H.R. 8953 would let a state require a photo ID, a piece of mail, or residency papers before a pantry hands out free food — reversing a USDA rule barring identification documents as an eligibility test. Yakym is the only sponsor. The problem he describes is people going to more than one pantry.
Outside groups poured $5 million into Indiana's 8th District's 2024 primary — the sixth most expensive congressional race in America that spring. Messmer's own campaign raised less than a third of that. Then he took a seat writing the rules for one of his biggest backers.
Asked on NewsNation whether 18 months in it's Trump's economy yet, Yakym said the president was "left with a mess to clean up." A new study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600 and wiped out 9,148 Indiana manufacturing jobs.
In June 2026, about 70 people in Evansville held a town hall for a congressman who didn't come and never answered the invitation. It was the latest round of a pattern that started his first spring in office.
H.R. 6213 is fifty words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
Baird's 'No Official Palestine Entry Act' rewrites two 1990s laws so that U.S. funding is cut off from the UN and any of its agencies that give Palestinians anything beyond back-of-the-room observer status. The UN already did that in 2024. Pro-Israel PACs have given him $25,856.
Baird's constituents have been asking where he is since at least 2024. He skipped a candidate forum, skipped the town hall they held for him, and never answered the reporters who asked. His own financial disclosure shows he found time for three privately funded overseas trips in a single year — and LegiStorm ranked his office among the five worst in the House for keeping staff.
Her vote passed the $9.4 billion cuts package 214–212. Indiana public media lost $1.3 million a year and cut 18 jobs. DOGE's charter quietly expired on July 4, 2026 without a final report.
