Wagner's net worth has grown by an estimated $22 million since she was sworn in. She chairs the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, she's invested in private equity — and people who work at private equity firms are among her biggest donors.
One donor's company paid $9 million to settle federal claims it lied to get a pandemic loan forgiven. Another pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff casino scandal and was pardoned by Trump last month.
In his first three campaigns, private prison PACs gave Garbarino $2,500 total. Since he took over the committee that oversees ICE, they have given him $30,000 — more than any other member of Congress, and from three private prison companies at once.
340B is why small-town hospitals can staff an ER. Rural CEOs say they'd be out of business without it. Downing's argument for scrutinizing it is that fewer people are uninsured — after he voted for a bill projected to strip coverage from 22,601 people in his own district.
Section 453 was buried in the Interior-EPA funding bill Simpson chairs. It would have shielded Bayer — which has already paid about $11 billion to roughly 100,000 cancer plaintiffs — from failure-to-warn suits. It took Democrats six months to get it out.
His OUTPACE in Space Act tells the FAA to issue a 'blanket waiver' of the reentry rule that protects people on the ground — and to rewrite the rules so rockets can come down over land. He sits on the subcommittee that oversees it. Asked about the timing, his office called the donations 'a separate issue.'
Fong's amendment to the House highway bill says rideshare companies 'shall not be liable' for harm caused by their drivers — even if the company ignored red flags in a background check. It passed 35-30 in the middle of the night. Uber's PAC gave him its first-ever donation seven days later.
H.R. 9298 says any pending lawsuit over the criminal misuse of a gun 'shall be immediately dismissed.' It wipes out the accountability laws 11 states passed. And it makes families who sue and lose pay the gun company's lawyers.
Word for word, H.R. 2988 and H.R. 5339 carry the identical official title. In 2024 Allen called his 401(k) bill the Protecting Americans' Investments from Woke Policies Act. In 2026 it became the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act.