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The Oscar-nominated activist-director of the documentary “Gasland” was arrested on Capitol Hill for trying to film a hearing without proper media credentials. Staffers say Fox declined an order byHouse Science, Space and Technology subcommittee chairman Rep. Andy Harris(R-Md.) to turn off his camera.

“This was an act of civil disobedience, yes, done in an impromptu fashion,” said Fox in an emailed statement later. “When I was led out of the hearing room in handcuffs,John Boehner’s pledge of transparency in Congress was taken out with me.”

2021427Supporting Tribal Management of BisonWildlife, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests

2021385Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice Investments (2x Score)Climate Change, Air, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice, Transportation, Public Lands/Forests, Water, Other

2021385Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice InvestmentsClimate Change, Air, Clean Energy, Drilling, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests, Transportation, Water, Other

2021379Censuring Paul GosarJustice and Democracy

2021272Taking Action on PFAS ContaminationToxics/Public Right to Know

2021260Restoring the Voting Rights ActJustice and Democracy

2021247Pro-Environment Funding PackageOther, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Air, Clean Water, Environmental Justice

2021217Protecting People from PFASToxics/Public Right to Know; Water

2021208Investing in Transportation and Water InfrastructureClimate Change, Transportation, Water, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice

2021206Building Climate-resilient Wastewater InfrastructureWater, Climate Change

2021201Investing in Climate-Smart and Pro-Wildlife InfrastructureTransportation, Climate Change, Wildlife

2021196Removing Confederate Statues from the U.S. CapitolLands/Forests, Justice and Democracy

2021185Repealing Assault on Methane Pollution SafeguardsClimate Change, Dirty Energy

2021169Corporate Climate Risk Disclosure RequirementsClimate Change; Other

2021145Increasing Awareness and Reporting of Hate CrimesOther, Justice and Democracy

2021132Washington, D.C. StatehoodJustice and Democracy

202191Protecting Dreamers and Immigrants Fleeing DisastersJustice and Democracy, Other

202170Protecting the Rights of Workers to OrganizeOther, Justice and Democracy

202162Voting Rights and Democracy ReformsJustice and Democracy

202145Protecting Public Lands and Waters Across the WestPublic Lands/Forests

202117Impeachment for Incitement of InsurrectionJustice and Democracy

202111Certifying Pennsylvania’s Electoral VotesJustice and Democracy

202110Certifying Arizona’s Electoral VotesJustice and Democracy

2020242Phasing Out Harmful Fishing GearOceans, Wildlife

2020203Increasing Funding for Renewable Energy Research & DevelopmentClean Energy, Climate

2020182Protecting the U.S. Postal ServiceJustice and Democracy

2020166Pro-Environment Funding PackageOther, Environmental Justice, Water, Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests

2020164Slashing EPA FundingOther, Water, Air, Environmental Justice

2020163Blocking Trump’s Inadequate Soot StandardAir, Environmental Justice

2020156Removing Confederate Statues from the U.S. CapitolOther

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byKyle Mantyla

Representative Andy Harris was furious after the crowd laughed at him in the debate.

At the 2026 Moms for Liberty National Summit, conservative parents were faithful to the theme: “Boots on the Ground.” But as they stood rooted in Dallas to represent their local chapters, they were also leveling up with AI that lets them monitor 13,000 school districts at once.

South Grand Prairie ISD canceled the musical citing an anti-drag law that has already been struck down in court

Since being released early from prison in June, former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters has been granted extraordinary access to the halls of power in Washington.

JD Vance made a gay joke about Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D). Talarico is straight and has a girlfriend, but Republicans have spent this election cycle attacking his masculinity.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rhetoric has prompted hundreds of service members to file complaints with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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...Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.

Participated in early stages of White House Jan. 6 discussions: Boebert, while still congresswoman-elect, was among the core group of four congressmembers or members-elect involved in raising the idea that Pence might have a role other than simply counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified.

Participated in planning conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Boebert or an aide participated in planning discussions,Rolling Stone reported.

Tweeted “Today is 1776″: At 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, Boebert tweeted: “Today is 1776,” a rally cry repeated by the mob as it broke into the Capitol later that day.

Boebert did not respond to a request for comment. She condemned the violence on Jan. 6 in a statement on Jan. 11, 2021.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.

Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: Harris was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.

Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas

Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: Babin was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.

Babin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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rep. Andy Harris (R-MD, 1st District) was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2010 from Maryland. He currently serves on the House Committee onAppropriations.

Andy Harris and Climate Change

The Eastern Shore of Maryland, which falls under Harris’s congressional jurisdiction, is already experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change. Sea levels have started to rise, and a 2017:{study:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists listed the Eastern Shore as one of the most chronically inundated locales in the United States. Harris, however, is quick to question the correlation between anthropogenic carbon emissions and climate change.“I believe the actual science is uncertain,” Harris:{said:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:in a 2013 interview with theStar Democrat. That same year the Maryland League of Conservation Voters:{awarded:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:Harris with the “climate change denier award.”

Harris has persisted with his climate science denial.In a 2018 debate, Harris was asked a question regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 report, to which he:{responded:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:“there are many different projections for the pace of climate change” and “differing analysis for the degree of causality assigned to types of emissions.”

Most recently, Harris is quoted placing strong emphasis on poor “forest management” policies for this year’s:{historic:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:wildfire season. “Is there a contribution of climate change?”  Harris:{pondered:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:in an October interview with theTalbot Spy.“There might be, but the primary cause… is forest management.”

Harris has:{earned:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:a 3% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters. He has voted against environmental legislation such as the Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act and the Climate Action Now Act, both of which address climate issues pertinent to his district: offshore drilling and the damages of climate driven weather events.

Andy Harris and Friends:

Throughout his career, Harris has:{received:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"):}:a total of $181,712 from the oil and gas industry, including $10,000 from Koch Industries in the 2020 election cycle. Harris wonreelection in 2020.

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federal

officials have repeatedly stressed that there is no evidence linking

offshore wind development along the East Coast to a recent string of

whale deaths.

Regardless, GOP lawmakers are citing those deaths

in an effort to ban offshore wind — the latest in a growing,

misinformation-rich campaign to stymie a ballooning renewable energy

sector that stands to compete with America’s powerful oil and gas

industry.

