US House of Representatives - Committee Memberships by Party - Take 2

 In a previous post, I looked at what percentage of House Committee seats were taken by the majority party, and found that for the 98th to 116th Congresses, the larger the majority, the larger the share of committee seats, in a roughly linear relationship.  That led to a prediction of the Democrats, in the current (117th) Congress, getting 54.1% of the committee seats.

Well, the Democrats have outdone themselves, and I wish I knew just how they pulled it off.  I have a sneaking suspicion they exploited the innumeracy of the Republicans.

A reply to the Ode to Joy

 

 The last few days, I've been listening to Beethoven again, and finally, paid some attention to the actual words of the Ode to Joy. Per here, the last five lines:

Brüder, über'm Sternenzelt Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen. Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen? Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt? Such' ihn über'm Sternenzelt! Über Sternen muß er wohnen.

translate to:

Brothers, above the starry canopy There must dwell a loving father. Do you fall in worship, you millions? World, do you know your creator? Seek Him in the heavens; Above the stars must he dwell.

The lyrics also refer to "Joy, daughter of Elysium". The Hindu answer to that is - Ananda, as in "Sat-chit-ananda", is a fundamental attribute the experience of Reality; and while not in the same musical league, wiser and just-as-good poetry tells where to seek Him/Her/It:

 

Caltech is de-Millikaned

 

Caltech announcement:

Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum, acting on unanimous recommendations from the [Committee on Naming and Recognition (CNR)](https://inclusive.caltech.edu/about/commitments-progress/committee)and the authorization of the Caltech Board of Trustees, today announced the removal of the name of Caltech's founding president and first Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings, assets, and honors. Rosenbaum and the Board also approved the removal of the names of Harry Chandler, Ezra S. Gosney, William B. Munro, Henry M. Robinson, and Albert B. Ruddock from campus assets and honors.

and

In taking this step, the Institute fully heeds the committee's recommendation to reckon and reconcile with the past, "publicly and unambiguously repudiat[ing] any shade of affiliation with eugenics." The decision is a direct response to and an acknowledgement of the named individuals' participation in the eugenics movement through affiliation with the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF), a California-based organization founded in 1928 by Ezra Gosney, which supported eugenic sterilization research and distributed propaganda in support of eugenic sterilization. Caltech's leadership concurred with the CNR that to continue to memorialize the named individuals, without a complete accounting of who they were, is inconsistent with Caltech's values. Millikan, Gosney, Chandler, Munro, Robinson, and Ruddock were successful professionals, civic leaders, and philanthropists and also prominent members of society who lent their stature and names to the furtherance of racist and discriminatory practices either as HBF trustees or members.

and  

In making its recommendations regarding Millikan, the committee also considered his stances on gender, race, and ethnicity, finding them sexist, racist, xenophobic, and inexcusable by any standard.

and 

"It is fraught to judge individuals outside of their time, but it is clear from the documentation presented that Millikan lent his name and his prestige to a morally reprehensible eugenics movement that already had been discredited scientifically during his time," Rosenbaum said.

(emphasis added)

While the committee had also been charged with considering campus memorializations of Thomas J. Watson Sr. for his alleged ties to Nazi Germany through his leadership of IBM, it ultimately withheld judgment on this renaming. An archival investigation into these matters "undermines the essential accusations in Edwin Black's  *IBM and the Holocaust* , thereby removing any firm basis to recommend renaming the Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics," Rosenbaum said.

The full report from the Committee on Naming and Recognition:

https://inclusive.caltech.edu/about/commitments-progress/committee

The Inaugural Poem - Amanda Gorman

 “ Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam Vice President, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world:

When day comes we ask ourselves, 

Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry, 

a sea we must wade?

We’ve braved the belly of the beast, 

We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace. 

And the norms and notions 

of what just is 

Isn’t always justice. 

And yet the dawn is ours 

before we knew it

Somehow we do it. 

Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed 

a nation that isn’t broken, 

but simply unfinished.

We, the successors of a country and a time 

Where a skinny Black girl

descended from slaves and raised by a single mother 

can dream of becoming president 

only to find herself reciting for one.

