Shockey Scofield

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://littlesis.org/maps/457-former-blackwater-academi-lobbyist-to-manage-the-house-intelligence-committee</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Defense lobbyist Jeff Shockey will become staff director of the House Intelligence Committee when it reconvenes under incoming Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes in January. From </span><a target="blank" rel="nofollow" id="" href="https://www.republicreport.org/2014/blackwater-lobbyist-will-manage-the-house-intelligence-committee/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lee Fang for Republic Report</a><span style="line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: 25.7142868041992px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In previous years, the House Intelligence Committee has <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" id="" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html?pagewanted=all" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">investigated</a> Blackwater over secret contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. As Staff Director, the highest position on a committee for a staff member, Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer.</font></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/18382/Jeffrey_Shockey">http://littlesis.org/person/18382/Jeffrey_Shockey</a></font></p><div class="subsection" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.4em 0.4em 0.2em 0.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Government Positions</font></div><div class="relationship-section" style="box-sizing: content-box; border-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="view profile" href="http://littlesis.org/org/13100/House_Intelligence%28Permanent_Select%29_Committee" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee</font></a></strong></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/876523" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff Director</font></a></span></li></div></div></div><div class="subsection" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.4em 0.4em 0.2em 0.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Business Positions</font></div><div class="relationship-section" style="box-sizing: content-box; border-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="view profile" href="http://littlesis.org/org/17120/Innovative_Federal_Strategies_LLC" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="NRA's lobbying arm" href="http://littlesis.org/org/117435/NRA_Institute_for_Legislative_Action" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">NRA Institute for Legislative Action</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">NRA's lobbying arm</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">General Dynamics</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">Manufactures components, parts, systems for military and...</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/876525" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lobbying client (past)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="Second-largest private company in the US, involved in manufacturing, trading and investments" href="http://littlesis.org/org/28220/Koch_Industries%2C_Inc." style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Koch Industries, Inc.</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">Second-largest private company in the US, involved in...</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/876526" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Devin Nunes</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/876517" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff Director ('14→)</font></a></span></li></div></div></div><div class="subsection" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding: 0.4em 0.4em 0.2em 0.2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donation/Grant Recipients</font></div><div class="section_meta" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1-10 of 67 :: <a href="http://littlesis.org/person/18382/Jeffrey_Shockey/recipients" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; background: transparent;">see all</a></font></div><div class="relationship-section" style="box-sizing: content-box; border-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="Jerry Lewis (R-CA) leadership PAC" href="http://littlesis.org/org/29915/Future_Leaders_Political_Action_Committee" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Future Leaders Political Action Committee</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">Jerry Lewis (R-CA) leadership PAC</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436812" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 contributions ⋅ $20000 ('00→'03)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="US Representative from California" href="http://littlesis.org/person/13145/Ken_Calvert" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Ken Calvert</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436780" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 contributions ⋅ $7903 ('99→'12)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="view profile" href="http://littlesis.org/org/28904/American_Success_Political_Action_Committee" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Success Political Action Committee</font></a></strong></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436782" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 contributions ⋅ $6500 ('02→'03)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="US Representative from California" href="http://littlesis.org/person/13730/Richard_William_Pombo" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Richard William Pombo</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436794" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 contributions ⋅ $6500 ('00→'03)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="US Representative from California" href="http://littlesis.org/person/13413/Jerry_Lewis" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Jerry Lewis</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436810" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 contributions ⋅ $5250 ('01→'11)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="" buck="Buck" us="US" representative="Representative" from="from" california="California" href="http://littlesis.org/person/13459/Howard_P_McKeon" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Howard P McKeon</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">"Buck" | US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436785" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 contributions ⋅ $4500 ('02→'04)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="US Representative from California" href="http://littlesis.org/person/13088/Mary_Bono_Mack" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">Mary Bono Mack</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Representative from California</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436781" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 contributions ⋅ $4250 ('01→'03)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="view profile" href="http://littlesis.org/org/45080/Political_Action_Committee_of_the_American_Association_of_Orthopaedic_Surgeons" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political Action Committee of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons</font></a></strong></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436818" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 contributions ⋅ $4000 ('05→'08)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.4em 0.3em;"><div class="related_entity_entity" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><strong class="text_big" style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a title="view profile" href="http://littlesis.org/org/29969/Help_America%27s_Leaders_Political_Action_Committee%28Halpac%29" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Help America's Leaders Political Action Committee (Halpac)</font></a></strong></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/436816" style="box-sizing: content-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 contributions ⋅ $3500 ('02→'12)</font></a></span></li></div></div></div><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charles and David Koch, to paraphrase the famous Raid bug spray slogan, want to kill carbon tax proposals dead.</span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC has contracted lobbyists including a former aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to lobby on a House resolution that declares carbon taxes “detrimental to American families and businesses.”</span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newly available lobby filings show that Koch has </span><a target="_blank" mce_href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=32115afb-6bcb-47c3-8f21-515b9c0625b9&filingTypeID=1" href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=32115afb-6bcb-47c3-8f21-515b9c0625b9&filingTypeID=1" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hired Shockey Scofield Solutions, LLC</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, to lobby on the anti-carbon tax resolution.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

