Voters in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will decide on November 3 whether to write an insider trading ban into their county charters. Residents gathered nearly double the signatures required. One provision would put their congressman's own stock trades in an annual county report.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
He has sold voters experience outside politics. The evidence is a real estate license valid from 2006 to 2008 — years he spent on the payroll of a party committee and a federal agency — and a campaign that will not say he ever made a sale. Democrats say he fabricated a career that never existed.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
Pennsylvania's SNAP rolls fell from 1.96 million to 1.74 million in a year, and the state says nearly half of that is Trump's budget bill. All nine of these Republicans voted for it — including the Agriculture chairman who promised 'absolutely no reductions.'
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
Two years ago Republicans held more town halls than Democrats. In the first half of this year they held 39 in person — 17% of the town halls they held at all. One told MS NOW that a town hall is 'a good way to get shot.' Another said Democrats 'ruined' them. The one Republican who still shows up says it works fine.
A Lackawanna County woman filed an ethics complaint after a video Rob Bresnahan paid for with House money turned up in Google's political ad database under his campaign account.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