:{“The

current system in place has allowed offshore wind to move forward too

quickly & too recklessly in an attempt to solidify the legacies of

green new deal advocates,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) wrote in a

Twitter thread last week. “They hurt the environment, raise energy

prices, & will destroy existing industry.”

Van Drew is part

of a group of Republicans who introduced a resolution this month that

calls for an immediate federal moratorium on offshore wind leasing and

construction activity pending the outcome of an investigation to

“determine the true impacts” of this development.}:

The

resolution specifically notes that 23 dead whales have washed up along

the East Coast since December and accuses regulatory agencies of having

“an unclear process for determining all contributing causes of death of

whales through necropsies.”

:{Along

with Van Drew, the measure currently has five other GOP co-sponsors:

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.), Andy Harris (Md.), Chris Smith

(N.J.), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Anthony D’Esposito (N.Y.).}:

[ pix Offshore wind energy opponents gather during a "Save the Whales" rally on Feb. 19 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.]

To

be clear, there are a lot of unknowns about how offshore wind will

impact wildlife and marine ecosystems in the short and long term. Like

all other offshore industries, wind development has the potential to

disrupt and harm whales and otherwise negatively impact the ocean

environment.

:{But

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and independent

scientists have for months been pushing back against sweeping claims

that offshore wind activities, including sonar surveys, are to blame for

recent whale deaths. Such misinformation has featured prominently on

Fox News and other conservative media in recent months.}:

“When you think about this obsession with green energy — the argument is always like ‘oil and gas is so bad for the environment,’” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said on her show March 10. “How ironic that what they are doing is almost certainly killing large swaths of the whale population.”

:{Greene,

one of Congress’ proudest conspiracy theorists, has peddled similar

nonsense. In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity in February,

she claimed — again, without evidence — that whales are washing up

because of “wind farms that are being placed all over the ocean.”}:

:{“People

are calling the alarms over how [wind farms] are not only killing

unknown thousands of bird species but also causing whales to beach

themselves at record numbers,” Greene said.}:

:{There

are only two small wind farms in operation in U.S waters, one off the

coast of Rhode Island and another off Virginia. Together, they have just

seven turbines and a capacity of 42 megawatts.}:

More than a dozen other large-scale projects are in various stages of permitting and development, but none are currently under construction — a reality that makes the conservative narrative particularly deceitful.

As part of a broader climate agenda, the Biden administration set a goal of securing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, enough to power 10 million homes for a year and cut 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. So far, it has granted final approval to

two major offshore wind projects: the long-stalled Vineyard Wind project

off the coast of Massachusetts, and South Fork Wind project off Rhode

Island.

:{The

recent whale strandings are part of what federal authorities have

classified as an “unusual mortality event” that dates back to 2016.}:

“At

this point, there is no evidence that noise resulting from wind

development-related site characterization surveys could potentially

cause mortality of whales, and no specific links between recent large

whale mortalities and currently ongoing surveys,” reads an FAQ on the

NOAA’s website.

Rather, officials have pointed to vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear — the two biggest human threats to whales, including humpbacks and the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.At least 190 humpback whales have died along the East Coast since 2016. Forty percent of the animals that underwent necropsies showed signs of being struck by a boat or an entanglement.

“Since December 1,

2022, injuries consistent with vessel strike were identified in many of

the animals necropsied,” Lauren Gaches, spokesperson for NOAA

Fisheries, told Inside Climate News this month.

Conservative

lawmakers and media outlets are following the lead of fossil fuel-allied

groups in exploiting whales to fight offshore wind. As HuffPost

reported in November, anti-offshore wind groups, including some of the

nation’s most hard-line climate change denial outfits, have branded

themselves guardians of the endangered right whale as they threaten

legal action against newly approved offshore wind projects.

:{Meanwhile,

these same groups have advocated for increased offshore drilling while

remaining silent about the documented threats to whales posed by oil and

gas development. The NOAA estimates that 22% of the population }:

of the endangered Rice’s whale in the Gulf of Mexico was lost as a

result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

[The Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States.

:{Those groups include the Heartland Institute and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, better known as CFACT, both

of which have long histories of peddling climate change disinformation

and cheerleading for the fossil fuel industry. In one of the more ironic

and laughable moves of this anti-wind crusade, Peter Murphy, a senior

fellow at CFACT, labeled the Biden administration “deniers” on par with

the tobacco industry.}:

“As with the tabacco [sic] companies

of yesteryear that disputed their product caused cancer, the Biden NOAA

and climate-change cohorts are deniers, claiming there is ‘no evidence’

off-shore wind sites are harming whales,” Murphy wrote in a March 18

post to CFACT’s website, without presenting evidence to the contrary.

“Rather, the agency attributes some of whale fatalities to ‘pre-mortem

vessel strike,’ while conceding ‘more research is needed.’”

It is

no secret that the tobacco and fossil fuel industries have a shared

playbook for downplaying and dismissing the harm they have caused. In

fact, a trove of documents compiled in 2016 by the Washington-based Center for International Environmental Law, or CIEL,

showed that tobacco and oil giants have worked collaboratively for over

half a century, sharing marketing and advertising strategies, research

institutes, PR firms and even scientists.

:{CFACT

is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group of conservative

charities and nonprofits “focused on dispelling the myths of global

warming,” according to its website. Between 1997 and 2007, CFACT

received nearly $600,000 from oil giant ExxonMobil.}:

Few if any oil companies have done more to sow doubt about human-caused climate change than ExxonMobil.

In

this July 31, 2010, file photo, a dolphin swims through an oil sheen

from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off East Grand Terre Island, where

the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay, on the Louisiana coast.

:{In

his post, Murphy concluded that “at the very least, there needs to be a

moratorium on construction of off-shore wind turbines, which from a

climate perspective alone are ineffective and a colossal waste, and now

hazardous to the largest mammals on the planet.”}:

Three days later, Republicans introduced their resolution for an offshore wind moratorium.

Among

other things, the resolution declares that “Atlantic coast offshore

wind leases represent a transformative industrialization of vital

environmental and maritime resources of the United States.”

:{There

is no question wind farms will industrialize large swaths of U.S.

waters. But one of the biggest threats to global ocean health is the

burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. Oceans have absorbed an

estimated 93% of the excess heat from human-caused climate change. This

ocean warming has come with devastating impacts, from mass bleaching of

coral reefs to the collapse of fisheries.}:

The NOAA notes

on its website that whales, including the endangered right whale, are

particularly vulnerable to climate change, as warming ocean temperatures

impact the availability of zooplankton and other prey.

