Jason T. Smith — American Politician born on June 16, 1980,

Jason Thomas Smith is an American politician. He is currently a member of the United States House of Representatives for Missouri's 8th congressional district after winning a special election on June 4, 2013. The district comprises 30 counties, covering just under 20,000 square miles of southeastern and southern Missouri. He is currently the second-youngest Republican member of Congress, with only Representative Elise Stefanik of New York being younger... (wikipedia)

You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.
Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.
I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.
There wasn't a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.