59% of Nebraska voters tied the minimum wage to the cost of living in 2022. Lawmakers replaced that with a flat 1.75% and created a $13.50 teen wage that stays below today's $15 until 2065. Now the attorney general is suing Omaha and Lincoln for trying to opt out.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Gas hit $4.06 a gallon, the highest mid-August price ever recorded. Asked about high pump prices on national TV, Nebraska's congressman called it the hand you're dealt — after voting six times to protect the tariffs raising prices, voting to keep U.S. forces in the war, and taking $48,340 from pro-Israel PACs.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
Records obtained by Nebraska Public Media show what Pillen's 5% squeeze looks like on the ground: a DeafBlind support program discontinued, museum admission raised on kids, and a proposal to make low-income seniors and disabled Nebraskans start paying property tax.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
A Washington Post investigation found lawmakers outsourcing their work to chatbots with almost no oversight. Tuberville uses ChatGPT on policy. Anna Paulina Luna's office shipped an amendment summary with 'Claude responded:' still in it. Mike Flood asked a bot about housing.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
Nebraska Public Media warned before the vote that losing federal money would put emergency alert systems at risk. Adrian Smith voted for the cut anyway. Then the Morrill Fire burned 643,000 acres across his rural counties and killed an 86-year-old woman trying to escape.