Without a

herculean global effort to shift away from fossil fuels and halt

planetary warming, scientists warn the impacts to the ocean and marine

life will continue to mount.

“The percentage of animal species

exposed to potentially dangerous conditions increases significantly the

faster the world warms,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe

tweeted this month, summarizing a finding of the latest United Nations

climate report. “In general, ocean species like coral and tropical

species are most at risk.”

Offshore wind could ultimately help

rein in fossil fuel emissions and combat the global crisis — if

disinformation doesn’t get in the way.

:{Media

Matters, a media watchdog group, published a report last week that

found that of the 288 Facebook posts from right-wing media in January

and February that mentioned wind energy, a whopping 84% included

unsubstantiated claims that offshore wind farms impact whale

populations. The most popular post was a clip from Fox News’ Jesse Watters titled “Wind Surveying is KILLING our Whales.”}:

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andrew Peter Harris (born January 25, 1957) is an American politician and physician who has been the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore, as well as several eastern exurbs of Baltimore. He is currently the only Republican member of Maryland's congressional delegation. Harris previously served in the Maryland Senate.

Early life, education, and career

Harris's father was Zoltán Harris, an anesthesiologist who was born in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1911 and emigrated to the United States in 1950; his mother, Irene (Koczerzuk), was born in Zarice, Poland.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-harris_bio-2)[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-3)[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-4) Harris was born in New York, grew up in Queens, and attended Regis High School in Manhattan.[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-5)

Harris earned his B.S. in biology (1977) and his M.D. (1980) from The Johns Hopkins University. The university's Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health conferred his M.H.S. in 1995 in health policy and management and health finance and management.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-harris_bio-2)

Harris served in the Navy Medical Corps and the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander on active duty during Operation Desert Storm and currently serves as a commander.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-harris_bio-2) He has worked as an anesthesiologist, as an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and as chief of obstetric anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Harris also served as commanding officer for the Johns Hopkins Naval Reserve Medical Unit from 1989 to 1992.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-harris_bio-2)

Maryland General Assembly

Harris was first elected to the Maryland Senate in 1998 for District 9, including part of Baltimore County.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-6) He defeated his predecessor, Minority Leader F. Vernon Boozer, in the 1998 primary election.[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-7) A major factor in the race was Boozer's role in derailing an attempt to ban partial-birth abortion a year earlier; the bill's sponsor, fellow state senator Larry Haines, supported Harris's primary bid.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-8) In the general election he defeated Democratic challenger Anthony O. Blades.

His district was later redrawn to be District 7, representing parts of Harford County, succeeding Norman Stone.[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-9) He defeated Democratic challenger Diane DeCarlo in the general election in 2002,[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-10) and from 2003 to 2006 served as the minority whip.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-harris_bio-2) In 2006, he won re-election, this time defeating Patricia A. Foerster.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-11) He was succeeded by J. B. Jennings.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-12)

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2008

See also: 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris defeated incumbent Republican Wayne Gilchrest and State Senator E.J. Pipkin in the Republican primary for Maryland's 1st congressional district.[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-2008_results-13) Harris ran to the right of Gilchrest, one of the moderate Republicans in the House. He explained that he was upset with Gilchrest's decision to support a Democrat-sponsored bill setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq and suspected that many of his constituents also felt that way. He was endorsed by the Club for Growth,[[14]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-14) which raised nearly $250,000 for him,[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-15) and by former governor Bob Ehrlich,[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-16) seven of 10 state senators who represent parts of the district, and House Minority Leader Anthony O'Donnell.[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-17) His general election opponent Frank Kratovil criticized the Club for Growth's policies, and Harris for having its support.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-18) Gilchrest endorsed Kratovil for the general election.[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-crosses-19)

On paper, Harris had a strong advantage in the general election due to its Republican lean. Although Democrats and Republicans are nearly tied in registration, the district has a strong tinge of social conservatism that favors Republicans. It had been in Republican hands for all but 14 years since 1947, although Kratovil received a significant boost when Gilchrest endorsed him over Harris.[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-crosses-19)

On election night, Kratovil led Harris by 915 votes. After two rounds of counting absentee ballots, Kratovil's lead grew to 2,000 votes. Forecasting that there was little chance for Harris to close the gap, most media outlets declared Kratovil the winner on the night of November 7.[[20]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-20)[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-21) Harris conceded on November 11.

Harris dominated his longtime base in Baltimore's heavily Republican eastern suburbs, which account for most of the district's share of Baltimore County. However, he failed to carry a single county on the Eastern Shore. Proving just how Republican this district still was, John McCain carried it with nearly 60 percent of the vote, which was his best showing in the state.

He is a member of the Freedom Caucus.[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-22)

2010

Main article: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris ran again in the 1st District in 2010. He defeated Rob Fisher, a conservative businessman, in the primary.

Harris's primary win set up a rematch against Kratovil. Libertarian Richard James Davis and Independent Jack Wilson also ran. In the November 2 general election Harris defeated Kratovil by 14%.

2012

See also: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

TheNational Journal'sCook Political ReportnamedHarris one of the top 10 Republicans most vulnerable to redistricting in 2012,noting thatMaryland DemocratscouldredrawHarris's home in Cockeysville out of the 1st.[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-23)Instead,Roscoe Bartlett's 6th District was redrawn.[[24]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-24)Some of Bartlett's shares of Harford, Baltimore, and Carroll counties were drawn into the 1st, making this already strongly Republican district even more so.

Harris was re-elected to a second term, defeating Democratic challenger Wendy Rosen with 67 percent of the vote. Rosen had withdrawn from the race after being confronted with evidence that she'd voted in both Maryland and Florida in the 2006 and 2008 elections.[citation needed] Rosen had property in Florida, and Maryland law allowed property owners to vote in local elections even if they live elsewhere. However, her Florida voting registration reportedly also gave her access to state and federal elections there, which was not allowed by Maryland law.[[25]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-25)[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-26) However, at the time she withdrew, ballots had already been printed. John LaFerla, who had narrowly lost to Rosen in the primary, was endorsed as Rosen's replacement, but could only be a write-in.

