Asa Hutchinson put more than $37 million into zeroing out the CES waiver waitlist in 2021. Four years into Sanders' term it is back above 2,400 people. A Little Rock lawmaker puts the cost of clearing it at $35 to $50 million; her voucher program costs more than $367 million this year.
The No Preference Act would bar every federal agency, including the Pentagon, from favoring a contractor because its workers have a union contract. Stephanie Bice wrote it. Steve Womack, John Rutherford and Jack Bergman signed on.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
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.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
A new University of Arkansas tracking project counts 83 farm bankruptcies in Arkansas since 2021 — second only to California, and the most family-farm filings of any state in the country. Crawford told Arkansas farmers the trade war wouldn't hurt them in 2018 — and was still calling the tariffs a powerful move for farmers in 2025.
Three years into the LEARNS Act, Arkansas has never permanently barred a single school from its voucher program — not even the one where a 13-year-old was beaten. A former state senator lays out what the money buys, and what it doesn't.
Arkansas invented a new kind of school called a microschool, sent it voucher money, and decided it isn't a private school and doesn't get routine visits. There are 142 of them now. One collapsed three weeks before classes started.
