Senator
Rick Scott
FL-SEN
Senator
Rick Scott
FL-SEN
- Before being elected, Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history. As governor he enacted an unconstitutional program to funnel money to a company his wife held a $62 million stake in. So it’s no surprise once this health care scofflaw got to DC, becoming the richest member of Congress, he voted against lowering health care and drug prices for the middle class while working to protect tax breaks for multi-millionaires like himself. Scott’s net wealth has increased by tens of millions while he’s held government office.
- In Washington Scott actually proposed tax cuts for the rich paid for by tax increases on the middle class. He proposed ending Social Security, Medicare, the National Park Service, USDA, FEMA, and the Education Department.
- Scott cashed in $1,250,000 from corporate PACs while trying to cut their taxes. He defended big Pharma from measures to reduce drug prices for Floridians, and led a charge against drug safety regulations, and voted against reducing the price of insulin. Scott opposed increasing funding for law enforcement targeted at rich tax cheats. He’s taken $120,000 from Big Oil while working to loosen their regulations.
- Scott opposed getting big money out of politics by voting against the Freedom To Vote Act, and voting against the DISCLOSE Act. Scott set up his own Super PAC before running for the Senate, illegally raising millions for his race; an issue for which ECU filed an FEC complaint and a successful lawsuit. He self funded $64 million to win the seat in 2018. He proposed banning drop boxes to make voting harder, and voted to reject the will of the people in the 2020 election.
Senator
Josh Hawley
MO-SEN
Senator
Josh Hawley
MO-SEN
- While Josh Hawley has spent his time in the U.S. Senate voting against investing billions of dollars into Missouri and refusing to bring a dollar back home for working families, he’s been more than happy to let Missouri taxpayers cover the costs of his own lawbreaking. Instead of paying the $250,000 bill he racked up for “knowingly and purposefully” violating transparency laws, wealthy politician Josh Hawley made Missourians pay it for him.
- Josh Hawley has turned his crusade to ban abortion without exception into a family business. While his wife led the Dobbs case to overturn Roe and enact Missouri’s total abortion ban, Josh Hawley bragged about his role in corrupting the courts to make it happen, and even used taxpayer resources to support her case. As Hawley’s wife has led the case to ban the country’s most commonly used abortion pill nationwide, Hawley has been involved every step of the way — putting his campaign donor on the court to oversee the case in a shocking example of judge shopping, and using his taxpayer-funded office to support his wife’s efforts multiple times. As a pioneer behind efforts to criminalize abortion and to even restrict access to IVF, Josh Hawley has made sure his family will profit every step of the way.
- After raising his fist in support of January 6th rioters, Josh Hawley was caught fleeing for his life just hours later from the same mob he incited. When some corporate donors tried to save face by instead indirectly supporting Hawley and his allies, Hawley has even tried to use their refusal of direct support to pretend like he’d overturn the Citizens United ruling (he wouldn’t). In fact, Hawley has proudly accepted the support of Citizens United in the past, and would happily allow corporation-backed dark money groups and billionaires to continue corrupting our elections.
- From cutting energy costs to capping the cost of insulin, Josh Hawley likes to talk a big game about reducing the impact of inflation on Missouri families — but he’s voted against efforts to do just that nearly every chance he’s had in the Senate. He’s built a record of fighting on behalf of Big Banks and shady mortgage lenders against Missouri families, even trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He’s one of Big Oil’s top recipients in the U.S. Senate of oil tycoon campaign cash, and he’s rewarded them by protecting the Big Oil cartel that gouges Missourians at the pump.
- Josh Hawley has a long history of allowing his corporate elite donors to get away with polluting Missouri and poisoning Missourians. One of Hawley’s first acts as an elected official was to eliminate the environmental division in his office that was meant to defend Missourians from corporate polluters. As Attorney General, Hawley even made a sweetheart deal with a company that donated to his campaign, shielding the company from having to pay damages to Missourians they had exposed to toxic nuclear waste. Hawley stayed true to his corporate polluter donors in the U.S. Senate, earning a 4% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters.
