Section 70302 would have made federal court orders against the Trump administration unenforceable — retroactively. Flood voted for it, then admitted in Seward: 'this provision was unknown to me when I voted for that bill.'
After the president said six Democratic veterans had committed sedition 'punishable by DEATH,' one of them was Reschenthaler's neighbor in western Pennsylvania. Three other Pennsylvania Republicans managed to say political violence is wrong. Reschenthaler used his JAG credentials to certify Trump instead.
As House Intelligence chairman, Crawford pushed a 'clean' renewal of Section 702 with no warrant requirement, warning of 'another type of 9/11.' The ACLU called his privacy language 'quite insidious.'
Arkansas's self-appointed debt hawk wants a commission to bring deficits down to 3% of GDP. His own press release celebrating the bill that added $3.4 trillion runs about five hundred words and never mentions the deficit once.
Womack chairs the House subcommittee that writes HUD's budget. His FY27 bill cuts homeless assistance grants by $256 million and public housing by $1.3 billion — while finding $875 million for the 2028 Olympics.
Section 622 of the intelligence bill Cotton wrote as committee chairman requires the president to expand intelligence sharing with Israel and bars him from cutting it back without filing a report to Congress. Pro-Israel PACs have given Cotton $1.1 million.
In a June letter, Arkansas's senior senator conceded that Americans have 'valid concerns' about data centers driving up energy costs — and in the same breath asked the DOJ to open a foreign-agent investigation into the groups organizing against them.
Back home in her district, Miller was asked about the Medicaid cuts she championed, a war, and tariffs her own state's coal lobby says are hurting. She deferred on all three.
After Charlie Kirk's assassination, Higgins said he would use "Congressional authority and every influence with big tech" to get critics banned for life, blacklist their businesses, kick them out of school and revoke their driver's licenses.