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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>
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>
===Record===
During his time in Congress, Smith has gained a reputation as one of its most reliably conservative members. His lifetime rating (through 2019) from the American Conservative Union is 90.89, the highest of any current member of Missouri's federal delegation and 56th among current members of the U.S. House overall.<ref>http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-legislative-ratings/?year1=2019&chamber=12&state1=0&sortable=1</ref> To date, he has sponsored 80 bills. Some of the more notable of these include:
* In 2013, only ten days after winning his first congressional election, a resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]].
* In 2015 and 2016, bills to restrict spending by the [[EPA]].
* In 2017, a bill to suspend federal transportation funding for so-called "sanctuary cities."
* In 2018, a bill to repeal the death tax.
* In 2020, a bill expanding the circumstances in which active members of the military could carry concealed firearms.
* In 2020, a bill to enhance the security of federal elections.<ref>https://www.congress.gov/member/jason-smith/S001195?s=1&r=9&q={%22sponsorship%22:%22sponsored%22}&searchResultViewType=expanded</ref>
===Notable Events===
During a March 2017 debate concerning an [[Obamacare]] tax on tanning salons (ostensibly for the purpose of reducing skin cancer), Smith noted that most forms of skin cancer are caused by harmful radiation from the sun, and sarcastically asked why Democrats had not introduced a tax on the sun. [[Leftist]] media outlets then accused Smith of seriously proposing a tax on the sun.<ref>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a53736/republican-congressman-tax-the-sun/</ref>
Smith was accused of making racist remarks following a House session in January 2019, in which he shouted "Go back to Puerto Rico!" at several Democratic representatives while [[California]] Democrat Tony Cardenas was presiding over the session. It was suggested that he was making a slur against Cardenas (the son of Mexican immigrants) and other Hispanic members; he explained that he was referring to a trip Cardenas and some others had recently taken to [[Puerto Rico]], and not to anyone's ethnicity.<ref>https://thehill.com/latino/425921-democrat-responds-to-being-told-go-back-to-puerto-rico-on-house-floor</ref>
===[[2020 election fraud]]===
Following the fraudulent 2020 presidential election, Smith was one of 126 House Republicans who signed an ''amicus curiae'' in support of the [[Texas v. Pennsylvania]] lawsuit, pointing out the blatant lawbreaking that occurred in several states allegedly won by [[Joe Biden]]. Remaining a public supporter of [[President Trump]] throughout the ordeal, he was also on the House floor during the Capitol protests in January 2021. In a subsequent open letter to his constituents, Smith strongly condemned those who had broken into the Capitol building, while also equating the events with [[Nancy Pelosi]]'s endorsement of the [[2020 Antifa riots]] and defending the [[First Amendment]] rights of the majority who had come to protest peacefully.<ref>https://www.therolladailynews.com/story/opinion/2021/01/10/congressman-smith-capitol-report-what-i-witnessed/43319531/</ref>
===Committee Assignments===
Smith currently sits on the House Committee on the Budget, and on the House Committee on Ways and Means. He was previously on the Judiciary and Natural Resources Committees.
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