Foxx chairs the House Rules Committee. It wrote a closed rule that fused a photo-ID voting mandate into the congressional stock-trading bill and barred every amendment. A month earlier she was buying and selling coal units.
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.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Three companies tied to Ralph Norman took four pandemic loans worth $608,500, and the government forgave them. Weeks later he signed a letter calling student debt relief an 'election-year bribe' and 'highway robbery.' Now he wants a Senate seat.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Abbott's data center crackdown is 'smoke and mirrors,' that he's never gotten a meeting with the Governor in 12 years, and that other Republicans are staying quiet because they're scared of Abbott's $105 million war chest.
Four of Mike Kelly's car dealerships got pandemic loans in the first two weeks of the program. In May 2020 he voted against a bill making the government publish who got the money. All $974,100 was later wiped out — $987,237 with interest. He calls student debt relief a 'handout.'
The day after Kelly learned the Butler steel plant would be saved, his wife bought 5,000 shares of the company. Eight months later she cashed out for a $64,476 profit. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprove him — not for the trade, but for how he answered questions about it.
Nine days after announcing a blind trust, Bresnahan sold up to $130,000 in Medicaid company stock. A week later he voted to cut Medicaid. In July he voted for a trading ban that wouldn't have stopped him.