And yes, we are far from polished, 

far from pristine, 

but that doesn’t mean we are 

striving to form a union that is perfect. 

We are striving to forge our union with purpose. 

To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and 

conditions of man.


And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us

but what stands before us. 

We close the divide, because we know to put our future first, 

we must first put our differences aside. 

We lay down our arms 

so we can reach out our arms 

to one another. 

We seek harm to none and harmony for all.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:

That even as we grieved, we grew

That even as we hurt, we hoped

That even as we tired, we tried.

That we'll forever be tied together, victorious

Not because we will never again know defeat

but because we will never again sow division.

Scripture tells us to envision that 

everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree 

And no one shall make them afraid.

If we’re to live up to our own time, 

then victory won’t lie in the blade 

But in all the bridges we’ve made.

That is the promise to glade,
the hill we climb 

if only we dare

it's because being American is more than a pride we inherit –

it’s the past we step into 

and how we repair it.

We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation 

rather than share it,

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. 

And this effort very nearly succeeded. 

But while democracy can be periodically delayed, 

It can never be permanently defeated.

In this truth, 

In this faith we trust 

For while we have our eyes on the future, 

history has its eyes on us. 

This is the era of just redemption 

We feared at its inception.
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs 

of such a terrifying hour, 

but within it we found the power 

to author a new chapter, 

to offer hope and laughter to ourselves. 

So while once we asked 

‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’ 

now we assert: 

‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’

"We will not march back to what was, 

but move to what shall be: 

a country that is bruised but whole, 

benevolent but bold, 

fierce and free. 

We will not be turned around 

or interrupted by intimidation 

because we know our inaction and inertia 

will be the inheritance of the next generation.

Our blunders become their burdens 

but one thing is certain:

 If we merge mercy with might, 

and might with right, 

then love becomes our legacy

and change, our children’s birthright.

So let us leave behind a country 

better than the one we were left with. 

Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, 

we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one. 

We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west, 

we will rise from the windswept north-east 

where our forefathers first realized revolution. 

We will rise from the lake-rinsed cities of the midwestern states. 

We will rise from the sun-baked South. 

We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover 

and every known nook of our nation 

and every corner called our country,

 our people diverse and beautiful will emerge 

battered and beautiful.

When day comes, we step out of the shade, 

aflame and unafraid. 

The new dawn blooms as we free it. 

For there is always light 

if only we’re brave enough to see it, 

if only we’re brave enough to be it.”

-Amanda Gorman

 

US House of Representatives - Committee Memberships by Party

The paper from the Congressional Research Service: House Committee Party Ratios: 98^th-116^th Congresses tells us that how the majority and minority parties in Congress divvy up committee seats is rather opaque.

The Standing Rules of the House of Representatives are silent regarding committee sizes and party ratios; the apportionment of committee seats is a decision of the majority leadership that may include discussions between majority and minority party leaderships.  

Only in the House Committee on Ethics are the two parties guaranteed by House Rules to have an equal share of seats. 

Historically, the number of majority seats on some committees has exceeded, in varying degrees, the strength of the majority party in the House chamber, regardless of which party has been in power.  This generally has ensured that the majority party has a sufficient number of members distributed across committees to control voting in many committees.

Based on Table 1 in the paper, the following chart can be drawn. The x-axis is the fraction of House seats the majority holds; the y-axis is the fraction of committee seats the majority holds. Note that the origin is (50,52) (so that you aren't inadvertantly misled by statistics, it is good practice to point that out). In the 117^th Congress, as of January 15^th the Democrats have 221 seats, the Republicans 211. This translates to a 51.2% majority and that translates to a predicted 54.1% of the committee seats.

White Snakeroot

White snakeroot (Ageratina altissimo, formerly Eupatorium rugosum) is a native plant that good for bees.  It is not so good for humans, we are told Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died of milk sickness, which is caused by drinking the milk of cows that have eaten white snakeroot.

She was thirty-four and he was nine. History tells us that milk sickness was not eliminated until the 1920s, because what do natives and women know?

