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<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear440951" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber440951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">531</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle440951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-531-undermining-clean-air-protections" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining Clean Air Protections</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues440951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice440951" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear440516" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber440516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">528</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle440516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-528-attack-sound-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Sound Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues440516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice440516" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear440081" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber440081" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">525</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle440081" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-525-attack-scientific-integrity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Scientific Integrity</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues440081" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice440081" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear439646" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber439646" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">519</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle439646" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-519-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-kxl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (KXL)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues439646" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice439646" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear439211" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber439211" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">515</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle439211" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-515-big-polluter-giveaway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Polluter Giveaway</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues439211" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice439211" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear438779" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber438779" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">489</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle438779" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-489-assault-clean-water-rule" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assault on the Clean Water Rule</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues438779" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice438779" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear438347" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber438347" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">470</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle438347" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-470-pesticides-pollution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pesticides Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues438347" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice438347" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear437914" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber437914" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">463</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle437914" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-463-attack-endangered-species-act-esa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues437914" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice437914" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear437481" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber437481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">461</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle437481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-461-using-best-available-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Using Best Available Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues437481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice437481" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear437048" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber437048" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">402</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle437048" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-402-assault-clean-energy-and-clean-water" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assault on Clean Energy and Clean Water</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues437048" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy, Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice437048" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear436615" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber436615" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">397</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle436615" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-397-impacts-climate-change" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Impacts of Climate Change</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues436615" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice436615" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear436182" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber436182" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">394</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle436182" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-394-attack-clean-water" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Clean water</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues436182" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice436182" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear435749" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber435749" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">393</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle435749" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-393-light-bulb-efficiency-standards" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Light Bulb Efficiency Standards</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues435749" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice435749" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear435316" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber435316" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">389</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle435316" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-389-social-cost-carbon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Social Cost of Carbon</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues435316" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice435316" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear434883" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber434883" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">376</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle434883" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-376-clean-energy-funding" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Clean Energy Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues434883" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice434883" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear434450" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber434450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">368</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle434450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-368-big-oil-giveaway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Oil