Issue Position: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

Issue Position

As chairman of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability, Jay led an investigation into a failed economic development project in Moberly, Missouri -- in the process exposing the fact that the Department of Economic Development did not have adequate safeguards in place to protect the state and local communities from charlatans. Jay sponsored legislation to increase due diligence requirements by the Department of Economic Development. Jay's legislation passed through the House of Representatives on six different bills, but was stopped in the Senate. Jay plans to propose the bill again every year and has promised to add it as an amendment to every proposed economic development bill until it becomes law.

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