The ATF's proposed rule would let gun buyers verify their identity online and get a gun shipped to their door. The gun industry's own trade group says its members are 'overwhelmingly opposed' — and the president's son sits on the board of a company built to profit from it.
After a 3-2 vote over its own Republican chairman's objection, Georgia's State Election Board asked the DOJ to ban the QR-code ballots the state uses and force a software update before Nov. 3. An election-tech expert warned the changes carry 'a very high risk' and 'zero additional benefit.'
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
On Oct. 26 the Maine Ethics Commission found Bobby Charles's campaign accepted more than $45,300 from dozens of donors who gave over the $2,075 limit, and fined it more than $22,000 — half the overage. The campaign didn't dispute the findings and called it an administrative error.
Mike Simpson cosponsored H.R. 5722 and joined the Sharia-Free America Caucus — a group the Council on American-Islamic Relations designated an anti-Muslim hate group, whose legislation it says would effectively make practicing Islam illegal.
A Nevada legislative audit found the state health division Joe Lombardo oversees couldn't show it reviewed care plans for babies born affected by opioids — and 45% of the plans it sampled didn't show the mothers were offered treatment.
Steve Hilton's campaign paid two self-described independent journalists more than $72,000. Neither disclosed it while promoting him, and Hilton told the Fresno Bee he hadn't paid one of them for the footage he featured.
In December 2019, as his company closed a $3 billion deal, Vivek Ramaswamy bought a $420,000 house in West Chester Township and registered to vote in Ohio. Tax experts told Forbes the timing likely saved him about $12 million. Now he wants to abolish Ohio's capital gains tax.
PolitiFact rated Byron Donalds's offshore-drilling attack on David Jolly Mostly False: the $5 million was his old firm's total billings for every client, the drilling client paid $30,000, and in Congress Jolly introduced a bill to extend Florida's drilling ban.