House voting on Lofgren/Cheney ECA reform, just Cheney and Rep. Tom Rice as the Republican yeses thus far — vote ongoing Meijer votes by proxy for Adam Kinzinger, who is a yes. Meijer hasn’t voted yet but told @metzgov he’s a yes earlier

Today's Uphill: senators respond to Biden's Taiwan comments, ECA reform update, and a look ahead at hearings and votes this week:
uphill.thedispatch.com/p/bidens-taiwa… “Look, the president has said this not once, not twice, but four times now,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, Foreign Relations chair. “I guess that’s his feeling, and so much for my friends and colleagues who are concerned about strategic ambiguity. You can’t be more direct than that.”

Each day this week, we’ll be publishing installments of a story I’ve been working on for about six months: a history of how the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act became law. The first section is out today. thedispatch.com/p/how-the-uygh… The story is based on more than 21 hours of interviews with more than two dozen people involved, including lawmakers, staff, and human rights advocates. Thank you, everyone who took the time to talk for this project—your perspectives were essential. thedispatch.com/p/how-the-uygh…

Seeing people on the right alarmed by this. Just to reiterate—This is a publicly available, broad govt list of critical infrastructure sectors. You don't need to be suddenly worried that Russia knows we have a communications sector. They already knew. It's a Google search away.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1405217452879925251

people panicking about adversaries knowing about something the government has had publicly available for years and is extremely vague is making me think of "we can't let people know we SIT" for some reason

ahhhhh this is so dumb!

Biden was referring to the very broadly defined critical infrastructure sectors the US government has had publicly available for ages cisa.gov/critical-infra…

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1405596534792675331

Not every reporter knows about the critical infrastructure sectors and Biden said "entities" at first so some folks reported on Biden telling Putin about it as if it was some very narrowly defined thing when in reality it applies to just about every sector in some way or another

Okay folks I don’t want to impugn our elected representatives if none of them were actually watching Galaxy Quest — the appropriations committee says it was an issue with the recording studio feed and not a member who was in the hearing. So I’m deleting my original tweet

https://twitter.com/evandhollander/status/1389255533564153861

BUT I am reposting the video because it rules

Sen. Roy Blunt is asking about this. Sund and Irving are both doubling down on their versions of events.

https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1364223283189710848

(and we're moving on. Because Blunt's questioning time ran out. Congressional hearings are the worst way to establish facts.)

This, from former Capitol Police Chief Sund, is baffling. It's like USCP intelligence wrote off much of what was being publicly reported about the rally beforehand—and the online posts from people who were openly saying they were planning to attend and were willing to be violent. We may hear the former officials suggest today that there wasn't enough intelligence to indicate there were plans to attack the Capitol.

pro snack tip: if you want a strawberry milkshake but don't want to leave the house or consume 60 grams of sugar you can throw some frozen strawberries in a blender with some milk and a little bit of vanilla and it will taste good it is not ice cream but it also does not taste like a ~smoothie~ smoothie either. it tastes more like a strawberry milkshake than a smoothie in my opinion

"Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski please confirm our OMB nominee, it would be very punk rock of you" is so funny to me (link politico.com/playbook)

Just to reiterate for members of the press: AOC seems to have had a truly frightening experience on January 6th, but members of the mob did not break into her office. The man she hid from was a Capitol Police officer who told her to go to a different office building. She raised valid concerns about the officer, saying he didn't announce himself and she perceived him as hostile. I want to emphasize again that I'm not discounting the fear she must have felt in those moments. But accuracy about how we describe it is important.

(deleted my tweets about AOC's story about January 6th because she's still telling it and my initial tweets didn't include very key details she's sharing now) This is what I tweeted about—took it down because she said after describing this that the man was a Capitol Police officer. She said he didn't announce himself first and that she feared for her life. He told her to go to a different office building.

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1356435099412226048?s=20

(It's really worth emphasizing in all of the news coverage about the rift within the House Republican Conference that one side has maybe 10-20 people on it and the other side has... basically everyone else.) (I mean this is an oversimplification of the group who didn't object to the Electoral College results, so most generously it's like about 1/3rd versus nearly two thirds. But most of those members aren't super involved in this public debate over, like, the future of the party.)

can someone in the candy industry tell me if this is impossible: small chunks of real strawberries coated in chocolate that won’t melt like an M&M or something

I feel like it would be a nice lil movie theater snack (and yes I’m tweeting this because we made chocolate-covered strawberries tonight)

If there was a brief moment after January 6 in which congressional Republicans were willing to seriously examine the attack on the Capitol and demand accountability for Trump’s behavior, it’s pretty clear that moment has passed.
uphill.thedispatch.com/p/uphill-senat… Some of this can be attributed to the echo chamber: Every day that has passed between January 6 and the beginning of the trial has been another day Republican senators have been absorbing talking points against impeachment from conservative media sources and their constituents.

elected Republicans and conservative media already trying to convince each other the attackers were not Trump supporters what’s annoying is it’s going to work for a lot of folks. and people I know personally are going to be repeating these talking points as soon as today

JUST NOW: The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes the UIGHUR Act, a bill to condemn the Chinese government for its mass internment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, with a vote of 406-1. The bill would also enable Global Magnitsky Act sanctions on Chinese officials deemed responsible for the concentration camps and require the State Department to assemble a report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers to send letter to NBA commissioner on China, from Reps. Tom Malinowksi, Mike Gallagher, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jim Banks, and Sens. Ben Sasse, Ron Wyden, Tom Cotton, and Ted Cruz “It is outrageous that the Chinese Communist Party is using its economic power to suppress the speech of Americans inside the United States,” they'll say, per a draft obtained by CNN. “It is also outrageous that the NBA has caved to Chinese government demands for contrition.”

I ask Ted Cruz if he agrees with Trump that the president can pardon himself. Cruz is silent for eighteen (18!) seconds before telling reporters it’s not a constitutional area he’s studied. Alright, folks. Here's the audio