Giveaway</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues434450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice434450" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear434017" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber434017" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">364</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle434017" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-364-offshore-drilling-subsidies" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Offshore Drilling Subsidies</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues434017" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice434017" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear433584" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber433584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">361</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle433584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-361-national-ocean-policy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Ocean Policy</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues433584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice433584" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear433151" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber433151" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">359</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle433151" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-359-liquefied-natural-gas-lng-exports" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues433151" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice433151" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear432718" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber432718" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">354</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle432718" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-354-gutting-pipeline-review" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Gutting Pipeline Review</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues432718" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice432718" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear432286" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber432286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">334</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle432286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-334-military-investments-advanced-biofuels" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Military Investments in Advanced Biofuels</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues432286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Transportation</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice432286" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear431854" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber431854" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">267</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle431854" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-267-blocking-climate-action-trade-agreements" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Blocking Climate Action in Trade Agreements</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues431854" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice431854" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear431422" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber431422" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">177</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle431422" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-177-big-oil-budget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Oil Budget</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues431422" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice431422" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear430989" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber430989" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">147</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle430989" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-147-preventing-new-parks" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Preventing New Parks</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues430989" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice430989" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear430557" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber430557" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">141</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle430557" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-141-toxic-mining-waste" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Toxic Mining Waste</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues430557" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice430557" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear430125" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber430125" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">113</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle430125" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-113-attacking-public-input-environmental-review" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attacking Public Input & Environmental Review</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues430125" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice430125" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

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<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear429694" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber429694" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">103</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle429694" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-103-climate-change-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Climate Change Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues429694" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice429694" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear428832" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber428832" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">91</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle428832" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-91-undermining-flood-insurance-reform" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining Flood Insurance Reform</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues428832" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice428832" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url(" http="http" scorecard.lcv.org="scorecard.lcv.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" no-repeat="no-repeat" margin-right="margin-right" px="px" important="important" padding-left="padding-left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div>

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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Jeff Hauser, Eleanor Eagan / Washington Monthly October 20, 2019</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Times are tough for American farmers. Everything from corporate consolidation to falling commodity prices is making it harder to get by. Strange, then, that the person most responsible for safeguarding their wellbeing,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, brought the following message to a gathering of Wisconsin dairy farmers: “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out. I don’t think in America we, for any small business, we have a guaranteed income or guaranteed profitability.” In other words, he was telling the farmers: you’re probably screwed and there’s nothing you can do about it.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contrary to Perdue’s claims, the deaths of small farms are not a result of natural forces</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;They are a consequence of explicit policy choices that have allowed for the rampant consolidation and disinvestment that are crushing rural communities. Only two decades ago, there were 600 companies that sold seed. Today, there are only four. It’s no wonder that the cost of seeds and plant corn has risen 329 percent in that time period, with similar increases for other crops.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Perdue hasn’t just failed to recognize the root causes of farmers’ pain; he has actively aided the forces responsible for it.</b>&nbsp;From his first days in office, he has turned the full power of the USDA against farmers and rural communities on behalf of Big Agriculture, betraying one of the constituencies most vital to Trump’s 2016 win.