The private prison company CoreCivic just posted one of the best quarters in its history off the ICE detention buildup. Its outgoing CEO, its incoming CEO, and its PAC all gave money to the Tennessee freshman who sits on the committee that oversees ICE.
Outside groups reported more than $2.4 million in spending to elect Matt Van Epps in Tennessee's 7th District — more than his own campaign raised for the whole race. The money came from Trump's super PAC and a short list of billionaires who don't live here.
Kustoff has filed rural health bills in three Congresses. Not one has become law. The one health bill he did vote through is taking $7 billion out of TennCare — and Tennessee's share of rural hospitals vulnerable to closure just jumped from 44% to 61%, the worst in the country.
Kustoff's H.R. 5242 repeals two laws the D.C. Council passed — one letting people who were under 25 when they committed their crime ask a judge for a second look, one letting old records be sealed. It was introduced and marked up the same day. Then his colleagues bolted on a repeal of D.C.'s speed cameras.
One month into Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force, Kustoff called it a blueprint for the whole country and said he'd work to make the federal presence permanent. Ten months in, NPR found what it actually became: a traffic-stop immigration dragnet that emptied schools and doctors' offices in the city he lives beside.
In the same interview she said of the Biden White House, 'I never saw so many fairies in the White House, dancing around.' A year later she was writing federal legislation about transgender people.
Robert Harshbarger Jr. swapped a cheap unapproved Chinese ingredient into medicine for kidney dialysis patients and got 48 months. Four days after Trump endorsed his wife's re-election, he got a full and unconditional pardon — and, newly eligible to hold office, he filed to run for county commission.
She's a pharmacist who vice-chairs the health subcommittee overseeing the FDA, funded by three compounding-pharmacy lobbies. Her letter asking the FDA to stand down lives on one of those lobbies' websites. Her son is a pharmacist at the family compounding pharmacy — and now sits on the FDA panel that just voted to allow them.
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.
