#Andy Johnson Wyoming

[conniejoworld]

This is the full list of all Republican House representatives who voted against the sick leave measure:

Robert Aderholt, Alabama 4th district

Rick Allen, Georgia 12th district

Mark Amodei, Nevada 2nd district

Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota

Jodey Arrington, Texas 19th district

Brian Babin, Texas 36th district

Jim Baird, Indiana 4th district

Troy Balderson, Ohio 12th district

Jim Banks, Indiana 3rd district

Andy Barr, Kentucky 6th district

Cliff Bentz, Oregon 2nd district

Jack Bergman, Michigan 1st district

Stephanie Bice (OK), Oklahoma 5th district

Andy Biggs, Arizona 5th district

Gus Bilirakis, Florida 12th district

Dan Bishop, North Carolina 9th district

Mike Bost, Illinois 12th district

Kevin Brady, Texas 8th district

Mo Brooks, Alabama 5th district

Vern Buchanan, Florida 16th district

Ken Buck, Colorado 4th district

Larry Bucshon, Indiana 8th district

Ted Budd, North Carolina 13th district

Tim Burchett, Tennessee 2nd district

Michael Burgess, Texas 26th district

Ken Calvert, California 42nd district

Kat Cammack, Florida 3rd district

Mike Carey, Ohio 15th district

Jerry Carl, Alabama 1st district

John Carter, Texas 31st district

Buddy Carter, Georgia 1st district

Madison Cawthorn, North Carolina 11th district

Steve Chabot, Ohio 1st district

Liz Cheney, Wyoming

Ben Cline, Virginia 6th district

Michael Cloud, Texas 27th district

Andrew Clyde, Georgia 9th district

Tom Cole, Oklahoma 4th district

James Comer, Kentucky 1st district

Connie Conway, California 22nd district

Rick Crawford, Arkansas 1st district

Dan Crenshaw, Texas 2nd district

John Curtis, Utah 3rd district

Warren Davidson, Ohio 8th district

Rodney Davis, Illinois 13th district

Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee 4th district

Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida 25th district

Byron Donalds, Florida 19th district

Jeff Duncan, South Carolina 3rd district

Neal Dunn, Florida 2nd district

Jake Ellzey, Texas 6th district

Tom Emmer, Minnesota 6th district

Ron Estes, Kansas 4th district

Pat Fallon, Texas 4th district

Randy Feenstra, Iowa 4th district

Drew Ferguson, Georgia 3rd district

Brad Finstad, Minnesota 1st district

Michelle Fischbach, Minnesota 7th district

Scott Fitzgerald, Wisconsin 5th district

Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee 3rd district

Mike Flood, Nebraska 1st district

Mayra Flores, Texas 34th district

Virginia Foxx, North Carolina 5th district

Scott Franklin, Florida 15th district

Russ Fulcher, Idaho 1st district

Matt Gaetz, Florida 1st district

Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin 8th district

Andrew Garbarino, New York 2nd district

Mike Garcia, California 25th district

Bob Gibbs, Ohio 7th district

Carlos Gimenez, Florida 26th district

Louie Gohmert, Texas 1st district

Tony Gonzales, Texas 23rd district

Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio 16th district

Bob Good, Virginia 5th district

Lance Gooden, Texas 5th district

Paul Gosar, Arizona 4th district

Kay Granger, Texas 12th district

Garret Graves, Louisiana 6th district

Sam Graves, Missouri 6th district

Mark Green, Tennessee 7th district

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia 14th district

Morgan Griffith, Virginia 9th district

Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin 6th district

Michael Guest, Mississippi 3rd district

Brett Guthrie, Kentucky 2nd district

Andy Harris, Maryland 1st district

Diana Harshbarger, Tennessee 1st district

Vicky Hartzler, Missouri 4th district

Kevin Hern, Oklahoma 1st district

Yvette Herrell, New Mexico 2nd district

Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington 3rd district

Jody Hice, Georgia 10th district

Clay Higgins, Louisiana 3rd district

French Hill, Arkansas 2nd district

Ashley Hinson, Iowa 1st district

Trey Hollingsworth, Indiana 9th district

Richard Hudson, North Carolina 8th district

Bill Huizenga, Michigan 2nd district

Darrell Issa, California 50th district

Ronny Jackson, Texas 13th district

Chris Jacobs, New York 27th district

Mike Johnson, Louisiana 4th district

Bill Johnson, Ohio 6th district

Dusty Johnson, South Dakota

Jim Jordan, Ohio 4th district

David Joyce, Ohio 14th district

John Joyce, Pennsylvania 13th district

Fred Keller, Pennsylvania 12th district

Trent Kelly, Mississippi 1st district

Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania 16th district

Young Kim, California 39th district

David Kustoff, Tennessee 8th district

Darin LaHood, Illinois 18th district

Doug LaMalfa, California 1st district

Doug Lamborn, Colorado 5th district

Bob Latta, Ohio 5th district

Jake LaTurner, Kansas 2nd district

Debbie Lesko, Arizona 8th district

Julia Letlow, Louisiana 5th district

Billy Long, Missouri 7th district

Barry Loudermilk, Georgia 11th district

Frank Lucas, Oklahoma 3rd district

Blaine Luetkemeyer, Missouri 3rd district

Nancy Mace, South Carolina 1st district

Nicole Malliotakis, New York 11th district

Tracey Mann, Kansas 1st district

Thomas Massie, Kentucky 4th district

Brian Mast, Florida 18th district

Kevin McCarthy, California 23rd district

Michael McCaul, Texas 10th district

Lisa McClain, Michigan 10th district

Tom McClintock, California 4th district

Patrick McHenry, North Carolina 10th district

Peter Meijer, Michigan 3rd district

Dan Meuser, Pennsylvania 9th district

Mary Miller, Illinois 15th district

Carol Miller, West Virginia 3rd district

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa 2nd district

John Moolenaar, Michigan 4th district

Alex Mooney, West Virginia 2nd district

Barry Moore, Alabama 2nd district

Blake Moore, Utah 1st district

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma 2nd district

Greg Murphy, North Carolina 3rd district

Troy Nehls, Texas 22nd district

Dan Newhouse, Washington 4th district

Ralph Norman, South Carolina 5th district

Jay Obernolte, California 8th district

Burgess Owens, Utah 4th district

Steven Palazzo, Mississippi 4th district

Gary Palmer, Alabama 6th district

Greg Pence, Indiana 6th district

Scott Perry, Pennsylvania 10th district

August Pfluger, Texas 11th district

Bill Posey, Florida 8th district

Guy Reschenthaler, Pennsylvania 14th district

Tom Rice, South Carolina 7th district

Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington 5th district

Mike Rogers, Alabama 3rd district

Hal Rogers, Kentucky 5th district

John Rose, Tennessee 6th district

Matt Rosendale, Montana

David Rouzer, North Carolina 7th district

Chip Roy, Texas 21st district

John Rutherford, Florida 4th district

Maria Elvira Salazar, Florida 27th district

Steve Scalise, Louisiana 1st district

David Schweikert, Arizona 6th district

Austin Scott, Georgia 8th district

Joe Sempolinski, New York 23rd district

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For those who can't (or don't have the time to) read the article, here is a list of all the GOP members who have voted against redirecting funds to natural disaster relief (due to the reasons above).

In BOLD and ITALICS are those from impacted states (Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia)

House

Representative James Baird of Indiana

Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

Representative John Curtis of Utah

Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

Representative Bob Good of Virginia

Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Representative Tom McClintock of California

Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

Representative Max Miller of Ohio

Representative Cory Mills of Florida

Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Representative Bill Posey of Florida

Representative John Rose of Tennessee

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

Representative Chip Roy of Texas

Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

Representative Keith Self of Texas

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

Representative Randy Weber of Texas

Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

Representative Roger Williams of Texas

Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Senate

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee

Senator Mike Braun of Indiana

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama

Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina

Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho

Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska

Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin

Senator Mike Lee of Utah

Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas

Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Senator James Risch of Idaho

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Hold them accountable. Make it known to them and their offices that you won't stand by this shit.

Remember that this is why elections outside of the Presidential are important!

Don't rely on a single figurehead to advocate for you, because they won't. Work with your community to not only save one another, but to elect people who will actually represent you and your needs.

A bunch of republicans voted AGAINST giving people hurricane relief money and are trying to blame brown people for lack of funding.

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These are the 34 congressional Republicans who corresponded via text message with Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, about plans to overturn the 2020 election:

These individuals should literally be in JAIL. They are all guilty of treason against the American people and should DEFINITELY not STILL BE HOLDING OFFICE!!

Rep. Rick Allen (Georgia)

Rep. Brian Babin (Texas)

Rep. Andy Biggs (Arizona)

Rep. Dan Bishop (North Carolina)

Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas)

Rep. Mo Brooks (Alabama)

Rep. Ted Budd (North Carolina)

Rep. Andrew Clyde (Georgia)

Sen. Kevin Cramer (North Dakota)

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)

Rep. Warren Davidson (Ohio)

Rep. Tom Emmer (Minnesota)

Rep. Bob Gibbs (Ohio)

Rep. Louie Gohmert (Texas)

Rep. Paul Gosar (Arizona)

Rep. Mark Green (Tennessee)

Rep. Jody Hice (Georgia)

Rep. Richard Hudson (North Carolina)

Rep. Mike Johnson (Louisiana)

Sen. Ron Johnson (Wisconsin)

Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio)

Rep. Fred Keller (Pennsylvania)

Rep. Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania)

Sen. Mike Lee (Utah)

Rep. Billy Long (Missouri)

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (Georgia)

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming)

Rep. Barry Moore (Alabama)

Rep. Greg Murphy (North Carolina)

Rep. Ralph Norman (South Carolina)

Sen. David Perdue (Georgia)

Rep. Scott Perry (Pennsylvania)

Rep. Chip Roy (Texas)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (Georgia)

[zumpietoo]