Eventually, a frontier doctor in Illinois named Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby learned of the cause of the sickness from a Shawnee medicine woman. Bixby helped control the disease locally by instructing settlers to remove white snakeroot from their fields, but she too was largely ignored by the medical community, and research confirming the connection between snakeroot and milk was only published much later. Today, for better or worse, industrial agriculture has all but eradicated milk sickness.

My puzzle is that various sources have different takes on how much sunlight white snakeroot needs. The plant is said to be easy to grow from seeds, so I'll try for myself.

https://wildseedproject.net/2016/03/in-the-shade-gardening-with-native-plants-from-the-woodland-understory/ Recommends White Snake Root Ageratina altissimo for deep shade.

Donald J. Leopold, Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening & Conservation, Tenth Printing, 2020, Timber Press, Inc.; ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-673-6 (Eupatorium rugosum) says - sun to partial shade. 

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=agal5 says Ageratina altissima used to be placed in the genus Eupatorium and says - prefers full sun. 

https://www.mortonarb.org/trees-plants/tree-plant-descriptions/white-snakeroot says "best in part shade to full shade". 

https://www.toadshade.com/Ageratina-altissima.html says "its native habit is often woodland or woods-edge."

Book memo: Uprooted

Wiki tells us that Naomi Novik's Uprooted won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award in the category Adult Literature. It was also nominated for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. 

This and the NYT review below I found after reading the book (ebook from the public library), a good read for a quiet Saturday.

Naomi Novik skillfully takes the fairy-tale-turned-bildungsroman structure of her premise — the peasant girl selected to serve the terrifying magician, her undiscovered magical talent, an evil wood encroaching on the doorstep — and builds enough flesh on those bones to make a very different animal. Plain but hyper-talented Agnieszka could risk cliché, but even without Novik’s tweaks to the formula, she makes for a gripping narrator, pragmatically personable but tapped into the lyric. The vivid characters around her also echo their fairy-tale forebears, but are grounded in real-world ambivalence that makes this book feel quietly mature, its world lived-in. Even the magic has the low-key, organic feel that you would expect from a farming valley. When the sinister wood infects some cattle, for instance, their owner doesn’t immediately slaughter them — his family has no other animals, and he’s so desperate he delays what’s necessary. Even in the midst of chaos, the villagers don’t vilify him for it. This is a book in which the thinnest threads of understanding can hold the whole enterprise aloft. None of these asides feel burdensome; the plot thickens as quickly as the thorn bushes of the wood cast shadows, and Agnieszka’s brisk narration and shrewd, shorthand observations of character make “Uprooted” a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.

Cannon to the left of them

 The extreme left has not indulged in an insurrection against the Republic.  So they cannot be compared to the MAGAts.  But they have habits of thought that should be of concern. 

Exhibit: Many tens of millions of Republicans simply don't exist in this depiction of the American political landscape.

Exhibit: what the Democrats themselves see about the extreme left:

Another person who has had too much

 C. wrote about putting this notice up on his office door,  thinking about the hard question “How many of us have become too worried about relationships that we sacrifice truth and ethics?”

TO MY CUSTOMERS:

“After living as a proud and patriotic American for 70 years, I find myself living in a time of danger to our nation far beyond any I have experienced before. Political disagreements have always been a part of our history; but now the differences are so great that they threaten to approach the destructive level that resulted in the Civil War. The tone of political discourse has fallen to shameful levels of offensiveness and ignorance; the workings of our political system have degraded to the level of a criminal enterprise.

“Any objective examination of the beliefs and actions of the opposing political systems as they exist today, whether you label them Republican/Democrat, conservative/liberal, or libertarian/progressive, must lead to the fact that there no longer exists any equivalence of principles between those sides. That examination must also conclude that there is no present use in trying to bridge the gap with compromise or mutual respect. The distance separating us is not between points on a spectrum, but between entirely different value systems.

