LaHood chairs Ways and Means' Work and Welfare Subcommittee. His JOBS for Success Act imposes a signed 'personal responsibility agreement,' an income ceiling, a squeeze on administrative costs and a ban on spending TANF directly on child care — while extending the block grant at the same $16.5 billion Congress set in 1996.
'We need to wind down the conflict, I've publicly said that,' LaHood told WCBU on May 4, 2026. On June 3 the House voted 215-208 to order U.S. forces out of the Iran war. He voted no. His explanation five days later: 'Essentially there's been nothing that's happened militarily within the last 30 days.'
In April 2024 LaHood voted against requiring the FBI to get a warrant before searching Americans' communications — the amendment failed on a 212-212 tie. In March 2026 he pushed a 'clean' renewal with no warrant requirement. A year before that first vote, he had revealed the FBI improperly searched the database for his own name, and called renewal without reform a non-starter.
On September 23, 2025, Goldman asked Fort Worth business leaders to contact his office more — 'So challenge us.' About two dozen constituents stood outside the same building because they'd tried repeatedly and gotten no response. At the event he said it wasn't clear to him what the demonstration was aimed at.
246 people died in Uri. Goldman chaired House Energy Resources in the session that followed. His committee advanced HB 1520 unanimously, which put $3.5 billion of gas companies' storm costs onto customers' bills through April 2039 — and a 2025 state audit found the gas weatherization rules produced 2 violations out of 8,732 inspections.
Goldman's first and only enacted law wiped out DOE standards for commercial refrigerators — permanently. DOE's own analysis: $1.32 to $3.43 billion in net savings for the businesses that buy them, against $117.7 million in manufacturer costs. His follow-up bill cancels up to $14,000 in appliance rebates for low-income households, sold with a number from the home builders' lobby.
Jack vetted 400+ federal candidates for AIPAC, deciding who the group should bankroll. Then he was Trump's White House political director. Now, in his first term, he flies the country interviewing House candidates and reports back to Trump on who deserves the endorsement — while his own primary was cleared with $2.2 million in outside money.
Jack was Trump's White House political director. On January 4, 2021, he got a text listing who 'the President wants to be invited to speak' at the Ellipse rally. He was subpoenaed, deposed under oath, and the full 51-page transcript is public. It is worth reading.
Jack's Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act passed the House by voice vote in March. He says it 'preserves the Ali Act.' The bill text lets a new kind of boxing company sign fighters to six-year contracts and skip the disclosures the Ali Act requires — and the company positioned to use it is a Saudi-funded conglomerate run by Dana White.