Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Ann Wagner today held a press conference with Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Sean Duffy (R-Wisc.), Martha Roby (R-Ala.) and a bipartisan group of Members calling for investigations and committee hearings on the recently released undercover video showing the top doctor at Planned Parenthood soliciting buyers for fetal organs and tissue.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) today issued the below statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) last week introduced legislation that requires the Environmental Protection Agency to provide domestic cost-benefit analysis before issuing rules and regulations. The EPA Regulatory Domestic Benefit Act, H.R. 3015, holds the EPA accountable to reflect the true benefits and costs, as well as real negative impacts of its regulations on the American people.
"Disease touches everyone at one time or another, whether through personal experience or that of a loved one or a friend. It's heartbreaking to meet a grandmother whose retirement travel plans have been cut short by the onset of ALS or talk to a young mother of three who at age 32 is dying from incurable heart disease. These stories are all too common because there are 10,000 known diseases or conditions but only 500 cures and treatments for them," Rep. Wagner said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) issued the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court of the United States' decision on King v. Burwell, a case determining the legality of certain health care exchange subsidies. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Obama Administration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of Missouri's Congressional delegation today issued a letter U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and its devastating effects rippling through numerous industries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Members of Missouri's Congressional delegation this week issued a letter to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo, suggesting the agency keep the NGA West complex at one of four sites in the Show Me State.
Below is a copy of that letter and reflections on the complex's importance by Missouri's House delegation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In reaction to the White House's sweeping regulation, the EPA's final "waters of the United States" rule, Congresswoman Ann Wagner issued following statement.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed S.178, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (JVTA), 420-3. Prior to its passage, Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) took to the House floor to discuss her signature legislation, the SAVE Act, which is included in this bill. The SAVE Act, or The Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act, combats human trafficking by preventing the knowing advertisement of sex trafficking. The JVTA is now on its way the president's desk to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives tonight passed H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, 242-184-1. Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), a co-sponsor of the bill and a lifelong advocate for the unborn, spoke on the House floor shortly before its passage.