Citizens Against Government Waste says Fleischmann pulled in more earmark money than any other House member — including the single largest earmark in Congress. He votes to cut food aid and health coverage for Tennesseans at the same time.
In May 2021 Hagerty cosponsored a bipartisan $3.265 billion bridge repair program, citing Memphis's shut-down I-40 bridge. That exact program went into the infrastructure law — and in August he ground the Senate to a halt to delay it, then voted no.
Hagerty authored the GENIUS Act, the first federal crypto law. It says in its own text that stablecoins get no FDIC insurance. Within two weeks of Senate passage, the CEOs of Coinbase and Ripple wrote his joint fundraising committee $15,100.
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.
The bill the Tennessee freshman is co-leading turns Trump's bitcoin executive order into law. He sold it as a fix for the national debt — but its text forbids selling the bitcoin, for any purpose, for at least two decades.
The private prison company CoreCivic just posted one of the best quarters in its history off the ICE detention buildup. Its outgoing CEO, its incoming CEO, and its PAC all gave money to the Tennessee freshman who sits on the committee that oversees ICE.
Outside groups reported more than $2.4 million in spending to elect Matt Van Epps in Tennessee's 7th District — more than his own campaign raised for the whole race. The money came from Trump's super PAC and a short list of billionaires who don't live here.
Kustoff has filed rural health bills in three Congresses. Not one has become law. The one health bill he did vote through is taking $7 billion out of TennCare — and Tennessee's share of rural hospitals vulnerable to closure just jumped from 44% to 61%, the worst in the country.
Kustoff's H.R. 5242 repeals two laws the D.C. Council passed — one letting people who were under 25 when they committed their crime ask a judge for a second look, one letting old records be sealed. It was introduced and marked up the same day. Then his colleagues bolted on a repeal of D.C.'s speed cameras.
