, we sent out 31,779 letters responding to your comments and concerns regarding issues and legislation. Additionally, my staff and I had 330 meetings with constituents, businesses, and advocacy groups to ensure that your concerns were heard.
If you are ever in Washington, D.C., please come visit our office! This year, our office gave 153 tours of the Capitol.
In our district office, over 600 constituents were assisted with federal casework issues, including many IRS, passport, veterans, and social security cases.
Our district office staff visited schools throughout the Sixth Congressional District and made presentations about the U.S Constitution to approximately 2600 fifth grade students.
This year marked the first session of the 119th Congress, and my legislative staff and I were hard at work. I cosponsored 104 pieces of legislation and introduced 12, including the bill I introduced to reverse one of the Biden administration’s burdensome regulations that was signed into law. I also introduced legislation to codify five executive orders issued by President Trump to secure America’s supply of critical minerals and a bill to create a new health insurance market that will cover people with preexisting conditions, give people more choice in plans, and require price transparency that we believe will save the average family of four between $6,000 - $9,000 annually.
I have been working with the White House to secure our access to refined rare earth elements from foreign and domestic sources while also working to expedite the construction of processing and refining facilities in the United States. This is a major national security issue. There is not a single major refinery for rare earth elements anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. There are only nine in the world, with eight in China and one in Malaysia. Our dependence on China has put us in an extremely vulnerable position, threatening both our economic security and our national security. That is why I introduced H.R. 6373, the Air Permitting Improvements to Protect National Security Act of 2025, to amend the Clean Air Act to expedite permitting for this critical infrastructure in the United States.
I also participated in 66 committee hearings throughout this year with the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Working alongside Congressional Republicans, the first year of President Trump’s term has been a success for the American people. Under President Biden, energy was unaffordable, our southern border was being invaded, and common sense was nowhere to be found. After just one year, our border is secure, gas is below $3.00 a gallon in 38 states, and legislation and executive actions have been enacted to keep biological men out of women’s sports. The Working Family Tax Cuts Act (also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill) was also passed and signed into law. This bill reduced taxes for American families and senior citizens. This also established the Rural Health Transformation Fund, which is the largest investment in rural health care in modern American history.
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