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Mike Johnson runs a do-nothing Congress — 72 voting days in 2026
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Trump's Iran War is emptying our wallets: $38 billion and counting
Donald Trump launched an unauthorized war with Iran that was supposed to last a few weeks.
Kelly Ayotte Calls Her Opponent an 'Opioid Lobbyist.' She Vouched for the 'Character' of Purdue Pharma's Lawyer, Who Just Quit the Supreme Court Over Ethics Violations.
Governor Kelly Ayotte has built her reelection campaign around her opponent's old work for Purdue Pharma. In 2021 she personally urged the Executive Council to make Gordon MacDonald — who had fought New Hampshire's opioid investigation as Purdue's lawyer — chief justice, calling it 'about his character.' This week he resigned after admitting he broke the judicial ethics rules.
Maria Elvira Salazar Warned That Venezuela's 'Acting Dictator Is Just Buying Time.' Then She Voted to Block Subpoenas for the Oil Deal's Paperwork.
Salazar chairs the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. When Democrats moved to subpoena the Trump administration's oil deal with a company run by a billionaire under money-laundering investigation in two countries, she voted no and the motion died 6-6.
185 House Members We Track Voted to Make States Hand Your Medicaid and Food Stamp Records to Trump's Former Defense Lawyer
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
Mike Johnson Keeps Canceling House Workdays When a Vote Might Rebuke Trump. Members Are Paid $174,000 a Year, and the House Has Voted on 72 Days of 2026.
Two weeks after promising to work 'every day that's on the calendar,' the Speaker canceled the last two weeks of September — then cut the final Thursday too, the day a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth could have been forced. An Epstein files petition was left short of the 218 signatures it needs. The House has held a recorded vote on 72 of the year's 259 days, and has enacted 110 laws this Congress.
180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.
On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.
Byron Donalds Promises Florida the 'Most Transparent' Government in America. He Won't Say Whether He Still Backs His Bill to Let Officials Meet in Secret.
As a state lawmaker in 2017, Donalds filed a bill critics said would make Florida's Sunshine Law meaningless. Axios asked him whether he stands by it. He did not answer.
The Justice Department Overruled Its Own Prosecutor to Block Civil Rights Charges Against an ICE Agent Who Shot a Man Through a Closed Door.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota were preparing to charge ICE agent Christian Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law. Washington ordered them to file only a false-statements charge. 'I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could,' the prosecutor wrote. 'It wasn't enough.' The next day, the AP and CBS reported he had been fired.