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Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

The Food Traceability Rule would make food companies keep digital records so investigators can find the source of an outbreak fast. The farm-and-FDA spending law from Harris' subcommittee says no money can be used to enforce it before July 20, 2028. This summer, a cyclospora outbreak traced to Mexican lettuce put 570 people in the hospital. Harris doesn't appear to have said a word.

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Tommy Tuberville Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Citizen for 26 Years, Should Be Deported: 'Send Her Back Where She Came From.'

Tommy Tuberville Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Citizen for 26 Years, Should Be Deported: 'Send Her Back Where She Came From.'

On Newsmax, the Alabama senator running for governor said Omar 'wants the president to be dead' and should be sent home. Newsmax's own story noted that Tuberville pointed to no statement in which Omar said any such thing. Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000; a citizen can't be deported unless a court first strips her citizenship.

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Susan Collins Calls Herself a Defender of Abortion Rights. She Just Helped Give a Lifetime Judgeship to a Man Who Wants No Exceptions for Rape or Incest.

Susan Collins Calls Herself a Defender of Abortion Rights. She Just Helped Give a Lifetime Judgeship to a Man Who Wants No Exceptions for Rape or Incest.

Matthew Byrne told an anti-abortion group his 'pro-life credentials cannot be questioned' and that the 'life of the mother' exception should be 'strictly defined so as to avoid creating loopholes.' The Senate cut off debate on his nomination 47-46 on September 14, with Collins voting yes. A no from her would have sunk it. She voted to confirm him the next day.

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Juan Ciscomani Voted for the Law That Has Knocked 400,000 Arizonans Off Food Assistance.

Juan Ciscomani Voted for the Law That Has Knocked 400,000 Arizonans Off Food Assistance.

Angelica Garcia, a single mother in Tucson, was kept off SNAP for two months while Arizona rewrote the program to comply with Trump's budget bill. Ciscomani signed a letter urging House leaders to keep SNAP protected, listed it as a first-100-days accomplishment, then voted for the bill — and never mentioned food assistance in either statement he put out about it. More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost benefits since.

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Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

In 2011, state Sen. Andy Biggs sponsored SB 1519 to end AHCCCS, the program covering nearly 1.4 million Arizonans. His replacement wouldn't have fully covered the roughly 100,000 people with severe mental illness and disabilities who relied on it — on purpose, he said, because covering them meant no savings. Now he wants to be governor.

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180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.

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