H.R. 1 through 20 were held by House leadership; H.R. 21 was the first number left, and Wagner took it on the opening day. It overrides a family's choice of comfort care for a dying newborn, makes any nurse who stays quiet a lawbreaker, and criminalizes conduct that has been illegal since 2002.
Wagner wrote FOSTA, signed into law in 2018. The GAO found DOJ brought exactly one case under it, no restitution had been sought when the auditors looked, and gathering evidence against traffickers got harder — because platforms moved overseas. In May 2026 she introduced another trafficking bill.
In January 2019, Missouri's Jason Smith yelled it at a Latino colleague standing at the podium, then wouldn't own up to it in the room. His excuse was that Democrats had gone to Puerto Rico during the shutdown — a shutdown he voted three times not to end.
Burlison chairs a subcommittee on economic growth and sits on the UAP Caucus. Guess which one gets his time. Meanwhile 32,626 people in his district are projected to lose health coverage.
Four days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Missouri's congressman used a fee fight between DirecTV and Newsmax to invoke the Nazis. Two months later the two companies settled on a price and the channel came back.
Every other member of Missouri's congressional delegation voted yes. A fellow Missouri Republican brought the resolution to the floor. Burlison voted no — and never said why.
Burlison said the states already had deepfake laws, so the federal one was redundant. His own state didn't have one — Missouri lawmakers had failed at it for two years and didn't pass one until 2026.
Missouri's congressman went on cable TV and said House Republicans are investigating Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance — then admitted, 'I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?' He also sits on the subcommittee that writes the FCC's budget.
Missouri voters buried two Republican ballot measures on Aug. 4 — one to hand a single congressional district veto power over citizen initiatives, one to swap the income tax for higher sales taxes. Four of the five Missouri Republican congressmen this site tracks backed the gerrymander that made the first one work.