In 2000 the South Carolina Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse dome. Joe Wilson was one of the seven — and he's kept voting that way in Congress ever since.
Before Orthodox Christian clergy showed up on Capitol Hill, Wilson sent Pam Bondi a letter asking the Justice Department to look into their church — and told his colleagues not to meet with them. A South Carolina Republican called it 'actual Soviet stuff.'
In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was Strom Thurmond's daughter. South Carolina's Joe Wilson said he didn't believe her, called it 'unseemly,' and said she should have kept quiet. Days later the Thurmond family confirmed her story.
Wilson's answer to high grocery prices was a bill printing Trump's face on new $250 notes — rewriting the law banning living people from U.S. currency to do it. Fifteen months later the Treasury is preparing to print them, and his own district is still losing coverage and food aid.
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.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 182 Republicans we track voted no — the second time Congress has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop Congress from saying it.
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 more than double.