2014

See also: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris defeated Democratic nominee Bill Tilghman for a third term, taking over 70 percent of the vote.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-27)[[28]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-28)

2016

See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris ran for reelection in 2016. In the Republican primary, he faced three challengers and won 78.4 percent of the vote.[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-29)[[30]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:0-30) Former Maryland state delegates member Mike Smigiel came in second place with 10.8 percent of the vote.[[30]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:0-30)[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-Kurzius-31) Smigiel ran because he opposed Harris' strident opposition to marijuana decriminalization in the District of Columbia.[[31]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-Kurzius-31)[[32]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-32)

In the general election, Harris won another term with 229,135 votes (67.8%),[[33]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-2016GenElection-33)defeating Democratic nominee Joe Werner, a "little-knownHarford Countyattorney and perennial candidate"[[34]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-34)who received 94,776 votes (28%).[[33]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-2016GenElection-33)Libertarian candidate Matt Beers received 14,207 votes (4.2%).[[33]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-2016GenElection-33)In February 2016,Harris was the first congressman to endorse candidate Ben Carson for the Republican nomination for president.[[35]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-carson-35)Carson dropped out two weeks later following a poor performance in theSuper TuesdayMarch 1, 2016 primaries.[[36]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-carsonend-36)

2018

See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

While Harris was running for reelection, the Maryland Democratic Party accused him of ethics violations,[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:1-37) alleging that Harris might have violated ethics rules requiring members to report the source of spousal income and assets.[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:1-37) In response, the Harris campaign said the omission was a mistake and the congressman amended his filing once he became aware of the error.[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:1-37)

In the general election, Harris ran against Jesse Colvin and won with 60 percent of the vote.[[38]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-38)[[39]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-39)

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris defeated Democratic nominee Mia Mason for a sixth term, taking over 63 percent of the vote.[[40]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-MDgenr-40)

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland § District 1

Harris is running for re-election in 2022. As of March 2022, Maryland's congressional maps have not been finalized. A judge tossed out the state's new maps, calling the redistricted maps an "extreme partisan gerrymander" by Democrats. The rejected maps gave Democrats an advantage over Republicans in all eight of the state's congressional districts.[[41]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-41)

Committee assignments

In October 2015, Harris was named to serve on theSelect Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood.[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-42)

Political positions

Affordable Care Act

Harris opposes the Affordable Care Act and has voted to repeal it.[[43]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-43)

Debt ceiling

On October 16, 2013, Harris voted against the motion to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.[[44]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-44)

2020 presidential election

After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and President Donald Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Harris defended Trump's efforts to overturn the election.[[45]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:2-45) Harris falsely claimed there were "large-scale voting irregularities" and "secret, unobserved vote counting in the swing states."[[45]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:2-45)

In December 2020, Harris was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives who signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election.[[45]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:2-45) The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of the election held by another state.[[46]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-46)[[47]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:1k-47)[[48]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-48)

Storming of the Capitol

In an interview with WBAL-TV just after evacuating the Capitol after it was stormed, Harris downplayed the violence of the riot, saying "Obviously, later we heard there was a gunshot, but other than that, there was no indication that this was a truly violent protest, as violent as one as you would worry about." Harris also said he understood the frustrations of the rioters and repeated false claims of election fraud.[[49]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:3-49)

On January 6, 2021, after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Harris was involved in a verbal altercation with Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL) on the House floor after taking offense to Rep. Conor Lamb's criticism of House Republicans for pushing unfounded conspiracy theories.[[50]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-50) During an interview the next day, Harris falsely claimed that leftist provocateurs were behind the storming of the Capitol.[[49]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:3-49)

In June 2021, Harris was among 21 House Republicans who voted against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.[[51]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-twsCNN99078-51)

Marijuana

In 2014, Harris was the leading congressional critic of marijuana decriminalization in the District of Columbia bill, and led efforts in Congress to block decriminalization from taking effect.[[52]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-DavisO'Keefe-52) Harris's amendment led to a call from D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to boycott tourism to Rep. Harris's district and the boycott of Maryland's 1st congressional district,[[53]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-53) as well as an online campaign requesting that D.C. area businesses refuse him service at their establishments.[[54]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-54) Washington D.C. officials and marijuana activists characterize Harris's actions as unwarranted congressional interference.[[55]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-55)

In November 2014, D.C. residents voted in favor of legalizing recreational cannabis for adults with 68% in favor.[[56]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-56) Despite this, Harris said he would use "all resources available to a member of Congress to stop this action".[[57]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-57) On December 9, 2014, congressional leaders announced a deal on a spending bill that included language that will prohibit the D.C. referendum from taking effect. Harris said that "the Constitution gives Congress the ultimate oversight about what happens in the federal district."[[52]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-DavisO'Keefe-52) Harris says that he believes that cannabis is a gateway drug.[[58]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-58)

In 2022, Harris added a provision to the $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package that barred D.C. from legalizing, regulating and taxing the sale recreational cannabis, thus overriding the will of D.C. voters.[[59]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:4-59)[[60]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-60) Democrats opposed Harris's provision, but Republicans sharply opposed attempts to remove the provision.[[59]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:4-59)

LGBT rights

In 2015, Harris cosponsored a resolution to amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage.[[61]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-61) Harris also cosponsored a resolution disagreeing with the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that same-sex marriage bans violated the constitution.[[62]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-62)

Roy Moore

During the primary race of the2017 special electionto fill the vacated Senate seat ofJeff Sessions,Harris endorsed Roy Moore in his successful bid to defeat incumbent Sen. Luther Strange. Following the news of sexual misconduct allegations against Moore, Harris said Moore should withdraw from the race if the allegations against him were true.[[63]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-63)

COVID-19 response

Harris opposed stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 2, 2020, he addressed protesters in Salisbury attempting to pressure Maryland governor Larry Hogan to lift restrictions, saying, "I am a physician. Let me tell you something: It is safe to begin to reopen Maryland."[[64]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-64)

Harris opposed prohibitions on indoor dining during the COVID-19 pandemic.[[45]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-:2-45)

Second impeachment of Donald Trump

Harris was one of four representatives who did not cast a vote regarding the second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, 2021.[[65]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-65)

Foreign policy

In 2021, during a House vote on ameasure condemning the Myanmar coup d'état, Harris was among fourteen Republican representatives who voted against it.[[66]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_%28politician%29#cite_note-66)

Electoral history

...

One of the Republicans in Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election after the deadly insurrection of Trump supporters was shown to be a security risk on Thursday.