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">None of this should surprise anyone. What should be genuinely shocking, however, is tha</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">t</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Congressman Collin Peterson</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, a Democrat from Minnesota and the chair of the House Agriculture Committee</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, has been practically silent about these attacks.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Over the past nine months, he has only convened one full committee hearing. And while his panel heard testimony from Perdue in February, Peterson has yet to call him back despite his committing numerous transgressions since, including his continued efforts to impose work requirements on access to food stamps and pressing ahead to relocate the department’s research wing out of D.C.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson, who declined our request for comment, has failed to fulfill his obligation to protect farmers and rural communities. That is not only bad on the substance, but it is a missed opportunity for Democrats to win back support among American farmers, who overwhelmingly pulled the lever for Trump in 2016.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In recent years, consolidated agribusinesses have translated their rising profits into formidable political power.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They have successfully weakened or killed many measures that would have limited their control over farmers’ lives and livelihoods,<b>&nbsp;including fighting laws that would give farmers the right to repair their own equipment,&nbsp;something that overzealous copyright protections have prevented them from doing</b>. When these and other nasty practices get too much attention, Big Ag<b>wields its considerable weight to silence critics, whether that means getting a newspaper cartoonist fired or suing the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to close a public comment period on a proposed merger.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Over the past few decades, Democrats have too often either supported the policies that got us here, or fallen short in resisting them. In 2008, Barack Obama made fighting consolidation a feature of his agricultural policy platform. But once in power, he failed to act decisively on those promises</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. His administration hesitated to enact proposed regulations that would have made it easier for contract farmers to sue packing and processing companies for unfair practices. Then, it found itself unable to move forward once Republicans took the House in 2010.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As with most things, however, the Trump administration has taken a bad problem and made it worse. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice approved a merger between two agricultural industry giants, Monsanto and Bayer, allowing for the creation of a new behemoth. And those Obama-era contracting rules? They were eventually approved in 2016, but Perdue promptly scrapped them after taking power. Worse yet, Perdue’s USDA has walked back enforcement of many of the remaining rules to protect contract farmers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is all without mentioning what’s at the forefront of people’s minds when they think about Trump’s impact on farmers: trade policy. Yet as these examples should make clear, the harm this administration is inflicting on farmers goes well beyond trade.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Unfortunately, House Democrats have done little to draw attention to Trump’s deleterious agricultural policies When they do respond by holding a hearing, like over the decision to move the USDA’s Economic Research Service to Kansas City, they fail to confront those responsible for their actions, or take definitive actions to stop them.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, in the same time span that Peterson only convened one full committee hearing, Agriculture’s six subcommittees have held a combined 19 hearings, seven of which involved testimony from USDA officials. The Committee has issued zero subpoenas to corporate or governmental actors.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson should reverse course and start from the top. The USDA is a big department with a diverse set of important responsibilities, ranging from protecting farming and rural economies, to ensuring food safety and administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There have been other ways Perdue has materially hurt farmers and others working in the industry. In addition to cancelling the aforementioned Obama era contracting rules, Perdue announced, in 2018, that the USDA would begin to allow poultry processing plants to increase line speeds, putting already vulnerable workers at even greater risk of injury.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump has also failed to nominate an undersecretary of rural development almost three years after taking office, meaning there is no dedicated advocate for rural communities empowered to support rural businesses, utilities, housing, broadband, and more in the federal government.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But that’s not all. The USDA is also making meat more dangerous for consumers by<b>&nbsp;allowing pork processing plants to perform their own inspections.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>&nbsp;</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Indeed, the USDA’s chief veterinarian from 2016 to 2018, Pat Basu, refused to sign off on the system and left the agency in protest</b>. Basu recently said, “Look at the FAA. It took a year or so before the crashes happened. This could pass, and everything could be okay for a while, until some disease is missed, and we have an outbreak all over the country.” It seems like Basu might make for an interesting witness at a Agriculture Committee hearing.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats need to perform meaningful oversight of the Trump administration’s assault on American farmers. Impeachment doesn’t obviate the need for skeptical oversight. It underscores it. Oversight is, put simply, a basic fulfillment of Congress’ governing obligations. It can uncover abuse, create pressure for change, and facilitate the development of much needed policy alternatives. And, as an added bonus, the political upside seems clear.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This strategy might seem somewhat unorthodox. It contravenes the gospel that Democrats can only win agricultural districts by espousing a quiet, inoffensive centrism. But that would cede control of the political debate to Trump. If Democrats only play on the president’s terms, the conversation will always shift away from the real issue.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats must therefore redefine the debate on agriculture policy through rigorous oversight. In rural America, they have to demonstrate their willingness to take on political corruption of all shades, and to challenge corporate America’s chokehold over the political process.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet Democrats have been surprisingly unwilling to take on one of the most unifying issues across the electorate: how the system is rigged to hurt ordinary people and boost big corporations.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump has created an opportunity for Democrats to take up this message in virtually every area of policy, but now especially with farmers. House Democrats have a unique opening to prove to rural voters that they are serious about taking on structural inequities. All they have to do is highlight and push back against the administration’s efforts to enrich corporations at the expense of small farmers. In other words, they have to simply do their jobs.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sometimes, the general public is completely unaware of very important decisions government makes because they are shrouded in technicalities. Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could crippled the ability of government to regulate private industry.