246 people died in Uri. Goldman chaired House Energy Resources in the session that followed. His committee advanced HB 1520 unanimously, which put $3.5 billion of gas companies' storm costs onto customers' bills through April 2039 — and a 2025 state audit found the gas weatherization rules produced 2 violations out of 8,732 inspections.
Goldman's first and only enacted law wiped out DOE standards for commercial refrigerators — permanently. DOE's own analysis: $1.32 to $3.43 billion in net savings for the businesses that buy them, against $117.7 million in manufacturer costs. His follow-up bill cancels up to $14,000 in appliance rebates for low-income households, sold with a number from the home builders' lobby.
Boeing, Lockheed, Honeywell, SpaceX, RTX and Blue Origin all fund the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. His own NASA bill writes statutory authority for a contract SpaceX already holds.
Peter Cloeren pleaded guilty in 1998 to routing $37,000 in corporate money to Babin's campaign through his own employees. Two FEC settlements followed: $6,700 in one, $20,000 plus a $5,000 disgorgement in the other. The paperwork is all still online.
He filed H.R. 569 the day after Trump's executive order, and had filed all but the same bill in the two Congresses before that. A baby born to two parents on work visas would not be a citizen. The Supreme Court struck the order down in June. Babin's bill is still the Republican Study Committee's plan.
De La Cruz ran as the outsider against a sitting state legislator. FEC filings show $195,000 from political committees — including the top three House Republican leaders, a dozen members' leadership PACs, and $21,000 from his own sister in Congress.
Two super PACs with deliberately vague names — one funded by an Anthropic-backed nonprofit, one by Coinbase and Ripple — put more than $2.1 million behind a first-time candidate in San Antonio. Their ads never mentioned AI or crypto. His website did.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was booked to headline a May 2 fundraiser for Carlos De La Cruz in San Antonio. De La Cruz called it an honor — in the state where two unvaccinated children had just died of measles.
H.R. 9979, the 'Freedom to Ship Act,' repeals the federal ban on mailing concealable firearms and fines UPS or FedEx $10,000 every time they decline a gun shipment. Three other Republicans signed on.