Kansas bankers put about $250,000 into a roughly $1 million ad buy against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall over his swipe-fee bill. With co-lead Dick Durbin retiring, a Marshall loss would leave the Credit Card Competition Act without either lead Senate sponsor.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
Flock's chief executive sent a Senate subcommittee a letter instead of testifying. It says customer agencies own and control the search records and set retention, and that Flock does very little oversight of how clients search its network.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
None of the invited chief executives of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada testified on Wednesday, and the only criminal charges on that day's record were against five Indiana police officers accused of misusing the technology.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption65
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
Senator John Curtis wants the Judiciary Committee to compel testimony from Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden over their family business dealings. Durbin backed the request, though a subpoena still needs Grassley.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
A Senate subcommittee will ask four camera vendors on Sept. 23 who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data. Verkada answered in writing first and said its chief executive cannot attend.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives75
- Confidence50
The company's motion to compel arbitration builds its consent record mostly out of Robux checkouts, which puts the legal exposure on the payment screen rather than the signup flow.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption41
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives68
- Confidence46
John Larson and Bill Cassidy both lost primaries and exit Congress in four months, with the trust fund set to empty in 2032 and benefits scheduled to fall 22.5 percent.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives66
- Confidence40
Moreno and Lummis have cosponsored the Credit Card Competition Act, joining Durbin, Marshall, Welch and King. The bill would make banks above $100B in assets run two unaffiliated networks on credit cards.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives78
- Confidence38