On July 29 he stood on the Senate floor demanding the House-passed Stop Insider Trading Act pass by unanimous consent. The bill bans buying stock. It requires no one to divest. The senator whose portfolio gained an estimated $8.6 million in a single month would not have to sell anything.
Hidden in Trump's budget bill is the first federal private school voucher in American history — a tax credit that pays donors back 100 cents on the dollar, with no ceiling on the total. Congress's scorekeepers say $26 billion. One analysis says $51 billion a year.
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.
As a state senator he introduced the law creating digital asset banks. In 2025 Norfolk's Telcoin got the nation's first such charter and thanked him by name. Its founder has given him $23,800 — and the crypto industry's super PAC spent $126,740 backing him while he sits on the committee writing federal crypto rules.
His own financial disclosure lists nine companies worth up to $12.4 million that paid him up to $1.2 million in 2024. In March he co-led 87 colleagues in a letter pressing the FCC — the agency that licenses his stations — on a rule change broadcasters want.
Section 70302 would have made federal court orders against the Trump administration unenforceable — retroactively. Flood voted for it, then admitted in Seward: 'this provision was unknown to me when I voted for that bill.'
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
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.
