Censure is one of the rarest punishments Congress hands out. Gosar got it 223–207 on November 17, 2021, stood in the well of the House while it was read aloud, refused to apologize — and re-shared the video about an hour later.
Up to $1.1 million in undisclosed trades, including Raytheon while he sat on Armed Services and seven trades in a Chinese company he was publicly calling a strategic adversary. A watchdog filed an ethics complaint. He paid $200.
Federal law bars members of Congress from sending mass communications in the 60 days before their own election. The threshold is 500. Moore's office sent taxpayer-funded mailers touting his record in batches of 499 in the run-up to primary day.
He co-chaired Better Boundaries in 2017 and signed the application that put Proposition 4 on the ballot. Now he criticizes the ruling that enforced it, wants Better Boundaries to stand down, and says the fix for gerrymandering is 50 governors voluntarily agreeing in 2030.
Ten years without an in-person town hall. Nearly three times the median rate of missed roll call votes. Declined an interview. And a district so red he doesn't have to answer any of it.
Three Gosar bills, three titles that say the opposite of what the text does: two "Protection Acts" that abolish national monuments, and an animal-safety act that strips Endangered Species Act protection from a wolf with 319 left in the wild.
His LASSO Act would tie Social Security's funding to how hard we extract from federal land. A conservative budget analyst checked his math and found he'd understated the shortfall by half — and that his bill covers 1.5% of it.
His CRACKDOWN Act makes a state ineligible for federal child care funding if its improper payment rate tops 5% for two years running. The government's own auditors say improper payments are usually not fraud.
Three days into the shutdown he went on public radio and asked the president to cut up to 200,000 jobs. A week later the firings started. And back in 2019 he was one of only seven members of Congress to vote against guaranteeing federal workers their back pay.