“It is also pointless to argue any political issue with reference to the viewpoint of Republicans “on the merits” since the Republican view no longer has defensible merits on any significant issue I can think of. Republicans are supporting candidates and politicians in office who march in service to the worldview of libertarian, authoritarian billionaires who have spent decades and fortunes funding propagandizing media, faux-professional “think tanks,” and lobbyists, all whom have significantly weakened and marginalized science, environmental concerns, civil rights, and social welfare. The effect of those decades of effort is a country at the brink of authoritarian fascism, extreme inequality, and chaos. The election of Donald Trump is the culminating event of the trend, and a political reality so worrying and repellant as to produce physical sickness

“Those who voted for Trump may not personally be racist, greedy, corrupt, or misogynist. However, they voted for him after having ample opportunity to consider that they were knowingly voting for a racist, greedy, lying, mysogynistic, abusive, and bullying traitor to the US, a person completely inimical to all its best values.

“I still strive to serve every customer who comes here as I always have, with every bit of integrity, professionalism, and skill that I can muster. In 45 years of business, I have made it a point of pride to also serve my customers with a sense of their needs and resources, and consider that those customers have real advantages and benefits in doing business here. I prefer to serve only those who generally share my progressive and democratic sensibilities. Trump supporters and Republicans as presently constituted should know that my viewpoint is not at a bridgeable distance from theirs; that we inhabit worlds completely separate in moral and human values. I can no longer imagine any productive exchange with such persons.

“Sincerely,”

A review of Audrey Truschke's Aurangzeb

Linked here is clear-eyed assessment by SadhanaG of the problems with Audrey Truschke's opus on Aurangzeb.

Part I.

Part II.

Part III.

Left as a latter exercise is so, what does it mean to us? What should we do about it.

The Seditious Bunch

The corrupt Attorney General of Texas filed a complaint with the Supreme Court asking it to overthrow the elections in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Numerous Republican officials piled on. The Supreme Court summarily dismissed the complaint. But there has to be a reckoning. It will take time and come piecemeal, but the political careers of these Republicans needs to end - these participants in the "seditious abuse of the judicial process". To this end, the names of these participants is memorialized on this blog page. As Amy Davidson Sorkin writes:

There is no acceptable justification. There needs to be a real reckoning; if prominent Republicans do not now use the Court’s decision to renounce Trump’s campaign to overturn the election, they will do real and lasting harm to the country.

It was never enough for Republicans who supported the suit to tell themselves that they could be as ridiculous as they liked, because the Supreme Court wouldn’t go for the argument, anyway. If they didn’t know how much Trump’s efforts had eroded his supporters’ faith in the integrity of the electoral system, they should have realized it from reading the briefs that Texas and Trump filed, which, perversely enough, cited those doubts as a rationale for why the Supreme Court should intervene. “The nation needs this Court’s clarity,” Texas argued—as if the Court should reward them for creating confusion by throwing out electors. Trump’s brief made that point even more crassly. “The fact that nearly half of the country believes the election was stolen should come as no surprise,” it said, arguing that, by ruling in Texas’s favor, the Court would allow voters to “find solace” in an election result that excluded “illegal votes.” (All indications are that, by “illegal,” Trump means votes that were not cast for him; actual, specific allegations that there was fraud, backed by evidence, are conspicuously absent from the Texas and Trump briefs.) In short, Trump argued that because he threw mud on the election system’s machinery, the Court was obliged to junk it.

Texas made a convoluted argument about how it would be harmed if Kamala Harris, as Vice-President, ever had to break a tie vote in the Senate, which didn’t even track logically. Texas also claimed that it had standing to sue the states because their actions “debased the votes of citizens in Plaintiff State and other States that remained loyal to the Constitution.” The very framing of that argument—the imputation of disloyalty to the Constitution on the part of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—is an act of bad faith. It is also a dangerous provocation.

The Seditious Bunch - gleeful participants in the “seditious abuse of the judicial process” - compiled from the filings at Supreme Court Docket 22O155. Incidentally, the Supreme Court filing from the 126 House Republicans has at least one error, it lists Jeff Van Drew as representing the Second District in South Carolina. That is wrong, he represents the second district in New Jersey. So this list will be checked and corrected over the coming days. 

