The PACT Act got 86 votes in the Senate. Idaho veterans have filed more than 11,500 claims under it. Risch voted no at every single stage — including the July 2022 blockade that left veterans camped on the Capitol steps.
Trump attacked Iran on February 28. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is where Congress asks a president why. Its chairman decided the public didn't need to hear the answers.
Abbott calls San Antonio's CPS Energy an 'energy monopoly' and wants retail providers let in. CPS says it has the lowest combined residential rates in the state. Utility PACs have given Abbott's campaign at least $230,000.
PolitiFact rated Donalds' claim about Florida's new data center law Half True: it directs a process, not a result, and it doesn't cover rural co-ops or municipal utilities at all. Meanwhile the backers of four Florida data center projects have given him $894,000.
Fitzpatrick is one of only two Republicans who voted against the final budget bill. He's much quieter about May 22, 2025, when the same bill passed the House 215-214 and he voted yes. The version he backed cut $863 billion from Medicaid.
Days into the job, South Carolina's appointed senator says she'd blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act — the opposite of her brother's position. Her introductory ad is two culture-war lines. Her primary is August 11.
Former Sen. Jeff Flake and the Republican mayors of Valdosta and Tifton all crossed party lines to back Jon Ossoff. Meanwhile a coalition of Atlanta Black pastors is demanding Collins answer for his campaign's reported ties to white nationalists.
Palmer's own argument was that improper payments happen because agencies fail to verify data. On August 6, the GAO reported that DOGE had not given it enough information to verify 96% of DOGE's claimed grant savings — and did not respond to GAO's requests for information.
In 2025 Gary Palmer cast 33 anti-environment votes and zero pro-environment votes. Then he was handed the gavel of the subcommittee that oversees America's air and water — with a coal company, a power company and a quarry company on his donor list.