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Republican Congressman Mike Lawler is siding with Big Tech as it tries to build massive AI data centers next to a drinking water reservoir in New York's Hudson Valley.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
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Since 2022, Mike Lawler's campaign has paid Checkmate Strategies, the firm he co-founded, more than $502,000 for consulting and PR fees.
Lawler tells Hudson Valley voters he opposes a federal abortion ban. He doesn't bring up his two votes for Trump's budget bill, which blocked Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for a year — including for cancer screenings and birth control.
Jim Jordan has been in Congress since 2007 and every one of his 30 bills died in committee. Chuck Fleischmann's Cherokee land bill has passed the House five times and never once cleared the Senate. They are two of 15 Republicans on this site who have never had a bill they sponsored become law.
Newsday found that the Long Island Republican is tied for the third-most privately sponsored trips in the House this year: four trips, nearly a month on the road, with a session at Shell, a lunch with Chevron executives and a meeting with Meta along the way.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