At the top of the heap of people whose names shall live in infamy are GOP Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, who led the coup in the Senate to overturn the will of the people. After the fires started burning, Ted Cruz very poorly paid lip service to trying to cool things down, after he had helped commit the arson. Hawley could hardly be bothered to do that. Those two garbage fascists were joined in objections to Arizona and/or Pennsylvania by Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, Rick Scott, brand new Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, and Cindy Hyde-Smith. Let the record show that these people went ahead and kept up their objections even after the US Capitol building was attacked by domestic terrorists they and their shithole Dear Leader had incited. In the Senate, it was only those assholes. In the House, though? Holy shit. They objected to Arizona and somehow even more of them voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, as if yesterday's terrorism put a spring in their step, as if the blood in the hallways of the Capitol gave them sustenance. Again, all of this was after the terrorist attack. And in the House it wasn't just Arizona and Pennsylvania either. Reps like Louie Gohmert stood up to object to other states too, even though the GOP senators who had originally planned to support those challenges had put down their guns and agreed to end the standoff peacefully. (It was particularly pleasing to watch Vice President Mike Pence glare at Gohmert, who just got finished unsuccessfully suing Pence to make him overturn the election, and tell him his objection to the electors in Wisconsin "MAY NOT BE ENTERTAINED," since he couldn't get even the Senate's dumbest Republican Ron Johnson to sign his treason permission slip anymore.) Overall, 139 House GOP members voted to object to the electors from Arizona and/or Pennsylvania. These are their names. They should not be allowed around your children, you should kick them out of your chicken restaurant, and they should always and forevermore be referred to as seditious traitors to democracy in the United States of America. They really should be expelled from Congress. They're listed by state, to make it helpful for people to know which chicken restaurants to ban them from, specifically. Alabama 1. Robert Aderholt 2. Mo Brooks 3. Jerry Carl 4. Barry Moore 5. Gary Palmer 6. Mike Rogers Arizona 7. Andy Biggs 8. Paul Gosar 9. Debbie Lesko 10. David Schweikert Arkansas 11. Rick Crawford California 12. Ken Calvert 13. Mike Garcia 14. Darrell Issa 15. Doug LaMalfa 16. Kevin McCarthy 17. Devin Nunes 18. Jay Obernolte Colorado 19. Lauren Boebert 20. Doug Lamborn Florida 21. Kat Cammack 22. Mario Diaz-Balart 23. Byron Donalds 24. Neal Dunn 25. Scott Franklin 26. Matt Gaetz 27. Carlos Jimenez 28. Brian Mast 29. Bill Posey 30. John Rutherford 31. Greg Steube 32. Daniel Webster Georgia 33. Rick Allen 34. Earl "Buddy" Carter 35. Andrew Clyde 36. Marjorie Taylor Greene 37. Jody Hice 38. Barry Loudermilik Idaho 39. Russ Fulcher Illinois 40. Mike Bost 41. Mary Miller Indiana 42. Jim Baird 43. Jim Banks 44. Greg Pence 45. Jackie Walorski Kansas 46. Ron Estes 47. Jacob LaTurner 48. Tracey Mann Kentucky 49. Harold Rogers Louisiana 50. Garret Graves 51. Clay Higgins 52. Mike Johnson 53. Steve Scalise Maryland 54. Andy Harris Michigan 55. Jack Bergman 56. Lisa McClain 57. Tim Walberg Minnesota 58. Michelle Fischbach 59. Jim Hagedorn Mississippi 60. Michael Guest 61. Trent Kelly 62. Steven Palazzo Missouri 63. Sam Graves 64. Vicky Hartzler 65. Billy Long 66. Blaine Luetkemeyer 67. Jason Smith Montana 68. Matt Rosendale North Carolina 69. Dan Bishop 70. Ted Budd 71. Madison Cawthorn 72. Virginia Foxx 73. Richard Hudson 74. Gregory Murphy 75. David Rouzer New Jersey 76. Jeff Van Drew New Mexico 77. Yvette Harrell New York 78. Chris Jacobs 79. Nicole Malliotakis 80. Elise Stefanik 81. Lee Zeldin Nebraska 82. Adrian Smith Ohio 83. Steve Chabot 84. Warren Davidson 85. Bob Gibbs 86. Bill Johnson 87. Jim Jordan Oklahoma 88. Stephanie Hice 89. Tom Cole 90. Kevin Hern 91. Frank Lucas 92. Markwayne Mullin Oregon 93. Cliff Bentz Pennsylvania 94. John Joyce 95. Fred Keller 96. Mike Kelly 97. Daniel Meuser 98. Scott Perry 99. Guy Reschenthaler 100. Lloyd Smucker 101. Glenn Thompson South Carolina 102. Jeff Duncan 103. Ralph Norman 104. Tom Rice 105. William Timmons 106. Joe Wilson Tennessee 107. Tim Burchett 108. Scott DesJarlais 109. Chuck Fleischmann 110. Mark Green 111. Diana Harshbarger 112. David Kustoff 113. John Rose Texas 114. Jodey Arrington 115. Brian Babin 116. Michael Burgess 117. John Carter 118. Michael Cloud 119. Pat Fallon 120. Louie Gohmert 121. Lance Gooden 122. Ronny Jackson 123. Troy Nehls 124. August Pfluger 125. Pete Sessions 126. Beth Van Duyne 127. Randy Weber 128. Roger Williams 129. Ron Wright Utah 130. Burgess Owens 131. Chris Stewart Virginia 132. Ben Cline 133. Bob Good 134. Morgan Griffith 135. Robert Wittman West Virginia 136. Carol Miller 137. Alexander Mooney Wisconsin 138. Scott Fitzgerald 139. Tom Tiffany These are the people who either incited yesterday's attackers, gave them aid and comfort as terrorist sympathizers, or both.

https://www.wonkette.com/here-are-all-147-members-of-the-terrorist-inciting-gop-sedition-caucus-may-their-names-forever-be-stained

[stopkingobama]

Wyoming Rancher’s fate shows why this EPA water rule is a threat to Americans

Wyoming rancher Andy Johnson wanted to build a pond on his property for his cattle. He got the necessary state permits and did it. Cattle now drink from the pond, and birds and fish call it home.

But Johnson didn’t ask federal officials if he could build the pond. EPA came along and told him he had to fill it in. Johnson refused and is being fined $37,000 per day by the agency.

Johnson’s fight with the federal government illustrates why there has been such outcry over EPA’s new water rule, the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS)—a rule that extends federal jurisdiction over nearly every body of water in the United States.

Watchdog.org reports:

Johnson is facing millions in fines from the federal government after the EPA determined his small pond — technically a “stock pond” to provide better access to water for animals on his ranch — is somehow violating the federal Clean Water Act.

“We went through all the hoops that the state of Wyoming required, and I’m proud of what we built,” Johnson said. “The EPA ignored all that.”

In a compliance order, the EPA told Johnson he had to return his property — under federal oversight — to conditions before the stock pond was built. When he refused to comply, the EPA tagged Johnson with a fines of $37,000 per day.

Johnson now owes more than $16 million in fines.

EPA acknowledges that constructing and maintaining stock ponds don’t require federal permitsunder the Clean Water Act. But the agency argues the exemption doesn’t apply in this case because it claims Johnson built the pond in a navigable water, The Washington Times reports:

The creek is a tributary of the Green River, which is a “navigable, interstate water of the United States,” according to the EPA order.

As a result, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concluded that Mr. Johnson needed a “standard, project-specific CWA permit,” and not just the permits issued by Wyoming, which he had obtained.

The EPA also described the sand, gravel, clay and concrete blocks used by Mr. Johnson to construct the dam as “dredged material” and “pollutants” as described under the Clean Water Act.

As noted above, the state of Wyoming had already approved the placement of those  so-called “pollutants” in accordance with a state-issued permit.  Importantly, one of Johnson’s lawyers, Dan Frank, said no federal official visited the pond before concluding that Johnson broke the law:

“As we investigated this case, we found out the Army Corps of Engineers asserted jurisdiction over this little creek without ever leaving the office. They did what’s called a ‘desktop determination,'” Frank said. “Had they ever gone out, they’d have found it dead-ends in a canal, and it doesn’t ever reach any navigable waters of the United States.

This is the “Matrix Defense” where federal agencies rely more on computer models and hydrologic software than physical evidence.

Whether Johnson has or hasn’t violated the Clean Water Act will be decided by a federal court.

A bigger concern is the regulatory overreach claimed by the new Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) definition. Both agriculture and industry know that the rule will make it even harder to do businesses in America.

In selling WOTUS to skeptical farmers and ranchers, EPA insisted the “rule does not create any new permitting requirements” for agriculture. But judging by what Johnson is going through, the situation is painful enough and will only get worse now that WOTUS has expanded EPA’s jurisdiction.

Take what this one rancher is going through and multiply it by the multitude of projects by home builders, retailers, energy developers, factories, and other businesses across the country that now may, or may not occur because they are located near newly-declared, federally-regulated bodies of water.

In some instances, questions about federal jurisdiction will be cut and dry, but in many others it will be a grey area with federal officials plugging in data into a computer model like they did with Johnson. If a federal agency deems it so, a task as basic as clearing weeds out of a ditch could need a federal permit.

It’s not surprising that so many industries have united against this water rule. They understand that it will be yet another barrier to getting things done.

Permitting costs will rise, and projects that would be viable under a more commonsense water rule will be abandoned. We’ll all pay the price with slower economic growth and reduced job creation.

One last thing, should EPA win and Johnson be made to fill in his pond, water quality might be worse. “Water exiting the pond is actually cleaner than the water flowing into it, according to tests by an independent environmental lab and included as part of the lawsuit,” Watchdog.org reports.

This is ironic given how EPA allowed three million gallons of toxic water to spill into a Colorado river.

Report by Sean Hackbarth. Originally published at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/wyoming-rancher-s-case-shows-why-so-many-businesses-are-worried-about-epa-s-water

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Wyoming Rancher’s fate shows why this EPA water rule is a threat to Americans

Wyoming rancher Andy Johnson wanted to build a pond on his property for his cattle. He got the necessary state permits and did it. Cattle now drink from the pond, and birds and fish call it home.

But Johnson didn’t ask federal officials if he could build the pond. EPA came along and told him he had to fill it in. Johnson refused and is being fined $37,000 per day by the agency.

