By Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON, DC — Lawmakers from around the nation gathered on Capitol Hill this week to resume their congressional battles with Middle Tennessee’s freshman Congressman Andy Ogles standing firm championing the causes of conservatives Republicans.
Ogles, a former Mayor, and state lawmaker in middle Tennessee, acknowledges the challenges of turning a traditionally Democratic seat in the House back to Republicans after more than a century. Still, he believes the agendas of progressives has been wrongheaded and he senses he’s on to something.
“To date, I have introduced 99 pieces of legislation,” said Rep. Ogles, who boasts of his work to date. “This is not only the highest number of legislative proposals submitted by any freshman member of Congress in several decades but also the second-highest amount of legislation among all current members of the House of Representatives, he said.
Of his 99 pieces of legislation proposed, Rep. Ogles said 37 pieces have been passed by the House of Representatives. Three have been signed into law, he said. “This achievement places me in the forefront with the highest number of stand-alone pieces of legislation passed among freshman members of Congress, he said.
Rep. Ogles, who tips his hat for the work done by his Congressional staffers, says he got assigned to the House Financial Services Committee and three of its subcommittees, all of which involve financial services.
From those posts, Rep. Ogles says he sees firsthand signs, “the Biden administration using regulatory agencies as tools against the American people. Increased regulation hampers the free market’s ability to thrive and ultimately transfers the burden to consumers,” Rep. Ogles says.
“I am especially troubled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) lack of accountability and question its existence altogether. Pushing back against “woke” rulemaking remains a priority for me,” he says, trumpeting the conservatives call for rollbacks in government regulations on a myriad of issues.
Rep. Ogles can run down a list of regulations he would like to see rolled back, many of those tied up in the House of Representatives, in which Republicans hold a razor thin majority that reluctantly gave their fellow Democrats enough votes to fund several items approving government funding through the end of September.
Rep. Ogles acknowledges his service in the sharply divided house has it challenges. The bright side, however, is his ability to help constituents back in Tennessee with their questions about a variety of individual issues—ranging from federal aid to military pensions and Social Security.
“In the first year alone, my office closed more than 760 constituent case files, returned over $388,000 in federal dollars to folks, and held seven tele-town halls, with calls reaching out to nearly one hundred thousand constituents for each town hall,” he said.
Rep. Ogles says he appreciates the advice and opinions of think tanks and advisors that number in the thousands in the Washington area and has heard from many. He also finds digital young generation born message programs and the like useful. He received a top score from the benchmark conservative Heritage Foundation during his first year, he said.
“X can be a helpful platform, like Facebook and Instagram, to get information to constituents quickly,” said Rep. Ogles. “Ultimately, though, it all comes down to representing Tennessee’s Fifth District well in Washington, which means making the right votes, running the right bills, and fighting to maintain conservative values when it matters most,” he said.
As for the Ogles agenda for the rest of his first term and beyond, Rep. Ogles said:
“Border security is critical and has been at the top of my agenda since I first arrived in DC. I have introduced several pieces of legislation to help curb the illegal immigration crisis. Additionally, we are working hard to remove overly burdensome regulations on our financial institutions to allow the free market to thrive.”
He remains a hard-boiled egg to the political right and appears proud of it.
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