Update: December 19, 2020 -- several corrections, and added a link, almost all to Ballotpedia for each person.

Name	Position	State	Link
Steve Marshall	Attorney General	Alabama	Link
Bradley Byrne	Member of Congress, AL-01	Alabama	Link
Mike Rogers	Member of Congress, AL-03	Alabama	Link
Robert Aderholt	Member of Congress, AL-04	Alabama	Link
Mo Brooks	Member of Congress, AL-05	Alabama	Link
Gary Palmer	Member of Congress, AL-06	Alabama	Link
Christopher Kurka	State Representative, AK-07	Alaska	Link
Kevin McCabe	State Representative, AK-08	Alaska	Link
George Rauscher	State Representative, AK-09	Alaska	Link
David Eastman	State Representative, AK-10	Alaska	Link
Thomas McKay	State Representative, AK-24	Alaska	Link
Ron Gillham	State Representative, AK-30	Alaska	Link
Lora Reinbold	State Senator, AK-G	Alaska	Link
Andy Biggs	Member of Congress, AZ-05	Arizona	Link
Debbie Lesko	Member of Congress, AZ-08	Arizona	Link
Steve Pierce	State Representative, AZ-01	Arizona	Link
Mark Finchem	State Representative, AZ-11	Arizona	Link
Bret Roberts	State Representative, AZ-11	Arizona	Link
Travis Grantham	State Representative, AZ-12	Arizona	Link
Nancy K Barto	State Representative, AZ-15	Arizona	Link
John Fillmore	State Representative, AZ-16	Arizona	Link
Anthony Kern	State Representative, AZ-20	Arizona	Link
Frank Carroll	State Representative, AZ-22	Arizona	Link
Sonny Borelli	State Senator, AZ-05	Arizona	Link
Sylvia Allen	State Senator, AZ-06	Arizona	Link
David Gowan	State Senator, AZ-14	Arizona	Link
Kelly Townsend	State Senator, AZ-16	Arizona	Link
Leslie Rutledge	Attorney General	Arkansas	Link
Rick Crawford	Member of Congress, AR-01	Arkansas	Link
Bruce Westerman	Member of Congress, AR-04	Arkansas	Link
Doug LaMalfa	Member of Congress, CA-01	California	Link
Tom McClintock	Member of Congress, CA-04	California	Link
Kevin McCarthy	Member of Congress, CA-23	California	Link
Ken Calvert	Member of Congress, CA-42	California	Link
Ken Buck	Member of Congress, CO-04	Colorado	Link
Doug Lamborn	Member of Congress, CO-05	Colorado	Link
Ashley B Moody	Attorney General	Florida	Link
Matt Gaetz	Member of Congress, FL-01	Florida	Link
Neal P Dunn M.D.	Member of Congress, FL-02	Florida	Link
Ted S Yoho	Member of Congress, FL-03	Florida	Link
John Rutherford	Member of Congress, FL-04	Florida	Link
Michael Waltz	Member of Congress, FL-06	Florida	Link
Bill Posey	Member of Congress, FL-08	Florida	Link
Daniel Webster	Member of Congress, FL-11	Florida	Link
Gus M Bilirakis	Member of Congress, FL-12	Florida	Link
Ross Spano	Member of Congress, FL-15	Florida	Link
W Gregory Steube	Member of Congress, FL-17	Florida	Link
Mario Diaz-Balart	Member of Congress, FL-25	Florida	Link
Earl L "Buddy" Carter	Member of Congress, GA-01	Georgia	Link
A Drew Ferguson IV	Member of Congress, GA-03	Georgia	Link
Austin Scott	Member of Congress, GA-08	Georgia	Link
Doug Collins	Member of Congress, GA-09	Georgia	Link
Jody Hice	Member of Congress, GA-10	Georgia	Link
Barry Loudermilk	Member of Congress, GA-11	Georgia	Link
Rick W Allen	Member of Congress, GA-12	Georgia	Link
Colton Moore	State Representative, GA-01	Georgia	Link
