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Hours after President Biden declared that "democracy has prevailed" during his inaugural address, longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Republicans to pressure GOP election officials and legislators to create "a model election code" to reconsider the laws surrounding 2020's two voting options that lead to the presidential election's record turnout.
"Republicans should also encourage GOP secretaries of state and state lawmakers to develop a model election code," Rove wrote in a January 20 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-republican-future-starts-now-11611183715?mod=hp_opin_pos_2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">commentary</a> for the Wall Street Journal entitled, "The Republican Future Starts Now.""The job of proposing electoral reforms shouldn't be based on the unsupported claims of widespread fraud peddled by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell," Rove continued. "Instead, the goal should be to suggest measures that restore public confidence in our democracy. How do states with extensive mail-in and early voting like Florida and Texas get it right?"Rove's commentary comes as Republican-majority legislatures in battleground states such as Georgia, <a href="https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/21/pa-secretary-state-kathy-boockvar-testifies-election-hearing-state-house/6660041002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/voting-rights-advocates-decry-gop-bills-in-arizona-state-legislature-saying-it-amounts-to-voter-suppression" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Arizona</a> have proposed bills or convened hearings to review the laws that allowed people to vote with mailed-out ballots or early in-person in 2020."Whenever Karl Rove writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal, the history of it suggests that Democrats should pay careful attention," said David Daley, author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631495755" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Unrigged: How Americans are Battling Back to Save Democracy</a>. "Because the Wall Street Journal is where Republicans can signal to their donor class their key projects."In March 2010, Rove penned a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703862704575099670689398044" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">commentary</a> openly discussing the GOP's <a href="http://www.redistrictingmajorityproject.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">REDMAP project</a>, which targeted 107 state legislative seats that "would give them control of drawing district lines for nearly 190 congressional seats." REDMAP <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">succeeded</a>, creating GOP majority legislatures and congressional delegations in the otherwise purple states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Alabama.The website of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which drafts model bills for social conservatives and economic libertarians, did not yet promote election reforms on its website. However, it linked to the Conservative Action project, which <a href="http://conservativeactionproject.com/cruz-hawley-brooks-and-colleagues-follow-the-constitution/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">posted a defense</a> of the GOP lawmakers who opposed certifying the Electoral College slates from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The expanded use of voting via mailed-out ballots and early voting must be examined, it said."The 2020 election was conducted in an unprecedented manner: largely by mail, and in a way that overwhelmed the capacities of many states. It is not at all unreasonable to review the manner in which votes were counted," said the Conservative Action Project <a href="http://conservativeactionproject.com/cruz-hawley-brooks-and-colleagues-follow-the-constitution/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">memo</a>, which was signed by more than 100 activists and organizations. "Indeed, if the goal is to restore faith in future elections, then a comprehensive review and analysis to determine what went wrong, what went right, and what is in need of reform should be a critical next step."Daley, whose prior book, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ratf-ked-david-daley/1123515748" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ratf*cked</a>, profiled REDMAP and its impacts on the past decade's political battles and extreme politics, said Rove's commentary was a warning sign."Whenever Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal, it not to be a public intellectual but to put ideas in front of the Republican donor class," he said. "It fits perfectly with much of the Republican strategy on voter suppression.""So much of it sounds reasonable," Daley continued, referring to the suggestion that a model election code be developed and embraced. "How can you be opposed to a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission that is going to step back and ensure that our elections are free, fair and secure? Except, that's not actually their intention, because we just had an election that was free, fair and secure. And [Sens.] Hawley and Cruz and 130-plus Republicans in the House voted to decertify [the popular vote results and Electoral College slates from] Pennsylvania and Arizona—even after a Republican governor [in Arizona] signed off on certification."Already, Republican legislators in 2020 battleground states held hearings where they are badgering statewide election officials—some elected Democrats, some career civil servants—about decisions they took last fall that made it easier to vote with absentee ballots.For example, on Thursday in Pennsylvania, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, <a href="https://livestream.com/pahousegop/events/9486299" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">was pressed</a> by Republican representatives advising county election officials to count the returned mailed-out ballots of people who forgot to put their ballots in a secrecy sleeve. The state's supreme court subsequently ruled that the "naked" ballots should be disqualified."You disagree with the decision that was rendered by the Supreme Court?" <a href="http://www.repmackenzie.