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. The bill to publish who got the money named every borrower when it was introduced. By the time it reached the floor, the cutoff had been raised to $2 million — above all four of his loans. He voted no anyway. 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.
Up to $1.1 million in undisclosed trades, including Raytheon while he sat on Armed Services and seven trades in a Chinese company he was publicly calling a strategic adversary. A watchdog filed an ethics complaint. He paid $200.
Federal law bars members of Congress from sending mass communications in the 60 days before their own election. The threshold is 500. Moore's office sent taxpayer-funded mailers touting his record in batches of 499 in the run-up to primary day.
In 2022 his campaign said he'd relocate to the 14th District regardless of the election result. He lost, stayed in Catawba County, and in 2023 switched to a safer seat — where his position on a federal abortion ban switched too.
Her one-page appeal letter to the House Ethics Committee claimed a mask requirement violated her First Amendment rights and that the fine violated the Twenty-Seventh Amendment. The committee turned her down.
Favre was sued over a scheme that misspent $77 million meant for needy families, and got $1.1 million in welfare money for speeches he never gave. Hamadeh picked him to co-front a congressional fitness program to make American kids healthier.