A constituent asked about $20,000 that a convicted felon's campaign fund gave Rogers's wife. Rogers offered to step outside. At the same meeting he called the idea that he needs town halls 'laughable.' He hasn't held one since.
As a state senator he introduced the law creating digital asset banks. In 2025 Norfolk's Telcoin got the nation's first such charter and thanked him by name. Its founder has given him $23,800 — and the crypto industry's super PAC spent $126,740 backing him while he sits on the committee writing federal crypto rules.
His own financial disclosure lists nine companies worth up to $12.4 million that paid him up to $1.2 million in 2024. In March he co-led 87 colleagues in a letter pressing the FCC — the agency that licenses his stations — on a rule change broadcasters want.
In February 2026 the House Oversight Committee deposed Ohio billionaire Les Wexner about Jeffrey Epstein. Carey donated Wexner's contribution to anti-trafficking charities — a good thing to do. The problem is what he did in July 2025, when releasing the files was still a live vote.
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 The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest.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.