Johnson’s fight with the federal government illustrates why there has been such outcry over EPA’s new water rule, the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS)—a rule that extends federal jurisdiction over nearly every body of water in the United States.

Watchdog.org reports:

Johnson is facing millions in fines from the federal government after the EPA determined his small pond — technically a “stock pond” to provide better access to water for animals on his ranch — is somehow violating the federal Clean Water Act.

“We went through all the hoops that the state of Wyoming required, and I’m proud of what we built,” Johnson said. “The EPA ignored all that.”

In a compliance order, the EPA told Johnson he had to return his property — under federal oversight — to conditions before the stock pond was built. When he refused to comply, the EPA tagged Johnson with a fines of $37,000 per day.

Johnson now owes more than $16 million in fines.

EPA acknowledges that constructing and maintaining stock ponds don’t require federal permitsunder the Clean Water Act. But the agency argues the exemption doesn’t apply in this case because it claims Johnson built the pond in a navigable water, The Washington Times reports:

The creek is a tributary of the Green River, which is a “navigable, interstate water of the United States,” according to the EPA order.

As a result, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concluded that Mr. Johnson needed a “standard, project-specific CWA permit,” and not just the permits issued by Wyoming, which he had obtained.

The EPA also described the sand, gravel, clay and concrete blocks used by Mr. Johnson to construct the dam as “dredged material” and “pollutants” as described under the Clean Water Act.

As noted above, the state of Wyoming had already approved the placement of those  so-called “pollutants” in accordance with a state-issued permit.  Importantly, one of Johnson’s lawyers, Dan Frank, said no federal official visited the pond before concluding that Johnson broke the law:

“As we investigated this case, we found out the Army Corps of Engineers asserted jurisdiction over this little creek without ever leaving the office. They did what’s called a ‘desktop determination,'” Frank said. “Had they ever gone out, they’d have found it dead-ends in a canal, and it doesn’t ever reach any navigable waters of the United States.

This is the “Matrix Defense” where federal agencies rely more on computer models and hydrologic software than physical evidence.

Whether Johnson has or hasn’t violated the Clean Water Act will be decided by a federal court.

A bigger concern is the regulatory overreach claimed by the new Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) definition. Both agriculture and industry know that the rule will make it even harder to do businesses in America.

In selling WOTUS to skeptical farmers and ranchers, EPA insisted the “rule does not create any new permitting requirements” for agriculture. But judging by what Johnson is going through, the situation is painful enough and will only get worse now that WOTUS has expanded EPA’s jurisdiction.

Take what this one rancher is going through and multiply it by the multitude of projects by home builders, retailers, energy developers, factories, and other businesses across the country that now may, or may not occur because they are located near newly-declared, federally-regulated bodies of water.

In some instances, questions about federal jurisdiction will be cut and dry, but in many others it will be a grey area with federal officials plugging in data into a computer model like they did with Johnson. If a federal agency deems it so, a task as basic as clearing weeds out of a ditch could need a federal permit.

It’s not surprising that so many industries have united against this water rule. They understand that it will be yet another barrier to getting things done.

Permitting costs will rise, and projects that would be viable under a more commonsense water rule will be abandoned. We’ll all pay the price with slower economic growth and reduced job creation.

One last thing, should EPA win and Johnson be made to fill in his pond, water quality might be worse. “Water exiting the pond is actually cleaner than the water flowing into it, according to tests by an independent environmental lab and included as part of the lawsuit,” Watchdog.org reports.

This is ironic given how EPA allowed three million gallons of toxic water to spill into a Colorado river.

Report by Sean Hackbarth. Originally published at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. https://www.uschamber.com/above-the-fold/wyoming-rancher-s-case-shows-why-so-many-businesses-are-worried-about-epa-s-water

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU.  I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games.  I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy.  I don’t think I can come up with them all.  However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating.  So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list.  But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

O

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas.  (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it.  As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.)  There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here.  If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me.  Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations.  My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list.  I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic.  On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws. 

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Wyoming U.S. Senator > Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) .....says ‘there are not enough Democrats’ to help Liz Cheney win primary , Hummmm John.......I'm not real sure about that one....in light of what will go down right before mid-terms I find it hard to believe that there will be enough Republicans left in Congress in the numbers permitting them to do a darn thing , literally ..with the numbers left why would the Repubs even show up for work ?.......As Close to Mid-Terms as possible , allowing time for a response but no time for an repub party electoral rescue mission , Plaintiffs will file a Federal Complaint which shall remove B4 the Mid-Term Elctions a TOTAL of One Hundred & Fifty-Three Congresspersons from Congress Fourteen (14) Current Congressional SENATORS ........................... **** Ted Cruz (TX) **** **** Josh Hawley (MO) **** Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS) Cynthia Lummis (WY) **** John Kennedy (LA) **** ( "must really suck to be that dumb ! " ) Roger Marshall (KS) **** Rick Scott (FL) **** **** Tommy Tuberville (AL) **** Bill Hagerty (TN) **** Kelly Loeffler (GA) **** James Lankford (OK) Steve Daines (MT) Mike Braun (IND) **** Marsha Blackburn (TN) ****

And One Hundred & Thirty-Nine (139) Current Congressional Representatives from Office on a permanent basis with referrals to the DOJ for Criminal Prosecutions , Violation of Oath of Office at a min (federal felony 1 yr prison & removal from office & bar/ban from any & all federal employment , ever ............

Robert Aderholt (AL) Rick Allen (GA) Jodey Arrington (TX) Brian Babin (TX) Jim Baird (IN) Jim Banks (IN) Cliff Bentz (OR) Jack Bergman (MI) Stephanie Bice (OK) **** Andy Biggs (AZ) **** Dan Bishop (NC) **** Lauren Boebert (CO) **** Mike Bost (IL) **** Mo Brooks (AL) **** Ted Budd (NC) Tim Burchett (TN) Michael Burgess (TX) Ken Calvert (CA) Kat Cammack (FL) Jerry Carl (AL) Buddy Carter (GA) John Carter (TX) **** Madison Cawthorn (NC) **** Steve Chabot (OH) Ben Cline (VA) Michael Cloud (TX) Andrew Clyde (GA) Tom Cole (OK) Rick Crawford (AR) Warren Davidson (OH) Scott DesJarlais (TN) Mario Diaz-Balart (FL) Byron Donalds (FL) Jeff Duncan (SC) Neal Dunn (FL) Ron Estes (KS) Pat Fallon (TX) Michelle Fischbach (MN) Scott Fitzgerald (WI) Chuck Fleischmann (TN) Virginia Foxx (NC) Scott Franklin (FL) Russ Fulcher (ID) **** Matt Gaetz (FL) **** Mike Garcia (CA) Bob Gibbs (OH) Carlos Gimenez (FL) **** Louie Gohmert (TX) **** Bob Good (VA) Lance Gooden (TX) **** Paul Gosar (AZ) **** Garret Graves (LA) Sam Graves (MO) Mark Green (TN) **** Marjorie Greene (GA) **** Morgan Griffith (VA) Michael Guest (MS) Jim Hagedorn (MN) Andy Harris (MD) Diana Harshbarger (TN) Vicky Hartzler (MO) Kevin Hern (OK) Yvette Herrell (NM) Jody Hice (GA) **** Clay Higgins (LA) **** Richard Hudson (NC) Darrell Issa (CA) **** Ronny Jackson (TX) **** Chris Jacobs (NY) Mike Johnson (LA) Bill Johnson (OH) **** Jim Jordan (OH) **** John Joyce (PA) Fred Keller (PA) Trent Kelly (MS) Mike Kelly (PA) David Kustoff (TN) Doug LaMalfa (CA) Doug Lamborn (CO) Jacob LaTurner (KS) Debbie Lesko (AZ) Billy Long (MO) Barry Loudermilk (GA) Frank Lucas (OK) Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) Nicole Malliotakis (NY) Tracey Mann (KS) Brian Mast (FL) **** Kevin McCarthy (CA) **** Lisa McClain (MI) Daniel Meuser (PA) Mary Miller (IL) Carol Miller (WV) Alex Mooney (WV) Barry Moore (AL) Markwayne Mullin (OK) Gregory Murphy (NC) Troy Nehls (TX) Ralph Norman (SC) **** Devin Nunes (CA) **** Jay Obernolte (CA) Burgess Owens (UT) Steven Palazzo (MS) Gary Palmer (AL) Greg Pence (IN) **** Scott Perry (PA) **** August Pfluger (TX) Bill Posey (FL) Guy Reschenthaler (PA) Tom Rice (SC) Mike Rogers (AL) Hal Rogers (KY) John Rose (TN) Matt Rosendale (MT) David Rouzer (NC) John Rutherford (FL) **** Steve Scalise (LA) **** David Schweikert (AZ) **** Pete Sessions (TX) **** Jason Smith (MO) Adrian Smith (NE) Lloyd Smucker (PA) Elise Stefanik (NY) Greg Steube (FL) Chris Stewart (UT) Glenn Thompson (PA) Tom Tiffany (WI) William Timmons (SC) Jefferson Van Drew (NJ) Beth Van Duyne (TX) Tim Walberg (MI) Jackie Walorski (IN) Randy Weber (TX) Daniel Webster (FL) Roger Williams (TX) Joe Wilson (SC) Rob Wittman (VA) Ron Wright (TX) Lee Zeldin (NY)

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Which Republicans Voted For The Impeachment

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Which Republicans Voted For The Impeachment

Ial Retraction From Starr

Several House Republicans to vote to impeach President Trump

In January 2020, while testifying as a defense lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump during his first Senate impeachment trial, Starr himself would retract some of the allegations he made to justify Clintonâs impeachment. Slate journalist Jeremy Stahl pointed out that as he was urging the Senate not to remove Trump as president, Starr contradicted various arguments he used in 1998 to justify Clintonâs impeachment. In defending Trump, Starr also claimed he was wrong to have called for impeachment against Clinton for abuse of executive privilege and efforts to obstruct Congress, and stated that the House Judiciary Committee was right in 1998 to have rejected one of the planks for impeachment he had advocated for. He also invoked a 1999 Hofstra Law Review article by Yale law professor Akhil Amar, who argued that the Clinton impeachment proved just how impeachment and removal causes âgrave disruptionâ to a national election.