"New security measures outside the U.S. House chamber prevented a Republican lawmaker from bringing a gun onto the House floor Thursday. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), who has repeatedly flouted the magnetometers that were installed near the House chamber after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, set off the metal detectors while trying to enter. When an officer with a metal detector wand scanned him, a firearm was detected on Harris's side, concealed by his suit coat. Police refused to let Harris in, and the officer signaled a security agent that Harris had a gun on him by motioning toward his own firearm," HuffPost correspondent Matt Fuller reported Thursday.

"HuffPost witnessed the interaction and later confirmed with a Capitol official that Harris was carrying a gun. HuffPost watched Harris try to get another member to take the gun from him so he could go vote. The member, Rep. John Katko (R-NY), told Harris he didn't have 'a license' and refused to hold the weapon for him," the publication reported. "Harris then left on the elevators and 10 minutes later returned to the House chamber. He placed his cellphone and keys on a desk to the side, did not set off the magnetometer and was allowed to enter the House floor to vote on a waiver to allow retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as President Joe Biden's defense secretary."

Harris isn't the only Republican who may be a security risk.

"During a security briefing with Democratic members early last week, some lawmakers suggested that members should have to go through a metal detector to get on the House floor. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has said she'll carry a gun around D.C., which does not allow the open carrying of a firearm, and Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) told his local paper that he was armed when insurrectionists stormed the Capitol," HuffPost reported. "On Thursday, HuffPost saw Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rick Allen (R-GA) and Boebert all refuse to be wanded down after setting off the magnetometer."

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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/03/chair-house-spending-panel-says-nih-grants-violate-rules-against-lobbying

 it is a tradition for some Republicans in Congress to take aim at research grants that they think are irrelevant and not worthy of taxpayer funding. Now, the chair of the House of Representatives spending panel that funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is claiming that some federally funded biomedical research violates government restrictions on lobbying state lawmakers or Congress.

The issue surfaced earlier this month at a hearing of the panel. Representative Andy Harris (R-MD) grilled NIH Director Francis Collins about two grants to tobacco control researcherStanton Glantzof the University of California, San Francisco,in which some of the money was used to trace the Tea Party's origins to groups funded by the tobacco industry. The study reflected "a partisan political agenda," claimedHarris, who calls himself "a Tea Party guy." (Collins responded that he was "quite troubled" by the study.)

As a new member of the panel, Harris doesn't have much clout. But it turns out that its chair, Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA), has the same concerns.

At the same 5 March hearing, Kingston gave Collinsthis letter expressing concerns about several grants. In addition to Glantz's,Kingston objected to a 1-year, $50,000 award to criminology professor Catherine Gallagher of George Mason University to produce a monograph reviewing research on the health problems of young prison inmates.The letter quotes from Gallagher'sabstract, saying the project "is intended to engage the medical, public health, criminal justice, policy, legal and advocacy communities by uniting diverse disciplines around a common issue."

Such studies aren't directly related to NIH's mission, Kingston's letter claims. "As elected officials, we cannot explain to our constituents why their tax dollars are used by NIH to fund advocacy groups [or] address political questions," it says. Kingston asked NIH to review within 30 days all of its grants to make sure they don't violate federal lobbying restrictions. Any activities that "address political questions or fund any advocacy group seeking to develop lobbying material" should be "halted," the letter says.

A week earlier, Kingston asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) to review the Glantz and Gallagher grants. As first reported by The Cancer Letter, Kingston's letter asks the IG to add the grants to an ongoing investigation of whether a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) program aimed at helping communities reduce obesity and smoking may violate a ban on using federal funds to lobby. (Several rules prohibit the use of HHS funds to influence Congress or state legislatures.)

Gallagher says her grant mentioned advocacy groups because only they have access to the prison population. "It's not us taking their plight to lobby," she says. "I think it's crazy in this climate of scare resources to waste people's time on such a trivial matter when we have such a long and dependable peer review process," she adds.

The distinction between research and advocacy came up after the December shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, which drew attention to a Congressional directive barring CDC from advocating for gun control. The White House declared that "research on gun violence is not advocacy" and asked Congress to fund $10 million in research in this area.

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stan glantz

Once again retribution was swift:

[[2013 Harris is TP] Representative Andy Harris (R-MD) asked about a specific National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded study tracing Tea Party's origins to groups supported by tobacco companies ]]

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milloy smoked out BS:

In 1997, EPA had

defied Congressional request in refusing to provide the scientific

data underlying the all-important Harvard Six Cities and Pope studies

on PM2.5

described earlier. Then in 2003, the Supreme Court had rejected a

challenge to the 1998 law requiring that scientific data used to

support regulatory actions be made available to the public via the

Freedom of Information Act. The Court said the law did not provide

for judicial review and, therefore, no one could sue to enforce it.

In March 2011

when I returned to the PM2.5

issue, I raised the secret science issue with staff of the House

Space, Science and Technology Committee, who soon thereafter revived

it with EPA. At a September 15, 2011 hearing, Rep. Andy Harris

(R-Md.), a physician and chairman of the Committee’s Subcommittee

on Energy and the Environment, quizzed Gina McCarthy, then assistant

administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, about PM2.5

and asked for the Harvard Six Cities and Pope study data as follows:i

Chairman [Ralph] Hall. The Chair now recognizes the gentleman from

Maryland, Mr. Harris, for three minutes.

Mr. Harris. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ms.

McCarthy, for appearing before the Committee.

I have a question. As a physician, I just am curious that theclaim that this somehow saves money says that we avoid up to 34,000premature deaths. Could you break that down to what these prematuredeaths are due to?

Ms. McCarthy. I can tell you that the analysis we do is on the

basis of health data. It looks at exposure----

Mr. Harris. I understand. Can you just break that down? What are

these deaths due to?

Chairman Hall. He is not asking you what your practice is. What

did you do in this----

Ms. McCarthy. The deaths are due to the pollution----

Mr. Harris. No, no, no. What diseases? You can use specific

diagnoses for me. I will understand them.

Ms. McCarthy. Well, I wouldn't want to presume that I could

articulate them to the extent that you could understand them. Wewould have respiratory illnesses, heart illnesses----

Mr. Harris. Well, you say 15,000 heart attacks per year. If every

one of those patients died, I could see that is 15,000. The estimated

number of asthma deaths per year on the EPA website is 10,000 per

year due to exacerbations, so that would be 25,000 if every one of

those was attributed to this. How do you get up to 34,000? I mean,

and I am used to science. When they say up to 34,000, there is

usually a confidence interval there. You know, it is like one to

34,000 or 10 to 34,000. Why would you use something so unscientific

to say up to 34,000?

