Alaska's biggest seafood processors warned in 2025 that their industry was 'uniquely vulnerable' to a trade war. Sen. Dan Sullivan then voted against all five Senate resolutions to end Trump's tariff emergencies. Lisa Murkowski voted for all five.
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Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Insurance to act on home insurance costs on August 24, 2026, citing a 79% premium increase in six years. In 2025 his Legislature killed both bills that would have addressed it, insurance was not one of his seven emergency items, and it was not on his 18-item special session agenda either.
Abbott's new affordability plan promises to cut property taxes in half by zeroing out school taxes on homesteads. He has been governor since 2015, and statewide property tax levies have risen from $51.2 billion to $89.4 billion on his watch. Nearly 4 in 10 homesteads already owe no school tax, and Texas's 4.1 million renters get nothing.
On June 21, 2023, the Senate labor committee took up three bills: equal pay, seven paid sick days a year, and the right to organize. All three passed on a party-line 11-10 vote. Collins, a Republican on that committee, was on the losing side of every one, and backed amendments to weaken two of them.
Before Kansas sent him to the Senate, Roger Marshall was an OB-GYN whose practice took more than 700 patients to court over unpaid bills, charged 18 percent interest, garnished their paychecks and bank accounts, and asked judges for arrest warrants when they missed a hearing. One woman was sued over a $129 postpartum visit.
On March 15, 2021, then-state Rep. Joe Mitchell voted no on three separate amendments that would have exempted veterans' housing vouchers, disability vouchers and foster-care family vouchers from a bill letting landlords refuse them. Then he voted for the bill.
H.R. 10222 would make a whole city — or a whole state — ineligible for any HUD grant. In Montana that money pays for homeless shelters, rapid rehousing and youth homelessness programs. Downing wouldn't answer what it would do to Helena.
