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State of the State: Texas Is 40th Overall. Greg Abbott and Texan Republicans in Congress Aren't Helping.

Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.

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Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.

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208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.

H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.

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One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.

One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.

Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.

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Craig Goldman Chaired the Texas Committee That Cleaned Up After Winter Storm Uri. Texans Are Still Paying the Gas Companies Until 2039.

Craig Goldman Chaired the Texas Committee That Cleaned Up After Winter Storm Uri. Texans Are Still Paying the Gas Companies Until 2039.

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.

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Craig Goldman's One Law Killed an Efficiency Rule the Energy Department Said Would Save $1.3 Billion

Craig Goldman's One Law Killed an Efficiency Rule the Energy Department Said Would Save $1.3 Billion

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.

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