Press Releases
Today, U.S. Reps. Angie Craig (MN-02), Pete Stauber (MN-08), Dean Phillips (MN-03) and Michael Guest (MS-03) introduced bipartisan legislation to require an examination of the health and economic impacts of skyrocketing insulin prices. The bipartisan bill would require the government to study and report the scope of the problems created across healthcare by the rise in insulin costs, which are up more than 600% in recent years and have increasingly led to patient rationing of the drug.
Brandon, Mississippi – Congressman Guest (MS-03) is pleased to announce that Chad Bynum, eighth-grade student at Brandon Middle School, was selected by a panel of professionals in the technology industry and Congressional App Challenge organization staff as the winner of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for the Third Congressional District. Chad's app, Periodically, gives students the resources they need to learn about the elements of the periodic table.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) joined other lawmakers in praising the signing of the Economic and Trade Agreement Between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, a long-awaited trade agreement that addresses China's history of currency manipulation, intellectual property theft, and trade balance with the U.S.
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Washington, DC – This morning, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) released a statement in response to the news that the Defense Department had conducted an airstrike at the direction of President Donald Trump on Baghdad International Airport to kill the leader of Iran's Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani. The Quds Force is the elite arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, a fighting force labeled as a terrorist organization by the White House in April 2019.
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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) voted against H.R. 3 – the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019. Congressman Guest's primary concern was the likelihood that the bill would result in the creation of fewer cures and hinder the development of new drugs to treat illnesses. Recent reports indicate that over 100 cures could go undeveloped if Nancy Pelosi's bill were to become law.
WASHINGTON – The Mississippi congressional delegation, which includes U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., Trent Kelly, R-Miss., and Michael Guest, R-Miss., today sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump requesting full consideration of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant's request for a major federal disaster declaration in the wake of devastation from straight-line winds and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Olga in October.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) commended the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agriculture Service for its work to reopen the Chinese poultry market to American farmers. United States poultry and poultry products have been banned by the Chinese government since 2015. The end of this ban will reopen a large export market for American poultry producers.