Senator
Ted Cruz
TX-SEN
Senator
Ted Cruz
TX-SEN
- Ted Cruz took up podcasting three days each week to illegally funnel $630,000 so far to a super PAC supporting him for reelection. This is an egregious violation of campaign finance law, soliciting corporate donations to a supposedly outside group, and possibly violating tax law as well. ECU filed an FEC complaint with CLC against Cruz over this scheme.
- Cruz’ podcast contributes to his broader chronic absenteeism. Cruz missed Senate terrorism hearings to fundraise and campaign. And of course he infamously abandoned his state to Cancun when it faced lethal disaster.
- Cruz personally opened a loophole in our campaign finance system, going out of his way to make sure that self-funding multimillionaire candidates can pocket cash from donors, which some are now doing. Cruz opposed any efforts to reign in the poison of big money in our campaign finance system, he voted against the Freedom To Vote Act, and the DISCLOSE Act. Yet Cruz would go further, in addition to allowing politicians to pocket donor money, he would end campaign finance donation limits allowing billionaires to give as much as they want to politicians, as obviously corrupt as that is. Cruz also led the effort to overthrow the will of the American people in the 2020 election.
- Ted Cruz led a government shutdown in order to kill the Affordable Care Act, had he succeeded in any of his efforts to end the law, millions of Americans would be stripped of health insurance and the law’s protections for those with preexisting conditions would have ended. Cruz filibustered a bill to reduce drug prices, and specifically voted against reducing the price of lifesaving insulin. Cruz reaped donations from fossil fuel companies and power companies, and opposed investments in renewable energy and funding to modernize the electric grid. Cruz took $1.9 million from corporate PACs and proposed eliminating corporate income taxes.
- Cruz wrote an op-ed in defense of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and even accepted campaign donations from Citizens United, the infamous pro-Big Money group.
Representative
David Schweikert
AZ-01
Representative
David Schweikert
AZ-01
- David Schweikert was fined $50,000 and bipartisanly reprimanded by the House for widespread corruption and malfeasance over eight years. Schweikert lied to Arizonans claiming to welcome an investigation, and then Schweikert resisted it at every turn. Schweikert was forced to admit to spending campaign funds for personal use, taxpayer resources for campaign purposes, and taxpayer dollars from his office even went to a Super Bowl trip. Schweikert invented a fictitious loan to his campaign, which his wife tried to collect and pocket $100,000 from donors.
- Schweikert and his allies settled a defamation lawsuit for homophobic ads run against an opponent, there is no bar he won’t pass beneath in order to cling to offices he’s held since 1991.
- Schweikert’s received $1.8 million from corporate PACs, and while serving on the tax writing Ways And Means Committee voted repeatedly to cut taxes for Big Corporations and CEOs. He’s taken $290,000 from health care corporate PACs, while voting repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act which protected those with preexisting conditions, opposing laws to make drugs more affordable, and cutting taxes for big pharma. He’s taken $295,000 from Wall Street and voted to gut finance safety standards.
- Schweikert staunchly opposed any effort for increased disclosure of campaign finance spending or strengthening ethics laws, voting against the Freedom To Vote Act, DISCLOSE Act, and For The People Act.
- And David Schweikert voted to overthrow democracy by rejecting the 2021 election results, and continued to spread conspiracy nonsense suggesting the FBI was responsible for January 6th.
Representative
Juan Ciscomani
AZ-06
Representative
Juan Ciscomani
AZ-06
- Juan Ciscomani definitively owes his seat to his allies who drew the district and the dark money super PACs who spent $6.5 million more than the opposition in order to barely buy the seat for him. Ciscomani is in Congress because of them and for them.
- And Ciscomani has done the bidding of the rich donors supporting him, voting to cut enforcement against rich tax cheats and opposing tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans.
- Ciscomani has taken more than $400,000 from corporate PACs, and advocated for his big corporate donors, voting for Big Oil’s deregulatory agenda, and voting against student loan debt relief.