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Rep. Ryan McKenzie</a>, a Republican, asked Boockvar."It doesn't matter whether I disagree with a decision rendered by the Supreme Court, because the Supreme Court's rule governs," she replied. "But what I would say is, and maybe this is part of your question, do I think that is the right approach for voters for making sure that every eligible voter's vote counts? No, I'd love to see the legislature change that law and say, 'Look, if a voter makes a mistake that does not have anything to do with their eligibility or their qualifications, such as a naked ballot, that vote should still count."The Thursday legislative hearing was <a href="https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/21/pa-secretary-state-kathy-boockvar-testifies-election-hearing-state-house/6660041002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">one of 14</a> that are slated in Pennsylvania to review voting laws and administrative rules that were in effect during the 2020 election. A separate GOP-sponsored proposal would <a href="https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-judicial-gerrymandering-pennsylvania-muschick-20210122-ydzmmvkmavdyppqkxw3euph56m-story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">create districts</a> for electing state supreme court judges. If put into effect, it could become a judicial gerrymander to recast Pennsylvania's appellate courts—including the state's supreme court.These steps and others, such as Republicans in <a href="https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/01/08/gop-eyes-bill-to-reallocate-wisconsins-electoral-votes-by-congressional-district/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Wisconsin</a> (and <a href="https://www.fairvote.org/pennsylvania-senate-leader-pileggi-wrong-on-prescription-for-electoral-college-reform" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Pennsylvania</a>) talking about <a href="https://www.270towin.com/alternative-electoral-college-allocation-methods/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">changing the way</a> their states choose presidential electors, or Georgia possibly turning the secretary of state from <a href="https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2020/12/12/georgia-david-ralston-wants-lawmakers-pick-secretary-state/6521745002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">an elective to an appointed</a> office filled by the legislature, seek to change the laws so Republicans can win elections, Daley said."Republicans talk a lot about following the rule of law, but what they are trying to do is change the law to make it make it easier to do in 2024 what they were unable to do in 2020," he said.Daley said Rove's push to review ballot access laws after an election where no evidence of fraud was provided by Trump's allies—despite 65 lawsuits—posed a longer-term threat to representative government than the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol."In 2020, there were two mobs that attacked the Capitol," he said. "One mob did it with baseball bats, Trump flags and Camp Auschwitz shirts. And they tried to overturn an election through fear and terror and insurrection. And then there was the mob that wore tailored suits and congressional pins that walked in after that [first] mob, while there was still blood in the hallways and bullet holes in the walls, and they voted not to certify free and fair results from Pennsylvania and Arizona. They gave that mob everything that they showed up for.""We need to be more fearful of that second mob," Daley continued. "Because they remain inside the House. They have been elected to the rules so that if this happens again, with better lawyers making the cases, they will have statutes that they can rely on to press fraudulent claims of election fraud."<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/mail-in-voter-fraud/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">The Republicans' so-called 'evidence' of voter fraud is already ... ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/republicans-18-month-investigation-into-florida-voter-fraud-comes-up-totally-empty/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Republican-driven investigation into Florida 'voter fraud' comes up ... ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/trump-election-2649764370/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Microsoft employees raise alarm about donations to GOP senators ... ›</a></li></ul><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 10px;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/20/trump-republican-election-fraud/" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Republicans are right; election fraud is real. They are perpetrating it. ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/voter-election-fraud-pennsylvania-charge-dead-mom-vote-trump-2020-12" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Man accused of pretending to be dead mom to vote for Trump ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud ... ›</a></li></ul></div>==<div><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/interest-groups-lobby-for-democrats-hr1-ahead-of-friday-house-vote/">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/interest-groups-lobby-for-democrats-hr1-ahead-of-friday-house-vote/</a></div><div>
</div><div>On Friday, the House will vote on <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1/text" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">H.R. 1</a> or the “For the People Act,” a massive overhaul of transparency, campaign finance and lobbying rules. The 571-page <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/01/democrats-hr-1-draws-praise-and-strong-objections/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">bill</a>, backed by Democrats, tackles a <a href="https://www.axios.com/house-hr1-anti-corruption-package-vote-a5ce4105-1684-458e-b1b9-4e41cdad70c1.