"Let's pause for a moment, so I can read you a statement of Rep. Lee's views." When they asked what Lee herself thought, they were told to sign up for her newsletter. As of August 2026, her mobile office hours page still lists no dates at all.
In June 2026, about 70 people in Evansville held a town hall for a congressman who didn't come and never answered the invitation. It was the latest round of a pattern that started his first spring in office.
On March 19, 2026, Florida's Laurel Lee introduced a constitutional amendment barring noncitizens from voting in federal elections. Her own press release concedes it's already illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 611.
H.R. 6213 is fifty words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
The budget resolution LaLota voted for on February 25, 2025 doesn't contain the word Medicaid. It orders one committee to cut $880 billion — and 93% of that committee's spending is Medicaid. Four months later he voted for the bill that made the cuts real. 21,673 people in his district are projected to lose coverage by 2034.
His February 2025 Orange County Register column ran under the headline "DOGE is doing what must be done to protect taxpayers." When protesters showed up at his Palm Desert office, he said: "I'm used to it. It's just another day in paradise." He has still not held an in-person town hall.
The House was on track to reject Trump's $9.4 billion package of cuts. LaLota had already voted no. Johnson pulled him aside with the vote still open, and minutes later he switched to yes — 214 to 212. He wouldn't say what he got for it.
In 2005 he earmarked $9.5 million around an airfield, then sold nearby land for a 79% profit. In 2024 the LA Times found $16 million in projects within miles of his rental properties — and a building he'd never disclosed. In 2026 he's running on it.
East Hampton Town and Village passed local laws saying town resources won't be used for federal civil immigration enforcement. LaLota announced he won't request community project funding for them until they reverse course — and told other towns to "choose the money instead of going broke, when [East Hampton] went woke."