On Feb. 8, 2011, Walker's team gave the State Patrol to the father of Wisconsin's two most powerful Republicans. A week later came the bill that stripped bargaining rights from most public workers — and exempted the State Patrol. That exemption is why the law is still in court in 2026.
NOTUS and Wisconsin Watch found his median net worth went from $3.5 million in 2021 to $6.3 million in 2024, driven by property. In June he introduced three bills rewriting mortgage rules — funded by realtors, bankers and a Milwaukee mortgage insurer.
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.
DesJarlais cosponsored the Life at Conception Act on March 4, 2026 — no exception for rape or incest. Under oath in 2001 he admitted to affairs with patients and coworkers, and a recorded call caught him telling a pregnant patient she had promised him an abortion.
FEC filings show Brad Knott's brother put $1,735,000 into The American Foundations Committee. His father, his sister, and his brother the Senate chief of staff gave more. The PAC spent $1.3 million promoting him and $1.06 million attacking two other Republicans.
He spent four years as a vice president at the Podesta Group, on the client team for a fake think tank that prosecutors later said took direction from Ukraine's government and money from Paul Manafort's offshore accounts. His answer: 'I had no idea.'
Karl Pfluger is president of Oryx Midstream in Midland. Reuters found he put $9.8 million into Trump Media in 2021-22. FEC records show Oryx executives — including Karl and the CEO — have given $117,950 to the congressman's committees. He sits on Energy and Commerce and pushes permitting reform.
H.R. 9575 is one sentence long: cut the felony threshold in half. Nobody covered it and nobody cosponsored it. Meanwhile Trump wants $1.8 billion for the January 6 defendants.
In his own pitch for the Oversight gavel: counter the left's attacks on Trump, expose the left's hypocrisy, defend a president from people 'infected with wokeness.' The ethics office already found substantial reason to believe he broke the STOCK Act.