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">variety of issues</a> from requiring “dark money” groups to release their donors and presidents to release their tax returns to tightening FARA registration to making Election Day a federal holiday. Like any major legislative effort, this one has attracted a number of groups to lobby on its behalf.As the House prepares to vote on H.R. 1, a group of 71 predominantly liberal groups <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/liberal-outside-groups-lobby-campaign-finance-overhaul" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">are working</a> to convince lawmakers to support the measure. Notable names backing the legislation include <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00573261" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">End Citizens United Action Fund</a>, the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000032441" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for American Progress</a> and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000591&cycle=2016" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Planned Parenthood</a>.The package includes legislation to establish automatic voter registration, the creation of an independent redistricting commission, legislation restricting the use of straw companies for donations, and stricter rules on super PAC-candidate coordination, among many other new proposals.Like most large-scale reform bills, interest groups have been involved with H.R. 1 since the beginning. Public Citizen <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/4/1823529/-Democrats-in-Congress-Unveil-Ambitious-Plan-to-Fix-Our-Election-System-by-Steven-Rosenfeld" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">assisted</a> in writing parts of the legislation which dealt with ethics and conflict of interest issues. The <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000047977&year=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brennan Center for Justice</a> <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/historic-bill-strengthen-democracy-introduced-congress" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">helped develop</a> aspects of the bill that address voting registration and small-donor public financing of elections.End Citizens United is an organization which advocates for stricter campaign finance rules and a reversal of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. It boasts an impressive fundraising apparatus raising almost $33.1 million in the 2018 cycle and spending nearly $32.9 million from the FEC disclosed committee. A significant amount of that, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00573261" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">more than</a> $12.3 million, was used on independent expenditures in the cycle.The group also contributed directly to a wide variety of Democratic candidates in the cycle. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00041870" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Conor Lamb</a> (D-Pa.) and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2018&id=TX23" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">unsuccessful candidate</a> Gina Ortiz Jones (D-Texas) received $15,000 each from the organization — the most among House members and candidates. It also contributed heavily to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cmte=DCCC&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DCCC</a> and the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cycle=2018&cmte=DsCC" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DSCC</a>, handing each organization $150,000.In a <a href="https://endcitizensunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ECU-Letter-in-Support-of-HR1.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">letter</a> sent on March 4 to House Speaker <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary/nancy-pelosi?cid=N00007360" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-Calif.) and sponsor of the legislation <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00027751" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. John Sarbanes</a> (D-Md.), End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller called H.R. 1 a “once-in-a-generation government reform bill that will restore the promise of our democracy.” The letter notes that the organization and its four million members “enthusiastically support” the legislation.The <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000032441" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for American Progress</a>, one of the leading liberal think tanks, is a regular campaign contributor and lobbying presence. In 2018, the group <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000032441" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> $90,000 on lobbying Capitol Hill. Individuals from the think tank contributed $309,415 during the midterm cycle. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00035267&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sen. Cory Booker</a> (D-N.J.) and 2020 presidential candidate was the leading recipient with $10,800.Another liberal interest group, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000028307" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">People for the American Way</a>, is pushing for the H.R. 1 legislation. People for the American Way includes a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobby.php?id=D000028307" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying</a> arm, which dropped $170,000 in 2018 <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientbills.php?id=D000028307&year=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">focusing</a> on bills like the Voter Rights Amendment Act and legislation introduced to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The group also has an <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=C90012071&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">independent expenditure</a> wing and a separate <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00331454" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">PAC</a>. During the 2018 cycle, the group spent $515,590 on independent expenditures, the biggest race it spent on was for the Texas Senate.Marge Baker, executive vice president of People for the American Way, applauded the legislation. “HR1 takes dead aim at some of the most pressing issues threatening our democracy,” she said in a statement to The Center for Responsive Politics. “Our members have been working on these issues for years, and now they’re focused on pushing hard on Congress to pass HR1, with calls, emails, digital and on the ground organizing.”