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Rep. Smucker pictured with press conference participants.
August 27, 2025

York, PA – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and PA Attorney General Dave Sunday held a press conference at York County’s Reentry Opportunity Center to highlight support for Rep. Smucker’s Workforce Reentry Act, legislation that would strengthen workforce reentry programs intended to reduce recidivism and help formerly incarcerated individuals find dignity in work. 

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Rep. Smucker with roundtable participants.
August 26, 2025

Wrightsville, PA—Representative Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a senior member of the tax-writing Committee on Ways and Means, joined small businesses in Wrightsville for a roundtable discussion on federal tax policy and how the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill will drive investment and growth in the local economy. 

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Rep. Smucker speaks during a hearing.
August 5, 2025
Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Burgess Owens (UT-04) introduced the Safe Transit Accountability Act, legislation that would strengthen public transit safety and ensure public transit agencies efficiently comply with federal public safety standards.
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Rep. Smucker smiling
July 31, 2025

WASHINGTON—Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Dr. John Joyce (PA-13), co-chairs of the House Make America Health Again (MAHA) Caucus, held an informative briefing for caucus members last week.

The caucus members heard from experts on metabolic health and the role it plays in individuals’ overall health, including presentations from:

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Rep. Snucker and testifiers at a recent roundtable.
July 24, 2025

WASHINGTON — Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), Mike Kelly (PA-16), and 18 other members of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Commissioner Billy Long urging its reconsideration of Revenue Ruling 2024-14, unsupported Biden-era guidance that has created unnecessary confusion for taxpayers and threatens enforcement actions by drawing into question routine business transactions. 

Issues:Tax Reform
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Rep. Smucker testifies at a Budget Committee hearing.
July 10, 2025

WASHINGTONReps. Lloyd Smucker and Vern Buchanan, Chair of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, announced that he introduced the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act alongside Dwight Evans (D-Pa.). Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

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Rep. Smucker speaks to reporters
July 3, 2025

WASHINGTON—Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) voted in favor of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It was approved for final passage in the House by a vote of 218to 214. 

Rep. Smucker released the following statement after voting in favor of the legislation: 

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Rep. Lloyd Smucker speaks at a committee hearing.
June 30, 2025

WASHINGTON--Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Don Davis (NC-01) have introduced the Medicare Patient Choice Act. The legislation evens the playing field for health care providers by correcting a technicality of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 which allowed only certain specified health care providers to opt out of the Medicare program. Physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, audiologists, and chiropractors were excluded from the flexibility to opt out. 

Issues:Health Care
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Rep. Smucker speaks at a hearing.
June 25, 2025

WASHINGTON—Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) has reintroduced legislation to repeal a costly Biden-era mandate that artificially drives up construction costs on federal projects. The Biden administration’s rule reverts to a definition of “prevailing wage” that has not been used in forty years, causing a dramatic increase in the cost of federally funded construction projects. 

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Rep. Smucker speaks to reporters
June 10, 2025

WASHINGTON—37 Members of the House Republican Conference, led by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) Vice Chair of the Budget Committee, are calling for the Senate to pass reconciliation legislation that upholds the fiscal discipline of the House’s framework. The Members write: “As the Senate considers changes, we remain unequivocal in our position that any additional tax cuts must be matched dollar-for-dollar by real, enforceable spending reductions. That union is the cornerstone of the House framework adopted in Section 4001 of H.Con.Res.