He co-chaired Better Boundaries in 2017 and signed the application that put Proposition 4 on the ballot. Now he criticizes the ruling that enforced it, wants Better Boundaries to stand down, and says the fix for gerrymandering is 50 governors voluntarily agreeing in 2030.
Ten years without an in-person town hall. Nearly three times the median rate of missed roll call votes. Declined an interview. And a district so red he doesn't have to answer any of it.
Three Gosar bills, three titles that say the opposite of what the text does: two "Protection Acts" that abolish national monuments, and an animal-safety act that strips Endangered Species Act protection from a wolf with 319 left in the wild.
His LASSO Act would tie Social Security's funding to how hard we extract from federal land. A conservative budget analyst checked his math and found he'd understated the shortfall by half — and that his bill covers 1.5% of it.
His CRACKDOWN Act makes a state ineligible for federal child care funding if its improper payment rate tops 5% for two years running. The government's own auditors say improper payments are usually not fraud.
Three days into the shutdown he went on public radio and asked the president to cut up to 200,000 jobs. A week later the firings started. And back in 2019 he was one of only seven members of Congress to vote against guaranteeing federal workers their back pay.
His bill strips out the 2014 protections that stop teenagers with disabilities from being funneled straight into subminimum-wage jobs. The government's own data says those jobs pay a median of $3.46 an hour.
Garrity accuses Shapiro of a 'massive flip-flop' on data centers. Her own record: 'We need to deregulate,' 'Ohio is kicking our butt,' and a pause she can't explain — 'We pause for as long as we need the pause.'
In February 2025, with DOGE dismantling federal agencies, Alabama's most senior House Republican publicly invited Elon Musk to take on the USPS — an agency rural north Alabama depends on.