For nearly two decades, a line buried in the farm bill has stopped the USDA from giving Fort Reno back to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The 2026 version from Frank Lucas's committee deletes the expiration date.
A billboard, an empty-chair town hall organizers say drew 500 people, and a website called WhereIsWilliamTimmons.com. He dismissed the town halls as 'staged political pep rallies' and never showed up — and now he says he can't wait to leave.
Over 45 days in 2021, Norman tried to impeach the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and the Homeland Security Secretary. Then his own party took power, and the man who wrote an impeachment article about hiding information from Congress voted to block a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
In 2000 the South Carolina Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse dome. Joe Wilson was one of the seven — and he's kept voting that way in Congress ever since.
Before Orthodox Christian clergy showed up on Capitol Hill, Wilson sent Pam Bondi a letter asking the Justice Department to look into their church — and told his colleagues not to meet with them. A South Carolina Republican called it 'actual Soviet stuff.'
In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was Strom Thurmond's daughter. South Carolina's Joe Wilson said he didn't believe her, called it 'unseemly,' and said she should have kept quiet. Within days the Thurmond family confirmed her story.
Wilson's answer to high grocery prices was a bill printing Trump's face on new $250 notes — rewriting the law banning living people from U.S. currency to do it. Fifteen months later the Treasury is preparing to print them, and his own district is projected to lose health coverage.
The fair banned guns after a 2023 shooting injured three people. Paxton sued — against the reasoning of a legal opinion he himself issued in 2016, which he then quietly withdrew weeks after filing.
Cleveland.com says both of his opponents had already released platforms while Ramaswamy relied on attack ads — until it refused to stop asking. He has never held elected office.