WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release on June 9, 2025: * * * Ways and Means Members Call on Labor Department to Prevent Retroactive Pandemic Unemployment Payments WASHINGTON, D.C. - An Ohio court is attempting to force U.S. taxpayers to retroactively pay nearly $1 billion in four year old pandemic era unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as the last remnant of a coordinated effort by activists to  more PR