AT&T, Verizon and the wireless industry's trade group gave Mike Rogers $95,000 over two decades. He wrote a bill to let them hand customer data to the NSA without a warrant — then went to work for AT&T.
Roughly $900 billion cut from Medicaid, plus expired ACA subsidies, has stripped coverage from about 8 million people. These seven wrote the rules, broke written promises, or voted for the cuts and then backed bills to clean up the damage.
Wisconsin's Act 10 is back before the state Supreme Court, 15 years after it stripped bargaining rights from most public workers. The man who ran it through the Senate is now in Congress — and he has plenty of company.
Abbott wants a law banning Texas public schools from sponsoring H-1B visas — applied to teachers already here, not just new hires. Districts use those visas to fill critical teacher shortages, in roles such as bilingual education.
A Ring camera caught the Florida congressman going through a constituent's mailbox while canvassing two days before his primary. His office confirmed to TMZ it was him. Fine says he does not remember doing it and questions whether the video is real.
59% of Nebraska voters tied the minimum wage to the cost of living in 2022. Lawmakers replaced that with a flat 1.75% and created a $13.50 teen wage that stays below today's $15 until 2065. Now the attorney general is suing Omaha and Lincoln for trying to opt out.
Court filings show Homeland Security ran undercover agents into labor meetings and a Minneapolis church, pulled financial records from SEIU and CWA, and showed a grand jury a chart linking the teachers' union to a criminal conspiracy.
A bill in Congress would point state Medicaid fraud investigators at the people who apply for Medicaid. Right now those investigators chase companies that overbill and caregivers who hurt patients — and they bring back $4.64 for every $1 they cost.
A European law says the world's biggest companies have to look for forced labor and child labor in their supply chains. Eight Republicans we track put their names on a bill to open a trade fight over it. The law doesn't touch small businesses at all.