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="more-258744" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill modifies the Administrative Procedure Act, which was passed in 1946, and represented a compromise between New Deal Democrats and free-market Republicans. It sanctioned the power of government agencies like the National Labor Relations Board or the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the private market, but required public hearings on proposed rulings and court suits to overturn regulations.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Supreme Court ruled in 1984 that the courts could only overturn rulings that were “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion.” In other words, the courts would have to defer to the regulatory agencies in finding whether a ruling was justified. But the Republicans in the House passed a law that would allow the courts to rule without giving deference to the regulatory agencies. A Republican court could, for instance, overrule decisions of the Food and Drug Administration or the Environmental Protection Agency on concocted Constitutional grounds – say, by arguing that it violated the “takings” clause of the Constitution. That could cripple the regulatory agencies.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Martin Lobel, a Washington lawyer and expert in tax and regulatory policy, sent me an email explaining the Republican action:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 5px solid rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px !important;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On January 11, while everyone’s attention was focused on confirmation hearings and attempts to repeal Obamacare, the House passed The Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 (H.R. 5) which would amend the Administrative Procedures Act to overturn the deference courts have given to administrative agency decisions by a vote of 238-183. I was told the Republican leadership was confident, since there are 114 judicial vacancies that they expect will be filled by “conservatives,” this change will significantly help to end “big government,” as will the new Administration’s appointees to the various regulatory bodies. BEWARE.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marty’s admonition, “Beware,” should be taken very seriously. If the Senate passes this act, and President Trump signs it, federal agencies entrusted with enforcing the Clean Air Act or other landmark legislation, will no longer be able to do their job.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update: We’ve gotten two interesting responses to my analysis of the Regulatory Accountability Act that House Republicans passed this week. Reader DP agrees with the “overall thrust of the article,” but says that I didn’t explain well how the courts could now overturn agency rulings. NP says that what is at issue is not whether the court can introduce Constitutional considerations, but whether it must accept an agency’s ruling on the basis of whether its decision-making process is “rational,” or whether it can substitute a new process of its own. NP writes,</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 5px solid rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px !important;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under the current deferential APA standards, such determinations are to be affirmed if they are rational or reasonable — the court is not empowered to decide what decision or approach is best, only whether the agency was rational. If such deference is removed by Congress, the court can then “substitute its own judgment” for that of the agency. That would be a big deal, a big change.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reader DB doesn’t accept the thrust of my article and accuses me of echoing “what comes out of Trump’s mouth.” DB says he says agencies on behalf of public interest groups that want to enforce, say, the Endangered Species Act. He says the Republican law would make it “potentially easier for citizens to enforce these laws.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If one sees the regulatory agencies as the problem, and if most of the suits brought against them were by public interest organizations, then DB would have a point. But what the law – passed by a party-line Republican vote – would do is to make it easer for businesses and their lobbies like the Competitive Enterprise Institute (a leading backer of the legislation) to overturn applications of major legislation like the Clean Air Act. That’s why Public Citizen and all but five Democrats opposed the law. Thanks to both NP and DB for their responses.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">goodlatte sponsor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crop Production & Basic Processing</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,349,815</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$430,432</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$919,383</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Agricultural Services/Products</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$832,464</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$26,513</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$805,951</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dairy</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$398,673</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$29,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$369,673</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public Sector Unions</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$385,448</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$385,448</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accountants</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$362,923</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$361,923</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table id="topContrib" class="tablesorter datadisplay tablesorter-default" role="grid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; width: 604px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody aria-live="polite" aria-relevant="all"><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Institute of CPAs</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$131,996</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$131,996</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Crystal Sugar</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$117,185</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$11,350</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$105,835</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$103,498</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$103,498</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Assn of Realtors</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$103,010</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$103,010</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dairy Farmers of America</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$103,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$101,500</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laborers Union</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$94,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$94,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Associated Milk Producers</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$86,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$86,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Southern Minn Beet Sugar Co-op</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$81,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$81,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$79,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$79,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Beer Wholesalers Assn</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$76,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$76,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Medical Assn</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$75,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$75,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teamsters Union</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,500</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blue Dog PAC</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$72,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$72,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Land