Between April 7 and April 17, 2025, one of Congress' richest members bought and sold between $3.44 million and $9.45 million in stocks — including trucking, rail and shipping companies overseen by his own committee. His office said a professional handles it.
The man in charge of electing House Republicans says voters remember $9 gas and that prices are down. The record national average was $5.02. Gas was $4.45 the week he said it, and North Carolina diesel set an all-time high in April.
Keeping Colorado's old coal plants running is costing ratepayers more than $87 million. Asked if it was worth it, Rep. Jeff Hurd said yes — and complained the federal orders forcing one plant open don't last long enough.
Soybeans alone cost Indiana $347 million in lost exports in one year. Stutzman called the tariffs a matter of other countries realizing 'they need us as a partner' — and, after the Supreme Court threw the tariffs out, told Bloomberg the ruling was not good for Indiana farmers and that he would be happy to help the president.
The chairman of the House China committee wrote a bill to slap 35% to 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. Michigan farmers lost three straight years in the soybean market, and he went after the Midwest nonprofit that ran the farm trade roundtables.
On September 25, 2024, Bilirakis was one of 82 House members — all Republicans — to vote no on the bill that took FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund out of emergency rationing. Helene made landfall in Florida the following night. Five days later he published a guide telling constituents how to apply for FEMA money.
He voted no on the infrastructure law in 2021. In 2024 it sent $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in his own district. When Trump froze the money in 2025, the chairman of the House Highways Subcommittee called the freeze a hunt for waste and fraud.
In September 2025 Obernolte switched his vote on a rule blocking tariff votes after Speaker Johnson promised the block would end January 31, 2026. In February 2026 leadership moved to extend it to July 31. Obernolte voted for that too.
Paxton's 'Protecting the Texas Promise' agenda is a stack of new tax deductions. You have to itemize your taxes to claim the deductions — and only about 10% of taxpayers do. Even conservative economists say it will push prices up, not down.