<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000055782&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Public Citizen</a>, the liberal consumer rights group founded by Ralph Nader, is another outside source pressuring Congress to support the sweeping legislation. The organization maintains a fairly robust lobbying apparatus, spending $250,000 in 2018.All 235 members of the House Democratic caucus have co-sponsored H.R. 1. Even members who receive a significant amount of campaign contributions from business PAC sources, like <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pacs?cid=N00036944&cycle=2018" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Josh Gottheimer</a> (D-N.J.) who got more than $1 million in the recent cycle, have signed on.While there is essentially universal Democratic support in the House, the measures have been staunchly opposed by Republicans and other interest groups. Opponents <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/29/18200973/lobbyists-oppose-house-democrats-anti-corruption-bill-hr1" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">include</a> the National Association of Business Political Action Committees (NABPAC), an organization that represents and lobbies for business PACs, the Conservative Action Project and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobby.php?id=D000045970" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a>.In January, NABPAC hosted <a href="https://www.nabpac.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=31&Itemid=98&year=2019&month=01&day=29&title=january-29-2019-pacrap-luncheon-how-hr-1-could-impact-your-pac-and-political-programs-legal-and-operational-considerations&uid=f9db6fe830594badc3d6cba0a7235962" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">a luncheon</a> which looked to address H.R. 1. The event description notes that “many of the provisions, if enacted, could severely restrict the role of the business community and their PACs” and calls it “potentially onerous.”FreedomWorks, a conservative and libertarian-leaning organization, has recently become a major lobbying player. In 2018, it <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000045970" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> the most it ever had on influence with almost $1.9 million.Peter Vicenzi, press secretary for FreedomWorks, said in a statement to The Center for Responsive Politics, “The main issues we have with HR 1 are that it would have a chilling effect on political speech, take power from individual states in how they conduct elections and fund political campaigns with taxpayer dollars.”   While the package of bills will likely pass the House on a party-line vote, there is essentially no chance of it passing the Senate or even being brought up for a vote. Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary/mitch-mcconnell?cid=N00003389" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mitch McConnell</a>(R-Ky.) wrote <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/call-hr-1-what-it-is-the-democrat-politician-protection-act/2019/01/17/dcc957be-19cb-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.8095c0077fe5" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">an op-ed</a> in which he called the legislation the “Democrat Politician Protection Act.”</div>obama: <ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 18px 18px;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 6px 0px; line-height: 1.5 !important;">Patrick Pizzella – Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority</li></ul>=<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella</a><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;">Patrick Pizzella was <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/1118.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">nominated</a> March 6, 2001, for Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Labor" title="Department of Labor" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Department of Labor</a> by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">George W. Bush</a>. His nomination was sent to the Senate on April 25, 2001, and he was confirmed on May 9, 2001.A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://slate.msn.com/id/109358" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">piece</a> from the June 18, 2001, New Republic "wonders why unions failed to organize against Patrick Pizzella's appointment as an assistant secretary of labor. Now responsible for protecting workers' rights, Pizzella spent four years as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">lobbyist</a> on behalf of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, 'a notorious haven for foreign-owned sweatshops'."<hr style="background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); height: 1px; border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px;" /><table id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; display: inline;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#.22Team_Abramoff.22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">1 "Team Abramoff"</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#Profiles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">2 Profiles</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#Related_SourceWatch_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3 Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4 External links</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#Documents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.1 Documents</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella#Articles.26_Commentary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.2 Articles & Commentary</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/%22Team_Abramoff%22" title="" team="Team" abramoff="Abramoff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">"Team Abramoff"</a></h2>Pizzella was one of at least three people who had worked on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Jack Abramoff</a>'s team at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Preston_Gates_and_Ellis" title="Preston Gates and Ellis" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Preston Gates and Ellis</a> law firm who "wound up with<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Bush administration</a> jobs. The second, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Safavian" title="David Safavian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">David Safavian</a>, was "chosen by Bush to oversee federal procurement policy in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Office of Management and Budget</a>." The third is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Susan_B.Ralston" title="Susan B. Ralston" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Susan B. Ralston</a>, Abramoff's former assistant and most recently special assistant to White House chief of staff <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Karl Rove</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aQ0cOXwe1TLk&refer=top_world_news" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a>"We know about Ralston, we know about Safavian, what is Patrick Pizzella up to?," Laura Rozen <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002674.