Three companies tied to Ralph Norman took four pandemic loans worth $608,500, and the government forgave them. In 2022 he signed a letter calling student debt relief an 'election-year bribe' and 'highway robbery.' Now he wants a Senate seat.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Abbott's data center crackdown is 'smoke and mirrors,' that he's never gotten a meeting with the Governor in 12 years, and that other Republicans are staying quiet because they're scared of Abbott's $105 million war chest.
Four of Mike Kelly's car dealerships got pandemic loans in the first two weeks of the program. The bill to publish who got the money named every borrower when it was introduced. By the time it reached the floor, the cutoff had been raised to $2 million — above all four of his loans. He voted no anyway. All $974,100 was later wiped out — $987,237 with interest. He calls student debt relief a 'handout.'
The day after Kelly learned the Butler steel plant would be saved, his wife bought 5,000 shares of the company. Eight months later she cashed out for a $64,476 profit. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprove him — not for the trade, but for how he answered questions about it.
At a county GOP dinner in March 2017, Pennsylvania's Mike Kelly said Barack Obama stayed in Washington for one reason: to secretly sabotage Donald Trump. He gave the real reason in the same breath. Then his office walked it back twice in one day.
Glenn Thompson voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, then gave the father-of-the-groom toast at his gay son's wedding three days later. Five months after that, when the bill came back with religious protections added, he voted no again.
Two bills, two years, seventeen Republicans, and zero hearings. The push to put Trump's name on Dulles International Airport picked up three new cosponsors during the longest government shutdown in American history — while the air traffic controllers working it went unpaid.
Perry read the First Amendment's religious freedom clause aloud, then argued that 'sharia-compliant' Muslims are quietly taking over neighborhoods. It's the same thing he's been doing for ten years.