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Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.

America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.

Dan Sullivan Used Official Senate Letterhead to Tell 19 Alaska Communities What He's Delivered for Them. Senate Rules Bar That Letterhead From Campaign Correspondence.

Dan Sullivan Used Official Senate Letterhead to Tell 19 Alaska Communities What He's Delivered for Them. Senate Rules Bar That Letterhead From Campaign Correspondence.

Sullivan emailed thousands of Alaskans a town-by-town list of what he has secured for them, on Senate letterhead paid for by taxpayers, days before the 60-day pre-election blackout. The Senate Ethics Committee says letterhead may not be used for any campaign or campaign-related correspondence.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.

208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.

H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.

Dan Sullivan Sold Up to $100,000 of His Family's Stock After Closed-Door COVID Briefings. Two Weeks Later It Fell by a Third.

Dan Sullivan Sold Up to $100,000 of His Family's Stock After Closed-Door COVID Briefings. Two Weeks Later It Fell by a Third.

A review of Sullivan's Senate disclosures finds four well-timed sales of RPM International — the chemical company his brother runs — including one on February 27, 2020, and two more just ahead of bad earnings reports. He is the busiest stock trader in Alaska's delegation. Murkowski, Peltola and Don Young reported no trades at all.