John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would pick Michigan's environmental and farm regulators.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
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John James went to Washington to raise cash from the lobbyists of Flock, the license-plate camera company that towns across Michigan are shutting down over privacy concerns.
A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.
Every host of John James' September 23 Washington fundraiser works at BGR Group, which has taken $590,000 to lobby for surveillance-camera company Flock — including the firm's president, a registered Flock lobbyist. As Michigan communities cancel Flock contracts, James has offered only generalities about balancing privacy and policing.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
Two Trump-endorsed governor candidates, Michigan's John James and Wisconsin's Tom Tiffany, told reporters this week the Iran war needs to wrap up. Every time they voted on ending it in the House, they voted no.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
Six roll calls to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran. James voted no on all six, the last on September 15. That week Michigan regular went from $4.31 to $4.89 and diesel set a record. Then he went on the radio to talk about the affordability crisis.
Michigan repealed right-to-work in 2023. John James called bringing it back 'a massive win for freedom' — and in Congress he signed a bill to impose it on all 50 states and voted against restoring union rights for federal workers.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
Michigan's Republican nominee for governor told Benny Johnson the FBI 'will have a presence' in West and Southeast Michigan leading up to Election Day. Asked about it at a Senate hearing, the FBI director said 'you bet' agents will be there, refused to promise not to interfere in November, and wouldn't say whether Trump lost in 2020.
On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.
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The 24% wholesale tax was supposed to send $420 million a year to Michigan roads. James told marijuana executives at their own fundraiser he wants it gone, then said so publicly weeks later. He has not said how he would replace the road money.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
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.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The House version of the 2025 budget bill said no state or local government may enforce any law regulating AI systems for 10 years. James voted for it on the floor and three separate times in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Now he is running for governor on local control.
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.
New state-by-state numbers put Michigan's tariff bill at $23 billion — $5,619 per household, the highest in the country. In February, Michigan's seven Republicans voted first to stop the House from voting on the tariffs, then against ending them.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
James reported assets of $2.5–$8.75 million when he was elected in 2022 and $11.8–$51.3 million in the disclosure he filed August 13. More than half his stock trades were in industries his own committee oversees. He got a 90-day extension that pushed the filing past Michigan's primary.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
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.
ACA marketplace enrollment in Michigan fell 27% in a single year after the premium tax credits lapsed, and the Medicaid cuts haven't even started yet. All three of these congressmen voted against restoring the credits, and for the law that schedules the rest.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
Audio obtained by the Daily Beast catches Michigan's Republican nominee for governor promising to pass 'the most conservative, most pro-life bill' he can — after telling voters during his 2024 campaign that Proposal 3 had closed the question.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
James's wife put up to $50,000 into Elon Musk's SpaceX on June 12, the day it began trading. He sits on the committee that oversees the FCC, which regulates Starlink. And he got an extension on his annual disclosure until nine days after Michigan's primary.
Standing next to Trump at the GM Proving Grounds, the Republican running for Michigan governor repeated the Big Lie in a single sentence. It's the same thing he did after losing his own race in 2020.
Five Republicans in Congress had SpaceX money on the line — four of them bought in the week of the IPO while sitting on committees that oversee parts of the company's business. Six weeks later, every one of them voted for a stock-trading bill that bans new purchases but lets them keep what they already own.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
Four Michigan Republicans sent an angry letter blaming Canada for wildfire smoke — while every one of them has a 0% environmental record and voted to weaken the very protections that fight it.
John James, running for Michigan governor, took nearly $50,000 from DTE, Consumers Energy's parent company and their employees while both utilities asked regulators to jack up rates on Michigan families.
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
