H.R. 5765 would force the EPA, Energy and Interior to rewrite every rule, grant and policy using Balderson's definitions. His two biggest disclosed corporate donors are an electric utility and an oil refiner.
He sits on Appropriations and takes eight times the average House member's defense-industry money. On the one defense bill that put money into his own district's plants, he found a way to be on both sides.
H.R. 8332 would let thousands of current and former special operators carry a concealed gun in all 50 states, permanently. The law it copies makes retired police requalify every year. Harrigan's bill says they don't have to.
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.
In 2025 Gary Palmer cast 33 anti-environment votes and zero pro-environment votes. Then he was handed the gavel of the subcommittee that oversees America's air and water — with a coal company, a power company and a quarry company on his donor list.
Iowa gas hit $3.78 a gallon and diesel topped $5. Exxon and Chevron doubled their profits. Hinson took $64,500 from oil and gas companies — and kept voting against every attempt to end the war driving the prices up.
A November ballot measure would charge California's 200-plus billionaires a one-time 5% tax to backfill federal health care cuts. Kiley drafted federal legislation to block it after reports that Zuckerberg and Google's founders might leave.
A rule capping overdraft fees at $5 would have saved 23 million households $5 billion a year. French Hill — a former bank CEO who chairs the banking committee — personally wrote the resolution that killed it. The bank lobby thanked him by name.
Nevada Gold Mines has now given $1 million to a PAC backing Joe Lombardo — more than it has given any other Nevada politician. In between, the state engineer who wanted to cut its groundwater pumping became the first fired since 1981.