Nebraska Public Media warned before the vote that losing federal money would put emergency alert systems at risk. Adrian Smith voted for the cut anyway. Then the Morrill Fire burned 643,000 acres across his rural counties and killed an 86-year-old woman trying to escape.
Gill's answer to being called racist was that the accusation has lost its power. Told the reason is that he called Indian Americans '7-Eleven workers,' he said nothing back. Hours earlier the same afternoon he had posted a family-values campaign ad without his Indian American wife in it.
He said he wouldn't back unpaid-for war spending, and that a state grant program for voter ID would be 'not at all' acceptable — 'throwing some carrots at them will do nothing.' Two days later the House passed a $95 billion blueprint with both. It carried 216 to 214. Brecheen voted yes.
Virginia's 5th District has the fewest hospitals per square mile in the state, 15 counties with no obstetric care, and the worst doctor shortage in Virginia. McGuire voted for a law that pulls billions more out of Virginia's rural hospitals — then declined to answer questions about the numbers he used to defend it.
The Justice Department dropped its case against former Olympian Davey Hearn after admitting the Reflecting Pool damage was a botched contractor job, not vandalism. Asked on CNN whether Hearn deserved anything from Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, Jordan said it wasn't his call — seconds after volunteering an opinion about a payout he didn't like.
Rounds said he wouldn't vote to claw back public broadcasting money until the White House promised $9.4 million for tribal radio. He voted yes. The promise lasted one year, and now most of the stations say they will close without more.
The No. 4 Republican in the House was asked about the socialist momentum inside the Democratic Party. She told the people it's gaining ground with to get out of the country.
At a Savannah campaign event, a man convicted of two felonies for January 6 asked Georgia's Republican Senate nominee whether Washington owes him money. Collins didn't hesitate — on a question that split his own party in half.
Rep. Brandon Gill chaired a June hearing on Ohio Medicaid fraud, named Somali and Bhutanese immigrants as the culprits, and refused to let the three Ohio Democrats who asked to question witnesses take part.