James reported assets of $2.5–$8.75 million when he was elected in 2022 and $11.8–$51.3 million in the disclosure he filed August 13. More than half his stock trades were in industries his own committee oversees. He got a 90-day extension that pushed the filing past Michigan's primary.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
Axios reports Rogers' allies asked AIPAC not to advertise for him, and floated routing the group's donors to a friendly super PAC instead. The money would be the same. Only the label would change.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
Barrett is running as a data center fighter. Since then he voted for the tax breaks that handed six companies $83 billion, voted for a ten-year ban on states regulating AI, backed a bill weakening environmental reviews, and took money from Musk, Thiel, Blackstone's CEO and the corporate PACs of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.
A Lever investigation found Rogers holds $1.7 to $2.6 million in companies positioned to profit from the AI build-out, including a stake in a Blackstone trust that is 29 percent data centers while Blackstone helps build a $16 billion data center near Ann Arbor. In March he endorsed Trump's plan to speed up data center permitting. On August 20 he called for a one-year moratorium.
The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
AT&T, Verizon and the wireless industry's trade group gave Mike Rogers $95,000 over two decades. He wrote a bill to let them hand customer data to the NSA without a warrant — then went to work for AT&T.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
