The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee told constituents DOGE was 'pretty responsive' if you worked it right. His district lost weather service jobs anyway — and when Norman residents asked him to face them in person, his office said he was busy.
On the day the Iran war started, Rutherford's official House statement misspelled the operation's name three times and said the regime 'must be obliterated.' Within hours the page was silently renamed. Congress never voted on any of it.
Outside groups reported more than $2.4 million in spending to elect Matt Van Epps in Tennessee's 7th District — more than his own campaign raised for the whole race. The money came from Trump's super PAC and a short list of billionaires who don't live here.
In 2016, public television gave Cole its Champion of Public Broadcasting Award — citing his work protecting service to 'the Native American nations of Oklahoma.' In 2025, as Appropriations chairman, he cosponsored the bill that shut the whole system's funder down.
Cole has pushed the same bill for seven Congresses. It hands Social Security to 13 appointees, then forces Congress to vote yes or no on whatever they write — no amendments, four hours of House debate, no filibuster.
The chairman of the House China committee wrote a bill to slap 35% to 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. Michigan farmers lost three straight years in the soybean market, and he went after the Midwest nonprofit that ran the farm trade roundtables.
Researchers named McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant and UM Health-Sparrow Carson — both in his district — among the rural hospitals most at risk. Three weeks later John Moolenaar voted for the budget bill that cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid. The rural health bill he keeps introducing is a payment-rule fix that has never reached a floor vote in twenty years.
John Moolenaar voted twice to cancel money Congress had already approved for public broadcasting, and dismissed it as 'clearly biased news coverage.' WCMU — licensed to Central Michigan University in his district, serving 42 Michigan counties — lost 19% of its budget.
Doctors in the room shouted that it was false. Bilirakis backed up the claim by pointing at a real board — one that was never appointed, never met, was legally barred from rationing care, and was abolished a year later. 'The board exists, OK?' he told CNN.