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Hal Rogers (R-KY.)
No congressman has single-handedly put America at greater risk than Rogers. As chairman of the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security, he has placed the interests of his own district ahead of defending the nation from Al Qaeda, prompting even the archconservative National Review to call him a “congressional disgrace.” Since the 9/11 attacks, Rogers has abused his position to steer production of a system designed to enhance airport security to a factory in Corbin, Kentucky. The trouble is, the factory wasn’t equipped to produce the tamperproof biometric ID cards favored by security experts. So Rogers forced the government to spend $4 million to test the factory’s technology – steering some of the work to a tiny company that hired his son. When the factory flunked the test, Rogers delayed the process again, demanding that prototypes for new cards be built in Kentucky.
Rogers also steered a no-bid contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a trade group with no relevant experience in airport security – after the group paid for Rogers to take six trips to Hawaii and one to Ireland. “It’s as if he grabbed people off the street and said, ‘Hey, would you manage a critical homeland-security program? No experience required,'” says Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste.
Complaints by experienced contractors ultimately forced Rogers to open the project to competitive bidding – further delaying the improvements to airport security until next year at the earliest.
The Queen of Gay Bashing: Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.)
Musgrave has made regulating the bedroom behavior of her fellow Americans the focus of her entire career. An evangelical Christian who married her Bible-camp sweetheart, Musgrave does not believe in the separation of church and state. She entered politics in 1990, running for her local school board on a crusade to end sex education as part of the curriculum. By the time her tenure was over, the schools taught “abstinence only” – and offending passages in health textbooks had been blacked out. During her eight years in the Colorado legislature, Musgrave continued her moralizing, overcoming two vetoes by the governor to pass a state ban on gay marriage.
Once in Congress, Musgrave introduced a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage – which she calls “the most important issue that we face today” – nearly a year before a Massachusetts court approved civil unions. “She doesn’t like the idea of one gay person,” says Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts. “So obviously the idea of two of us hanging out makes her very unhappy.” For her opposition to gay marriage – as well as her push to legalize concealed weapons – Musgrave received an endorsement from the KKK in May.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn’t consider Musgrave’s move to rewrite the nation’s founding document a laughing matter. “She is trying to taint the Constitution,” Pelosi says. “That is a violation of the oath of office.” But Frank notes one thing he admires about Musgrave: “If you’re going to have someone who’s a hater, it’s best that she’s not very bright. I appeared with her in a couple of forums to debate her bill, but she’s totally incapable of even explaining what it says.”