LaHood chairs Ways and Means' Work and Welfare Subcommittee. His JOBS for Success Act imposes a signed 'personal responsibility agreement,' an income ceiling, a squeeze on administrative costs and a ban on spending TANF directly on child care — while extending the block grant at the same $16.5 billion Congress set in 1996.
246 people died in Uri. Goldman chaired House Energy Resources in the session that followed. His committee advanced HB 1520 unanimously, which put $3.5 billion of gas companies' storm costs onto customers' bills through April 2039 — and a 2025 state audit found the gas weatherization rules produced 2 violations out of 8,732 inspections.
Goldman's first and only enacted law wiped out DOE standards for commercial refrigerators — permanently. DOE's own analysis: $1.32 to $3.43 billion in net savings for the businesses that buy them, against $117.7 million in manufacturer costs. His follow-up bill cancels up to $14,000 in appliance rebates for low-income households, sold with a number from the home builders' lobby.
Five weeks after telling a hearing that Ohioans' worries about data centers 'deserve to be taken seriously,' the chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee signed a letter asking the FBI whether foreign adversaries are behind the backlash.
In 2021 Barr said he'd 'always be an advocate' for opening foreign markets to Kentucky distillers. Then exports to Canada fell 42%, Jim Beam paused production at Clermont for all of 2026 — and Barr voted against ending the Canada tariffs and called the damage 'short-term turbulence.'
HB 6 forced Ohio ratepayers to prop up two coal plants built in the 1950s at $233,000 a day. The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest. The coal part survived until 2025. Carey lobbied on the bill, and now sits on Ways and Means.
Womack chairs the House subcommittee that writes HUD's budget. His FY27 bill cuts homeless assistance grants by $256 million and public housing by $1.3 billion — while finding $875 million for the 2028 Olympics.
Nine coalfield counties in her district have water that causes rashes. Miller asked for $250 million from an EPA fund she voted against filling — and the committee said no twice.
A Democrat toured 15 Pennsylvania counties and heard about data centers more than anything else. Meanwhile all ten of the state's Republicans in the U.S. House voted for a ten-year ban on states enforcing their own AI rules, nine of them voted for a law that raised power bills, and Harrisburg's $2 billion tax break for data centers is still on the books.