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Mary Miller and 39 Other Republicans We Cover Signed a Letter Asking Trump to Leave Green Card Holders, Refugees and DACA Recipients Out of the Census Count

The Constitution says the census counts 'the whole number of persons in each State.' A letter led by Mary Miller asks the Commerce Department to count only citizens when it hands out House seats, add a citizenship question, and drop questions about race and ethnicity. Six former Census directors who served under presidents of both parties say the rule they're backing puts the 2030 count at risk.

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Andy Harris Blamed Diesel Prices on 'Environmental Regulations,' Called His Audience Rude When They Laughed, Then Ordered a Reporter's Camera Taken and Called for an Officer

Andy Harris Blamed Diesel Prices on 'Environmental Regulations,' Called His Audience Rude When They Laughed, Then Ordered a Reporter's Camera Taken and Called for an Officer

At a debate, asked about Trump's deal to let Russian diesel in, Andy Harris blamed Democrats' environmental rules for fuel prices that are up 72% as the Iran war drags on. When the audience laughed, he called them rude. Afterward, he told a Capital News Service reporter she was breaking Maryland law by recording him in a room full of cameras, told someone to take her camera, and called for an officer.

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Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.

Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.

Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.

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Andrew Clyde Filed a Bill to Redraw the House Before 2028 by Not Counting Noncitizens. 38 Republicans We Cover Signed On the Same Day.

Andrew Clyde Filed a Bill to Redraw the House Before 2028 by Not Counting Noncitizens. 38 Republicans We Cover Signed On the Same Day.

H.R. 10377 would drop every noncitizen from the count used to hand out House seats, force a new apportionment before the 2028 election, and put a citizenship question on every future census. The Fourteenth Amendment — which Clyde's filing cites as its authority — says to count 'the whole number of persons in each State.'

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185 House Members We Track Voted to Make States Hand Your Medicaid and Food Stamp Records to Trump's Former Defense Lawyer

On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.

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Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.

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Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

The Food Traceability Rule would make food companies keep digital records so investigators can find the source of an outbreak fast. The farm-and-FDA spending law from Harris' subcommittee says no money can be used to enforce it before July 20, 2028. This summer, a cyclospora outbreak traced to Mexican lettuce put 570 people in the hospital. Harris doesn't appear to have said a word.

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180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.

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Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.

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208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.

H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.

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One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.

One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.

Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.

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Andy Harris Says Officials Who Block Deportations Should Be Prosecuted. He Also Talked the White House Into Bringing In 30,000 More Foreign Workers.

Andy Harris Says Officials Who Block Deportations Should Be Prosecuted. He Also Talked the White House Into Bringing In 30,000 More Foreign Workers.

In Washington, the Freedom Caucus chairman wants sanctuary officials prosecuted and said a detained pastor from his own district was 'subject to deportation.' On the Eastern Shore, he quietly got the Trump administration to max out the guest-worker visas his district's crab houses run on — and told the owner, 'we got it done.'

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