Right! Fundamentally the entire setting of star trek is built to enable "filler episodes", it is the handwaviest of handwavy settings BECAUSE no-one actually wanted a load of explanation about why our space explorers were doing what they were doing this week

Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|Oklahoma District 1
Kevin Hern
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Voting Record — 567
Yes76%
No21%
Present0%
Not Voting3%
Party align97%
Cross-party1%
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Kevin Hern
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanOklahoma District 1
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Yeah Star Trek is a premise and setting built for “filler episodes” and we don’t make them any more
Cosmically unfair that the two countries least affected by closing the straits are the US and Iran
only one of my council candidates has posted on bluesky and only one more even has an account. this would be a bad way to allocate my vote but also… there are worse ways…
can't wait for the heavily fictionalised comedy-drama about it
can't stop thinking about the TUI cannonball run
wot game
Also disco Elysium is a fantasy disco elysium
and of course the best SNL UK sketch to date hits that mark at 00:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDeE...
working on a theory that the exact moment anything from SNL UK gets good is when you go "Well, this wouldn't be on SNL in America". in this case that moment is 1:16 youtube.com/shorts/rboHL...
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You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.
you know, if you were evil
could absolutely do a fairly compulsive idle-game style thing over just SMS too, I reckon
it's time… to set up my twittr
if i were an entrepreneurial type i'd be putting serious consideration into what teen-focused businesses I can launch which are built around an SMS UX
the fun conversation around smartphones in schools is that no-one is thinking about the mid-term effects, because The Forces Of Capitalism are absolutely not going to stand still and go "yes, a brick phone is boring and undesirable and provides children no compulsion to use it"
yup yup and yup but then also to cut it fine so you can have One More Delicious Meal
the main counter – as an ETTA guy – is that "time in a foreign city" is worth quite a lot of money, in the end. Which is why people pay so much to get there!
sometimes feel like the original sin of this whole shebang was looking at the crime currency and going "yeah seems fine"
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Voting History567 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
567 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-16 | H. Res. 707 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-15 | H.R. 3400 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-15 | H.J. Res. 117 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-11 | H.R. 3486 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-11 | H.R. 3944 (119th) | Instruct negotiators | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-10 | H.R. 3838 (119th) | Approve amendment | NO | NO | ✓ | Agreed to |
| 2025-09-09 | H. Res. 682 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-09 | H. Res. 682 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3425 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-08 | H.R. 3424 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | NO | ✕ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.R. 4553 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 105 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 106 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-04 | H.J. Res. 104 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 539 (119th) | Kill the motion | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | Approve resolution | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-03 | H. Res. 672 (119th) | End debate now | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 747 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-02 | H.R. 4216 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-07-23 | H.R. 4275 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.