Rep John Katko New York

To impeach a sitting president is a decision I do not take lightly, Rep. John Katko of New Yorks 24th Congressional District said in a statement Tuesday.

As a former federal prosecutor, I approach the question of impeachment by reviewing the facts at hand, he said. To allow the President of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of our democracy. For that reason, I cannot sit by without taking action. I will vote to impeach this President.

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One Voted Last Week Against Certifying Electoral College Results

Ten Republicans voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump, exactly one week after a violent attack on the Capitol by the presidents supporters.;

The Democrat-led House voted 232-197 to approve one article of impeachment against Trump, charging the president with incitement of insurrection.;

The GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach the president from their own party included Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House. Cheneys vote has prompted House Republicans to call on her to step down as conference chairwoman.

While many in the group have a history of breaking with their party, the yes votes included several with a strong record of supporting Trump and one, South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice, who voted last week against certifying President-elect Joe Bidens Electoral College victory in two states.;

Most Republicans in the House opposed impeachment, with many arguing the hurried process would further divide the country. But for these 10 Republicans who supported impeachment, the fact that Trump incited the riot at the Capitol was indisputable.;

Four Republicans did not vote on impeachment, including Texas Rep. Kay Granger, who recently tested positive for COVID-19. The others were Reps. Andy Harris of Maryland, Greg Murphy of North Carolina and Daniel Webster of Florida.

Here are the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump:;

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Some Senators Didnt Have An Answer For What They Would Need To See In Order To Vote For The Measure

Republican senators on Friday drowned the hopes of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, gathering enough members of their own conference to block legislation to establish the panel.

Though it received overall majority support in the chamber, the procedural vote, a cloture vote on a motion to proceed, to the legislation fell short of the 60 votes needed, 54-35. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Rob Portman of Ohio were the only Republicans who voted to end debate on whether to take up the legislation.

The vote, which had been expected on Thursday, was delayed after some Republican senators, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, consumed floor time that brought the chamber to a painfully slow cadence and culminated at around 3 a.m. Friday morning.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said he struck an agreement that ensured the commission vote would happen in the light of day and not in the early morning hours.

On Thursday, the family and colleagues of a Capitol Police officer who died shortly after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6 met with several GOP senators to try to convince them to vote for the commission.

Gladys Sicknick met with Johnson Thursday morning and said GOP opposition to the commission is a slap in the face to officers because they put their lives on the line.

Staying Above The Fray

As autumn approaches, the pressure on Bice from within her party appears to be lifting. Oklahoma GOP leaders have said nothing about her since party Chairman John Bennett posted a rebuke on Facebook in May following her Jan. 6 commission vote. Bennetts post is now blocked from public view, and he did not respond to a request for an interview.

Bice, who voted in January to oppose certification of the presidential result in Arizona, has repeatedly given the same explanation for her stance;on both the 2020 presidential election and the Capitol riot, positions she reiterated in an interview with CQ Roll Call.;

She said she wanted to make a statement about the integrity of state lawmakers control over how elections are administered, noting a 2020 state Supreme Court ruling that allowed voters to cast absentee ballots without getting them notarized.

Voting rights advocates said the measure would protect voters during the coronavirus pandemic, but state Republican lawmakers called the decision judicial overreach and rushed a party-line bill through the Legislature restoring the requirement.;

Oklahoma could have become a statistic like other states that had their election laws changed by judicial or executive decree, Bice said. For me, that was something that was very troubling.

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Rep Anthony Gonzales Republican Who Voted For Impeachment Will Not Seek Re

After being one of 10 House Representatives to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump, Ohio Representative Anthony Gonzalez has chosen to not run for re-election in 2022.

On Thursday, the former NFL wide receiver took to to issue a lengthy statement regarding his decision.

The Republican politician started the press statement by mentioning how his goal within politics was to do his job as long as the voters would allow and work to maintain his family.

“Since entering politics, I have always said that I will do this job as long as the voters will have me and it still works for my family,” said Gonzalez.

Gonzalez then went on to talk about the reasoning behind why he’s chosen to not seek out re-election in 2022.

“Given the political realities of the day, I know this news will come as a disappointment to those who have been involved in our efforts,” said Gonzalez.

“You have given me and my family tremendous strength and courage in the face of much adversity these past few months and years. While my desire to build a fuller family life is at the heart of my decision, it is also true that the current state of our politics, especially many of the toxic dynamics inside our own party, is a significant factor in my decision,” Gonzalez mentioned.

Gonzalez went on to say that he’s hopeful “the chaotic political environment that currently infects our country will only be temporary.”

Michigan Rep Peter Meijer

The freshman Republican, who won a primary last summer in the 3rd District with the backing of House GOP leaders such as Kevin McCarthy, already is cutting an image for himself independent of his party after two weeks on the job. Its less surprising considering that former Rep. Justin Amash, the Republican-turned-independent-turned-Libertarian who split with Trump, held the seat before Meijer. Amash voted to impeach Trump in 2019.;

The scion of the Meijer family, which founded the grocery store chain of the same name, is a veteran of the Iraq War. Trump won the 3rd District, which includes Grand Rapids and Battle Creek, with 51 percent of the vote. Meijer, who turned his campaign operation into a grocery delivery service in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, outperformed Trump in November, taking 53 percent of the vote.;

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Why Didnt The Trial Begin While Trump Was Still In Office

The articles of impeachment were not sent to the Senate immediately since the Senate wouldnt be in session until the day before Joe Bidens inauguration. The Democrats waited further until an agreement was reached in the Senate for the power-sharing structure that would regulate how the evenly split Senate would operate going forward. Under an agreement with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell the trial was delayed to give the Senate more time to get Bidens nominees for his Cabinet approved.

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Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez

President Trump faces Senate trial after historic House vote on impeachment

The two-term lawmaker said in a statement released as the vote was underway that he had concluded that the President of the United States helped organize and incite a mob that attacked the United States Congress in an attempt to prevent us from completing our solemn duties.;

Gonzalez represents the states 16th District, a mostly rural stretch that also includes the suburbs of Cleveland and Canton and which Trump carried by 14 points in 2020, according to Daily Kos Elections. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Gonzalez has voted to support Trumps position on legislation nearly 90 percent of the time, but the former professional football player couldnt stick with Trump over the riot. When I consider the full scope of events leading up to January 6th including the Presidents lack of response as the United States Capitol was under attack, I am compelled to support impeachment, he added in his Wednesday statement.;

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Impeachment By House Of Representatives

On December 11, 1998, the House Judiciary Committee agreed to send three articles of impeachment to the full House for consideration. The vote on two articles, grand juryperjury and obstruction of justice, was 2117, both along party lines. On the third, perjury in the Paula Jones case, the committee voted 2018, with Republican Lindsey Graham joining with Democrats, in order to give President Clinton “the legal benefit of the doubt”. The next day, December 12, the committee agreed to send a fourth and final article, for abuse of power, to the full House by a 2117 vote, again, along party lines.

Although proceedings were delayed due to the bombing of Iraq, on the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, on grounds of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice . The two other articles were rejected, the count of perjury in the Jones case and abuse of power . Clinton thus became the second U.S. president to be impeached; the first, Andrew Johnson, was impeached in 1868. The only other previous U.S. president to be the subject of formal House impeachment proceedings was Richard Nixon in 197374. The Judiciary Committee agreed to a resolution containing three articles of impeachment in July 1974, but Nixon resigned from office soon thereafter, before the House took up the resolution.

Democrats Formally Vote To Open Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump

WASHINGTON After weeks of GOP criticism that the U.S. House of Representatives had not formally opened an impeachment inquiry, House Democrats approved a resolution Thursday formalizing the process, though Republicans griped that it was too late.

The House voted 232-196 in favour of the resolution, with all but two Democrats and no Republicans voting in favour of the process. Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Collin Peterson, both Democrats, voted with Republicans, while independent Justin Amash of Michigan voted with Democrats.

The resolution lays out ground rules for the impeachment process, including how much time Republican committee leaders will get to question witnesses, guidelines on how Republicans can call their own witnesses, the process for the White House to respond to congressional inquiries, and the overall impeachment process.

In an attempt to finally get the White House to co-operate with their investigations, the resolution would actually give U.S. President Donald Trump more rights if he and his staff co-operate with congressional subpoenas, but would take some of those rights away if the White House continues not to co-operate.

As Democrats finally called the vote Thursday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat in the president officers chair and announced the total. There was a spirited, partisan mood on the House floor.

What is at stake? What is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy.

– U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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‘blood On His Hands’: Republican Rips Biden Over Afghanistan

Multiple House Republicans announced Tuesday evening they would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his role inciting last week’s riot as congressional Republicans made their clearest break with Trump to date after he showed no remorse for the US Capitol mob.

Led By Cheney 10 House Republicans Back Trump Impeachment

WASHINGTON Ten Republicans including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House GOP leader voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. The GOP votes were in sharp contrast to the unanimous support for Trump among House Republicans when he was impeached by Democrats in December 2019.

Cheney, whose decision to buck Trump sparked an immediate backlash within the GOP, was the only member of her partys leadership to support impeachment, which was opposed by 197 Republicans.

There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution, said Cheney, whose father, Dick Cheney, served as vice president under George W. Bush. The younger Cheney has been more critical of Trump than other GOP leaders, but her announcement hours before Wednesdays vote nonetheless shook Congress.

Katko, a former federal prosecutor who represents the Syracuse area, said allowing Trump to incite this attack without consequence would be a direct threat to the future of our democracy.

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‘a Win Is A Win’: Trump’s Defense Team Makes Remarks After Senate Votes To Acquit

Despite the acquittal, President Joe Biden said in a statement that “substance of the charge” against Trump is “not in dispute.”

“Even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Donald Trump was guilty of a ‘disgraceful dereliction of duty’ and ‘practically and morally responsible for provoking’ the violence unleashed on the Capitol,” Biden’s statement read in part.