Ms. McCarthy. The health data is all part of the record, and I

would indicate to you that we are looking at health benefits----

Mr. Harris. Okay. Thank you. And I would appreciate.

Ms. McCarthy [continuing]. Across the United States.

Mr. Harris. Sure, I understand that, and if you could get me that

information, I appreciate it. Now, is that health data due to the

particulates or the ozone?

Ms. McCarthy. It would mostly be the particulate matter but----

Mr. Harris. Weren't these numbers the same numbers, though, that

were floated around a week ago when the Administration suspended its

ozone standards?

Ms. McCarthy. Clearly not, no.

Mr. Harris. They weren't?

Ms. McCarthy. No, they were not.

Mr. Harris. What were those figures?

Ms. McCarthy. I actually don't have them at the top of my head but

I certainly can provide them.

Mr. Harris. I would appreciate that, because I recall that the

deaths in the press reports from the advocates were very, very

similar to that, and there is evidence, I think, that 90 percent of

the health benefit claimed by the EPA under this rule are for

particulates, so I am just curious about that, how many times you cancount a death for a rule for its proposed benefit.

Ms. McCarthy. We do that----

Mr. Harris. Are those particulate matter, the data that supports

that death and injury data, is that publicly available?

Ms. McCarthy. Yes.

Mr. Harris. Could you get that to me?

Ms. McCarthy. Yes, sir.

Mr. Harris. Thank you very much, because I would love to have it,you know, reviewed independently from the EPA.

Ms. McCarthy. I think I should probably clarify only because I

just realized what you are indicating is that the 15,000 heart

attacks that we reference are nonfatal, so that would be very

different than thinking that we----

Mr. Harris. That is even worse because the number of people that

have a heart attack who go on to die actually now under current

therapy is actually quite low, so the numbers of deaths from heart

attacks actually would be strikingly low as part of that 34,000, so I

am just curious about that.

But anyway, my time is expired. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I

appreciate follow-up on those two questions I asked.

Thank you.

As McCarthy was wrong about the data

Harris asked for being publicly available, he made his request clear

in a follow-up letter that read, in relevant part:ii

… I

questioned you about the availability of the data that support the

death and injury benefits and you assured me that all such data is

publicly available and you were willing to provide it. In light of

the pivotal role of this publically-funded [sic] research in

providing a justification for major EPA regulations, it is imperative

that associated data and analysis be open and transparent to allow

for sufficient scientific and technical review. Accordingly, in the

spirit and letter of Public Law 105-277, Executive Order 13563 (which

explicitly states that regulations “must be based on the best

available science”, EPA’s Peer Review Handbook, and recently

–released Scientific Integrity Policy Draft, please provide alloriginal data and analysis for the following rules that were used inthe EPA analysis:

  1. The Cancer Prevention Study I

compiled by the American Cancer Society.

  1. The Cancer Prevention Study II

compiled by the American Cancer Society.

  1. The Harvard Six Cities Study.
  2. The nurses’ Health Study and

Nurses Health Study II.

Please provide

all this information no later than October 3, 2011.

But the deadline came and went and

Harris had received no data from EPA. Nor would any be forthcoming.

My interpretation of this was that the requested health data would be

really embarrassing for EPA if anyone other than an EPA hired-hand

got his hands on it. So I continued to encourage House staff to

pursue EPA on the secret science issue. Meanwhile, I went back to the

drawing board for an entirely new approach to the PM2.5 problem.

Chapter24  OvercomingEPA’s Secret Science

Since mere criticism of EPA science had

virtually no chance of success, and no meaningful political or media

pressure was forthcoming, something no one had thought of doing

before was required. But what could that possibly be? That question

stumped me for quite a few months. Eventually, I approached the

problem from a scientific perspective 

I would have to prove EPA’s PM2.5 claims to be false.

Short of a smoking gun e-mail between EPA staff admitting that PM2.5

was a huge scientific fraud, I would have to create my own persuasive

evidence. That meant doing some sort of scientific, or at least a

statistical analysis.

i

U.S. Government Printing Office, Out Of Thin Air: EPA's Cross-State

Air Pollution Rule, Hearing Before The Committee On Science, Space,

And Technology House Of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth

Congress, First Session, Thursday, September 15, 2011, Serial No.

112-35

(http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg70585/html/CHRG-112hhrg70585.htm).

ii

Letter from Andy Harris, MD to Gina McCarthy, September 22, 2011

(https://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/harris-to-mccarthy-092211.pdf).

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congressmen-dana-rohrabacher-andy-harris-say-they-will-give-away-paul-manafort-donations-if-hes-convicted

...Just two current members of the House of Representatives — Reps. Andy Harris, R-Md., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. — and one current senator — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — received money from Manafort in the past decade,according tothe OpenSecrets database of contribution filings.

Rohrabacher received $1,000 in March 2013, three days after the men had dinner at the Capitol Hill Club. Manafort previously contributed $1,000 to the long-serving congressman in 1997.

Harris received $500 in 2008 as he ran in his first campaign in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District. He lost that race, but won in a second try in 2010 and has been re-elected repeatedly since then.

Campaign spokeswoman Nicole Beus told the Washington Examiner she spoke with Harris on Thursday, and that he said he would donate the money to charity if Manafort is convicted. She said that he has no recollection of why Manafort donated.

“He has no recollection at all,” Beus said. “It was his first campaign ... he had a lot of contributions and it was just one of those that came in.”

omg 2x!

Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), representing Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has quite a reputation among marijuana reform activists—and not a good one. For years, Harris has done everything he can to block progressive reforms and has hamstrung the District of Columbia’s efforts to bring full pot legalization—meaning taxed and regulated sales, not just the legalization of possession and cultivation—to the nation’s capital.

But his latest nasty stunt only solidifies his reputation as not only a foe of marijuana law reform but as a first-class vindictive jerk. After a contentious protest last October led by local marijuana activists fed up with Harris’ interference in D.C. home rule, staffers and activists set up a meeting at Harris’ congressional office.

Among those attending was Salisbury University student activist Jake Burdett. Burdett briefly live-streamed part of the meeting without seeking anyone’s permission—a violation of Maryland’s “all-party consent” law requiring that any recordings only take place with the knowledge of the individuals involved.

