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Mario Diaz-Balart is a powerful leader on the House Appropriations Committee, where he personally controls the billions of dollars that fund U.S. foreign policy and defense.
Ilhan Omar has been a U.S. citizen since 2000. Hours after Homeland Security agents searched her home, Rep. Randy Fine posted that Trump was working to send her to Somalia, and has said she and others like her 'should all go home.'
Listeners flooded Illinois Public Media with one question for Rep. Mike Bost: why won't you debate, and why won't you face us in person? He said debates reach too few people and town halls got too loud. His opponent took a full live hour on the same show; Bost took 30 pre-recorded minutes.
A Hutchinson bakery owner says Roger Marshall's 2020 campaign never paid a $678 bill for his primary-night watch party, despite a year of calls and emails. He paid only after her post went viral. As a doctor, The Kansas City Star found, he charged patients the highest interest rate of about 150 Kansas practices it reviewed.
Texas Monthly obtained the nine-page, unsigned document Abbott's lawyers walked the state securities commissioner through, laying out ways to bring government power against the East Plano Islamic Center. His team concluded there was no securities case. Paxton filed one, and the commissioner says he was told to resign.
At a Hancock County GOP banquet, Rep. Mary Miller listed Islam as one of her three biggest concerns, said it is 'a form of government' rather than a religion, and claimed that when Muslims build a mosque, 'in their mind, they have just conquered that area.' Nobody had asked her about it.
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David Valadao presents himself as a Central Valley dairy farmer who understands working families.
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Brandon Herrera is running for Congress to represent San Antonio, but he has nothing but contempt for the people who live there.
On national TV at the State Fair of Texas, Rep. Keith Self wouldn't commit to debating Democrat Evan Hunt, who says he has been asking for a debate for over a year. Instead Self called the 3rd District 'my seat,' and said Republicans need more time to fix inflation.