The president added that “this sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant. That violence and extremism has no place in America. And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Saturday’s vote the largest and most bipartisan vote in any impeachment trial in history,” but noted it wasn’t enough to secure a conviction.

The trial “was about choosing country over Donald Trump, and 43 Republican members chose Trump. They chose Trump. It should be a weight on their conscience today, and it shall be a weight on their conscience in the future,” he said in a speech on the Senate floor.

With control of the Senate split 50-50, the House managers always had an uphill battle when it came to convincing enough Republicans to cross party lines and convict a former president who is still very popular with a large part of the GOP base.

South Carolina Rep Tom Rice

Rices vote for impeachment stunned those familiar with the South Carolina lawmakers record as a staunch Trump defender, especially during his first impeachment.;

I have backed this President through thick and thin for four years. I campaigned for him and voted for him twice, Rice;said in a statement;Wednesday evening. But, this utter failure is inexcusable.

Rice voted for motions to object to certifying Bidens Electoral College victories in Arizona and Pennsylvania last week, votes that came after security teams cleared the building of rioters and members returned from a secure location. Rice told local media he waited until the last minute to cast those votes because he was extremely disappointed in the president after the riots and that Trump needed to concede the election. He also said last week that he did not support impeaching the president or invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.;

Rice, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, has supported the Trump administrations position 94 percent of the time over the past four years. He represents a solidly Republican district in the Myrtle Beach area that Trump carried by 19 points in November. Rice, who has had little difficulty holding his seat since his first 2012 victory, won his race by 24 points in November.;

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Heeey here’s a list of all 147 politicians who still voted to overturn election results in favor of trump even AFTER the riots on the nation’s capitol happened

(tldr Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Washington are off the hook - Rest are down there)

Alabama

Senate

Tommy Tuberville 

House

Robert B. Aderholt 

Mo Brooks 

Jerry Carl

Barry Moore

Gary Palmer

Mike Rogers

Arizona

House

Andy Biggs

Paul Gosar

Debbie Lesko

David Schweikert

Arkansas

House

Rick Crawford

California

House

Ken Calvert

Mike Garcia

Darrell Issa

Doug LaMalfa

Kevin McCarthy

Devin Nunes

Jay Obernolte

Colorado

House

Lauren Boebert

Doug Lamborn

Florida

Senate

Rick Scott

House

Kat Cammack

Mario Diaz-Balart

Byron Donalds

Neal Dunn

Scott Franklin

Matt Gaetz

Carlos Gimenez

Brian Mast

Bill Posey

John Rutherford

Greg Steube

Daniel Webster

Georgia

House

Rick Allen

Earl L. Carter

Andrew Clyde

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Jody Hice

Barry Loudermilk

Idaho

House

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GOP Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, Rick Scott, brand new Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, and Cindy Hyde-Smith.

But let us not forget to name what happened yesterday. There was a terrorist attack by an insurgent white supremacist anti-American sect, ordered by Donald Trump, an insane autocrat trying to seize power, mostly so he can avoid prison. That’s it. How we talk about it matters.

And it also matters that we name those who supported this act, this attempted overthrow of American democracy, by baselessly objecting to the electoral vote counts in states that failed to support their Dear Leader, attempting to disenfranchise millions of Americans they don’t consider real Americans — Black voters, brown voters, LGBTQ voters, white voters they consider race traitors because they don’t vote for white supremacy.

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Covid-19 News: Live Updates - The New York Times

Here’s what you need to know:

Pfizer’s headquarters in New York.Credit…Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

Pfizer’s chief executive said on Friday that the company would not apply for emergency authorization of its coronavirus vaccine before the third week of November, ruling out President Trump’s assertion that a vaccine would be ready before Election Day on Nov. 3.

In a statement posted to the company website, the chief executive, Dr. Albert Bourla, said that although Pfizer could have preliminary numbers by the end of October about whether the vaccine works, it would still need to collect safety and manufacturing data that would stretch the timeline to at least the third week of November.

Close watchers of the vaccine race had already known that Pfizer wouldn’t be able to meet the Food and Drug Administration’s requirements by the end of this month. But Friday’s announcement represents a shift in tone for the company and its leader, who has repeatedly emphasized the month of October in interviews and public appearances.

In doing so, the company had aligned its messaging with that of the president, who has made no secret of his desire for an approved vaccine before the election. Mr. Trump even singled out the company by name and said he had spoken with Dr. Bourla, whom he called a “great guy.”

Dr. Eric Topol, a clinical trial expert at Scripps Research in San Diego, said that while Pfizer officials had assured him that a vaccine would likely not be authorized before the election, the company’s letter on Friday was “even more solid about their not being part of any political machinations.”

“This is good, really good,” said Dr. Topol, who was one of 60 public health officials and others in the medical community to sign a letter to Pfizer urging it not to rush its vaccine.

Dr. Bourla has pushed back against any suggestion that the company’s vaccine timeline was politically motivated. In September, Pfizer was the driving force behind a pledge by nine vaccine companies to “stand with science” and not put forward anything that had not been properly vetted.

Earlier this month, he published an open letter to employees that said he “would never succumb to political pressure” and expressed disappointment that “we find ourselves in the crucible of the U.S. presidential election.”

Pfizer is one of four companies testing a coronavirus vaccine in late-stage clinical trials in the United States, and it has been the most aggressive in its timeline estimates. Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have said that later in the year is more likely, matching the predictions of federal health officials.

AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson’s trials have been paused for potential safety concerns, which could further delay their outcomes.

A coronavirus test site in Milwaukee, Wisc., this month.Credit…Alex Wroblewski/Reuters

As the coronavirus caseload in the United States soars past eight million, epidemiologists warn that nearly half of the states are seeing surges unlike anything they experienced earlier in the pandemic.

Reports of new cases this month have trended upward in all but 11 states, and more than 65,000 cases were announced across the country on Thursday, the most in a single day since July.

Uncontrolled outbreaks in the Midwest and Mountain West are driving the surge, according to a New York Times database. Some of the states with the most extreme growth had relatively few cases until recently, and rural hospitals have been strained.

Per capita, North Dakota and South Dakota are adding more new cases than any states have since the start of the pandemic. Wisconsin has seven of the 10 metropolitan areas in the United States with the highest rates of recent cases.

“What’s happening in the Upper Midwest is just a harbinger of things to come in the rest of the country,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of Minnesota.

Further west, Colorado, Montana and New Mexico — fueled in part by a surge in the county that includes Albuquerque — were among the 19 states that were reporting seven-day records as of Thursday night. New infections are also emerging at record levels in Idaho and Wyoming.

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Signs of the uptick are already appearing east of the Mississippi River.

In the Northeast, where cases have been relatively low since a spring surge, the number of new ones is moving upward again. And in the South, where cases spiked this summer, there are worrisome trends in West Virginia and Kentucky.

The number of cases alone is not a full measure of the nation’s outbreak, in part because they come at a time when testing is more widespread than it was a few months ago. Deaths from Covid-19 have also been relatively flat in recent weeks, with an average of about 700 per day.

Still, said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, “we are headed in the wrong direction.”

“That’s reflected not only in the number of new cases but also in test positivity and the number of hospitalizations,” she added. “Together, I think these three indicators give a very clear picture that we are seeing increased transmission in communities across the country.”

High levels of infection in colleges and universities, Dr. Osterholm said, are serving as one source of the spread. Transmission also has been prevalent at events such as funerals, family barbecues and birthday parties, he said, adding that the comeback of sporting events and dining has also added to the spread this fall.

“Pandemic fatigue has clearly set in for large segments of the population,” he said.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Thursday that the current situation was worrying as winter approaches.

But President Trump continued to downplay the resurgence of this virus, saying he did not support the strictest restrictions by local officials to limit its spread.

“We’re not doing any more lockdowns,” he said. “We’re doing fine.”

President Trump spoke at a forum in Miami on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

In one of his final prime-time television events before Election Day, President Trump, who is trailing in national and battleground polls, offered little new to voters who may still be undecided, staking out positions on the coronavirus that are at odds with both the scientific consensus and public opinion.

Simultaneously, on another network, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. presented a very different vision of the country, promoting a federal response to the pandemic led by health experts.

Mr. Trump arrived at his town-hall event, which took place in Miami and aired on NBC, with a simple pitch: People should vote for him “because we’ve done a great job.” Mr. Biden’s goal for the evening was to both push back on that argument and allow Mr. Trump to keep the focus on himself — something the president appeared happy to do.

With 19 days until Election Day and cases of the virus rising again in much of the country, Mr. Trump said, falsely, “We’re coming around the corner.”

The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, appeared at a town-hall event in Philadelphia.Credit…Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

He added, “Vaccines are coming soon and our economy is strong.” In reality, it is not clear when a coronavirus vaccine will be widely available to the public and no medical experts have agreed with him that the country — which recorded at least 65,000 new virus cases on Thursday and has averaged about 700 deaths a day over the past week — is rounding the corner.

Mr. Biden, appearing on ABC from Philadelphia, attacked Mr. Trump for his handling of the pandemic, saying, “He missed enormous opportunities and kept saying things that weren’t true.” Mr. Biden called for a national standard” to combat the outbreak, which has killed over 215,000 people in the United States.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London this week.Credit…Andy Rain/EPA, via Shutterstock

For Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, the pandemic and the looming domestic upheaval it has overshadowed — Brexit — are linked.

The economic turmoil unleashed by the pandemic has raised the pressure on Mr. Johnson to avoid the self-inflicted disruption of ruptured negotiations with the European Union over Britain’s withdrawal.

The prime minister has now reached a moment of truth on the two issues that have dominated Britain this year: the pandemic and the withdrawal talks. But he is still playing for time, a strategy that could put lives or livelihoods at risk if he waits too long.

On Thursday, Mr. Johnson inched closer to imposing more limits on the country. But he stuck to his argument that the best way to curb the coronavirus was through targeted responses, not the two-week nationwide lockdown pushed by the opposition Labour Party and his own scientific advisers.

