The budget law that cut Medicaid put $85 million toward moving a space shuttle from Virginia to Houston. The Smithsonian put the real cost close to $380 million. Weber, Cornyn and Cruz responded by asking DOJ to open an investigation.
Eighteen years after Hurricane Ike, the coastal barrier meant to protect Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel has received $5.5 million in federal money against a $35 to $57 billion price tag. Weber has represented that coast for 13 years.
On a Christian radio show in May 2025, the Texas congressman said undocumented immigrants should be flown over their home country and pushed out the door. Then he said: 'I'm not gonna say that in front of the camera.' He already had.
Asked whether the Pulse massacre changed his mind on LGBTQ job protections, the House Rules chairman said Pulse was "a young person's nightclub" that was "mostly Latinos." That same week, his committee blocked a vote on the protections.
Venezuelan regulators didn't want to give Allen Stanford a banking license — they'd heard he was running a Ponzi scheme. Three American congressmen wrote to vouch for him. One of them still serves in Congress.
A Texas congressman took a private trip to meet a dictator, arranged by a man now convicted of secretly working for that dictator's government. In April 2026 he testified for the defense. The jury convicted anyway.
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.
The fair banned guns after a 2023 shooting injured three people. Paxton sued — against the reasoning of a legal opinion he himself issued in 2016, which he then quietly withdrew weeks after filing.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Abbott's data center crackdown is 'smoke and mirrors,' that he's never gotten a meeting with the Governor in 12 years, and that other Republicans are staying quiet because they're scared of Abbott's $105 million war chest.
