In January, Guthrie's committee released a draft rewrite of the nation's toxic chemicals law, and the American Chemistry Council cheered. In May, the ACC filed an $80,276 independent expenditure for TV ads running in his district.
Breckinridge and Daviess counties passed moratoriums. Meade County killed a project after 3,000 people signed a petition. Guthrie's answer was a bill that only asks states to think about it — and a request that the FBI look into who's behind the opposition.
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.
Comer chairs the committee investigating the Epstein files. He agreed to an unsworn, un-videotaped interview for Pam Bondi, has not held a single hearing on Epstein, and says he will not call JD Vance or Susie Wiles.
Comer's D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act would require an act of Congress before the District could change any tax or fee — up or down. He told the markup it was aimed at the progressives D.C. voters had just elected. An $81 billion delivery company that had just lost a 20-cent fee fight wrote in to back it, and Comer put its letter in the record.
In 2021 Comer voted no on the infrastructure law and said its money was going to things that 'do not affect Kentucky's 1st District.' In July 2026 he announced a $24 million grant for Paducah's riverport — paid for by the exact law he voted against.
In March 2025 Barr told a Commerce Lexington luncheon that Musk had assured him 'face to face' that University of Kentucky research was safe and there'd be no broad federal workforce cuts. UK was already facing a $40 million hit, and 317,000 federal workers were gone by year's end.
In 2021 Barr said he'd 'always be an advocate' for opening foreign markets to Kentucky distillers. Then exports to Canada fell 42%, Jim Beam paused production at Clermont for all of 2026 — and Barr voted against ending the Canada tariffs and called the damage 'short-term turbulence.'
Barr's first Senate ad borrowed a slogan the Anti-Defamation League catalogs as a hate slogan adopted by white supremacists. A veteran Kentucky political columnist called it the most overtly racist statewide campaign he can remember. Then Barr won the primary.
