Cynthia West filed a workplace complaint against Spartz, was offered a settlement with a nondisclosure agreement, and refused it. Spartz's office has given two different reasons for letting her go — and her staff turnover was the worst of her career.
You have been able to carry a gun in a national park since 2010. The one thing still off-limits is inside the visitor center and the ranger station. Yakym's Federal Lands Lawful Carry Act would end that — endorsed by the NRA, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation.
H.R. 8953 would let a state require a photo ID, a piece of mail, or residency papers before a pantry hands out free food — reversing a USDA rule barring identification documents as an eligibility test. Yakym is the only sponsor. The problem he describes is people going to more than one pantry.
Outside groups poured $5 million into Indiana's 8th District's 2024 primary — the sixth most expensive congressional race in America that spring. Messmer's own campaign raised less than a third of that. Then he took a seat writing the rules for one of his biggest backers.
Asked on NewsNation whether 18 months in it's Trump's economy yet, Yakym said the president was "left with a mess to clean up." A new study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600 and wiped out 9,148 Indiana manufacturing jobs.
In June 2026, about 70 people in Evansville held a town hall for a congressman who didn't come and never answered the invitation. It was the latest round of a pattern that started his first spring in office.
H.R. 6213 is fifty words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
Baird's 'No Official Palestine Entry Act' rewrites two 1990s laws so that U.S. funding is cut off from the UN and any of its agencies that give Palestinians anything beyond back-of-the-room observer status. The UN already did that in 2024. Pro-Israel PACs have given him $25,856.