- Ciscomani was on the board of Patriot Academy, an extreme, right-wing political training organization that seeks to dismantle our democracy and create a Christian nationalist country. Patriot Academy is in a “life and death struggle to rewrite the Constitution—and is teaching its supporters how to defend themselves with a handgun, just in case.”
Representative
Mike Garcia
CA-27
Representative
Mike Garcia
CA-27
- Mike Garcia participated in the House Transportation Committee’s investigation into Boeing, and he secretly sold his sizeable investment in Boeing just before his committee released a damning report. That seems like insider trading, and the corrupt optics are so bad that Garcia chose to illegally hide his transaction until after his razor thin win in the 2022 elections. ECU filed an ethics complaint against Garcia for this egregious breach of the public trust.
- Garcia hid other aspects of his finances as well, hiding assets and income from his constituents. He voted against measures to increase transparency and toughen ethics penalties including the Freedom To Vote Act and the For The People Act.
- Garcia has taken almost $700,000 from Corporate PACs and supported full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, doing so would strip healthcare coverage from millions and be devastating to those with Preexisting Conditions. Garcia took $25,000 from health care PACs and voted against a law which reduced the cost of prescription medications. Garcia’s taken money from Big Oil while opposing renewable energy investments.
- And of course, Mike Garcia voted to overthrow democracy by rejecting the free and fair 2020 election results.
Representative
Ken Calvert
CA-41
Representative
Ken Calvert
CA-41
- Ken Calvert has been in Congress for decades, and has used his position to enrich himself prompting multiple FBI investigations. Calvert repeatedly earmarked federal taxpayer funding for projects which benefited his personal real estate investments. He earmarked funds for a road near his lands, and a transportation hub near seven parcels he owned. He then sold the land at an 80% profit, helping his net worth increase by up to $20 million while in office.
- Ken Cavlert has taken more than $5 million from Corporate PACs, and time and time again has voted to slash taxes for corporations and the ultra-wealthy. He voted repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and opposed bills to make prescriptions cheaper while reaping $65,000 from the health care industries. He’s taken nearly $500,000 from the fossil fuel industry while voting against incentives for renewable energy despite Coachella Valley’s unparallelled renewable potential.
- In his eons in Congress, Calvert consistently voted against efforts to rein in corruption and get big money out of politics, voting against the Freedom To Vote Act, the BCRA, and the DISCLOSE Act, while backing legislation to increase big money’s influence in politics. Calvert voted against creating the Office of Congressional Ethics, and voted to limit its power.
- And of course, Ken Calvert voted to overthrow democracy by rejecting the free and fair 2020 election results, and has advocated for leniency for the violent attackers on January 6th.
Representative
Ryan Zinke
MT-01
Representative
Ryan Zinke
MT-01
- Ryan Zinke’s tenure as Interior Secretary was so disastrously corrupt he was forced out of the Trump administration. He lined up to spend $139,000 on doors for his personal office. He spent thousands on private flights to the Virgin Islands, and chartered helicopters to attend regular events. Ryan Zinke lied to the American People, and used his office literally and figuratively to further a real estate deal that helped his personal foundation.
- Zinke used taxpayer money to attend political events, and was lambasted by investigators for using taxpayer dollars for a boat trip in California with two campaign donors, brought his wife on trips and tried to circumvent the rules for the taxpayer to pick up her tab.
- Zinke has no respect for public lands, as Secretary he promised not to sell them but then got caught plotting to do just that. Zinke aggressively gave public rights to private companies, often mining interests and drilling that risked scarring the landscape forever. Fossil fuel companies have shown him their favor, donating $85,000 to his campaigns for Congress. As Secretary, Zinke sought to reduce the amount they pay for drilling, and as Congressman he voted to deregulate the industry.
- Zinke’s taken thousands from pharmaceutical and healthcare industry corporate PACs while trying to gut the Affordable Care Act and strip healthcare from millions. He’s raked in donations from California Big Tech, worked for tech between stints in office, and supported cutting tech’s taxes.
Representative
Tom Kean Jr.
NJ-07
Representative
Tom Kean Jr.
