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2026 Congressional Art Competition Winner
May 18, 2026

LANCASTER, Pa. — Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) has announced Olivia Lapp, a senior in Eastern Lancaster County School District, as the winner of the 2026 Congressional Art Competition for high school students in Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District.  

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Rep. Smucker smiling
May 7, 2026

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Rep. Smucker (PA-11), Vice Chairman of the House Budget Committee and senior member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, published an op-ed in recognition of Small Business Week in the York Daily Record, highlighting the ways small businesses bolster our economy.

Issues:Tax Reform
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Rep. Smucker in the Oval Office with President Trump, others.
April 30, 2026

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) joined President Donald J. Trump for the signing of an executive order to expand access to retirement benefits for Americans. 

The order will direct the Treasury Department to launch a website where workers without employer retirement plans can find and enroll in private IRA options. 

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Budget1125
April 30, 2026

WASHINGTON —Rep. Smucker (PA-11), Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee, voted in support of S. Con. Res. 33 – FY26 Budget Resolution, which passed the House by a vote of 215-211, 1.

Rep. Smucker made the following statement after voting in support of the measure:

“This resolution fulfills Congress’s number one duty—to ensure the safety and security of all Americans.

Issues:Budget
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Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act Floor Speech
April 27, 2026

WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2347, the Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Rep. Gwen Moore (WI-04). 

Issues:Tax Reform
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RFK and LKS
April 21, 2026

WASHINGTON — Representatives Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Sharice Davids (KS-03) introduced the bipartisan Accountable Produce is Medicine Act (H.R. 8355), legislation aimed at modernizing the U.S. health care system by incorporating proven nutrition-based interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease. 

Issues:Health Care
April 21, 2026

WASHINGTON – Representatives Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Sharice Davids (KS-03) introduced the bipartisan Accountable Produce is Medicine Act. This legislation would incorporate proven nutrition-based interventions to prevent and manage chronic disease. 

Issues:Health Care
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Budget Hearing 4-26
April 15, 2026

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Smucker (PA-11), Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee, is delivering a message to the American people this Tax Day: Americans are keeping more of what they earn thanks to Republicans’ policies in the Working Families Tax Cuts. 

Issues:Budget
March 26, 2026

Vice Chair Smucker during House Budget Committee hearing on 3% resolution: “We’ve got to somehow work through the differences we have in policy to begin to address this, to do what’s right for the American people”

WASHINGTON –Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), vice chair of the House Budget Committee, emphasized the need for bipartisanship in establishing a clear tangible goal to stabilize the nation’s debt: reducing the federal deficit to 3 percent of GDP or less by fiscal year 2036.

Issues:Budget
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Rep. Smucker speaks at a hearing.
March 25, 2026

WASHINGTON – Today, the Ways and Means Committee advanced Rep. Lloyd Smucker’s bipartisan legislation, H.R. 2347, the Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act, during a committee markup. 

The Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act would amend the nation’s tax code to ensure survivors of sexual abuse and unwanted and illegal sexual contact do not have to pay taxes on settlement income when they prevail legally against their abuser.

Issues:Tax Reform