 Because of floods in the Green River Valley, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and the other ranchers migrate to another section, in this Republic homage to Columbia s "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", but low wages and local-ranchers  resentment against them cause trouble. Gene, in an effort to support and help his friends, gets a job singing on the radio. Opposition to Congressman Fuller (Gordon Hart), who failed to get a necessary flood-control bill passed, serves as a springboard for Steve Holloway (Douglass Dumbrille) to get Gene elected to the office, although Gene is unaware that his backer also opposed the bill. Gene is stymied in Washington and it is not until he returns home and another flood rages that Holloway sees the light, and agrees to make restitution and use his political influence to help pass the flood-control bill. Those who insist on billing Gene Autry as playing "Himself" in this film, might be open to telling the rest of us just when the real-life actor Gene Autry ran for and was elected to Congress.