He chairs the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over nuclear weapons, missile defense and military space. On June 4 he read out a bill boosting four specific programs. Lockheed, Northrop, RTX and L3Harris hold all four contracts — and all four fund his campaign.
In 2021 Bost said it was 'every veteran's right to have an opinion — even one I find radical.' In July 2026, one day after the VFW put a 93-year-old protest cartoon on a T-shirt, he asked the VA to scrutinize the group's accreditation.
In 2020 the Virginia Senate capped payday and title loan rates at 36%, saving borrowers over $100 million a year. Kiggans was one of 16 no votes — while a fellow Hampton Roads Republican voted yes. Her campaign had taken $17,500 from a group funded by payday lenders.
The PACT Act gave VA health care to veterans poisoned by burn pits. It passed the House 342–88 with most Republicans in favor. Bentz was one of the 88 — and he'd already voted against a GI Bill fix for the National Guard.
Crank's Armed Forces Carry Rights Protection Act would write a presumption in favor of carrying personal guns on military installations into permanent law — the opposite of what the Pentagon's own suicide-prevention committee recommended.
The Washington Post named Joyce as one of seven Republicans who voted for the rule that let the aid pass, then voted no on the bill itself — while the money supported defense work in their districts. PA-13 is home to Letterkenny Army Depot, the Army's Patriot missile center.
SpaceX, BAE, General Dynamics, Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, Northrop, L3Harris, Leonardo DRS, Leidos and Cubic are all among the twenty PACs that have given Carter the most money. He chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that writes their construction budget.
The Armed Services chairman signed a bipartisan pledge to get 'a full accounting' of the September 2 follow-up strike on two men clinging to wreckage. Eleven days later he watched the classified video and closed the case. The public still hasn't seen it.
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.