Ten years without facing constituents in a room. Nearly three times the median rate of missed roll call votes. Declined an interview. And a district so red he doesn't have to answer any of it.
In February 2025, with DOGE dismantling federal agencies, Alabama's most senior House Republican publicly invited Elon Musk to take on the USPS — the agency rural north Alabama depends on most.
Five roll calls and a Supreme Court brief, all public record. Alabama's longest-serving House Republican asked the Court to void four states' results, voted to reject Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electors hours after the riot, and opposed both investigations.
Rioters smashed the window of Jim Risch's Capitol office on January 6. Five years later, with the Justice Department moving to erase the convictions of the people who organized the attack, Idaho's senator told a reporter not to ask.
Trump attacked Iran on February 28. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is where Congress asks a president why. Its chairman decided the public didn't need to hear the answers.
Fitzpatrick is one of only two Republicans who voted against the final budget bill. He's much quieter about May 22, 2025, when the same bill passed the House 215-214 and he voted yes. The version he backed cut $863 billion from Medicaid.
Palmer's own argument was that improper payments happen because agencies fail to verify data. On August 6, the GAO reported that DOGE could not verify 96% of its claimed grant savings — and refused GAO's requests for information.
She wrote an op-ed cheering DOGE, and a bill to hand outside auditors a permanent role in deciding which parts of the government to close. Then the GAO found DOGE couldn't verify its numbers — and wouldn't talk to the auditors.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan found the government had combined records it knew were unreliable, and eligible voters had already lost their registrations. Hamadeh filed articles of impeachment against her — and made a point of noting her dual citizenship.