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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier this month, Republicans in West Virginia impeached the state’s entire Supreme Court, a </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/west-virginia-supreme-court-impeach-trnd/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">first in US history</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">over a scandal involving allegations of wasteful spending, poor administrative decisions, and criminal misconduct. Now the state’s governor, a Republican, has appointed two Republican lawmakers to temporarily serve as justices—a move he says will restore confidence to the judiciary. But Democrats are crying foul, saying the appointments are a clear political power grab aimed at stacking the bench with conservatives.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Gov. Jim Justice <a href="http://wvmetronews.com/2018/08/25/governor-justice-names-armstead-jenkins-to-the-supreme-court/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">announced</a> Saturday morning that state House Speaker Tim Armstead and US Rep. Evan Jenkins will serve on the state’s highest court until the midterm elections</b> in November, when voters can elect new justices from a pool of 20 candidates. (</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Armstead and Jenkins are among those candidates.)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They will replace Justice Robin Davis, who resigned on August 14 shortly after the House of Delegates moved to impeach the Supreme Court, and Justice Menis Ketchum, who resigned in late July shortly before he was charged with federal wire fraud.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The court’s other three justices will soon go before state lawmakers in an impeachment trial, accused of wasteful spending and failure to carry out administrative duties. If they are removed from their seats, the governor can appoint interim justices who will serve on the bench until the 2020 election. (One of them, Justice Allen Loughry, has already been suspended because he faces 25 federal charges and has been indicted on an obstruction-of-justice charge; he has pleaded not guilty.)</p><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We need true conservatives—this is really important—with honor and integrity to restore the trust from the blow to the stomach we’ve suffered in the last few months,” Gov. Justice said as he announced the two new appointments Saturday. Armstead has left his position in the House of Delegates, and Jenkins will resign from Congress when he takes the bench.</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jenkins is also a failed candidate for US Senate, having lost the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin back in May. As my colleague Jeremy Schulman <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/evan-jenkinss-campaign-is-every-bit-as-racist-as-don-blankenships/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">reported</a> during the campaign, <b>Jenkins put out racist political ads that appeared to blame West Virginia’s opioid epidemic on African Americans in cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago</b> who he suggested were flooding his state with heroin. And his appointment to the judiciary comes despite <a href="https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/jenkins-eligibility-for-supreme-court-seat-could-face-legal-challenge/article_3aa75cc5-acb7-535e-ba58-9e5f700fb66c.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">earlier reports</a> that he may be ineligible to serve on the state Supreme Court because of an inactive law license.</span></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democrats in West Virginia are outraged about the new appointments, likening the situation to a coup. “Governor Justice’s picks to fill the Supreme Court means more corruption and political positioning from Republican Leadership in West Virginia,” Belinda Biafore, chair of the state Democratic Party, said in a <a href="http://www.wvdems.org/justice-picks-armstead-and-jenkins-to-fill-supreme-court-vacancies/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">statement</a>. “Not only do Armstead and Jenkins lack necessary experience, but by aligning with Justice they have proven that they are nothing more than political peas in a pod and will continue to make decisions based on politics and not people.”</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The impeachment of the Supreme Court justices was approved on August 13 along party lines, with Democrats voting in opposition. (Three of the five justices were elected as Democrats.) “They’re going after everyone because it’s the balance of the court,” Delegate Mike Pushkin, a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/west-virginia-impeachment-supreme-court.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">said at the time</a>. Delegate Chad Lovejoy said that while he did not agree with the justices’ lavish spending, which included a $32,000 sofa for Loughry’s office, the budget decisions were technically legal and he believed a mass judicial impeachment was inappropriate. “It’s unprecedented in the United States that one branch of the government goes in and lops off another,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/west-virginia-impeachment-supreme-court.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">said</a>.</div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The majority have ignored the will of the people who elected the justices of this court,” Davis, one of the justices who resigned, <a href="http://wvmetronews.com/2018/08/25/governor-justice-names-armstead-jenkins-to-the-supreme-court/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">said</a>. She is named in impeachment articles regarding her $500,000 office renovation and allegations that she overpaid a senior status judge and failed to hold other justices accountable. “They have erased the lines of separation between the branches of government. In fact, the majority in the legislature is positioning to impose their own party preferences.”</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Barack Obama moves out of the White House to thunderous applause from the scientific community, what's on the energy and environment docket for Day One of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump Administration</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">? Trump aides have promised swift and aggressive action on a long list of various campaign priorities, but remain opaque about the process and order of possible immediate changes.</span></font></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">img]</font></span><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regardless,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hawks should keep an eye out: Bloomberg reported this morning that advisors have prepared an energy/enviro "short list," which includes reversing Obama administration guidelines on factoring</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">into pipeline construction and steps to suspend the social cost of carbon.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And campaign advisor and oil CEO <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/harold-hamm-oil-billionaire-shaping-donald-trump-energy-policy-1935709726.html" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Harold Hamm</a> told CNBC he projects energy deregulation will be a "Day One agenda" item</b>. The GOP got an early start moving their deregulation goals Thursday, as<b> Rep Evan Jenkins, R-WV, introduced a resolution to permanently block the Obama administration's stream protection regulations.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Evan Hollin Jenkins</b> (born September 12, 1960) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American</a> politician who has been the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="West Virginia's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia's 3rd congressional district</a> since 2015. He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Appropriations" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Appropriations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. House Committee on Appropriations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jenkins was a member of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Senate" title="West Virginia Senate" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">West Virginia Senate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from the 5th District, which contains </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabell_County,West_Virginia" title="Cabell County, West Virginia" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Cabell County</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a small portion of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,West_Virginia" title="Wayne County, West Virginia" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Wayne County</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He served in both chambers of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Legislature" title="West Virginia Legislature" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">West Virginia Legislature</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in Charleston over the course of 20 years, having been elected as a member of the House in</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 1994</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and elected to the Senate in 2002.