In June 2026, about 70 people in Evansville held a town hall for a congressman who didn't come and never answered the invitation. It was the latest round of a pattern that started his first spring in office.
H.R. 6213 is fifty words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
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.
Baird's 'No Official Palestine Entry Act' rewrites two 1990s laws so that U.S. funding is cut off from the UN and any of its agencies that give Palestinians anything beyond back-of-the-room observer status. The UN already did that in 2024. Pro-Israel PACs have given him $25,856.
Baird's constituents have been asking where he is since at least 2024. He skipped a candidate forum, skipped the town hall they held for him, and never answered the reporters who asked. His own financial disclosure shows he found time for three privately funded overseas trips in a single year — and LegiStorm ranked his office among the five worst in the House for keeping staff.
Her vote passed the $9.4 billion cuts package 214–212. Indiana public media lost $1.3 million a year and cut 18 jobs. DOGE's charter quietly expired on July 4, 2026 without a final report.
Jim Baird has a doctorate, two Purdue degrees, a seat on the Science Committee and a co-chairmanship of the R&D Caucus. Purdue is in his district. When Washington started cancelling research grants, he called it long overdue — and in April 2026 he celebrated the shutdown of the USDA's flagship research center because Purdue picked up a piece of it.
Her evidence was one bicycle factory in Seymour. A new University of Illinois study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600, cut $2.65 billion from Indiana's economy, and wiped out 9,148 manufacturing jobs.
H.R. 5629 would wipe out the 2024 rule letting methadone patients take doses home and start treatment by telehealth. It has zero cosponsors. Addiction medicine groups say it would mean more overdose deaths.
