HB 6 forced Ohio ratepayers to prop up two coal plants built in the 1950s at $233,000 a day. The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest. The coal part survived until 2025. Carey lobbied on the bill, and now sits on Ways and Means.
Bloomberg reported that Hern pushed to make it easier for franchises to get pandemic loans — and a company he controls got $1.07 million, forgiven. Two years later he attacked student loan relief, and the White House replied with the exact number: $1,082,302.
Edison Chouest Offshore has spent more than $7 million on parties, PACs and members of the committees that oversee the Coast Guard — then sold the Coast Guard a broken icebreaker for $125 million. Today the man holding the House gavel over the Coast Guard takes more money from Chouest than from any other employer.
He signed the term-limits pledge and honored it in each of his first three terms. In his fourth, he skipped it for eight months — but found time to help rename an airport after Trump. Then a billboard appeared on I-70, a reporter asked him about it, and eleven days after that story ran he signed on.
A federal judge ruled the congressman's back-pay suit can move forward. Crawford is seeking $418,796.08 in retroactive raises — more than seven years of income for a typical Arkansas household.
FEC filings show the group has taken $0.00 from individual donors, got its entire $200,000 from a Virginia super PAC that's now spent $2.5 million attacking Cotton's opponent, and spent every dollar of its campaign money against her.
A super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy spent $8.2 million in one month attacking his opponent. Five out-of-state donors put up 88 cents of every dollar — and $10 million of the Ohio spending shows up in the state's public database with the purpose field left blank.
Robert Harshbarger Jr. swapped a cheap unapproved Chinese ingredient into medicine for kidney dialysis patients and got 48 months. Four days after Trump endorsed his wife's re-election, he got a full and unconditional pardon — and, newly eligible to hold office, he filed to run for county commission.
She's a pharmacist who vice-chairs the health subcommittee overseeing the FDA, funded by three compounding-pharmacy lobbies. Her letter asking the FDA to stand down lives on one of those lobbies' websites. Her son is a pharmacist at the family compounding pharmacy — and now sits on the FDA panel that just voted to allow them.