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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
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Rep. Smucker speaks to reporters
March 19, 2026

WASHINGTON – As first reported in Politico, Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a member of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, introduced the Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act, legislation to counter Canada’s digital trade barriers targeting American streaming companies and content producers. 

Issues:Trade
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Rep. Smucker speaks during a hearing.
March 18, 2026

WASHINGTON– Rep. Smucker (PA-11), Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after voting yes on H.J.Res139, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government:

Issues:Budget
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NTU Taxpayer Defender Award
March 18, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee, on Tuesday was named Taxpayer Defender of the Month by National Taxpayers Union in recognition of his work advancing policies to increase transparency and accountability surrounding the nation’s growing debt.

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Budget1125
March 4, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Smucker (PA-11), Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act with Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02).

This legislation would increase transparency and provide greater insight into our nation’s growing national debt and require the President’s annual budget and congressional budget resolutions to include the ratio of the public debt to the estimated gross domestic product (GDP).

Issues:Budget