H.R. 8413 preempts any state law that 'relates to' its provisions — California's Delete Act, Illinois' biometric privacy law, Washington's health-data law. It has no private right of action, so you can't sue. Comcast's PAC has given Joyce $35,000.
He voted no on the infrastructure law in 2021. In 2024 it sent $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in his own district. When Trump froze the money in 2025, the chairman of the House Highways Subcommittee called the freeze a hunt for waste and fraud.
SpaceX, BAE, General Dynamics, Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, Northrop, L3Harris, Leonardo DRS, Leidos and Cubic are all among the twenty PACs that have given Carter the most money. He chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that writes their construction budget.
In September 2025 Obernolte switched his vote on a rule blocking tariff votes after Speaker Johnson promised the block would end January 31, 2026. In February 2026 leadership moved to extend it to July 31. Obernolte voted for that too.
In 2018 he convened a roundtable to defend Smithfield after three juries sided with the neighbors of its waste lagoons — 'Nuisance is like beauty. It's in the eye of the beholder.' In 2026 he took credit for a farm bill provision that voids other states' livestock laws. Pork PAC money since 2020: $35,000.
Obernolte voted for H.R. 1 and posted a statement telling constituents the Medicaid changes wouldn't push anyone off. California's own health department projects 1.1 million Medi-Cal enrollees will lose coverage by 2029-30 under the new work requirement. Forty-eight percent of his district is on the program.
PolitiFact confirmed back in 2018 that Carter's last real town hall was in 2013. His office said the Gabby Giffords shooting was one of 'the many reasons.' When constituents held their own in 2025, his office called them 'the far-left Indivisible group.'
Obernolte chairs the House subcommittee writing AI policy and wrote the bill that would bar states — including California — from imposing safety transparency, auditing or incident-reporting duties on AI developers. He also helped launch a nonprofit that charges AI startups up to $3,500 a month for access to policymakers.
In 2012 Rouzer carried the Senate version of the bill that stopped North Carolina's coastal agencies from setting a sea-level-rise rate for four years — 'there was consensus years and years and years ago that the earth was flat.' The state's own science panel now says the coast he represents should plan on a foot of rise by 2050.