In 2007, Texas built the largest state cancer research program in American history. It passed overwhelmingly, and 61% of voters approved it. Paxton was one of just 26 no votes — and in the same session he helped kill the state's mandate for the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer.
The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
Abbott wants a law banning Texas public schools from sponsoring H-1B visas — applied to teachers already here, not just new hires. Districts use those visas to fill critical teacher shortages, in roles such as bilingual education.
A European law says the world's biggest companies have to look for forced labor and child labor in their supply chains. Eight Republicans we track put their names on a bill to open a trade fight over it. The law doesn't touch small businesses at all.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
NBC News obtained the 53 names referred to Paxton's office. One was charged with noncitizen voting. At least five were listed as American citizens in prior court records. Even the Heritage Foundation counts fewer than four such cases a year nationwide.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
The Speaker campaigned for Herrera at a San Antonio barbecue joint days after another video surfaced. Johnson backed his opponent in 2024 and again this year, Trump's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter in January, and a Republican group ran ads saying he 'does not belong in Congress.' Nothing about the record changed. A seat came open.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