Read more: <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/314577-kochs-tap-ex-cantor-aide-for-work-on-anti-carbon-tax-measure#ixzz2apqjbOBp" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none;">http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/314577-kochs-tap-ex-cantor-aide-for-work-on-anti-carbon-tax-measure#ixzz2apqjbOBp</a> 

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Majority Leader<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Eric Cantor</strong>'s senior policy advisor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Mike Ference</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will join<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Shockey Scofield Solutions</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ference spent five years in senior roles for the Virginia Republican and previous House Majority Whip<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Roy Blunt</strong>, R-Mo. He has also worked for Rep.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Christopher Smith</strong>, R-N.J., and Sen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">James Inhofe</strong>, R-Okla.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The S-3 group, which has heretofore focused on appropriations and national security, is particularly excited to add Ference's expertise in telecommunications policy, financial services and authorization.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Often your challenges on the Hill sort of start in the appropriations process and end up in the authorization process, or vice versa, they kind of go back and forth. You really need to be able to work both sides of that," Firm founder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">John Scofield<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>told the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Alley</em>. "That's the big plus for us, and clients, is that he has the ability to work fairly deeply in the authorization space."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He came highly recommended from the lawmakers with whom he worked closely, Scofield said, and he will certainly be missed on the Hill.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Ference has been an important part of the Cantor Team and trusted advisor for me on many critical and complex issues," Cantor said. "I will miss his wise counsel but wish him all the best in his new endeavor."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Fred Upton</strong>, R-Mich., also congratulated him on the move.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Mike has been a trusted advisor and friend whose post with the Majority Leader made him a vital resource for the Energy and Commerce Committee in our legislative efforts as well as our outreach to stakeholders affected by the laws we pass," Upton said.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ference will start at the firm sometime in the new year.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Republicans are predicted to make great strides toward gaining seats this November, with some predicting a House takeover.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If that occurs, Mike Ference — senior policy adviser for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on energy, environment and other issues — said to expect a lot more oversight of federal agencies, especially EPA. “We feel right now that EPA has been given a pass,” Ference said. “There’s the potential for EPA to run wild and try to go around Congress.” That, he said, “would be a primary focus for our conference in the majority.”<br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The party, he said, also wants to “cast aside this idea that Republicans are in the pockets of Big Oil and that’s it. I think we have a lot of great ideas.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the same time, Republicans are still formulating any concrete action plan if they took over the House. “I think we need to think outside of the box, frankly,” he said. “We now need to tighten our belt, we need to think of new ways.” One area of possible agreement with the Obama White House, he said, is reducing the amount of time needed to get permitting approved for renewable energy and other facilities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ference has worked as a leadership aide for more than four years, both for Cantor and former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He also founded a now-defunct coal company back home in Pennsylvania just a couple of years out of college, reclaiming fine coal discarded by mining companies and selling to coal-fired power plants. “It was something really cool to do,” he said.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ference works closely with Jay Cranford — top energy and environment aide to House Minority Leader John Boehner.<br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cranford — who declined to be interviewed — joined Boehner’s leadership team when the Ohio Republican became majority leader in 2006, and was previously a subcommittee staff director on the then-House Resources Committee, as well as director of government affairs at the National Ocean Industries Association.<br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two GOP aides “are a very effective and savvy pair of operatives,” Brown said. “They both are able to connect the dots on the intersection of energy policy with other dynamics like national security or foreign policy.”<br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Shaw, senior vice president for government affairs at the Portland Cement Association, said Cranford “has worked tirelessly with industry coalitions to play defense on some overly aggressive majority legislative initiatives.”</font>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/lobbying/lobbyist/ference-mike" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; line-height: 23px;">FERENCE, MIKE</a><span style="line-height: 23px;"> (covered positions: Senior Policy Advisor for the Majority Leader; Policy Director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Staff Assistant, Congressman Chris Smith; Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Inhofe; Senior Policy Advisor, Republican Whip; Policy Director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Legislative Assistant, </span><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>Sen. James Inhofe</b></span><span style="line-height: 23px;">; Senior Policy Advisor, Republican Whip; Policy Director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor ) </span><br style="line-height: 23px;" />