The prime minister also seemed ready to string out trade talks with Brussels, letting a self-imposed deadline pass on Thursday without a deal. While Mr. Johnson could torpedo the negotiations on Friday, after a two-day summit meeting of European Union leaders, analysts said the British government still appeared eager to strike an agreement by the legal deadline of Dec. 31.

Mr. Johnson’s reluctance to move decisively on either front, the virus or Brexit, risks making both worse, analysts say.

Dragging out the talks with Brussels could put Britain in a bind if the two sides hit an impasse as the clock runs out. Putting off a short lockdown — which experts have dubbed a “circuit breaker” — could necessitate a longer lockdown later, according to medical experts.

“If you’re going to do it, do it early, fast and hard,” said Devi Sridhar, chair of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh. “The longer they delay, the less likely a two-week circuit breaker will work.”

Most bars and pubs will be closed starting Saturday in Lancashire, in northwest England, as the region of about one million people moves into the highest level of the country’s three-tier alert system, which is reserved for areas with the highest rates of infection. People will also be barred from socializing indoors with members of other households.

The $1.8 trillion package that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has proposed has proven to be a non-starter with Senate Republicans, making President Trump’s call for a bigger bill a complication.Credit…Erin Scott for The New York Times

President Trump, struggling to gain traction among voters just weeks before the election, called on Thursday for a bigger stimulus package than he had previously offered, and the White House signaled it was willing to make concessions to Democrats. But the proposals were unlikely to win the necessary backing from Senate Republicans who are preparing a far smaller bill of their own.

White House negotiators have proposed a $1.8 trillion relief package. Mr. Trump said that he wanted one that was even bigger and suggested, without explanation, that China would pay for it.

“I would go higher,” Mr. Trump said during an interview with the Fox Business Network. “Go big or go home.”

The comments came after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House was willing to make additional concessions to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in hopes of rekindling a stimulus deal before the election. But the $1.8 trillion package that he has proposed has already proven to be a non-starter with Senate Republicans who have panned it as too costly, making Mr. Trump’s call for a more expensive bill another complication in the already fraught negotiations.

In the interview on CNBC, Mr. Mnuchin did not directly address the lack of support for a bill by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, suggesting that he has been briefed on negotiations between the White House and House Democrats while acknowledging that Senate Republicans prefer a more “targeted” relief bill.

But Mr. McConnell downplayed the prospects of a larger bill on Thursday.

“He’s talking about a much larger amount than I can sell to my members,” Mr. McConnell said about the president’s comments.

Global Roundup

A laboratory of the Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech during a government-organized media tour in Beijing in September.Credit…Thomas Peter/Reuters

A city in eastern China has started inoculating some people against the coronavirus with a vaccine that has not finished late-stage clinical trials, ignoring warnings from scientists that the campaign could carry major health risks.

The announcement on Thursday, by health officials in the eastern city of Jiaxing, highlights how China has expanded its mass vaccination campaign for the virus even before rigorous testing concludes. The push to vaccinate so many people has bewildered several scientists, who have pointed out that China’s outbreak has been well under control for months.

The vaccine, developed by the private Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, was being provided on an “emergency use” basis in Jiaxing, the local Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. It said the government would prioritize people in relatively high-risk jobs, including medical workers, port inspectors and public service personnel.

After that, ordinary citizens would be allowed to make reservations at community-level vaccination sites, the Jiaxing C.D.C. said. Two shots of the vaccine would be made available to people aged 18 to 59 for around $60, and given at an interval of 14 to 28 days.

Since July, Chinese vaccine makers have vaccinated tens of thousands of state-owned employees, government officials and executives from vaccine companies. The Chinese government has indicated in recent weeks that it would expand the campaign to include more people, including teachers, travelers and supermarket workers.

Zhejiang, the eastern province where Jiaxing lies, “has steadily and orderly promoted the emergency use of the coronavirus vaccine” Chen Guangsheng, a top provincial official in charge of epidemic prevention efforts, said on Friday. He added that Zhejiang had also started “the voluntary vaccination of key recommended subjects.”

Mr. Chen told a news briefing that the government had administered 743,000 doses of flu and coronavirus vaccines, though an official refused to provide a breakdown.

Mr. Chen’s comments prompted several Chinese media outlets to misreport that the figure was referring to the number of people who had taken a vaccine for the coronavirus.

In other global developments:

Under rules starting Friday in Scotland, couples who marry or enter into civil partnerships will no longer be required to wear face masks during the ceremony. In workplaces, masks will now be mandatory in cafeterias, except for when seated at a table, and, starting Monday, face coverings will be required in communal areas in offices. The country already requires face masks to be worn on public transport, in shops and other indoor public spaces.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland said she had left a European Union summit in Belgium “as a precautionary measure” and was returning home to undergo a coronavirus test, The Associated Press reported. She had attended a meeting in Finland on Wednesday with a lawmaker who later tested positive for the virus. Ms. Marin’s announcement came a day after the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, left the summit venue in Brussels and went into self-isolation because one of her close staff members tested positive.

A medical staff member is seen administering Remdesivir to a patient in the coronavirus ward of a rural hospital in Rio Grande City, Tex.Credit…Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug authorized for treatment of Covid-19 in the United States, fails to prevent deaths among patients, according to a study of more than 11,000 people sponsored by the World Health Organization.

“This puts the issue to rest — there is certainly no mortality benefit,” said Dr. Ilan Schwartz, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alberta in Canada.

The drug was granted emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration in May after a trial by the National Institutes of Health, which found that remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recovery in patients severely ill with Covid-19.

But that study, too, indicated that remdesivir did not prevent deaths, and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that it was not a “knockout” drug.

A final analysis, published this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggested “a trend toward reduced mortality” in certain patients receiving remdesivir, according to the drug’s maker, Gilead.

Still, the antiviral has become part of the standard of care for Covid-19 patients in the United States, and has been administered to thousands of patients, including President Trump, since its approval.

The W.H.O.’s study, called the Solidarity trial, enrolled 11,266 adults with Covid-19 in 405 hospitals in 30 countries. The participants were given four drugs singly or in combination: remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, interferon or interferon plus lopinavir. About 4,100 received no drug treatment.

In the end, no drug or combination reduced mortality, the chances that mechanical ventilation would be needed, or time spent in the hospital, compared with the patients who were not given drug treatment.

Dr. Maricar Malinis, an infectious disease physician at Yale University, said the new remdesivir findings were not terribly surprising, but were “still impactful” in their support of previous findings, especially given the dizzying size of the Solidarity trial.

Disinfecting a house in Jakarta, Indonesia, last week.Credit…Adek Berry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Indonesia, where coronavirus cases have been rising steadily for months, has overtaken the Philippines and now leads Southeast Asia in the number of reported cases and deaths from the coronavirus.

Together, Indonesia and the Philippines account for nearly 90 percent of the confirmed cases in the region, and both countries expect to see their economies contract this year.

As of Friday, Indonesia has reported 353,461 cases and the Philippines 351,750. More significantly, Indonesia’s death toll of 12,347 is nearly double that of the Philippines and is the highest in East Asia.

“Indonesia’s death rate has always been high, and it shows that we have failed in the early detection of cases,” said Dicky Budiman, an Indonesian epidemiologist at Australia’s Griffith University. “Indonesia has to change its strategy by increasing testing massively and aggressively.”

Because of the lack of testing, he said, many patients come to the hospital only when they are too sick to be helped. The actual number of cases is likely to be two to 10 times higher than the official figure, he said.

The virus in the Philippines remains out of control, he added, but the government there has had more success in containing it by increasing its testing.

As a whole, Southeast Asia’s 11 countries have done relatively well in containing the virus. With a population of 655 million, the region reports about 820,000 cases. That is fewer than either California or Texas, which have much smaller populations, although both states have significantly higher testing rates.

Vietnam and Thailand have led the way, and neither country has reported a case of local transmission in weeks. Between them, they report fewer than 4,800 cases and only 94 deaths since the pandemic began.

But other countries, such as Myanmar and Malaysia, have seen a large spike in cases over the past 10 days and have imposed partial lockdowns in some areas. Both countries had limited the virus’s spread earlier this year but are now wrestling with the surge in cases even as they face possible leadership changes.

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2018 U.S.A. Olympic Roster

Alpine Skiing

Stacey Cook (Mammoth Lakes, California)

Breezy Johnson (Victor, Idaho)

Megan McJames (Park City, Utah)

Alice McKennis (New Castle, Colorado)

Laurenne Ross (Bend, Oregon)

Mikaela Shiffrin (East Burke, Vermont)

Resi Stiegler (Jackson, Wyoming)

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colorado)

Jacqueline Wiles (White Pass, Washington)

Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, California)

Tommy Biesemeyer (Plattsburgh, New York)

David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, Colorado)

Ryan Cochrane-Siegle (Stowe, Vermont)

Mark Engel (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Tommy Ford (Bend, Oregon)

Jared Goldberg (Sugar House, Utah)

Tim Jitloff (Park City, Utah)

Nolan Kasper (East Burke, Vermont)

Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah)

Wiley Maple (Aspen, Colorado)

Steven Nyman (Park City, Utah)

Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, New York)

Biathlon

Emily Dreissigacker (Morrisville, Vermont)

Susan Dunklee (Barton, Vermont)

Clare Egan (Cape Elizabeth, Maine)

Madeleine Phaneuf (Fairfax, Virginia)

Joanne Reid (Boulder, Colorado)

Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, New York)

Tim Burke (Lake Placid, New York)

Russell Currier (Stockholm, Maine)

Sean Doherty (Conway, New Hampshire)

Leif Nordgren (Marine, Minnesota)

Cross County Skiing

Sadie Bjornsen (Anchorage, Alaska)

Rosie Brennan (Anchorage, Alaska)

Sophie Caldwell (Stratton, Vermont)

Jessie Diggins (Stratton, Vermont)

Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Alaska)

Ida Sargent (Craftsbury, Vermont)

Liz Stephen (East Burke, Vermont)

Caitlin Patterson (Craftsbury, Vermont)

Rosie Frankowski (Anchorage, Alaska)

Annie Hart (Stratton, Vermont)

