He said the bill would injure innocent people. The bill already lets the attorney general redact victims' personal information, child abuse material, and anything that would jeopardize an active investigation. Higgins chairs the subcommittee that subpoenaed those same files.
A Democrat toured 15 Pennsylvania counties and heard about data centers more than anything else. Meanwhile all ten of the state's Republicans in the U.S. House voted for a ten-year ban on states enforcing their own AI rules, nine of them voted for a law projected to push power bills higher, and Harrisburg's $2 billion tax break for data centers is still on the books.
"Americans should not be forced to breathe hazardous air year after year," he said in July. He has a 0% League of Conservation Voters score, voted to let federal regulators stall EPA clean-air rules, and is pushing to fire up a gas plant in Dunkirk.
Constituents left him an empty chair in Corning in 2025. In February 2026 the community station in Jamestown published a piece saying his office repeatedly failed to notify them of press events in their own county. The man who stood up at that empty-seat town hall is now his opponent.
A pollster found anti-Muslim sentiment tracks election cycles more closely than it tracks terrorist attacks. Within a day of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republicans proved her point.
As the only New Yorker on the House Rules Committee, Langworthy helped block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from ever reaching the floor — calling it a "pointless political gimmick." Once a discharge petition forced the vote, he voted yes and said he stands for justice for the victims.
In a 2023 markup he demanded all assistance be slowed. His amendment deleted the humanitarian exemption for food, medicine and medical devices. A year later, House Republicans made him chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The Sun Sentinel found the Facebook comments in 2020. Mast called them "disgusting and inappropriate jokes" and the posts came down. He was re-elected anyway, and now chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
He wrote the New York Times op-ed. He cosponsored a background-check bill. He asked the president for an immediate pause on AR-15 sales. Then he voted against universal background checks and the assault weapons ban — and his campaign website's gun page never mentions any of it.