Jason Ridley	State Representative, GA-06	Georgia	Link
Trey Rhodes	State Representative, GA-120	Georgia	Link
Ricky Williams	State Representative, GA-145	Georgia	Link
Greg Morris	State Representative, GA-156	Georgia	Link
Bill Werkheiser	State Representative, GA-157	Georgia	Link
Jeff Jones	State Representative, GA-167	Georgia	Link
Steven Meeks	State Representative, GA-178	Georgia	Link
Don Hogan	State Representative, GA-179	Georgia	Link
Wes Cantrell	State Representative, GA-22	Georgia	Link
Sheri Gilligan	State Representative, GA-24	Georgia	Link
David Clark	State Representative, GA-98	Georgia	Link
Sheila McNeill	State Senator-Elect, GA-03	Georgia	Link
William Ligon	State Senator, GA-03	Georgia	Link
Tyler Harper	State Senator, GA-07	Georgia	Link
Bruce Thompson	State Senator, GA-14	Georgia	Link
Marty Harbin	State Senator, GA-16	Georgia	Link
Blake Tillery	State Senator, GA-19	Georgia	Link
Brandon Beach	State Senator, GA-21	Georgia	Link
Lee Anderson	State Senator, GA-24	Georgia	Link
Burt Jones	State Senator, GA-25	Georgia	Link
Greg Dolezal	State Senator, GA-27	Georgia	Link
Matt Brass	State Senator, GA-28	Georgia	Link
Randy Robertson	State Senator, GA-29	Georgia	Link
Lindsey Tippins	State Senator, GA-37	Georgia	Link
Renee Unterman	State Senator, GA-45	Georgia	Link
Steve Gooch	State Senator, GA-51	Georgia	Link
Jeff Mullis	State Senator, GA-53	Georgia	Link
Janice McGeachin	Lieutenant Governor	Idaho	Link
Russ Fulcher	Member of Congress, ID-01	Idaho	Link
Michael K Simpson	Member of Congress, ID-02	Idaho	Link
Heather Scott	State Representative, ID-01A	Idaho	Link
Sage Dixon	State Representative, ID-01B	Idaho	Link
Tony Wisniewski	State Representative, ID-03B	Idaho	Link
Aaron von Ehlinger	State Representative, ID-06A	Idaho	Link
Priscilla Sue Giddings	State Representative, ID-07A	Idaho	Link
Charlie Shepherd	State Representative, ID-07B	Idaho	Link
Terry F Gestrin	State Representative, ID-08A	Idaho	Link
Dorothy Moon	State Representative, ID-08B	Idaho	Link
Ryan Kerby	State Representative, ID-09A	Idaho	Link
Bruce D Skaug	State Representative, ID-12A	Idaho	Link
Ben Adams	State Representative, ID-13B	Idaho	Link
John Vander Woude	State Representative, ID-22A	Idaho	Link
Ronald M Nate Ph.D.	State Representative, ID-34B	Idaho	Link
Karey Hanks	State Representative, ID-35A	Idaho	Link
Steve Vick	State Senator, ID-02	Idaho	Link
Mary Souza	State Senator, ID-04	Idaho	Link
Steve Thayn	State Senator, ID-08	Idaho	Link
Christy Zito	State Senator, ID-23	Idaho	Link
Mike Bost	Member of Congress, IL-12	Illinois	Link
Darin LaHood	Member of Congress, IL-18	Illinois	Link
Curtis T. Hill Jr.	Attorney General	Indiana	Link
Jackie Walorski	Member of Congress, IN-02	Indiana	Link
Jim Banks	Member of Congress, IN-03	Indiana	Link
James R Baird	Member of Congress, IN-04	Indiana	Link
Greg Pence	Member of Congress, IN-06	Indiana	Link
Trey Hollingsworth	Member of Congress, IN-09	Indiana	Link
Steve King	Member of Congress, IA-04	Iowa	Link
Derek Schmidt	Attorney General	Kansas	Link
Roger Marshall M.D.	Member of Congress, KS-01	Kansas	Link
Ron Estes	Member of Congress, KS-04	Kansas	Link
Jeff Landry	Attorney General	Louisiana	Link
