He chairs the subcommittee that funds schools, health care and worker training. His FY27 bill eliminates adult job training, eliminates youth job training, and cuts Title I for low-income schools by $1.9 billion. He held a press conference about the hospitals.
The PACT Act got 86 votes in the Senate. Idaho veterans have filed more than 11,500 claims under it. Risch voted no at every single stage — including the July 2022 blockade that left veterans camped on the Capitol steps.
Fitzpatrick is one of only two Republicans who voted against the final budget bill. He's much quieter about May 22, 2025, when the same bill passed the House 215-214 and he voted yes. The version he backed cut $863 billion from Medicaid.
Paxton's settlement with Texas Children's Hospital is finalized: $10 million, five doctors permanently stripped of privileges, and the nation's first 'detransition clinic' due to open by October. A Stanford pediatrician calls it a clinic built by legal intimidation.
At a January debate, Iowa's Republican nominee for governor said he'd pull all COVID shots off the market in Iowa and end all childhood vaccine requirements for school enrollment. 'We cannot trust the medical establishment in Iowa anymore.'
"This is against the law, and the law needs to be enforced." Hilton calls California's Housing First strategy a "complete disaster" and would redirect state funding to sober housing — in a state with nearly a quarter of America's homeless population.
The Fair Care Act says it will cover more people and protect preexisting conditions. Westerman voted to repeal Obamacare, voted for the budget bill that leaves 40,000 more people in his district uninsured, and voted for a 'lower premiums' bill that lowers nothing.
Three rural hospital rescue bills in five months, from the senator who voted for the law taking billions out of rural health care. Twenty-four Mississippi rural hospitals are now rated vulnerable to closure.
SB 217 would have written a right to IVF into Nevada law. It passed the state Senate 15-5 with Republican votes. Lombardo killed it, calling the insurance mandate 'fiscally impossible' — while saying he supports making IVF more accessible.