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During his first session in the Missouri House, Smith was appointed Majority Assistant Deputy Whip, and received several committee assignments. After winning his first reelection bid in 2006, he was named Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development. For the start of the 2011 legislative session, he was elevated to the position of Majority Whip (one of the youngest legislators to serve in that capacity), and in 2013, as his final term began, he was elected House Speaker Pro Tempore.
During his first session in the Missouri House, Smith was appointed Majority Assistant Deputy Whip, and received several committee assignments. After winning his first reelection bid in 2006, he was named Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee on Job Creation and Economic Development. For the start of the 2011 legislative session, he was elevated to the position of Majority Whip (one of the youngest legislators to serve in that capacity), and in 2013, as his final term began, he was elected House Speaker Pro Tempore.
==U.S. House of Representatives==
On January 22, 2013, Republican congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson, then representing Missouri's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House (including most of south-central and southeast Missouri), announced she was resigning to become CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. At the party's nomination convention on February 9, Smith defeated a number of well-known state politicians--including Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, former state treasurer Sarah Steelman, and several state senators and representatives--to become the Republican candidate in the special election, which was held on June 4. In that contest, he defeated Democratic State Representative Steve Hodges of [[East Prairie, Missouri|East Prairie]] with 67% of the vote. This marked the 47th election in a row, going back to 1994, that Democrats failed to flip a Republican-held seat for the U.S. House in Missouri: an indication of the state's increasingly conservative tilt.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/special/20130604-usdist8.asp</ref>
Smith won election to a full term in the House in November 2014, again with about 67% of the vote, and has increased that margin of victory in subsequent races. In the November 2020 general election, he won about 76.9% of all votes cast, his best showing to date. He has consistently won a majority in every county in the district.<ref>https://enr.sos.mo.gov/PickaRace.aspx</ref>
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