Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress.

WASHINGTON, DC: Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after the House passed H. J. Res. 20 and H. J. Res. 35, which begin to undo the Biden administration’s war on American energy. Schmidt is a cosponsor of both bills.

WASHINGTON, DC: Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after the House tonight passed H. Con. Res. 14, which establishes a budget framework to enable Congress to begin deciding spending and tax policies.

WASHINGTON, DC: This week, Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) joined his Republican House Small Business Committee colleagues in urging newly confirmed Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler to restore the agency to its original purpose of helping small businesses.

WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) announced he is an original cosponsor of the Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act. This legislation would abolish the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and return sole regulatory authority over the insurance industry to the states.

Schmidt, Colleagues Move to Undo Biden Administration’s Damage

WASHINGTON, DC: Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after voting today to pass H.R. 26, the Protecting American Energy Production Act. Following four years of disastrous energy policy – primarily driven by Executive Orders – this legislation would prohibit the president from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) unless previously authorized by Congress.

WASHINGTON, DC: Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after the House today passed H.R. 27, the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act. This legislation would permanently make fentanyl-related substances (FRS) a schedule I drug, ensuring law enforcement has the tools it needs to keep these harmful substances off the streets and out of communities in Kansas and across the country.