This is a particulate map of the United States.

Fire and Smoke Map (click here)

The spots can be clicked on to show the level of particulates in the air caused by the fires in the country. I guarantee you there are emergency rooms full of people with lung conditions today. Add to that the fact the pandemic numbers are increasing and the hospitals have their hands full.

It is primarily the national forests that are on fire in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Canada.

Current Large Incidents (click here) It is going to be very difficult to fight those fires due to their close proximity. The firefighters won't know if the one they are fighting is being contained or not because as one fire might be diminished another is burning right behind it making visibility impossible.

Depending on where the fires and smoke are dangerous (click here), camping is out of the question.

I am proud of her. She is protecting the US Constitution and refuses to allow Republicans a political stage.

Speaker Pelosi has passed some incredibly wonderful legislation that directly benefits this country, with the Child Tax Credit as one. And have to face an extremist agenda from the Minority leader McCarthy is profound disrespect for her, for the country, and the USA Constitution. McCarthy is a political minion for Trump and has no regard for the country. 

No one is supposed to be playing politics with the USA Constitution. It is not a toy to bantered around. The two House members she banned from a bipartisan committee were going to make a circus out of a very serious insurrection they don't even believe was an insurrection, so much as party politics.

PEOPLE DIED ON JANUARY 6, 2021. A Capitol Police Officer gave his life to protect the election process and the future of the USA Constitution. There is no room for Republicans to treat the US Constitution as political fodder. This is not a game!

Those two House Republicans were picked by Trump, not McCarthy. McCarthy was just to visit Trump in Maralago and the choice for the Republicans on the committee was solicited by Trump. Just that simple. 

In the meantime, there are people being indicted in New York (click here), there is an off duty DEA agent that was at the Capitol on January 6th with his gun (click here), and there is the first prison sentence for a participant that day (click here).

Kevin McCarthy should be putting restrictions on the members of his party in the US House unfit to back to represent their constituents because they back Trump's Big Lie (click here). They are not competent to serve. Jordan is still wanted for questioning from his former coaching position that exploited young men for sex (click here). McCarthy should not be pandering to right-wing extremists. They just had CPAC so they are all hyped. CPAC is not the GOP although they would like to think they are and their money is used to back political sellouts that vote for their cronies' demands and not their constituents.

I take it US Rep. Elizabeth Cheney was the farthest from McCarthy's mind when the committee selection took place.

Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats are doing a magnificent job for the country and it is a national shame the Republicans causing such problems in the USA Senate. The obstruction has gone on too long.

July 21, 2021

By Marianna Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alemany, and Karoun Demirjian

Plans for a bipartisan committee (click here) to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection fell apart Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) moved to block two controversial Republicans appointed by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from sitting on the panel — paving the way for two separate and largely partisan investigations of the violent attack on the Capitol.

Pelosi called on McCarthy to name two new Republicans to the committee after refusing to appoint conservative Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), a privilege she has as speaker. As staunch backers of former president Donald Trump, both members voted against his impeachment and pushed to overturn the election results certifying Joe Biden as president.

“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”....