Arkansas expects 50,000 kids on Educational Freedom Accounts this year, at a cost of more than $367 million — ten times what the program cost in year one. Only 12% of participants came from a public school.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
Arkansas Republicans voted down Gov. Sarah Sanders' $750 million mega-prison five times. She recruited primary challengers against the ones who stopped her, and lost every Senate primary she got into. Now the oil-and-gas worker who helped lead the opposition is on her November ballot.
The Trump administration won't renew the Medicaid waiver that runs Arkansas's private option, citing authority from the 2025 budget bill. Every Arkansas Republican in Congress voted for that bill.
The Trump administration rejected Arkansas's request to renew ARHOME, the program insuring more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. Cotton voted for the law behind the rejection, then called Medicaid important.
A Texas judge threw out the registration rules for silencers and short-barreled rifles. Six days later, Andrew Clyde — who owns two gun stores — led a letter asking DOJ to skip the appeal and stop enforcing the law nationwide. Thirty-three of the signers have report cards here.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
A former Little Rock superintendent spent two years predicting exactly how Arkansas's voucher program would go. In what he says may be his last column, he explains why the rising test scores in the governor's press release don't mean what she says they mean.
A legislative panel just approved a study of a $100 million state tax credit for private school and homeschool families — on top of the up to $379 million Arkansas has approved for vouchers this year, and on top of the new federal one. Even a conservative school choice group says no.
