Word for word, H.R. 2988 and H.R. 5339 carry the identical official title. In 2024 Allen called his 401(k) bill the Protecting Americans' Investments from Woke Policies Act. In 2026 it became the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act.
The self-described only dairyman in Congress represents a district that is more than 65% Latino and runs on farm labor. When Border Patrol raided it, he asked for advance notice. Then he cast a deciding vote for the $70 billion Secure America Act.
An NPR analysis of midterm campaign ads found Valadao running spots promising to lower costs and protect Medicare and Medicaid. His district has more Medicaid enrollees than any other Republican seat in America. He voted for the bill that cut it.
Allen told a reporter the health cuts wouldn't touch Georgia because Georgia never expanded Medicaid. KFF now puts the state's ten-year Medicaid loss at $7.32 billion. A hospital in his own district is looking at closing its ICU. He chairs the House subcommittee on health, employment, labor and pensions.
"It's very important that we keep our rural hospitals open for business," Alford said in March 2026 — after voting in July 2025 for the law behind half of the 27,243 people in his own district projected to lose coverage. His rescue bill has three cosponsors and has never moved.
Garbarino chairs House Homeland Security. He held the hearing, funded the cameras, and voted to give ICE three more years of money. When agents with no cameras killed a man in Houston, he asked for a briefing that wouldn't cover the shooting.
Alford's letter calls local opposition "obstruction" and adds a line about his seat on the Appropriations Committee: "we look forward to helping make this happen." He named the Harrisonville and Belton ground the next week, to a TV reporter.
Two dozen stock purchases — L3Harris, UnitedHealth, Johnson & Johnson, NextEra — disclosed almost two and a half years past the legal deadline. Then he did it again in 2026. His office didn't respond either time. In July he voted for a stock-trading ban.
Garbarino spent 2025 pressing HHS — letters, joint statements, private conversations — to undo DOGE's cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program. On June 12, 2025, he voted to write $9.4 billion of DOGE's other cuts into permanent law. It passed by two votes.