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Jim_Workman_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Jim_Workman-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He gave up his seat to run against 38-year incumbent</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Democrat</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Rahall" title="Nick Rahall" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Nick Rahall</a> in the 2014 congressional election, and won</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-auto1-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#West_Virginia_Legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">West Virginia Legislature</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2016</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political positions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins, a lifelong resident of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington,West_Virginia" title="Huntington, West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Huntington</a>, is the son of Dorothy C. Jenkins and the late John E. Jenkins, Jr.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-W.Va.Senate_5-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> He attended public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-W.Va.Senate_5-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins earned his B.S. in Education/Business Administration from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Florida</a> in 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-W.Va.Senate_5-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He went on to earn his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_School_of_Law" title="Cumberland School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cumberland School of Law</a> in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was the Executive Director of the West Virginia State Medical Association, and taught <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Business law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">business law</a> as an instructor at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_University" title="Marshall University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Marshall University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> He is also the former Co-Chairman of the Health Care Committee in the West Virginia State Chamber of Commerce.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="West_Virginia_Legislature">West Virginia Legislature</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: West Virginia Legislature" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins served on both sides of the legislature in Charleston, having first been elected as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia House of Delegates</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-Jim_Workman_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Jim_Workman-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He lost a race for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Appeals_of_West_Virginia" title="Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia</a> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins was then elected to the West Virginia State Senate in 2002, after defeating Democratic incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Redd" title="Marie Redd" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Marie Redd</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">primary election</a> and former State Senator Thomas Scott in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_election" title="General election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">general election</a>. In 2006, Jenkins once again defeated Redd in the primary election, and Scott in the general election (with 64% of the vote).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> In 2010, Jenkins was again re-elected to the West Virginia State Senate, District 5, running unopposed in the general election.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_West_Virginia,2014#District_3" title="United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2014" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2014 § District 3</a></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July 2013, Jenkins announced he was switching to the Republican Party in preparation for a run at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="West Virginia's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia's 3rd congressional district</a> seat, held by 19-term Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Rahall" title="Nick Rahall" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nick Rahall</a>. He had actually grown up as a Republican, but became a Democrat in 1992 prior to his run for the House of Delegates. On switching parties, Jenkins stated that: “West Virginia is under attack from Barack Obama and a Democratic Party that our parents and grandparents would not recognize."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> West Virginia's 3rd district had long been a Democratic stronghold, but had been swept up in the growing Republican tide that had swept the state since the turn of the century. In 2012, it went for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a> 66-32 percent, making it the second-most Republican district in the nation to be represented by a Democrat.<sup id="cite_ref-post_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-post-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Jenkins and Rahall had contributed to each other's campaigns in the decade's previous election cycles.<sup id="cite_ref-Contributions_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Contributions-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins ran unopposed in the Republican primary.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> He faced Rahall in the general election in November 2014. An early poll showed Jenkins with a double-digit lead over Rahall.<sup id="cite_ref-post_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-post-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Right_to_Life_Committee" title="National Right to Life Committee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">National Right to Life Committee</a>, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and West Virginians for Life, all of which had previously supported Rahall, supported Jenkins in 2014, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Coal_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="West Virginia Coal Association" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">West Virginia Coal Association</a> endorsed Jenkins in September 2014</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> On October 2, managing editor Kyle Kondik of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabato%27s_Crystal_Ball" title="Sabato's Crystal Ball" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Sabato's Crystal Ball</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> said the race was a toss-up, calling it "Super close, super expensive and super nasty."</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Rahall outspent Jenkins in the election by a two-to-one ratio.</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the general election, Jenkins defeated Rahall, taking 55% of the vote to 45% – the second-largest margin of defeat suffered by an incumbent in the 2014 cycle.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-auto1-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup>As a measure of how Democratic much of this district once was, when Jenkins took office on January 3, 2015, he became the first Republican to represent what is now the 3rd since 1957 (the district was numbered as the 4th before 1993), and the first Republican to represent most of the district's southern portion since 1933 (most of which was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="West Virginia's 5th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5th district</a> before it was eliminated in 1973).<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> In addition, Jenkins' victory, along with those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mooney" title="Alex Mooney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alex Mooney</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley" title="David McKinley" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David McKinley</a>, meant that West Virginia had an all-Republican House delegation for the first time since 1923.