Venezuelan regulators didn't want to give Allen Stanford a banking license — they'd heard he was running a Ponzi scheme. Three American congressmen wrote to vouch for him. One of them still serves in Congress.
A Texas congressman took a private trip to meet a dictator, arranged by a man now convicted of secretly working for that dictator's government. In April 2026 he testified for the defense. The jury convicted anyway.
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.
The fair banned guns after a 2023 shooting injured three people. Paxton sued — against the reasoning of a legal opinion he himself issued in 2016, which he then quietly withdrew weeks after filing.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Abbott's data center crackdown is 'smoke and mirrors,' that he's never gotten a meeting with the Governor in 12 years, and that other Republicans are staying quiet because they're scared of Abbott's $105 million war chest.
Two bills, two years, seventeen Republicans, and zero hearings. The push to put Trump's name on Dulles International Airport picked up three new cosponsors during the longest government shutdown in American history — while the people who run the airport worked for nothing.
Abbott calls San Antonio's CPS Energy an 'energy monopoly' and wants retail providers let in. CPS says it has the lowest combined residential rates in the state. Utility PACs have given Abbott's campaign at least $230,000.
She wrote an op-ed cheering DOGE, and a bill to hand outside auditors a permanent role in deciding which parts of the government to close. Then the GAO found DOGE couldn't verify its numbers — and wouldn't talk to the auditors.
Her four-paragraph appeal letter to the House Ethics Committee claimed a mask requirement violated her First Amendment rights and that the fine violated the Twenty-Seventh Amendment. The committee turned her down.