O'Lakes</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$71,505</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,550</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$62,955</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$68,800</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$68,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Bankers Assn</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deloitte LLP</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Education Assn</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd" style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Operating Engineers Union</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$65,700</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$700</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$65,000</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United Auto Workers</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$64,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$64,000</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h4><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson</font></h4>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson thinks global warming will be good for farmers. Last year he told reporters that farmers in his state say global warming is going to be great for them because it will allow them to grow more corn</b>. This despite clear evidence that the opposite is true — even moderate increases in temperatures will slash crop yields. A USDA report found that a 2-degree rise in temperatures would cost Minnesota farmers $135 million a year from reduced yields.</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson did eventually vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act but only after weakening the bill with concessions to the agricultural industry. Interestingly enough, agricultural services and products was the top industry making contributions to Peterson's campaign in 2009. Funny how that works.</font></div>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The sad saga of climate legislation under Obama -- its harrowing ride through Congress and final collapse -- features many villains. For me, the most maddening isn't some Tea Party ideologue railing against the "climate conspiracy." Rather, it's a powerful Democrat named Collin Peterson, rep from Minnesota, the <b>House's ranking Agriculture Committee member</b>, and the man I once deemed the <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-02-03-climate-legislation-collin-peterson-corn">corn jihadi</a>. &nbsp;</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson's opposition to climate policy doesn't stem from any insane denialist creed. Indeed, he once even <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520189754821613.html">welcomed</a> global warming -- on the theory that it would help "my farmers ... grow more corn." The "more corn" bit cuts to the heart of Peterson's stand. He is probably the agribusiness lobby's fiercest and most powerful congressional champion. Industrial agriculture is a greenhouse-gas-spewing machine, and any effective climate policy would rein it in, propelling farmers to grow food in less chemical-intensive, soil-destroying ways. Peterson's position is really quite simple: Anything that would curtail the power of agribusiness must be stopped.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Back in 2009, when the Waxman-Markey climate bill was lurching through the House, I reported on Peterson's <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-21-peterson-mine-all-mine">relentless</a> <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-22-colin-peterson-villain">and</a> <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-10-big-ag-waxman-markey">successful</a> effort to transform the bill into another sop for Big Ag. Even after an agribusiness-friendly version of Waxman-Markey passed the House with Peterson's support, he continued railing against climate legislation, <a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/81070137.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:Yyc:aUU%20-http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/81070137.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:Yyc:aUU%20-">vowing to weigh it down with yet more agribiz goodies</a> if it ever made it out of the Senate and to the reconciliation process. Of course, it skidded to a halt in that inglorious chamber, the Senate, even after -- as <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-14-highlights-chat-reporter-ryan-lizza-senate-climate-politics">Ryan Lizza</a> showed in his wonderful <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza"><em>New Yorker</em> piece</a> -- the dirty-energy industry had larded it with concessions.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With climate legislation crushed, the battle to curb greenhouse-gas emissions has shifted to the EPA, which wants to use the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions. Once again, Peterson has mounted his mighty tractor in defense of Big Ag. He is joining forces with energy-industry stalwarts Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) to sponsor legislation that would strip away the agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases, <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3320F405-831B-47BC-8C76-C8A9BE87D5C5"><em>Politico</em> reports</a>. Their effort coincides with a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48953.html">similar bill</a> on the Senate side sponsored by Sen. <a href="http://www.grist.org/people/james+inhofe">Jim Inhofe</a> (R-Okla.), that relentless denier of climate change. This latest move isn't Peterson's first attempt to quash the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases; a year ago, he sponsored nearly identical legislation.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently, the Koch brothers -- the oil magnates who shovel millions of dollars into the effort to maintain the energy status quo -- have noted Peterson's good works on behalf of their cause. In 2009, Peterson <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/30/oil-funding-everyone/">was one of the select few congressional Democrats</a> who benefited from Koch largesse. On Thursday, Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' main vehicle for promoting their dirty-energy agenda, issued a <a href="http://americansforprosperity.org/030311-americans-prosperity-applauds-representatives-collin-peterson-dan-boren-and-nick-rahall-suppo">press release</a> praising Peterson for joining forces with the likes of Inhofe and "speaking with a clear voice that EPA should not be allowed to go around Congress to adopt job-killing global warming regulations."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Minnesota has a proud history as a liberal state. It has propelled to the national stage some of the most progressive politicians the U.S. has seen in the past half-century: Fritz Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Al Franken. Climate change is arguably the critical issue of our time. Yet the state -- or at least Peterson's district -- disgraces itself by sending this destructive man to Washington.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Philpott is Grist’s senior food and agriculture writer.</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Cross-posted from the <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dhawkins/dirty_air_extremism.html">Natural Resources Defense Council</a></em>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barry Goldwater famously said, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Maybe so, but extremism in the defense of fantasy is a tougher sell. Still, that doesn't stop some members of Congress from trying.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exhibit A this week is the attempt to legislate an alternate reality, offered up by Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) with accompanying cheers from Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.). Their draft bill would eliminate Clean Air Act provisions that would allow the EPA to set common-sense standards to cut the pollution from large industrial polluters that causes climate disruption. Whitfield chaired a hearing on this <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/media/file/PDFs/GG_01_xml.pdf">bill</a> [PDF] today. (You can find my full statement on this bill <a href="http://docs.nrdc.org/air/files/air_11020901a.pdf">here</a> [PDF].) The authors call their bill the "Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011" but a better name would be the "Reality Prevention Act."