The Armed Services chairman signed a bipartisan pledge to get 'a full accounting' of the September 2 follow-up strike on two men clinging to wreckage. Ten days later, having watched the classified video, he closed the case. The public still hasn't seen it.
He sits on Appropriations and takes eight times the average House member's defense-industry money. On the one defense bill that put money into his own district's plants, he found a way to be on both sides.
The 90/10 rule says a for-profit college has to get at least a tenth of its money from somewhere other than the federal government. Harris's PARITY Act deletes it. Veterans' advocates call the idea 'pure corporate welfare for subpar schools preying on students.'
Veterans Guardian charged one disabled veteran $21,360 to file a claim he could have filed for free. Its CEO, co-founder, and government-affairs chief have given McDowell $35,600 — including $1,000 three days after he signed onto their bill.
In September 2023 his official newsletter called Gen. Mark Milley a traitor and said that "in a better society" he would be hanged — blaming him for a Jan. 6 delay, citing testimony that never mentioned him.
The PACT Act got 86 votes in the Senate. Idaho veterans have filed more than 11,500 claims under it. Risch voted no at every single stage — including the July 2022 blockade that left veterans camped on the Capitol steps.
Eli Crane helped host five members of the Russian Duma inside the U.S. Capitol one day after the EU's top diplomat said Russia was helping Iran kill Americans. A Republican colleague compared it to a visit from the Third Reich. Crane never said a word.
Charles built his campaign on 18 months running a State Department bureau in Iraq and Afghanistan. A 2005 audit of that exact tenure called his front office 'structurally dysfunctional.' His answer was to call the reporting fake news.
The Pentagon now says at least 624 U.S. service members have been wounded in Trump's Iran war — and it keeps quietly rearranging the numbers so no one can follow along.