Representative Ron Estes

.Dear Friend,

Congress must pass the SAVE America Act – Americans overwhelmingly want voter ID at the polls and a safe and secure system. House Republicans have already passed the SAVE America Act several times in different versions, but it is being held up in the Senate.

In our third reconciliation bill, we’re structuring the SAVE America Act provisions so that they work with the reconciliation process and the Senate Byrd rule, and thus only require a simple majority to pass the Senate. In the Budget Committee, my colleagues and I crafted the provisions to include expenditures that work with the reconciliation process. This means that alongside the SAVE America Act provisions, we also included support for ag commodities and national defense.

Last week, I led a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune encouraging expeditious action toward finalization and passage of House Republicans’ budget resolution. I was joined by fellow Kansas congressmen Tracey Mann and Derek Schmidt. We wrote about how passage of the budget resolution will allow Congress to move forward in protecting our nation’s election integrity, providing critical support to America’s heartland, and addressing urgent national security concerns. You can read more about our letter to Leader Thune here.

I also joined Washington Watch to discuss the SAVE America Act and the reconciliation process. You can watch my full interview here or by clicking on the image below.

Watch my interview with Washington Watch

Sincerely,

Member of Congress

.It was great to welcome Congressman Jim Jordan to the Sunflower State recently, where we enjoyed speaking with Kansans. We joined KNSS radio to talk about legislative updates from the House, including the SAVE America Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, and more.

You can listen to our full interview here.

.The Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center’s 360th Basic Training class graduated on Friday, and it was an honor to deliver remarks at their graduation ceremony. In Kansas, our communities are built on a bedrock of strong values – trust, hard work, personal responsibility, and looking out for our neighbors. Law enforcement officers are the visible backbone of those values. Crime in Kansas is now at a 57-year low, and it’s important that we keep this trend going forward. The courageous men and women who graduated will be serving communities here in the 4th District and throughout the Sunflower State. Congratulations to these brave men and women.

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry opened a brand new plastics manufacturing facility in Maize last year. The company’s 175,000 square-foot facility is an investment in our community and a representation of made-in-America manufacturing.

Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts supports domestic manufacturing throughout the United States, like here at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, by creating permanency and stability in the tax code. I toured Charlotte Pipe and Foundry’s facility and saw how they manufacture pipes for plumbing systems right here in Kansas.

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry

.The Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which became law in 2022, failed to fix prescription drug costs. When passed, the Inflation Act was supposedly going to save taxpayers $129 billion. However, the Congressional Budget Office just confirmed that Medicare Part D costs per enrollee have surged 30% higher than that projection, hitting $3,500. Instead of saving money, this scheme added $700 billion to the deficit and left taxpayers with the bill.

You can read more about Democrats’ drug pricing scheme here.

.Did you know that a famous hippo lives in Kansas at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park? Mars, a one-year-old hippo, has garnered a large following on social media and has received millions of likes and views. Mars is a pygmy hippo, and one of only about 2,500 in the world. He is expected to grow into the size of a small pony. Mars lives at Tanganyika in Wichita with his parents, Pluto and Posie, where Kansans and visitors from across the world see him every week.