When he said it in March 2026, neither blast furnace at the Granite City mill was making steel and the plant was still hiring for a restart that hadn't happened yet. One furnace had been down since 2019 — a year after the tariffs. A fully staffed mill employs 1,200 to 1,300 people. And it isn't in his district anymore.
He won't hold an in-person town hall because they get 'overrun by organized protests.' Then he told a hometown paper that protesters are paid — citing nicer-looking signs and unnamed 'United States intelligence.'
In 2021 Bost said it was 'every veteran's right to have an opinion — even one I find radical.' In July 2026, one day after the VFW put a 93-year-old protest cartoon on a T-shirt, he asked the VA to scrutinize the group's accreditation.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
LaHood chairs Ways and Means' Work and Welfare Subcommittee. His JOBS for Success Act imposes a signed 'personal responsibility agreement,' an income ceiling, a squeeze on administrative costs and a ban on spending TANF directly on child care — while extending the block grant at the same $16.5 billion Congress set in 1996.
'We need to wind down the conflict, I've publicly said that,' LaHood told WCBU on May 4, 2026. On June 3 the House voted 215-208 to order U.S. forces out of the Iran war. He voted no. His explanation five days later: 'Essentially there's been nothing that's happened militarily within the last 30 days.'
In April 2024 LaHood voted against requiring the FBI to get a warrant before searching Americans' communications — the amendment failed on a 212-212 tie. In March 2026 he pushed a 'clean' renewal with no warrant requirement. A year before that first vote, he had revealed the FBI improperly searched the database for his own name, and called renewal without reform a non-starter.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
H.Res.1338 doesn't just rename June. It says Americans are 'inundated with perverse Pride Month displays,' and it asks the House to formally stop recognizing Pride Month at all.
