The day after the midterms, Vice President JD Vance said Republicans lost because of the Iran war. Trump called that 'largely true' and said he'd do it again. Fourteen senators and 180 House members on this site voted against ordering the troops out.
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Darline Graham is the very first target of a brand-new super PAC from the toxic data center industry, which just dumped $1.5 million in South Carolina to save her.
Building the Future, a new super PAC aligned with the data center industry, reserved $1.5 million in ads to help Darline Graham keep her South Carolina Senate seat. She has opposed moratoriums on new data centers. The ads talk about her work for blind residents instead — and the PAC hasn't disclosed a single donor.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Darline Graham campaigns on getting tough on China. Her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles at two South Carolina companies: one whose shipping containers appear to be more than 97% Chinese, and one that imports toy guns from a Chinese maker that, until The Washington Post asked, advertised ties to China's state weapons giants.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
Graham told a runoff-night crowd her family worked through illness because 'if the doors weren't open, we weren't making money.' Her first month in the Senate included a vote to keep insurance-company gatekeeping inside Medicare.
In the only debate before South Carolina's August 25 runoff, Graham asked the moderator to repeat a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, then said: 'I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not that informed on national security.'
Federal regulators told Darline Graham's campaign it must refund or redesignate over-the-limit money from the founder of Charles Schwab, three married couples who wrote matching checks, and Lisa Murkowski's leadership PAC.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Three weeks into the job, South Carolina's appointed senator says she'd blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act — the opposite of her brother's position. Her introductory ad is two culture-war lines. Her primary is August 11.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped unwind subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted against taking up a resolution to end a new Medicare prior-authorization program, and two weeks later against taking up one to undo a child care rollback.
Federal records now list Darline Graham as sponsor of Fund for America's Future — the leadership PAC Lindsey Graham built. NOTUS calls a sibling-to-sibling handoff like this "decidedly uncommon."
Darline Graham says the first bill she cosponsored is the SAVE America Act — and she'd cancel the Senate's August recess to pass it. She sells it as showing an ID like you would at the library. The bill asks for far more than that.
