Lawler's congressional campaign has paid Checkmate Strategies $502,538 since 2022. He didn't sign a deal to sell his half of the firm until 2025, and his newest disclosure shows he is still owed $100,001 to $250,000 on that sale — paid, the firm's head says, out of his own pocket — while the campaign's monthly fee to the firm went up.
Salazar chairs the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. When Democrats moved to subpoena the Trump administration's oil deal with a company run by a billionaire under money-laundering investigation in two countries, she voted no and the motion died 6-6.
Michigan repealed right-to-work in 2023. John James called bringing it back 'a massive win for freedom' — and in Congress he signed a bill to impose it on all 50 states and voted against restoring union rights for federal workers.
Begich cheered DOGE on X and told Alaskans in February 2025 that he wanted to make sure 'Alaska's interests are protected.' Alaska's own Labor Department now reports the state ended 2025 with 1,607 fewer federal jobs than a year earlier, a 10.5% drop, including 755 at the Defense Department and 180 in the Forest Service.
A September 15 FEC letter says LaLota's campaign took money from Leonard Blavatnik, Stacey Siebel, Andrea Wynn and Lewis Stahl that appears to exceed federal limits. LaLota says it was one misspelled name. Thirteen of the 23 FEC letters his campaign has received since 2022 flag apparently over-the-limit money.
Six weeks before the forecast that will shape his next budget, Pillen replaced a third of Nebraska's independent revenue-forecasting board — the first governor to do that in its 40-year history — installing Lou Ann Linehan and Tom Briese, who championed the income tax cuts that have contributed to a third straight budget hole of at least $200 million. Linehan says she doesn't think there is a problem.
This month New Jersey's 7th District got a mailer, paid for with House funds, telling them Tom Kean Jr. wants to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. His own filings show stock trades in every month of 2026 through August — including two purchases in August, weeks after he voted for a bill to stop members from buying stocks.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old San Antonio mother, died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after asking doctors about ending her pregnancy. Her family's wrongful-death lawsuit names Ken Paxton, saying his enforcement of Texas's abortion ban scared doctors into doing nothing.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