Kaitlyn Miller (Bowdoin, Maine)

Erik Bjornsen (Anchorage, Alaska)

Simi Hamilton (Middlebury, Vermont)

Andy Newell (Bennington, Vermont)

Patrick Caldwell (Lyme, New Hampshire)

Logan Hanneman (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Scott Patterson (Anchorage, Alaska)

Reese Hanneman (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Tyler Kornfield (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Noah Hoffman (Aspen, Colorado)

Freestyle Skiing

Kiley McKinnon (Madison, Connecticut)

Maddy Olsen (Park City, Utah)

Ashley Caldwell (Ashburn, Virginia)

Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe, California)

Brita Sigourney (Park City, Utah)

Devin Logan (Mt. Snow, Vermont)

Annalisa Drew (Andover, Massachusetts)

Jaelin Kauf (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Morgan Schild (Pittsford, New York)

Tess Johnson (Vail, Colorado)

Keaton McCargo (Telluride, Colorado)

Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, Montana)

Caroline Claire (Manchester, Vermont)

Darian Stevens (Park City, Utah)

Eric Loughran (Park City, Utah)

Jon Lillis (Park City, Utah)

David Bohonnon (Madison, Connecticut)

David Wise (Reno, Nevada)

Torin Yater-Wallace (Basalt, Colorado)

Alex Ferreira (Aspen, Colorado)

Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, Colorado)

Casey Andringa (Park City, Utah)

Troy Murphy (Park City, Utah)

Emerson Smith (Dover, Vermont)

Bradley Wilson (Butte, Montana)

Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, Colorado)

Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Indiana)

McRae Williams (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Alex Hall (Park City, Utah)

Ski Jumping

Michael Glasder (Lake Forest, Illinois)

Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, Utah)

Nita Englund (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Abby Ringquist (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Kevin Bickner (Chicago, Illinois)

Will Rhoads (Concord, New Hampshire)

Casey Larson (Barrington, Illinois)

Bobsleigh

Codie Bascue (Whitehall, New York)

Evan Weinstock (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Steven Langton (Malden, Massachusetts)

Sam McGuffie (Cypress, Texas)

Nick Cunningham (Latham, New York)

Hakeem Abdul-Saboor (Powhatan, Virginia)

Chris Kinney (Stockbridge, Georgia)

Sam Michener (Gresham, Oregon)

Justin Olsen (San Antonio, Texas)

Carlo Valdes (Newport Beach, California)

Sgt. Chris Fogt (Orem, Utah)

Nathan Weber (Denver, Colorado)

Elana Taylor (Douglasville, Georgia)

Lauren Gibbs (Denver, Colorado)

Jamie Greubel-Poser (Princeton, New Jersey)

Aja Evans (Homewood, Illinois)

Curling

John Shuster (Duluth, Minnesota)

Tyler George (Duluth, Minnesota)

Matt Hamilton (Duluth, Minnesota)

John Landsteiner (Duluth, Minnesota)

Joe Polo (Cass Lake, Minnesota)

Nina Roth (Madison, Wisconsin)

Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Aileen Geving (Duluth, Minnesota)

Becca Hamilton (Madison, Wisconsin)

Cory Christiansen (Duluth, Minnesota)

Figure Skating

Alexa Knierim (DuPage, Illinois)

Madison Chock (Novi, Michigan)

Madison Hubbell (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Maia Shibutani (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Speed Skating

Shani Davis (Chicago, Illinois)

Jonathan Garcia (Katy, Texas)

Kimani Griffin (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

Brian Hansen (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Emery Lehman (Oak Park, Illinois)

Joey Mantia (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Mitch Whitmore (Waukesha, Wisconsin)

Heather Bergsma (High Point, North Carolina)

Brittany Bowe (Ocala, Florida)

Erin Jackson (Ocala, Florida)

Mia Manganello (Crestview, Florida)

Carlijn Schoutens (Trenton, New Jersey)

Jerica Tandiman (Kearns, Utah)

John-Henry Krueger (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Thomas Hong (Laurel, Maryland)

Aaron Tran (Federal Way, Washington)

J.R. Celski (Federal Way, Washington)

Ryan Pivirotto (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Maame Biney (Reston, Virginia)

Lana Gehring (Chicago, Illinois)

Jessica Smith (Melvindale, Michigan)

Hockey

Tony Granato (Madison, Wisconsin)

Keith Allain (New Haven, Connecticut)

Chris Chelios (Chicago, Illinois)

Ron Rolston (Fenton, Michigan)

Scott Young (Southborough, Massachusetts)

Chad Billins (Marysville, Michigan)

Noah Welch (Needham, Massachusetts)

John McCarthy (Boston, Massachusetts)

Brian O’Neill (Yardley, Pennsylvania)

Garrett Roe (Vienna, Virginia)

Brian Gionta (Rochester, New York)

Ryan Gunderson (Bensalem, Pennsylvania)

Broc Little (Phoenix, Arizona)

Bobby Butler (Marlborough, Massachusetts)

Ryan Donato (Scituate, Massachusetts)

Chris Bourque (Topsfield, Massachusetts)

Jordan Greenway (Canton, New York)

Jim Slater (Lapeer, Michigan)

Will Borgen (Moorhead, Minnesota)

James Wisniewski (Canton, Michigan)

Bobby Sanguinetti (Lumberton, New Jersey)

Troy Terry (Denver, Colorado)

Jonathon Blum (Rancho Santa Margarita, California)

Mark Arcobello (Milford, Connecticut)

Ryan Zapolski (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Brandon Maxwell (Winter Park, Florida)

David Leggio (Williamsville, New York)

Chad Kolarik (Abington, Pennsylvania)

Ryan Stoa (Bloomington, Minnesota)

Matt Gilroy (Manhasset, New York)

Cayla Barnes (Eastvale, California)

Megan Keller (Farmington, Michigan)

Kali Flanagan (Winchester, Massachusetts)

Monique Lamoureux-Morando (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

Emily Pfalzer (Buffalo, New York)

Meghan Duggan (Danvers, Massachusetts)

Haley Skarupa (Rockville, Maryland)

Kelly Pannek (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Brianna Decker (Brookfield, Wisconsin)

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

Gisele Marvin (Bemidji, Minnesota)

Hannah Brandt (Maplewood, Minnesota)

Hilary Knight (Lake Forest, Illinois)

Kacey Bellamy (Westfield, Massachusetts)

Dani Cameranesi (Plymouth, Minnesota)

Kendall Coyne (Oak Lawn, Illinois)

Amanda Kessel (Madison, Wisconsin)

Nicole Hensley (Littleton, Colorado)

Alex Rigsby (Hartland, Wisconsin)

Maddie Rooney (Duluth, Minnesota)

Amanda Pelkey (Randolph, Vermont)

Sidney Morin (Minnetonka, Minnesota)

Luge

Chris Mazdzer (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)

Taylor Morris (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Tucker West (Ridgefield, Connecticut)

Justin Krewson (Eastport, New York)

Andrew Sherk (Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania)

Matt Mortensen (Huntington Station, New York)

Jayson Terdiman (East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)

Summer Britcher (Glen Rock, Pennsylvania)

Erin Hamlin (Remsen, New York)

Emily Sweeney (Portland, Maine)

Bryan Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Jasper Good (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Ben Loomis (Park City, Utah)

Ben Berend (Park City, Utah)

Skeleton

Matthew Antoine (Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin)

John Daly (Smithtown, New York)

Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colorado)

Kendall Wesenberg (Modesto, California)

Snowboarding

Chris Corning (Silverthorne, Colorado)

Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colorado)

Kyle Mack (Detroit, Michigan)

Ryan Stassel (Anchorage, Alaska)

Ben Ferguson (Bend, Oregon)

Chase Josey (Hailey, Idaho)

Jake Pates (Eagle, Colorado)

Shaun White (Silverton, Colorado)

Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, California)

Jessika Jenson (Idaho Falls, Idaho)

Hailey Langland (San Clemente, California)

Julia Marino (Westport, Connecticut)

Kelly Clark (Mammoth Lakes, California)

Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Chloe Kim (La Palma, California)

Maddie Mastro (Mammoth Lakes, California)

A.J. Muss (Rumson, New Jersey)

Mike Trapp (Hyannis, Massachusetts)

Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, Michigan)

Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, Massachusetts)

Mick Dierdorff (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Hagen Kearney (Bradford, Pennsylvania)

Faye Gulini (Vail, Colorado)

Lindsey Jacobellis (Danbury, Connecticut)

Rosie Mancari (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)

Meghan Tierney (Edwards, Colorado)

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Life & Style, May 18

Cover: Kristin Cavallari wife from hell, Jay Cutler fights to protect $50 million fortune 

Page 1: Photo Flash -- Ana de Armas wearing a $200,000 ruby ring on her middle finger although it may be an engagement ring from Ben Affleck 

Page 2: Contents 

Page 4: The Top 10 Floral Looks -- Lupita Nyong’o, Natalie Portman, Kelsea Ballerini, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Lopez 

Page 5: Laura Dern, Mandy Moore, Olivia Wilde, Kaitlyn Dever, Julia Garner 

Page 6: Twinning! Rosie Huntington-Whiteley vs. Diane Kruger, Jennifer Lahmer vs. Cheryl Burke 

Page 8: Michael Buble is facing backlash for apparently elbowing wife Luisana Lopilato in an Instagram Live video -- while some fans worried about the state of the duo’s nine-year marriage others went as far as urging the Argentine actress to leave the feather of her three children 

Page 9: An official Whitney Houston biopic is in the works with the full support of her estate but who will portray Whitney -- Zendaya is the front-runner but there are a lot of young actresses like Amandla Stenberg and Yara Shahidi and Keke Palmer vying for the role, Throwback -- Celine Dion, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Lindsey Vonn, Drake, Blake Shelton, Behati Prinsloo, Sofia Richie 

Page 10: Khloe Kardashian has been unable to keep up with her filler routine and now she is worried that her current injections will wear off while she’s self-isolating with baby daddy Tristan Thompson because she’s very insecure about her looks and she is terrified Tristan will go running if he sees the real Khloe, Rihanna has been putting her $6.8 million bachelorette pad to good use since splitting from boyfriend Hassan Jameel throwing parties almost every night and the neighbors can hear loud music and see flashing lights and cars coming and going in the early hours of the morning but since it’s Rihanna no one dares report her 

