A former Little Rock superintendent spent two years predicting exactly how Arkansas's voucher program would go. In what he says may be his last column, he explains why the rising test scores in the governor's press release don't mean what she says they mean.
Four days after 700 constituent letters were delivered to his office, Fitzpatrick went on Face the Nation and called in-person town halls a 'three-ring circus' funded by dark money groups he would not name. His constituents held one anyway, with an empty chair for him.
In 2022 Victoria Spartz called Russia's invasion a genocide and described the bombings her grandmother lived through. In 2024, facing a primary where the border polled better, she voted no on $61 billion for Ukraine.
Body cameras. No masks. Visible ID. Warrants before agents enter a school or a home. Fitzpatrick put all of it in a bill on April 2. On June 9 he voted to fund ICE through 2029 with none of it — and the bill passed 214-212.
Cynthia West filed a workplace complaint against Spartz, was offered a settlement with a nondisclosure agreement, and refused it. Spartz's office has given two different reasons for letting her go — and her staff turnover was the worst of her career.
Scalise spoke to a hate group founded by a former Klan grand wizard, told a reporter he was Duke without the baggage, and voted twice against a Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday. Now he's the House GOP's elder statesman and the obvious contender to lead the conference next.
His Appalachian district is one of the most Medicaid-dependent in America. At least seven of the Kentucky hospitals flagged as at risk of closing sit in it. He voted yes and called it a win.
A New York Times investigation found the congressman steered a national anti-terrorism ID card program toward his own district and his own donors — while taking 11 trips, six to Hawaii, from a group in line to profit from a no-bid contract he helped arrange.
In January, Guthrie's committee released a draft rewrite of the nation's toxic chemicals law, and the American Chemistry Council cheered. In May, the ACC filed an $80,276 independent expenditure for TV ads running in his district.