Police and Trooper Support PAC and Support America's Police PAC raised millions from retirees, spent most of it on their own phone banks, and recorded the biggest outside spending in Rutherford's FEC file. The same days, the same dollars were booked supporting a Democrat.
Obernolte chairs the House subcommittee writing AI policy and wrote the bill that would bar states — including California — from imposing safety transparency, auditing or incident-reporting duties on AI developers. He also helped launch a nonprofit that charges AI startups up to $3,500 a month for access to policymakers.
The 'Defending Freedom Fighters Trust Fund' would have put $5 million behind a Florida presidential candidate's legal defense, administered by the department Patronis ran. Even Ron DeSantis said no.
Simple Health sold sham health insurance to more than 400,000 people and took in more than $190 million. Its CEO is serving 25 years in federal prison. Florida's Chief Financial Officer took money from it and a related company three times — and kept taking it after a state attorney general issued a national fraud alert.
Kustoff's H.R. 5242 repeals two laws the D.C. Council passed — one letting people who were under 25 when they committed their crime ask a judge for a second look, one letting old records be sealed. It was introduced and marked up the same day. Then his colleagues bolted on a repeal of D.C.'s speed cameras.
Boeing, Lockheed, Honeywell, SpaceX, RTX and Blue Origin all fund the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. His own NASA bill writes statutory authority for a contract SpaceX already holds.
Peter Cloeren pleaded guilty in 1998 to routing $37,000 in corporate money to Babin's campaign through his own employees. Two FEC settlements followed: $6,700 in one, $20,000 plus a $5,000 disgorgement in the other. The paperwork is all still online.
His language rode through the House as Section 105 of an aviation safety bill written after a crash that killed 67 people. Tax officials warned it could cost states millions. A pilots'-lobby PAC gave him $5,000. He wouldn't say whether he owns a plane.
Four bills between 2014 and 2024, all pointed at the same target: the FCC's authority to regulate broadband. In 2025 a court finally did it for him — at the request of two trade groups that are among his biggest donors.