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Rick Crawford tried to overturn your vote, then voted to bury the truth
Rick Crawford spent months spreading lies about the 2020 election.
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Twice the House Came One Vote From Telling Trump to End the Iran War — the First Resolution Lost 213-214, the Next Deadlocked 212-212, and 181 Republicans We Track Voted No on Both.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
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Rick Crawford is suing taxpayers for his own raise
Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford makes $174,000 a year, and he's suing the United States government for a retroactive raise, demanding nearly $419,000 in back pay.
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.
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.
Your Health Premiums Jumped 58%. House Republicans Came Back and Voted to Tell Colleges What They're Allowed to Boycott.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
These 188 Republicans Voted to Lock the Supreme Court at Nine Seats While Republican Appointees Hold Six of Them
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Rick Crawford Called Trump's Tariffs 'a Powerful Move to Help Support American Ag Producers.' That Same Year, Arkansas Led the Nation in Family Farm Bankruptcies.
A new University of Arkansas tracking project counts 83 farm bankruptcies in Arkansas since 2021 — second only to California, and the most family-farm filings of any state in the country. Crawford told Arkansas farmers the trade war wouldn't hurt them in 2018 — and was still calling the tariffs a powerful move for farmers in 2025.
208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
One Hundred Nine Republicans We Track Signed a Bill to Impose Right-to-Work on Every State. Twenty of Them Come From States That Don't Have It.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.
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.
Republicans Once Voted for a 12-Year Limit on Congress. Forty-Six on This Site Are Already Past It — by 909 Years.
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.
200,000 Arkansans Could Lose the Coverage They Have. The Rule Doing It Came From the Bill Arkansas's Republicans Passed.
The Trump administration won't renew the Medicaid waiver that runs Arkansas's private option, citing authority from the 2025 budget bill. Every Arkansas Republican in Congress voted for that bill.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
$70 Billion for ICE Passed the House by Two Votes. Not One Republican Voted No.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
Rick Crawford Voted to Cut Food Assistance by $187 Billion. Then He Threw a Party Over Letting People Buy a Hot Chicken.
The House passed Crawford's rotisserie chicken amendment 384-35. It adds no money and helps nobody who has already been cut off — but the National Chicken Council loved it, and Tyson is on his donor list.
Rick Crawford Spent 2026 Fighting to Let the FBI Read Americans' Emails Without a Warrant
As House Intelligence chairman, Crawford pushed a 'clean' renewal of Section 702 with no warrant requirement, warning of 'another type of 9/11.' The ACLU called his privacy language 'quite insidious.'
Rick Crawford Sued the Government Because $174,000 a Year Isn't Enough. In May, a Judge Said He Might Win.
A federal judge ruled the congressman's back-pay suit can move forward. Crawford is seeking $418,796.08 in retroactive raises — more than seven years of income for a typical Arkansas household.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
She Sells Her Blood Twice a Week and Has $3.78 in the Bank. Under the Republican Law, 4.5 Million Fewer People Get Food Stamps.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law nearly every Republican in Congress from those states voted for.
Rick Crawford Chairs the Committee That Checks the Intelligence Behind a War. He Went on Fox and Told Trump to 'Finish the Job' in Iran.
Rick Crawford chairs the committee that is supposed to check the intelligence behind a war. On Saturday he used that chair to ask the president for more of it — and Trump thanked him publicly right afterward.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
207 House Republicans Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War — And Lost
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
14,441 Arkansans Just Lost Obamacare — and Their Republicans Let It Happen
New federal data shows Arkansas lost 14,441 ACA enrollees this year after Congress let health subsidies expire. The state's all-Republican delegation had the power to stop it.
These 188 Republicans Voted to Let an Energy Board Block Clean-Air Rules
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
What Arkansas's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Arkansas already ranks 49th of 50 states on the measures we track. Now its own members of Congress have voted to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and farm support on top of it.
The Republicans With the Worst Records on Guns
Every day, nearly 130 Americans are killed with guns. These six Republicans keep voting to make it easier — one of them even profits from selling them.
Rick Crawford Said Trump's Tariffs 'Won't Be a Problem' for Arkansas. His Own State's Agriculture Officials Were Sounding the Alarm.
Two more things: his top donors are Boeing, Koch, Lockheed Martin and Tyson, and he opposes a ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums more than double.