Steve Scalise	Member of Congress, LA-01	Louisiana	Link
Clay Higgins	Member of Congress, LA-03	Louisiana	Link
Mike Johnson	Member of Congress, LA-04	Louisiana	Link
Ralph Abraham	Member of Congress, LA-05	Louisiana	Link
Andrew Harris	Member of Congress, MD-01	Maryland	Link
Jack Bergman	Member of Congress, MI-01	Michigan	Link
Bill Huizenga	Member of Congress, MI-02	Michigan	Link
John Moolenaar	Member of Congress, MI-04	Michigan	Link
Tim Walberg	Member of Congress, MI-07	Michigan	Link
Jack O'Malley	State Representative, MI-101	Michigan	Link
Michele Hoitenga	State Representative, MI-102	Michigan	Link
Daire Rendon	State Representative, MI-103	Michigan	Link
Greg Markkanen	State Representative, MI-110	Michigan	Link
Joseph Bellino	State Representative, MI-17	Michigan	Link
Douglas Wozniak	State Representative, MI-36	Michigan	Link
Matt Maddock	State Representative, MI-44	Michigan	Link
John Reilly	State Representative, MI-46	Michigan	Link
Bronna Kahle	State Representative, MI-57	Michigan	Link
Julie Alexander	State Representative, MI-64	Michigan	Link
Beth Griffin	State Representative, MI-66	Michigan	Link
Brad Paquette	State Representative, MI-78	Michigan	Link
Gary Eisen	State Representative, MI-81	Michigan	Link
Luke Meerman	State Representative, MI-88	Michigan	Link
Rodney Wakeman	State Representative, MI-94	Michigan	Link
Jim Hagedorn	Member of Congress, MN-01	Minnesota	Link
Tom Emmer	Member of Congress, MN-06	Minnesota	Link
Pete Stauber	Member of Congress, MN-08	Minnesota	Link
Lynn Fitch	Attorney General	Mississippi	Link
Trent Kelly	Member of Congress, MS-01	Mississippi	Link
Michael Guest	Member of Congress, MS-03	Mississippi	Link
Steven Palazzo	Member of Congress, MS-04	Mississippi	Link
Eric S. Schmitt	Attorney General	Missouri	Link
Justin D. Smith	Deputy Attorney General	Missouri	Link
Ann Wagner	Member of Congress, MO-02	Missouri	Link
Blaine Luetkemeyer	Member of Congress, MO-03	Missouri	Link
Vicky Hartzler	Member of Congress, MO-04	Missouri	Link
Sam Graves	Member of Congress, MO-06	Missouri	Link
Billy Long	Member of Congress, MO-07	Missouri	Link
Jason Smith	Member of Congress, MO-08	Missouri	Link
D. John Sauer	Solicitor General Counsel of Record	Missouri	Link
Tim Fox	Attorney General	Montana	Link
Greg Gianforte	Member of Congress, MT-at-large	Montana	Link
Douglas J Peterson	Attorney General	Nebraska	Link
Jeff Fortenberry	Member of Congress, NE-01	Nebraska	Link
Adrian Smith	Member of Congress, NE-03	Nebraska	Link
Jeff Van Drew	Member of Congress, NJ-02	New Jersey	Link
Lee Zeldin	Member of Congress, NY-01	New York	Link
Elise Stefanik	Member of Congress, NY-21	New York	Link
Gregory Murphy M.D.	Member of Congress, NC-03	North Carolina	Link
Virginia Foxx	Member of Congress, NC-05	North Carolina	Link
Mark Walker	Member of Congress, NC-06	North Carolina	Link
David Rouzer	Member of Congress, NC-07	North Carolina	Link
Richard Hudson	Member of Congress, NC-08	North Carolina	Link
Dan Bishop	Member of Congress, NC-09	North Carolina	Link
Ted Budd	Member of Congress, NC-13	North Carolina	Link
Wayne Stenehejm	Attorney General	North Dakota	Link
Brad Wenstrup	Member of Congress, OH-02	Ohio	Link