According to Maryland Marijuana Justice (MDMJ), the activist group of which Burdett is a member, the student was not aware of the state law regarding recordings, and when he was made aware of it after the meeting, he apologized to the staffer involved and deleted the live stream the next day.

Harris could have accepted Burdett’s moves to atone for his innocent misdeed. Instead, he pressedfelony chargesagainst him—for revealing to the public what a public servant was saying in a government office on government time.

Adam Eidinger, the D.C. activist who led the successful 2014 legalization initiative and who grew so irritated with Harris’ interference in D.C. home rule that he moved to Harris’ district and co-founded MDMJ, is calling him out on it.

“Jake, who is a serious student leader, has a bright political future ahead of him that Representative Andy Harris wants to tarnish. In his honest attempt to provide the public with transparency into actions of a Congressional office that regularly insults marijuana reformers with false accusations, Jake’s livestream served as a conduit for the public to witness the endemic corruption in Salisbury,” he said in a statement.

“By deciding to throw the book at Mr. Burdett for an honest mistake, one that was fixed almost immediately, it shows how partisan and petty Congressman Harris has become. He clearly wants to chill citizen participation in government,” Eidinger added.

MDMJ co-founder Kris Furnish also weighed in on Burdett’s behalf.

“Is it unreasonable for a 20-year-old to think that it’s legal to record a staffer of a United States Congressman in a public space? In a society that supposedly values transparency in government, I do find it odd that Jake can be found guilty of the ‘crime’ of recording the staff of elected government representatives in a taxpayer-funded space,” he said.

“Rep. Harris wants to pretend to be victimized by a 20-year-old’s deleted livestream, while he supports the racist war on drugs that actually victimizes thousands of people a day by locking them up for the victimless crime of smoking marijuana, a non-addictive substance with many medicinal benefits.”

Harris’ hostility toward Burdett and the other MDMJ activists is matched only by his hostility toward their cause. Named by Forbes as one of the five worst House representatives on marijuana policy, Harris has used his position on the House Appropriations Committee, which has authority over District of Columbia spending, to try to stop the D.C. Council from decriminalizing pot possession, a move that led the city’s non-voting delegate to Congress, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), to call him “a tyrant.”

When District voters approved marijuana legalization at the ballot box in 2014, Harris was on hand again to try again to throw up obstacles. He couldn’t stop the city from ending marijuana prohibition, but he and his Republican colleagues in the House were able to block the District from regulating commercial sales.

It’s not just that he doesn’t believe in changing the marijuana laws; he has repeatedly evidenced a vindictive streak.When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) allowed the legalization vote to go into effect despite objections from Republicans in Congress, Harris said she should be locked up.

In remarks made before the 2016 elections, Harris said if a Republican won the White House, he hoped he would prosecute the D.C. mayor: “You have to wait for the next administration. It’s a five-year statute of limitations,” Harris said. “All I can say is we’ll gather all the information. Maybe next the attorney general actually wants to enforce the law.”

He also isn’t a fan of democracy in the District: “We don’t take lightly interfering in D.C. home rule, but when they make clearly bad decisions…. This is where I think D.C. made a bad decision about its own rule and we have—the Congress has—the ultimate authority.”

Harris’ vindictiveness wasn’t aimed just at D.C., though; he also wanted to crack down on states whose voters had democratically chosen to legalize marijuana. “It is illegal under the law. This is an example of the administration not wanting to enforce the law,” he said.

Harris is a big fan of enforcing the law. In fact, he’s such a big fan that he’s using the law to hammer down a student activist who irritated—but did not harm—him or his staff.

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https://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_Harris

https://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_Harris

2019-2020

At the beginning of the 116th Congress, Harris was assigned to the following committees::{[Source]:(style="box-sizing:border-box;position:relative;vertical-align:baseline;top:-0.5em"):}:

2017-2018

At the beginning of the 115th Congress, Harris was assigned to the following committees:[2]

2015-2016

Harris served on the following committees:[3]

2013-2014

Harris served on the following committees:[4][5]

2011-2012

Harris served on the following House committees:[6]

Maryland State Senate

https://www.congress.gov/member/andy-harris/H001052

hmmn, src?

At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said he was "quite troubled" by ataxpayer-funded studythat tarred the Tea Party movement as a pawn of Big Tobacco.Collins called the study, led by anti-smoking activist Stanton Glantz, "an unfortunate outcome," saying, "We thought we were funding a different kind of research when those grants were awarded."Science Insiderreportsthat Collins was responding to concerns raised byRep. Andy Harris (R-Md.)at a hearing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee:

"They allege that somehow the Tea Party had its origin in the 1980s with tobacco funding, which is pretty incredible," Harris said. "Because I mean, I'm a Tea Party guy. I was there when it was established in 2009. I know the origins. I find it incredible that NIH funding is funding this," Harris said, adding that the study reflects "a partisan political agenda."

When thestudywas published in the journalTobacco Control last month, one of Glantz's co-authorsdeclared, "The records indicate that the Tea Party has been shaped by the tobacco industry and is not a spontaneous grassroots movement at all." As Inoted at the time, Glantz et al. tried to make the case that the Tea Party was funded and largely created by Philip Morris but ended up arguing that anyone who disagrees with them on issues such as ObamaCare, smoking bans, and cigarette taxes is carrying water for Big Tobacco, even if he does not realize it. 

Glantz toldScience Insider he was "very troubled" by Collins' comments. After all, when Glantz said in his grant proposal that he planned to study the influence of "third parties" funded by cigarette manufacturers, the NIH should have realized that included political hatchet jobs aimed at discrediting supporters of limited government as shills or dupes of Big Tobacco. It's not his fault that the people he attacked happen to be critics of the current president, which makes it look like the Obama administration is using taxpayer money to pay for opposition research.

[Thanks to Christopher Snowdon for the tip.]

Legislator Grills NIH Over Tobacco Grant

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A research grant sometimes can lead a scientist in a new direction. But a shift into politically sensitive territory can put the federal funding agency in hot water with Congress.

That's what happened yesterday to Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at a hearing on how agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services are dealing with tight budgets. One legislator wanted to know why an NIH grantee's research on tobacco control delved into the origins of the Tea Party. Although conservative lawmakers often take issue with certain NIH grants, what was surprising was that Collins said he was troubled by it as well.

