The ROTOR Act was written after the midair collision that killed 67 people on a flight out of Wichita. It needed 265 votes in the House and got 264. Both Kansas senators put their names on the bill. Every other Kansan in the House voted yes.
In 2022 Victoria Spartz called Russia's invasion a genocide and described the bombings her grandmother lived through. In 2024, facing a primary where the border polled better, she voted no on $61 billion for Ukraine.
Cynthia West filed a workplace complaint against Spartz, was offered a settlement with a nondisclosure agreement, and refused it. Spartz's office has given two different reasons for letting her go — and her staff turnover was the worst of her career.
Scalise spoke to a hate group founded by a former Klan grand wizard, told a reporter he was Duke without the baggage, and voted twice against a Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday. Now he's the House GOP's elder statesman and the obvious contender to lead the conference next.
A relative found five four-inch bruises on Shae Sortwell's child, and police recommended a felony charge. Sortwell told them the Bible was 'very specific.' In July 2026, Wied agreed to headline his birthday fundraiser — and didn't answer reporters.
Five people who served with Rep. Cory Mills in Iraq — including two of the three men his award paperwork says he saved — dispute the account. One called it a fabrication. Thirteen days before his primary, a rival veteran put it to his face.
Pressed seven times on CBS over whether the House should look into the domestic abuse allegations against his Ohio colleague, Turner said it was a court matter and 'better for TMZ than CBS.' Two days later the Ethics Committee opened an investigation.
Scott Fitzgerald chairs the House antitrust subcommittee and is leading a push to rewrite the 1961 law that lets the NFL pool its TV money. The Packers — the only publicly owned team in the NFL — say that law is why they still exist.
Members of Congress were locked in one room while a mob attacked the Capitol. Three Democrats who sheltered there tested positive. The Capitol's own physician warned that people in the room may have been exposed.