Jim Jordan	Member of Congress, OH-04	Ohio	Link
Robert E Latta	Member of Congress, OH-05	Ohio	Link
Bill Johnson	Member of Congress, OH-06	Ohio	Link
Bob Gibbs	Member of Congress, OH-07	Ohio	Link
Mike Hunter	Attorney General	Oklahoma	Link
Kevin Hern	Member of Congress, OK-01	Oklahoma	Link
Markwayne Mullin	Member of Congress, OK-02	Oklahoma	Link
Dan Meuser	Member of Congress, PA-09	Pennsylvania	Link
Scott Perry	Member of Congress, PA-10	Pennsylvania	Link
Fred Keller	Member of Congress, PA-12	Pennsylvania	Link
John Joyce	Member of Congress, PA-13	Pennsylvania	Link
Guy Reschenthaler	Member of Congress, PA-14	Pennsylvania	Link
Glenn "GT" Thompson	Member of Congress, PA-15	Pennsylvania	Link
Mike Kelly	Member of Congress, PA-16	Pennsylvania	Link
Daryl D Metcalfe	State Representative, PA-12	Pennsylvania	LInk
Cris E Dush	State Representative, PA-25	Pennsylvania	Link
Mike Puskaric	State Representative, PA-39	Pennsylvania	Link
Thomas R Sankey III	State Representative, PA-73	Pennsylvania	Link
Alan Wilson	Attorney General	South Carolina	Link
Joe Wilson	Member of Congress, SC-02	South Carolina	Link
Jeff Duncan	Member of Congress, SC-03	South Carolina	Link
William Timmons	Member of Congress, SC-04	South Carolina	Link
Ralph Norman	Member of Congress, SC-05	South Carolina	Link
Tom Rice	Member of Congress, SC-07	South Carolina	Link
Jason R Ravnsborg	Attorney General	South Dakota	Link
Herbert H Slattery III	Attorney General	Tennessee	Link
Tim Burchett	Member of Congress, TN-02	Tennessee	Link
Chuck Fleischmann	Member of Congress, TN-03	Tennessee	Link
Scott DesJarlais	Member of Congress, TN-04	Tennessee	Link
John Rose	Member of Congress, TN-06	Tennessee	Link
Mark Green	Member of Congress, TN-07	Tennessee	Link
David Kustoff	Member of Congress, TN-08	Tennessee	Link
Ken Paxton	Attorney General	Texas	Link
Brent Webster	First Assistant Attorney General	Texas	Link
Louie Gohmert	Member of Congress, TX-01	Texas	Link
Daniel Crenshaw	Member of Congress, TX-02	Texas	Link
Lance Gooden	Member of Congress, TX-05	Texas	Link
Ron Wright	Member of Congress, TX-06	Texas	Link
Kevin Brady	Member of Congress, TX-08	Texas	Link
Mike Conaway	Member of Congress, TX-11	Texas	Link
Randy Weber	Member of Congress, TX-14	Texas	Link
Bill Flores	Member of Congress, TX-17	Texas	Link
Jodey Arrington	Member of Congress, TX-19	Texas	Link
Kenny Marchant	Member of Congress, TX-24	Texas	Link
Roger Williams	Member of Congress, TX-25	Texas	Link
Michael C Burgess	Member of Congress, TX-26	Texas	Link
Michael Cloud	Member of Congress, TX-27	Texas	Link
Brian Babin	Member of Congress, TX-36	Texas	Link
Sean D Reyes	Attorney General	Utah	Link
Rob Wittman	Member of Congress, VA-01	Virginia	Link
Ben Cline	Member of Congress, VA-06	Virginia	Link
H Morgan Griffith	Member of Congress, VA-09	Virginia	Link
Dan Newhouse	Member of Congress, WA-04	Washington	Link
Cathy McMorris Rodgers	Member of Congress, WA-05	Washington	Link
Patrick Morrisey	Attorney General	West Virginia	Link
Alex X Mooney	Member of Congress, WV-02	West Virginia	Link
Carol D Miller	Member of Congress, WV-03	West Virginia	Link
Tom Tiffany	Member of Congress, WI-07	Wisconsin	Link