On July 22 the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act. It's still sitting in the Senate. Max Miller traded that same day. Michael Rulli and Kevin Hern were still trading in August.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
A Texas judge threw out the registration rules for silencers and short-barreled rifles. Six days later, Andrew Clyde — who owns two gun stores — led a letter asking DOJ to skip the appeal and stop enforcing the law nationwide. Thirty-three of the signers have report cards here.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
Virginia's 5th District has the fewest hospitals per square mile in the state, 15 counties with no obstetric care, and the worst doctor shortage in Virginia. McGuire voted for a law that pulls billions more out of Virginia's rural hospitals — then declined to answer questions about the numbers he used to defend it.
Cline's 287(g) Cooperation Act would make every police department in America ineligible for federal hiring grants unless it signs an agreement with ICE within 180 days. The police chief in his own district says his department will keep doing what it has been doing.
The firearms industry's trade group handed Cline its top honor in April and listed exactly what he did to earn it — zeroing out the silencer tax, leading the bill to pull silencers out of federal law, and writing a bill during the shutdown to keep gun paperwork moving.
H.R. 9724 would strip automatic citizenship from children born in Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Marianas to parents who are neither citizens nor green-card holders. Guam's leaders invited him to come see the island. His office hasn't answered their questions either.
Dominion's own numbers say the Wise County plant will cost ratepayers at least $472 million this decade while running at a fraction of its capacity. Griffith wrote the governor to keep it open.
