He says Congress can't fix school shootings — 'if you want to legislate evil, it's just not going to happen.' Three years later he wrote a bill to ban license-plate cameras, because some threats apparently can be legislated.
Tennessee is losing an estimated $7 billion from TennCare and has nine rural hospitals at risk. Burchett's DOGE subcommittee spent July 21 on Smithsonian exhibits, with witnesses from the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College.
She was one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against emergency relief for Hurricane Katrina survivors, and one of 67 against Sandy aid. When the storm was in her own district, she voted yes twice and has been asking for money ever since.
Christian Mango's fourth-grade persuasive essay proposed a $5,000 credit for electric cars. Foxx — a former teacher, a former community college president, and the former chair of the House education committee — told him to ask his teacher to explain propaganda.
In 2000 the South Carolina Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse dome. Joe Wilson was one of the seven — and he's kept voting that way in Congress ever since.
Before Orthodox Christian clergy showed up on Capitol Hill, Wilson sent Pam Bondi a letter asking the Justice Department to look into their church — and told his colleagues not to meet with them. A South Carolina Republican called it 'actual Soviet stuff.'
In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was Strom Thurmond's daughter. South Carolina's Joe Wilson said he didn't believe her, called it 'unseemly,' and said she should have kept quiet. Days later the Thurmond family confirmed her story.
A district chair wore a #MeToo shirt to a 2021 meeting to raise it. Whatley gaveled the meeting closed — and reappointed Harvey West to the committee that writes the party's rules.
A tenured Austin Peay professor was fired hours after Blackburn tagged his employer in a post from her government account. He's now suing her, one day after she won the Republican primary for governor.