DesJarlais spent 2025 cheering the campaign to shrink the federal government. In March 2026 word got out that the VA was shutting the McMinnville clinic for lack of staff — and nobody had told him. Then he took a victory lap for reopening it.
He chairs the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over nuclear weapons, missile defense and military space. On June 4 he read out a bill that names four missile-defense programs. Lockheed, Northrop, RTX and L3Harris hold all four contracts — and all four fund his campaign.
X-energy is building a nuclear fuel plant in Fleischmann's district with a Department of Energy cost share. Between January 26 and March 11, 2026, its CEO, president, chief scientist, chief nuclear officer and 14 more colleagues wrote checks to the congressman who writes the DOE budget.
State troopers cleared the gallery. Democrats walked out. Not one Republican rose to defend the map. Fleischmann's public reaction was gratitude — and relief that he kept his own seat.
Citizens Against Government Waste says Fleischmann pulled in more earmark money than any other House member — including the single largest earmark in Congress. He votes to cut food aid and health coverage for Tennesseans at the same time.
In May 2021 Hagerty cosponsored a bipartisan $3.265 billion bridge repair program, citing Memphis's shut-down I-40 bridge. That exact program went into the infrastructure law — and in August he ground the Senate to a halt to delay it, then voted no.
Hagerty authored the GENIUS Act, the first federal crypto law. It says in its own text that stablecoins get no FDIC insurance. Within two weeks of Senate passage, the CEOs of Coinbase and Ripple wrote his joint fundraising committee $15,100.
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.
The bill the Tennessee freshman is co-leading turns Trump's bitcoin executive order into law. He sold it as a fix for the national debt — but its text forbids selling the bitcoin, for any purpose, for at least two decades.
