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United States Senator from Virginia
Available reporting in the provided sources does not list any U.S. senator as having been formally investigated for ties to Venezuelan-linked funds; the materials instead focus on congressional oversi...
Congress currently holds the statute that created the Insurrection Act and has been repeatedly urged by legal groups to amend it, but under current law Congress has no automatic, immediate power to “o...
The richest members of Congress are concentrated among both parties but individual rankings vary by the source and methodology used; Republicans like Sen. Rick Scott are frequently listed at the top, ...
Multiple public rankings and trackers of — including , , , and several news outlets — repeatedly surface a relatively small set of lawmakers at the top of the wealth lists: , , , , and are among the n...
’s 2024 financial disclosure shows household assets reported in ranges that total as much as — a dramatic uptick from earlier filings that listed minimal assets — a change that has prompted intense an...
Multiple provided analyses claim that a small group of U.S. senators—most commonly Rick Scott, Mark Warner, and Pete Ricketts—rank among the wealthiest in 2025, but the underlying figures and addition...
Available reporting shows multiple federal and local efforts to force or encourage ICE and other federal immigration officers to clearly identify themselves during arrests, amid concerns about masked ...
The claim asks which U.S. senators are up for re-election in 2026 whose terms end January 3, 2027 — in other words, which members of are on the 2026 ballot. Multiple analyses referenced here confirm t...
Three recurring explanations appear across the supplied reporting for Donald Trump’s removals of senior military officers: public contradiction of his claims by intelligence (notably the firing of Lt....
Federal lawmakers and advocates have launched a wave of bills in 2025–2026 aimed at forcing immigration agents to wear clear, visible identification and to limit non‑medical face coverings during publ...
Federal law currently does not appear in these sources to state a single binding rule that ICE officers must always display badges during street arrests; multiple lawmakers and advocacy groups have pu...
Congressional pressure tied to the Jeffrey Epstein case has produced a concrete legislative vehicle: the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act would require the Justice Department to publish all u...
Public reporting and congressional letters indicate the Trump administration directed federal agencies to blame Democrats for a potential government shutdown and that President Trump has shown little ...
Bernie Sanders is modestly wealthy by U.S. Senate standards, with most reporting putting his net worth around $2–$5 million in the mid-2020s, which is a small fraction of both Mark Warner’s and Rick S...
Public reporting and trackers show several members of Congress held very large fortunes in 2023, with frequent mentions of Sen. Rick Scott, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Mark Warner, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Re...
and document that senators have crossed the $1 million net‑worth threshold while in office, using aggregated and summarized by OpenSecrets and reproduced by Ballotpedia (Ballotpedia cites OpenSecrets ...
Reporting about ’s personal wealth shows wildly different figures — from six-figure estimates to household valuations that top $30 million — and those discrepancies illuminate why reliable comparisons...
State legislatures and a handful of federal lawmakers have responded to videos of masked immigration and other agents by drafting and, in California’s case, enacting laws that both restrict face cover...
The pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández prompted sharp pushback from U.S. legal and political circles that framed his conviction as the product of robust federal prosecutions, w...
The Senate’s wealthiest members are a small club of multimillionaires whose fortunes come from business founders, venture capital/private equity, family wealth and investments; leading names repeatedl...