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Mike Johnson Keeps Canceling House Workdays When a Vote Might Rebuke Trump. Members Are Paid $174,000 a Year, and the House Has Voted on 72 Days of 2026.

Mike Johnson Keeps Canceling House Workdays When a Vote Might Rebuke Trump. Members Are Paid $174,000 a Year, and the House Has Voted on 72 Days of 2026.

Two weeks after promising to work 'every day that's on the calendar,' the Speaker canceled the last two weeks of September — then cut the final Thursday too, the day a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth could have been forced. An Epstein files petition was left short of the 218 signatures it needs. The House has held a recorded vote on 72 of the year's 259 days, and has enacted 110 laws this Congress.

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Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.

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.

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180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

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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Mike Johnson Says Trump's $5,000 Checks Come 'Regardless of How You Vote.' Trump Promised Them 'If the Republicans Win.'

Mike Johnson Says Trump's $5,000 Checks Come 'Regardless of How You Vote.' Trump Promised Them 'If the Republicans Win.'

Trump told a Republican convention that every adult gets $5,000 if Republicans keep the House and Senate. Mike Johnson says that isn't buying votes, and answers worries about the $1.2 trillion cost by pointing to the 'wasteful' spending his budget bill cut. The biggest of those cuts was to Medicaid, with food assistance and student loans behind it, and the law still adds $3.4 trillion to the deficit.

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Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.

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