Page 12: Felicity Huffman is ready to start rebuilding her life after serving time in prison for her role in the college admissions cheating scandal 

Page 13: The cast and crew of Filthy Rich wonder if Kim Cattrall has always been so difficult to work with -- she’s clashed with staffers and stopped production several times and even made her co-stars cry, Zoe Kravitz is doing everything she can to reunite the Monterey Five for season 3 of Big Little Lies even though Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are super busy, VIP Style -- Jason Oppenheim (pictured), Whitney Port, Billie Eilish, Karlie Kloss, Alysia Reiner and Amber Valletta, Drew Taggart, Tyler Cameron and Venus Williams 

Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez 

Page 15: Kourtney Kardashian and daughter Penelope, Mindy Kaling

Page 16: Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer, Joe Kerry and his dog, January Jones 

Page 17: Adam Sandler, Jesse Metcalfe and Cara Santana 

Page 20: Ryan Phillippe

Page 22: Rosamund Pike lent her voice to a special royal-themed episode of Thomas & Friends, Alan Cumming and his rescue dog Lala, Jared Leto, Bella Hadid helped plant lavender on her mom’s Pennsylvania farm 

Page 24: Stars Behaving Badly -- Andy Cohen not wearing pants for RHOA reunion day, Amber Heard drove down the road with her foot up on the dashboard of her classic Ford Mustang 

Page 26: Say What?! Amy Schumer giving workout advice to pal Selena Gomez, Cindy Crawford on growing to love her signature facial feature, Halle Berry recalling how Pierce Brosnan saved her life while shooting Die Another Day, January Jones on blazing her own fashion trail 

Page 28: John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh’s dream wedding 

Page 29: Although Emma Watson has described herself as happily single she has actually been dating California-based businessman Leo Robinton for the last six months

Page 30: Cover Story -- What Really Went Wrong Between Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler -- a decade after falling in love Kristin and Jay end their marriage with a bitter divorce battle 

Page 34: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle couples therapy confessions -- as their second wedding anniversary fast approaches Harry and Meghan attempt to solve growing problems 

Page 36: Kanye West is moving to Wyoming and taking the kids -- after a brief trip to his ranch with their four children Kanye realizes he might be better off without Kim Kardashian by his side 

Page 38: Hollywood Baby Boom -- Lea Michele designs her dream nursery, is a proposal next for Gigi Hadid 

Page 39: Katherine Schwarzenegger gets doted on by Chris Pratt 

Page 42: Who Lives Here? Kesha 

Page 44: Entertainment 

Page 45: Star Review -- JoJo, As Seen On-Screen -- Kelly Ripa wore Morgan Lane’s Katelyn Fiona Set in Twilight for $356 pajamas on Live With Kelly and Ryan 

Page 48: Beauty Beat -- DIY Hair Color -- Mandy Moore 

Page 49: Hilary Duff, Lea Michele, Emma Roberts 

Page 52: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Down-to-Earth Miranda Lambert takes over in the kitchen, Down-to-Earth Halle Berry curls up with a good book 

Page 53: Diva Rachel McAdams enlists a baggage handler, diva Molly Sims puts her kids on pampering duty 

Page 54: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Eva Longoria and son Santiago, Shakira, Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz and Bill Kaulitz, Neil Patrick Harris 

Page 55: Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus, Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan and Drew Scott and Melissa McCarthy and cousin Jenna, Dwayne Johnson and daughter Jasmine 

Page 56: Horoscope -- Taurus Megan Fox, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Cancer Khloe Kardashian and Taurus Channing Tatum 

Page 58: Made Ya Look -- Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott and son Beau and their pet pig 

Page 60: What I’m Into -- Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino 

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Joe Burrow only solves one of the Bengals’ many problems

Photo by Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Having a potential franchise quarterback is nice, but Cincinnati has more work to do.

The Bengals suffered through an awful 2019 that saw longtime starter Andy Dalton get benched (on his birthday!) amidst a two-win season. Cincinnati was bad on both sides of the ball, giving up 34+ points four times and scoring 34+ points only once. Dalton can be released this offseason without any lasting damage to the Bengals’ salary cap, and his imminent departure should set the stage for a massive rebuild in southwest Ohio.

That rebuild will fully kick into gear at this year’s draft, which should bring reigning Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow to Cincinnati. He won’t be enough to fix this team all by himself.

Cincinnati Bengals (2-14), missed playoffs

The Bengals were so very, very bad in 2019, but their ineptitude came with a reward: the top overall pick in the upcoming draft.

Before free agency:

Offensive tackle: Cincinnati QBs were sacked on more than seven percent of their dropbacks last fall, the 10th-worth rate in the league. Tackle Cordy Glenn can be released with zero cap repercussions this spring. Bobby Hart, he of the three-year, $16 million contract last offseason, could also give way to an upgrade. With a new quarterback incoming, pass protection should be the Bengals’ top priority on the veteran market.

Linebacker: Cincinnati gave up 4.7 yards per carry and ranked 28th in Football Outsiders’ defensive run efficiency metric. Bringing in a productive tackler who can shed blocks and shoot gaps would add value to a linebacker group that only had seven non-sack tackles for loss in 2019.

Quarterback: This isn’t so much a need in free agency as it is in the draft, but Cincinnati could make use of a veteran backup to help guide presumptive top pick Joe Burrow through his rookie year.

What Cincy Jungle wants most this offseason: The Bengals need to do everything in their power to ensure Burrow is set up for success as soon as he arrives in Cincinnati. The offensive line needs several upgrades, mainly at right tackle. They also need to get A.J. Green re-signed (done) and find a tight end that Burrow can rely on (much less done). Defensively, the Bengals must add an impact linebacker, preferably one in free agency who’s ready to make an instant impact and fill a gaping hole that’s been there for several years now. — Jason Marcum

After free agency:

The Bengals were active on the open market. Signees D.J. Reader, Trae Waynes, and Vonn Bell could help accelerate their return to the postseason. While Reader should shine on the defensive line, Waynes, Bell, and Mackensie Alexander will try to overhaul the secondary.

Offensive line: The team’s only free agent signing along the offensive line was guard Xavier Su’a-Filo. That’s a nice start, but Cincinnati will have to take advantage of a deep well of young tackles at this year’s draft.

Linebacker: Cincinnati got better up front and in the secondary this spring, but there are still gaping holes to fill in between those two spots.

Quarterback: It’ll be Burrow, but the Bengals still need to figure out if Andy Dalton will be shipped out of town or remain on the roster as a $17 million backup.

After the draft:

The Bengals never wavered on Burrow, and they even got him a big target with their next selection, taking Clemson receiver Tee Higgins in the second round. However, their only offensive line pickup was Kansas OT Hakeem Adeniji in the sixth round.

Cincinnati waited until the third round to address the linebacker spot with Wyoming’s Logan Wilson, who has the potential to start right away. They also added two more linebackers, Appalachian State’s Akeem Davis-Gaither (fourth round) and Purdue’s Markus Bailey (seventh), who could provide good value.

Dan Kadar’s draft grade: A-

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Chiefs gamble on Willie Gay Jr., Miss St. linebacker, with 63rd pick in NFL draft

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are gambling again on a player with off-field issues.

With the 63rd pick, the Chiefs selected Mississippi State linebacker Willie Gay Jr. in the second round of the NFL draft Friday night to plug one of their biggest holes on defense.

The Chiefs have been trying to upgrade at linebacker the past couple years, and they have a starting spot available after losing Reggie Ragland to free agency.

The Chiefs ultimately passed on Wisconsin’s Zack Baun and Wyoming’s Logan Wilson to make Gay their choice.

Gay is considered one of the best athletes among linebackers in the draft, and his ability to play sideline-to-sideline while also dropping into coverage is perfect for coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s system.

The pick comes with a certain amount of risk, though.

Gay was suspended eight games by the NCAA as part of an academic fraud investigation that swept up 10 players total and led to severe sanctions for the program.

He also was ejected from the Egg Bowl against Ole Miss in 2018 after two he was given two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and he was the teammate that allegedly hurt Mississippi State quarterback Garrett Shrader in a practice fight leading up to last season’s Music City Bowl.

The Chiefs have shown plenty of confidence in their strong locker room culture and the leadership of coach Andy Reid when it comes to selecting players with questionable backgrounds.

The results have been mixed.

Wide receiver Tyreek Hill and tight end Travis Kelce turned into stars, landing lucrative long-term contracts; running back Kareem Hunt and cornerback Marcus Peters instead were considerable headaches during their time in Kansas City.

“We did our homework on everything,” Reid said. “We felt very comfortable taking him at that spot, and it also helps to have the people in the locker room we have with Tyrann (Mathieu) and Frank (Clark). They’ll take him under their wing. That whole linebacking room is a tight group. They’ll take him in and make sure he’s in the right hands.”

Pending any upcoming trades on Friday and Saturday, the Chiefs have three more picks: No. 96 in Round 3, No. 138 in Round 4, and No. 177 in Round 5.

RELATED: ‘He picked you’: Chiefs asked Patrick Mahomes who we wanted, he said Clyde Edwards-Helaire

The Chiefs used their first-round No. 32 pick to select Louisiana State running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire on Thursday night.

The 5-foot-7 junior ran just 215 times for 1,414 yards and 16 touchdowns while catching an astounding 55 passes for 453 yards and another score for the national champions last season.

RELATED: Chiefs select LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire with 32nd pick in NFL draft

Edwards-Helaire showed up when it mattered most, too, running 16 times for 110 yards in LSU’s victory over Clemson in the title game.

He was the only running back selected in the first round and the first running back selected in the first round by the Chiefs since Larry Johnson in 2003.

The Chiefs came into the draft in the most enviable of positions: They were able to retain most of their own free agents, ensuring 20 of 22 starters from their title team would be back.

The few holes the Chiefs did have were plugged by value signings in free agency.

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