<a href="http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/lobbying/lobbyist/scofield-john" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; line-height: 23px;">Scofield, John</a><span style="line-height: 23px;"> (covered positions: Communications Director, House Appropriations Committee; Press Secretary, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Ass't Press Sec'y, Sen. Mark Hatfield; Comm Director, House Approps; Intern, U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield; Assist Press Sec, U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir. House Approps Comm ) </span><br style="line-height: 23px;" />

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Koch brothers have turned to a former aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) to lobby against the simple idea of a carbon tax.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Hill <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/314577-kochs-tap-ex-cantor-aide-for-work-on-anti-carbon-tax-measure" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">reported</a> Wednesday, Shockey Scofield Solutions (S3)<a href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=32115afb-6bcb-47c3-8f21-515b9c0625b9&filingTypeID=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">registered</a> to lobby for for the Kochs’ company in support of a House <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.CON.RES.24:" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">measure</a> that would express the “sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.” The oil services corporation Halliburton <a href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=C20ED978-1618-44C7-850F-3F628CA8F3D1&filingTypeID=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">also retained</a> S3 in June to lobby on energy, immigration, and transportation issues.</font>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disclosures for both companies note that S3’s Mike Ference, the former director of strategic development for Cantor, is a principal lobbyist on their behalf. Ference’s bio on Shockey Scofield’s website <a href="http://www.s-3group.com/mike-ference/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">says</a> that while working for Cantor, “Mike led the Majority Leader’s national outreach operation to the energy, financial services, high-tech, entrepreneurial, business and academic communities.” Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton said Ference was a “vital resource” for “outreach to stakeholders affected by the laws we pass.”</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The resolution that S3 is paid to lobby for would not affect policy — if passed, it would just symbolically state that the House thinks that a carbon tax is a bad idea. The Koch brothers and the petroleum companies they own fiercely oppose a carbon tax. Americans For Prosperity, a Koch-funded advocacy group, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/05/new-online-ads-urge-against-carbon-tax/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">waged</a> an online ad campaign in June urging Congress to oppose a carbon tax. However, a<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/08/1702861/a-price-is-right-carbon-tax-has-very-broad-bipartisan-support-outside-of-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">broad array</a> of conservative economists, former Republican lawmakers, and majorities of the American public support a price on carbon that helps to cut the deficit. Koch lobbyists, Koch-funded third-party groups, and more than <a href="http://campaignmoney.org/blog/2013/07/31/koch-industries-adds-cantor-connection-anti-carbon-tax-efforts" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">$2.5 million in Koch political contributions</a> are betting that money and access will be more influential than public opinion, intellectual arguments, and the realities of climate science.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Halliburton, which also retained S3 to lobby Congress on energy issues, recently<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/26/2359231/halliburton-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-destruction-of-evidence-in-2010-bp-spill-pay-maximum-fine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">reached an agreement</a> with the Department of Justice to plead guilty to destroying evidence in the investigation of the 2010 BP oil spill. </b>While the disclosure does not specify a bill that S3 will lobby for or against, there is<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-14/tougher-fracking-regulations-backed-by-66-poll-shows.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">increased interest</a> in national fracking oversight rules. Right now, the “<a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2011/12/05/burning-question-what-would-life-be-like-without-the-halliburton-loophole/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">Halliburton Loophole</a>” from the 2005 Energy Policy Act exempts fracking from the Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It makes sense that both Koch and Halliburton would turn to S3 and Ference to seek influence. In 2004, Senator Inhofe <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/50_26/-6717-1.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">hired</a> him to be his legislative assistant focused on energy. Shortly after Ference started at Shockey Scofield early this year, he and several other “Inhofe Alumni” held a <a href="http://politicalpartytime.org/party/34253/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">fundraiser</a> for the Senator on Valentine’s Day.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before the Republicans took back the House in the 2010 midterm elections, Ference <a href="http://thehill.com/special-reports/energy-a-environment-september-2010/120411-clean-energy-all-stars" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">told The Hill</a> that blocking the EPA “would be a primary focus for our conference in the majority.” But Ference also said the GOP wanted to “cast aside this idea that Republicans are in the pockets of Big Oil and that’s it. I think we have a lot of great ideas.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Those great ideas inspired the GOP House leadership to earn the distinction of having the “</span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/02/112th-congress-league-of-conservation-voters-score-worst-ever" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">worst environmental record ever</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">,” with 95 votes to </span><a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?q=legislative-database-anti-environment&legislation=All&topic=All&statute=All&agency=All" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">dismantle the Clean Air Act</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> and 317 votes that would harm the environment in total.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ference’s assertiveness was not limited to energy policy fights — Politico reported in 2012 that Ference aggressively confronted fellow Cantor aide Brad Dayspring over the rollout of a jobs plan and they nearly got into a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73598.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom-color: rgb(14, 107, 50) !important;">physical altercation</a>. Dayspring submitted his resignation three days later.</font></p>

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