</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2016">2016</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_West_Virginia,2016#District_3" title="United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2016 § District 3</a></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins defeated Democratic candidate Matt Detch<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> in the November, 2016 general election with 67.9% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; 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background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jenkins supports the repeal of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Obamacare</a>, and states that he would replace the law.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[30]</a></sup> He also opposes federal cap and trade restrictions on coal emissions.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup> He feels that some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a> regulations are too strict, such as those affecting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Coal_as_fuel" title="Coal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">coal industry</a> and the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-burning_stove" title="Wood-burning stove" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">wood-burning stoves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[33]</a></sup> He believes that the primary role of the federal government is to provide for national defense, and supports maintaining the country "as the world’s pre-eminent military power"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenkins and his wife Elizabeth have three children, two sons and one daughter, who attend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabell_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabell County" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cabell County</a> schools.<sup id="cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-W.Va.Senate_5-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-Jenkins_confirms_run_for_Congress-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Jenkins(politician)&action=edit§ion=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wvmetronews.com/2015/01/04/new-year-new-congress/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"WV MetroNews – New Year, new Congress"</a>. <i>wvmetronews.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">February 5,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Jenkins+%28politician%29&rft.atitle=WV+MetroNews++%93+New+Year%2C+new+Congress&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwvmetronews.com%2F2015%2F01%2F04%2Fnew-year-new-congress%2F&rft.jtitle=wvmetronews.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Jim_Workman-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-Jim_Workman_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-Jim_Workman_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Jim Workman (May 13, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wowktv.com/story/25508919/rahall-jenkins-set-to-face-off-in-3rd-district-congressional-race" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Rahall, Jenkins set to face off in 3rd District Congressional Ra – WOWK 13 Charleston, Huntington WV News, Weather, Sports"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">October 2,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Jenkins+%28politician%29&rft.au=Jim+Workman&rft.btitle=Rahall%2C+Jenkins+set+to+face+off+in+3rd+District+Congressional+Ra+%93+WOWK+13+Charleston%2C+Huntington+WV+News%2C+Weather%2C+Sports&rft.date=2014-05-13&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wowktv.com%2Fstory%2F25508919%2Frahall-jenkins-set-to-face-off-in-3rd-district-congressional-race&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-auto1-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-auto1_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-auto1_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Timothy Cama. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/222908-rahall-loses-house-seat-in-west-virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Dem Rahall loses House seat after 38 years"</a>. <i>TheHill</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Jenkins+%28politician%29&rft.atitle=Dem+Rahall+loses+House+seat+after+38+years&rft.au=Timothy+Cama&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fballot-box%2Fhouse-races%2F222908-rahall-loses-house-seat-in-west-virginia&rft.jtitle=TheHill&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wvgop.org/wv-state-legislators?page=6" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Office Holders"</a>. <i>West Virginia Republican Party</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">October 2,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Jenkins+%28politician%29&rft.atitle=Office+Holders&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwvgop.org%2Fwv-state-legislators%3Fpage%3D6&rft.jtitle=West+Virginia+Republican+Party&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-W.Va.Senate_5-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-W.Va.Senate_5_5-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.herald-dispatch.com/elections/x874711592/W-Va-Senate-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"W.Va. Senate 5"</a>. <i>The Herald-Dispatch</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">October 2,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Jenkins+%28politician%29&rft.atitle=W.Va.+Senate+5&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-dispatch.com%2Felections%2Fx874711592%2FW-Va-Senate-5&rft.jtitle=The+Herald-Dispatch&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Jenkins(politician)#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teapartycheer.com/bios/the-south/west-virginia/evan-jenkins-wv-bio/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Evan Jenkins (R-WV-3)"</a>. <i>Tea Party Cheer</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Jenkins vows to keep heat on agency over new wood-burning regulations"</a>. <i>Bluefield Daily Telegraph</i>. 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Jenkins (R – Cabell, 05)</a> at the West Virginia State Senate</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.c-span.org/person/?evanjenkins" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Appearances</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">C-SPAN</a></font></li></ul><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/8297" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Profile</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vote_Smart" title="Project Vote Smart" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project Vote Smart</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=408" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Analysis of Jenkin's 2002 victory over Redd.</font></a></li></ul><table class="wikitable succession-box" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 0.5em auto; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse; clear: both;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">United States House of Representatives</font></a></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 218.175px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Rahall" title="Nick Rahall" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nick Rahall</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 294.175px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a>
from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="West Virginia's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia's 3rd congressional district</a></b>
2015–present</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 217.375px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Incumbent</font></b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 255, 204) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_order_of_precedence" title="United States order of precedence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States order of precedence</a> (ceremonial)</font></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 218.175px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hurd" title="Will Hurd" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Will Hurd</a>
<small>R-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Texas</a></small></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 294.175px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniority_in_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Seniority in the United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Representatives by seniority</a></b>
350th</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 217.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Katko" title="John Katko" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Katko</a>
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