This is Standard Republican Policy. Is This What You Want?
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
At a Mobile County GOP dinner advertised as open to the public, a Lagniappe reporter asked about Tuberville's 2020 pledge to donate 'every dime' of his Senate salary to veterans. Tuberville had sheriff's deputies escort him out. There is still no record he kept the promise.
On October 14, Tommy Tuberville said he's '100% for data centers,' that they use 'as much water as two McDonald's' and won't raise power prices. Six weeks earlier, his own plan said they must replace the water they take and that Alabama ratepayers need protecting from them.
The Republican nominee for governor told a radio host that newcomers to the Huntsville area grew up in 'government-educated schools that have taught socialism and Communism' and need to be 'educated.' A Republican lawmaker from Huntsville says that's not correct.
On Alabama talk radio, Barry Moore scolded feminists and gay Americans for not joining his 'spiritual battle' against Islam. His own votes put him on the other side of their rights.
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Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks while writing the laws that move the market.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.