A federal judge ruled the congressman's back-pay suit can move forward. Crawford is seeking $418,796.08 in retroactive raises — more than seven years of income for a typical Arkansas household.
Arkansas's self-appointed debt hawk wants a commission to bring deficits down to 3% of GDP. His own press release celebrating the bill that added $3.4 trillion runs about five hundred words and never mentions the deficit once.
John Oliver called Womack out by name in 2015 over the spending-bill rider that blocked the USDA from enforcing protections for poultry growers. In July 2026 the USDA moved to scrap those protections for good — and Womack has said nothing.
Womack chairs the House subcommittee that writes HUD's budget. His FY27 bill cuts homeless assistance grants by $256 million and public housing by $1.3 billion — while finding $875 million for the 2028 Olympics.
FEC filings show the group has taken $0.00 from individual donors, got its entire $200,000 from a Virginia super PAC that's now spent $2.5 million attacking Cotton's opponent, and spent every dollar of its campaign money against her.
Section 622 of the intelligence bill Cotton wrote as committee chairman requires the president to expand intelligence sharing with Israel and bars him from cutting it back without filing a report to Congress. Pro-Israel PACs have given Cotton $1.1 million.
In a June letter, Arkansas's senior senator conceded that Americans have 'valid concerns' about data centers driving up energy costs — and in the same breath asked the DOJ to open a foreign-agent investigation into the groups organizing against them.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.