In May 2021 Hagerty introduced a bipartisan $3.265 billion bridge repair program, citing Memphis's shut-down I-40 bridge. That exact program went into the infrastructure law — and in August he ground the Senate to a halt to delay it, then voted no.
When he said it in March 2026, the Granite City mill had about 1,110 workers and neither blast furnace was making steel. One had been down since 2019 — a year after the tariffs. And the plant isn't in his district anymore.
H.R. 6213 is 44 words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
Her evidence was one bicycle factory in Seymour. A new University of Illinois study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600, cut $2.65 billion from Indiana's economy, and wiped out 9,148 manufacturing jobs.
She chairs the Veterans' Affairs oversight subcommittee. She cheered DOGE from its first meeting and told laid-off federal workers to 'go out and get' other jobs. Only after Politico counted the damage in Virginia Beach did she say she was working to reverse it.
In May 2025 Wittman told Virginians he opposed 'reckless cuts' to the federal workforce. In June and July he voted twice for the bill that made DOGE's cuts permanent. Virginia lost 23,500 federal jobs in eleven months.
In 2021 Comer voted no on the infrastructure law and said its money was going to things that 'do not affect Kentucky's 1st District.' In July 2026 he announced a $24 million grant for Paducah's riverport — paid for by the exact law he voted against.
H.R. 5437 would bar suits against engineered-stone makers and dismiss about 500 already filed. More than 560 Californians have been confirmed with silicosis and at least 31 have died since 2019. Nearly all are low-income Latino men.
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.'