Kustoff has filed rural health bills in three Congresses. Not one has become law. The one health bill he did vote through is taking $7 billion out of TennCare — and Tennessee's share of rural hospitals vulnerable to closure just jumped from 44% to 61%, the worst in the country.
Comer chairs the committee investigating the Epstein files. He agreed to an unsworn, un-videotaped interview for Pam Bondi, has not held a single hearing on Epstein, and says he will not call JD Vance or Susie Wiles.
Paxton's 'Protecting the Texas Promise' agenda is a stack of new tax deductions. You have to itemize your taxes to claim the deductions — and only about 10% of taxpayers do. Even conservative economists say it will push prices up, not down.
Simple Health sold sham health insurance to more than 400,000 people and took in more than $190 million. Its CEO is serving 25 years in federal prison. Florida's Chief Financial Officer took money from it and a related company three times — and kept taking it after a state attorney general issued a national fraud alert.
Kustoff's H.R. 5242 repeals two laws the D.C. Council passed — one letting people who were under 25 when they committed their crime ask a judge for a second look, one letting old records be sealed. It was introduced and marked up the same day. Then his colleagues bolted on a repeal of D.C.'s speed cameras.
Comer's D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act would require an act of Congress before the District could change any tax or fee — up or down. He told the markup it was aimed at the progressives D.C. voters had just elected. An $81 billion delivery company that had just lost a 20-cent fee fight wrote in to back it, and Comer put its letter in the record.
One month into Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force, Kustoff called it a blueprint for the whole country and said he'd work to make the federal presence permanent. Ten months in, NPR found what it actually became: a traffic-stop immigration dragnet that emptied schools and doctors' offices in the city he lives beside.
H.R. 9009 deletes one subsection of federal law, built around a single sentence: 'it shall be unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun.' That subsection is also what makes Glock switches illegal.
In 2021 Comer voted no on the infrastructure law and said its money was going to things that 'do not affect Kentucky's 1st District.' In July 2026 he announced a $24 million grant for Paducah's riverport — paid for by the exact law he voted against.