In 2022, 47 House Republicans voted for the Respect for Marriage Act and then 39 voted for the final version. Ellzey voted no both times. In December 2025 a Waco judge asked a federal court to overturn Obergefell outright.
His press release calls the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund 'first-of-its-kind.' It never mentions that the same law cuts $137 billion from rural Medicaid — or that he voted for it in May and again in July.
Ellzey called the bullet train 'deader than a doornail' and cheered the cancellation of its $63.9 million federal grant. His House financial disclosure lists him as a Southwest Airlines pilot on leave, still drawing inactive-status pay. Pilots' PACs have given him about $125,000.
Leaked audio from a private fundraiser caught her telling donors her own poll had her up one point and that voters don't know her. Since 2023 her town halls have been by phone only — questions screened in advance, with reporters and constituents left in a queue.
She voted for the $70 billion that funds the arrests. When a nationally covered case blew up in her district she intervened — and then declined to promise she'd do it for anyone else.
A 30-foot wall is going up through a wildlife refuge in her own district. The law protecting it lives in the annual spending bills, and the budget bill she voted for moved the money outside them. Constituents rallied and asked her to restore the language. Her office did not respond.
The Federal Agency Sunset Commission Act sets a date of abolishment for every federal agency, at least once every 12 years. If Congress doesn't reauthorize in time, the agency ends. Extending the deadline takes a supermajority of both chambers.
Silencers have been registered under the National Firearms Act since 1934. Cloud's SHUSH Act strikes them from the statute, waives the registration requirement, takes them out of the Gun Control Act, and voids state silencer taxes and registration rules. He also cosponsored the bill to put handguns back in the mail.
Karl Pfluger is president of Oryx Midstream in Midland. Reuters found he put $9.8 million into Trump Media in 2021-22. FEC records show Oryx executives — including Karl and the CEO — have given $117,950 to the congressman's committees. He sits on Energy and Commerce and pushes permitting reform.