Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
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.
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Tommy Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama, and he went on national TV to demand that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen for over 26 years, be deported.
Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.
On Newsmax, the Alabama senator running for governor said Omar 'wants the president to be dead' and should be sent home. Newsmax's own story noted that Tuberville pointed to no statement in which Omar said any such thing. Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000; a citizen can't be deported unless a court first strips her citizenship.
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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Big Tech is building data centers in our backyards.
A list of the Republicans who voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act went around X this week. We checked all 42 names against the official roll calls. Every one of them voted against the bill — and the record is worse than the list says.
H.R. 10222 would make a whole city — or a whole state — ineligible for any HUD grant. In Montana that money pays for homeless shelters, rapid rehousing and youth homelessness programs. Downing wouldn't answer what it would do to Helena.
