Columns

Keeping Meat on the Menu

June 17, 2016 Article

While Nebraska farmers and ranchers dedicate themselves daily to producing high-quality food, ideologically-motivated activists are working to take meat off the menu in institutions across the country.

Issues:

Agriculture, Defense

A Better Way to Help Those in Need

June 10, 2016 Article

There is a better way to help those in need, and it comes not through government handouts but through empowering individuals to reach their true potential and then help others do the same.

Issues:

Economy, Ways & Means

Rep. Smith Op-Ed in The Hill: Assaults on Modern Agriculture

June 9, 2016 Article

Rejecting scientific advancements in agriculture may be in fashion, but this fad poses great dangers to the affordability and accessibility of food domestically and worldwide.

Issues:

Agriculture

Obamacare’s Continued Co-Op Failures

June 3, 2016 Article

Tens of thousands of Nebraskans lost their health insurance at the end of 2014 when CoOportunity Health, the Obamacare Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (co-op) in Nebraska and Iowa, announced it was facing liquidation. On May 26, Ohio’s InHealth Mutual became the latest co-op failure, leaving 22,000 Ohioans suddenly without coverage.

Issues:

Health Care

Joining Forces to Fight Red Tape

May 27, 2016 Article

Much of our time in Congress is spent fighting overreach by the executive branch. In fact, a study just released by the Heritage Foundation found 20,642 new regulations have been added throughout the Obama presidency.

Issues:

Agriculture