NJ-07
- First running for office in 2000, Tom Kean’s career in Washington is merely the latest chapter in his romance with special interests. Before being sent to Washington, Kean had already taken $1.5 million from corporations and corporate PACs, and fought for their bottom line with a slew of state tax cuts and sweet heart projects. Big Pharma and other special interests wined and dined Kean at ritzy locations, and Kean opposed making drugs more affordable and taxing the rich.
- In Congress, Kean has continued to look out for his banking allies by taking their money while opposing student loan debt relief. He opposed a law to make prescriptions more affordable and he’s taken tens of thousands from pharmaceutical and health care PACs for his Congressional campaign. Kean has reaped rewards from Big Banks, and voted against student loan debt relief for the middle class. Kean has taken hundreds of thousands in his career from lobbyists and the wealthiest Americans and voted against enforcing the law against rich tax cheats.
- In his fourth run for Congress, Kean ran on a newfound fervor against trading stocks in Congress, but since getting to Washington Kean has kept trading his holdings, he violated the STOCK Act, and proved his opportunistic attacks were hollow by refusing to co-sponsor two bipartisan ethics bills he said he supported when campaigning.
Representative
Anthony D'Esposito
NY-04
Representative
Anthony D'Esposito
NY-04
- D’Esposito faced ethics complaints for allegedly subsidizing his campaign to the tune of more than $20,000, intermingling taxpayer-funded and campaign communications, and fundraising off of his official actions.
- D’Esposito protected George Santos until the writing was already on the wall, and then had the audacity to take credit for it.
- D’Esposito steadfastly backed an extremist agenda in Congress, cutting funding for renewable energy and cutting tax enforcement against his rich donors. He’s taken $88,000 in corporate PAC donations, and pressed for tax cuts for businesses while opposing student loan debt relief.
- D’Esposito thrives with conflicts of interest, he held two local government jobs simultaneously, voted to give his family pay raises, and tried to oversee his own election.
Representative
Mike Lawler
NY-17
Representative
Mike Lawler
NY-17
- Former Fossil Fuel lobbyist Mike Lawler came to Washington and got little done except voting for a bill to line the pockets of the oil and gas industry, while raking in thousands from energy corporate PACs.
- Lawler protected George Santos until the writing was already on the wall, and then had the audacity to take credit for it.
- As a political operative, Lawler was on the payroll of a multi-million dollar effort to elect Trump, who is threatening to end American democracy and facing 91 felony counts.
- Lawler has steadfastly backed an extremist agenda in Congress, cutting funding for renewable energy and cutting tax enforcement against his rich donors. He’s taken $250,000 in corporate PAC donations, and pressed for tax cuts for businesses while opposing student loan debt relief.
- Lawler hid his policies, barring press from public events, and he threatened forced removal of any constituents attempting to record his public remarks.
Representative
Marc Molinaro
NY-19
Representative
Marc Molinaro
NY-19
- Molinaro has his own history of campaign finance lawbreaking, ECU filed a complaint against his illegal use of state funds for federal campaigning, and blatantly illegal state donation to his federal campaign, which Molinaro copped to while investigators look into the rest of the allegations.
- Having been a politician his entire adult life, Molinaro has a long history of corruption and hypocrisy. Molinaro said he wanted to ban those with state contracts from donating in state politics, but faced accusations of a pay to play culture in Dutchess County, reaping $330,000 from those he doled out contracts to. He once said he opposed corporations donating in politics, but has reaped $193,000 from federal Corporate PACs, and refused to sign onto campaign finance reform legislation in Congress.
- In his campaigns for Congress, Molinaro has taken $20,000 from oil and gas companies while voting for their deregulatory agenda, padding their pockets and helping them pollute our environment. Including accepting thousands in campaign contributions from a corporate PAC associated with NYSEG as it pushed to raise consumers’ rates by 62 percent. Molinaro has raked in donations from the corporate CEOs and the ultra wealthy, while voting to cut enforcement against rich tax cheats.
- Marc Molinaro defended fraudster George Santos, and voted to block the House from expelling him until he couldn’t resist anymore, and then had the moxie to take credit.