In her first run for Congress, mail pieces told Oklahoma voters that Oklahomans for Life had endorsed Stephanie Bice and rated her 100% pro-life. The group's own leader said neither half was true.
Oklahoma's congresswoman filed H.Con.Res.43 to declare that the national anthem must be sung in English. It has no force of law, it never got a vote — and the Spanish version she's objecting to was commissioned by the U.S. State Department in 1945.
Oklahoma already banned Sharia law once. A federal appeals court threw it out as unconstitutional. Now Oklahoma's Rep. Josh Brecheen has cosponsored a national version and joined a caucus that a civil rights group calls a hate group.
Oklahoma's sheriffs, 87% of Oklahoma voters and 83% of his own district all want cockfighting to stay a felony. Josh Brecheen said he supports decriminalizing it — and the lobby he backed is now under criminal charges.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law all 23 Republicans from those states voted for.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 182 Republicans we track voted no — the second time Congress has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop Congress from saying it.
