A constituent asked about $20,000 that a convicted felon's campaign fund gave Rogers's wife. Rogers offered to step outside. At the same meeting he called the idea that he needs town halls 'laughable.' He hasn't held one since.
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.
As a state senator he introduced the law creating digital asset banks. In 2025 Norfolk's Telcoin got the nation's first such charter and thanked him by name. Its founder has given him $23,800 — and the crypto industry's super PAC spent $126,740 backing him while he sits on the committee writing federal crypto rules.
His own financial disclosure lists nine companies worth up to $12.4 million that paid him up to $1.2 million in 2024. In March he co-led 87 colleagues in a letter pressing the FCC — the agency that licenses his stations — on a rule change broadcasters want.
In February 2026 the House Oversight Committee deposed Ohio billionaire Les Wexner about Jeffrey Epstein. Carey donated Wexner's contribution to anti-trafficking charities — a good thing to do. The problem is what he did in July 2025, when releasing the files was still a live vote.
He promised on Facebook and X to post the call-in information before the event. He didn't. Then his office put out a press release celebrating that 12,000 people joined. WOSU reporters have tried to interview him 17 times, knocked on his door, and left a note at his office.
HB 6 forced Ohio ratepayers to prop up two coal plants built in the 1950s at $233,000 a day. The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest. The coal part survived until 2025. Carey lobbied on the bill, and now sits on Ways and Means.
Section 70302 would have made federal court orders against the Trump administration unenforceable — retroactively. Flood voted for it, then admitted in Seward: 'this provision was unknown to me when I voted for that bill.'
In April 2025 Hern joined a congressional tour of El Salvador's CECOT prison. Asked about it, his office said only that it could not confirm his location. Days later he went on Newsmax and said of the men held there: 'These folks will never see the light of day.'