</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The novel idea in this bill is that Congress can simply vote out of existence scientific facts that a majority does not like. That's what this bill would do. It would "repeal" (yes, the bill really says "repeal") a scientific determination by the EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas pollutants are a threat to human health and welfare. Interesting concept: EPA scientists, after studying the work of thousands of other scientists, conclude that global warming pollution threatens our health and welfare. And Congress responds, "No it doesn't and we have the votes to prove it!"</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why didn't we think of this before? All those threats in the real world that concern us? Let's just vote them away. Let's vote that cigarettes do not contribute to lung cancer; let's vote that lead and mercury are not brain poisons; let's vote that diet and lack of exercise have nothing to do with being overweight. Let's vote there is no flu virus on the way (we can save all that spending on vaccines). Let's vote that the threat of terrorist attacks on America is over (hooray, no more airport pat-downs).</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gosh, voting away the science we don't like is so much easier than actually thinking about these problems and deciding what to do about them.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Ahh," you may think, "wasn't that EPA report just an Obama administration invention?" But you would be wrong. EPA's study was actually the result of a Bush administration program, started in 2001, to study the science of climate change. Jump to 2007, when the Supreme Court told EPA to decide whether greenhouse-gas pollution is a threat to public health and welfare and if it is, to do something about it using the tools in the Clean Air Act. So in May 2007, President George W. Bush <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070514-4.html">directed</a> the EPA to respond. After nearly three years of work, including two rounds of public comment on draft reports, the EPA <a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html">concluded</a> in December 2009 that the science does indeed demonstrate that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas pollution endanger public health and welfare. Following additional challenges to this final report, the EPA published yet another voluminous <a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment/petitions.html">report</a> that responded to all those critiques. And all of these findings are now being reviewed by the courts.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, maybe Upton and Whitfield commissioned their own independent expert scientific review that shows the EPA's conclusions were flawed? Well, noooo ... actually there is no contradictory independent report. The reality is that the EPA's conclusions are completely consistent with reports of other scientific <a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12782#toc">studies in the U.S.</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/G8+5energy-climate09.pdf">around the world</a> [PDF]. But if you can create your own reality by voting it into being why waste all that time considering the facts?</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Which brings me to the second novel aspect of this bill. As well as inventing their own science, the authors have invented their own version of the existing Clean Air Act rather than the real one that Congress enacted. You see, in addition to repealing the EPA's science decision, the bill also overturns the Supreme Court's ruling that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and it repeals all of the EPA's authority to limit this pollution (or to think about it any manner) in order to protect against climate disruption. The authors <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=8178">argue</a> these extreme measures are needed because the current Clean Air Act gives the EPA enormous power to do deep harm to the American economy. That's where the authors' second alternate reality comes in. In the real world, the existing Clean Air Act does not allow the EPA to set rules that would create economic disruption.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are three provisions of the Clean Air Act that the EPA could use to cut carbon dioxide pollution and each one of them explicitly requires the EPA to prove that any pollution standards it sets are technically feasible and economically reasonable. For example, last year the EPA, working with automakers, set tailpipe standards for new vehicles. The act allows the EPA to set those standards only if the EPA demonstrates there is available technology to meet the standards, considering the "cost, energy, and safety factors" associated with using the technology. (CAA, Sec. 202 for you budding lawyers)</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Next, the EPA has issued rules requiring large new pollution sources (as well as existing sources that are modified so pollution increases) to apply options that are technically feasible and affordable to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution. This requirement has been in operation for other pollutants for over 30 years under a provision that, you guessed it, requires the EPA or state agencies to determine, on a case-by-case basis, that any standard they set must be "achievable," "taking into account energy, environmental, and economic impacts and other costs." (CAA, Sec. 169)</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, the EPA plans to adopt emission standards for coal, oil, and gas power plants and for oil refineries (and maybe other large industrial sources in the future). As with the EPA's other authorities, the Clean Air Act limits what the EPA is allowed to do: Any emission standards it adopts under this part of the law must not only be technically achievable but the technology must be "adequately demonstrated, taking into consideration the cost of achieving such emission reduction, any nonair quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements." (Sec. 111) (Yep, some inventive scribe actually stuck "nonair" into the Clean Air Act. Hey, English is a living language, right?)</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, while the imaginary Clean Air Act of the Upton-Whitfield-Inhofe world would allow the EPA to run amok, the <em>real</em> Clean Air Act already does what they claim they want to do, which is to make sure that the EPA is not able hurt the U.S. economy as it requires polluters to clean up their act.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But maybe the Clean Air Act is like the old Soviet Constitution -- looks good on paper but in the real world it sucks. Noooo ... here too the real world puts the scare claims to rest. A peer-reviewed <a href="http://www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/design.html">study</a> comparing all the compliance costs imposed by Clean Air Act rules from 1970-1990, to the economic benefits produced by these rules in that period, concluded that benefits amounted to $22 trillion, while compliance costs were $525 billion -- a 40-to-1 payoff ratio for the American economy. A <a href="http://www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/prospective2.html">later study</a> for the period from 1990-2020&nbsp;finds that updated Clean Air Act pollution-cutting standards will&nbsp;continue to deliver benefits far in excess of compliance costs.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All this would just be the stuff of dark humor if the stakes for real human beings were not so high. Climate disruption is a problem that can sneak up on you, especially if you hold beliefs that make you want to look the other way. Our best hope is that there are people of good judgment who can reach the politicians who believe that the threat is not real or that we can afford to wait even longer before acting. The basis for the Upton-Whitfield-Inhofe bill is fantasy, but it would do huge damage&nbsp;in the real world if it ever became law.</font>

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<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2011-02-09-republican-congressmen-vote-away-scientific-facts"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.grist.org/article/2011-02-09-republican-congressmen-vote-away-scientific-facts</font></a></p>

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