Ohio Sen. Jon Husted has voted against every one of the 13 Senate resolutions this year to pull U.S. forces out of Iran — while oil companies making record profits off that war put $220,000 behind his reelection.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins is the most prolific crypto trader in Congress. Twice he bought Ether right before Congress acted on a bill that sent its price soaring — and the second time, he cast the vote himself.
A bipartisan House panel found Chuck Edwards violated House rules on sexual harassment and hostile workplaces. Two young women left Congress because of it. He deleted the texts, skipped votes to spend time with one of them, and says he did nothing wrong.
Bergman's chief of staff took home $221,242 in taxpayer money last year and runs a political consulting firm on the side — with his pay structured so he never had to disclose it. A retired judge and a Navy chaplain want the House Ethics Committee to look into it.
Every Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan. Then they put out press releases bragging about the money it sent home. Malliotakis, Van Duyne, and Balderson all did it — and later voted against refilling the fund they told restaurants to apply for.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
New Hampshire just won $29.5 million from Purdue Pharma, and Governor Kelly Ayotte thanked the lawyers who got it. In 2007, when she was the state's attorney general, she kept New Hampshire out of the case against Purdue — then took more drug-industry money in the Senate than any other Granite State politician.
Bodycam video shows Nevada's governor interrupt a police sergeant to say his own name, complain 'Come on, man,' and drive away with no citation. The whole stop took about 15 seconds. His campaign says he wasn't asking for special treatment.