Giffords praised Smith's "tireless commitment" to gun safety and endorsed him in 2018 and 2020. Fifteen months later he voted against every bill on the House floor that would have restricted a gun — and hasn't signed the background-check bill since.
123 House Republicans voted for the PACT Act. Franklin was one of the 88 who didn't — and one of only five Florida Republicans. Six months later he took a seat on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. Today he helps write the VA's budget.
Finstad's letter was built on a footnote in a 2022 school board document that was never voted on. He sent it to a state agency with no authority over curriculum, and never called the school district at all.
The third-ranking House Republican said Somalis who don't assimilate should "go the hell back to where they came from" — and that he's "done being careful." The claim underneath it, that Somalis commit 80% of Twin Cities crime, is contradicted by Minnesota's own crime data.
Ushers documented vaping, filming, and refusing to leave. Boebert joked she was guilty of 'singing too loud,' and her team denied the vaping for most of the week — until the theater's camera showed her doing it.
Bice chairs the House subcommittee on modernizing constituent engagement — she ran a hearing on it, won funding for a Constituent Engagement Innovation Project, and is soliciting ideas right now. Asked why she does not hold in-person town halls, she answered with arithmetic: 'I am never going to get that kind of engagement if I'm doing in-person town halls.'
At his only 2024 debate Bresnahan said he'd oppose a federal abortion ban 'under any circumstances.' Then he voted for H.R. 21, and for a budget bill that shut the Wilkes-Barre Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid for a year. This July he launched a Women for Rob coalition.
Gooden wrote to the Dallas Housing Authority demanding ten years of data on where Housing Choice Voucher families are being placed in Kaufman County, citing 'housing concentration' and 'neighborhood stability.' He cited Walker v. HUD — the case that ordered Dallas to stop keeping Black families out of white neighborhoods.
The Forest Service asked the public what it thought about ending roadless protections on 58.8 million acres. More than 99% of the comments said no. Hageman's H.R. 7695 would write the repeal into law and bar any future administration from restoring it — including on 3.3 million acres of Wyoming.