The U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee on health and human services, labor, and education met to ask the directors of five agencies about ways to avoid duplicating research in a tight budget environment. Toward the end of the 2-hour hearing, Representative Andy Harris (R-MD) asked about a specific National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded study tracing Tea Party's origins to groups supported by tobacco companies (video around 1:51here). "They allege that somehow the Tea Party had its origin in the 1980s with tobacco funding, which is pretty incredible," Harris said. "Because I mean, I'm a Tea Party guy. I was there when it was established in 2009. I know the origins. I find it incredible that NIH funding is funding this," Harris said, adding that the study reflects "a partisan political agenda."

"I, too, am quite troubled about this particular circumstance," Collins replied. He pointed out that the lead author, University of California, San Francisco, researcher Stanton Glantz, has been anNCI grantee for 14 years and is considered a leading researcher on tobacco control. The paper, which listed support from an NCItraining grantand an NCIresearch grant, also included a disclaimer that the NCI played no role in choosing the topic of the study. But, Collins added, "We thought we were funding a different kind of research when those grants were awarded."

Harris fired back: "What is within the NIH's abilities to, shall we say, make sure that this researcher or this institution doesn't play fast and loose with taxpayer money in this kind of research?"

"It's a very appropriate question and I'm struggling with it, to be honest," Collins replied. "The tension here is both to recognize that [the paper] is an unfortunate outcome, but also not to put NIH in a position of basically playing a nanny over top of everything our grantees do."

The study,publishedlast month in Tobacco Control, received coverage in both theliberaland conservativepress. In it, Glantz and co-authors make the case that two nonprofit groups funded by tobacco companies to fight tobacco taxes and no-smoking laws were among the earliest supporters of what became the Tea Party.

Glantz said he is "very troubled" by Collins's remarks. His grant proposal didn't hide anything, he says. Written several years ago, it discussed his plan to study the influence on policymaking of "third parties" funded by the tobacco industry. "We didn't go looking for the Tea Party. It emerged naturally in the course of the research," he says, just as a cell biologist's research grant might lead in an unexpected direction.

It's not the first time Glantz's research has drawn hostility from Congress. In 1995, House appropriators voted to defund his NCI grant, but their recommendation was stripped from the final spending bill that year. [ACS pressure?]"This is déjà vu all over again," Glantz says.

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Josh Fox, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Gasland" was taken into custody by Capitol Hill police this morning, along with his crew, after Republicans objected to their presence, according to Democratic sources present at the hearing. The meeting of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment had been taking place in room 2318 of the Rayburn building.

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13 green energy cuts U.S. clean energy initiatives in other countries. The EERE's international program partners with global leaders and organizations to develop renewable energy and efficiency measures mainly in poorer countries. This amendment cuts off funds for the program, and it cites Obama's plan to spend $600,000 to help China and India build sustainable cities as the leading reason. Sponsor: Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.)

Do we really want our elected representatives set up as puppets of groups from outside Maryland?  Rep. Andy Harris is one such puppet! The following is a post on RightWingWatch.org, from 2008, about our Congressman, Andy “Dr. No” Harris.  It shows how misleading his support was and how he still panders to outside forces, instead of working on issues that matter to his constituents. He has given in to being a puppet of the extreme right-wing radicals who have funded his campaigns and ordered him how to vote in Congress, not for the best interests of his district, but for the social agenda of those puppeteers, who are based outside of Maryland.

    This week, the Club for Growth declared victory, as incumbent Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, lost the Republican primary to the Club’s handpicked candidate. The Club’s PAC, which has carved out a niche for itself, with right-wing primary challenges, spent more than $600,000 on the race, mostly with TV ads calling Gilchrest a “liberal.”

    But the Club for Growth, known for its hard-line supply-side economics, wasn’t the only outside group giving a boost to challenger Andy Harris. “It is imperative that Dr. Harris win this contest!” declared Focus on the Family founder, James Dobson, who trumpeted right-wing complaints about Gilchrist.

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Congressman Andy Harris Is Terrible

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/07/andyharris_ap.jpgYou know who's terrible? Congressman Andy Harris, of Maryland, is terrible. Here's why!

Harris, a freshman House Republican, served in the Maryland Senate for thirteen years, where he spent much of his time posturing for national office. After establishing his culture war bonafides, he decided to run for Congress in 2008. He primaried the 18-year congressional veteran Wayne Gilchrest, one of the last moderate Republicans around.Gilchrest held some awful policy positions, in Harris' view: He wanted to end the Iraq war at some point in the future, and he didn't think the Chesapeake Bay should be converted into a sludge pit. Harris successfully defeated Gilchrest, but then lost the safe Republican seat in the general election to Democrat Frank Kratovil. This was in a district which John McCain won by 19 points.

Harris returned to the Maryland Senate but never really stopped campaigning for national office, and he was quick to attach himself to whatever useless wedge issue bullshit he could. Here's a delightfulexample.When the Maryland state government was in its final days of the 2009 legislative session, working quickly to reach a difficult budget compromise,Harris heard that some students in a club at the University of Maryland were planning to screen the big-budget porno Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge on campus, with some dumb college-y panel about sex and gender and whatever afterwards. You know, just the usual college kids watching nakey-people stuff. Harris, however, was so offended by this that he threatened to withhold the university's entire $424 million in state funding unless the screening was canceled. He was ultimately victorious, but not after annoying all of his colleagues and holding up a budget agreement.

Harris ultimately was able to ride the Tea Party wave to victory last year in his second congressional run. He almost instantly made a terrible name for himself, when he was caught whining about having to wait a couple of weeks for his sweet congressional health insurance policy to kick in during one of the new House Republican majority's first meetings.

And now Andy Harris is back in the news as one of the anti-compromise Tea Party Republican holdouts who humiliated Speaker John Boehner last night with his terrible demands. One of them, The Hill reports, was that Boehner's debt ceiling bill offered too much money for Pell Grants, the cheap program that gives poor people some money to go to college:

Legislation crafted by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to raise the debt limit by $900 billion would directly appropriate $9 billion for Pell Grants in 2012 and another $8 billion in 2013.

This has shocked some conservative House freshmen who say they were elected to cut spending, not increase it. Some House Republicans think of it as being akin to welfare.

"I really don't understand why we're increasing spending in a bill supposed to be cutting spending," said Rep. Andy Harris, a freshman Republican from Maryland. "It was negotiated without the input of a lot of members."

Andy Harris is terrible.

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