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">asked</a> September 22, 2005.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;">Profiles</h2>"Pizzella has served in various posts since his arrival in Washington, DC in 1980 including serving as the Policy Coordinator for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush-Cheney%2704_Inc." title="Bush-Cheney '04 Inc." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Bush-Cheney</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Services_Administration" title="General Services Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">General Services Administration</a> Transition Team. From January 22, 2001 to March 25, 2001, Pizzella served as the Chief of Staff to the Director at the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. Pizzella was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opic.gov/staff/board/bio-pizzella.htm" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" xmlns:data="data">Member of the Board of Directors</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Overseas_Private_Investment_Corporation" title="Overseas Private Investment Corporation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Overseas Private Investment Corporation</a> (OPIC) - a position he held from January 18, 2004 to April 26, 2005."From 1996 to 2001, Pizzella was a member of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, L.L.P. policy practice group and served as a Government Affairs Counselor with responsibility for the coordination of the firm's grassroots and coalitions management practice. The cornerstones of the firm's practice in Washington D.C. are legislative policy, Executive branch representation and administrative law."Prior to his work at the law firm, Pizzella served for five years at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_Housing_Finance_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Housing Finance Board (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Federal Housing Finance Board</a>, an independent regulatory agency with responsibility for overseeing the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_Home_Loan_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Home Loan Bank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Federal Home Loan Bank</a> system, a Government Sponsored Enterprise. There he was the agency's Chief Administrative Officer, serving as the Director, Office of Administration."From 1986 to 1989, Pizzella served at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Education" title="Department of Education" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Department of Education</a> as Administrator for Management Services, and in 1988 was nominated and recess appointed by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Reagan</a> as Deputy Under Secretary for Management. In March 2005 Mr. Pizzella was selected as one of the Top 25 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=17&id=93292" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">'Doers, Dreamers and Drivers'</a> for 2004 by Government Technology Magazine. In addition, in March 1987 he was selected as one of America's top forty performers under 40 years of age by Management Magazine, a publication of the U. S. Office of Personnel Management."Pizzella also served as the Special Assistant to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (1981-1984); the Director of Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs at the U. S. Small Business Administration (1985-1986); as a member of the Office of Personnel Management Senior Executive Service Advisory Committee (1987-1988) and as a member of the President's Council on Management Improvement (1988-1989)."Pizzella is a native of New Rochelle, New York, and a graduate of Iona Preparatory School. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina."Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dol.gov/oasam/info_about_oasam/asst-sec.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Pizzell'as Department of Labor Biography</a>.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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(Pizzella and Safavian)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/05/ale05068.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"White House Admits President Met with Abramoff. Bush Should Return Funds to Ensure Unbiased Abramoff Inquiry,"</a> BuzzFlash, May 6, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jonathan D. Salant, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aQ0cOXwe1TLk&refer=top_world_news" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">"Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands,"</a> Bloomberg News, September 22, 2005.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.2px;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Scandals" title="Category:Scandals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Scandals</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corruption" title="Category:Corruption" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Corruption</a></li></ul></div></div>Two weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers.What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out "Made in the USA" clothing under re-education camp conditions.The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of "liberty" versus big government tyranny.Today, as Washington conservatives scramble to stay atop the growing grass-roots right, the cast of characters is remarkably similar. For example, the "Team Abramoff" lobbyist who ran the Marianas trips program in the 1990s, Patrick Pizzella, is reported by the Post to be the "only paid staff member" of the Conservative Action Project. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Pizzella has also been "involved" in the drafting of the Mount Vernon Statement, a conservative manifesto that is meant to rally the tea-partying base. tom franks wsj
<div id="content-header"><h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; font-weight: normal;">What Happens When The Right Buys Its Own Lies</h1></div><div id="content-area"><div id="node-33555" class="node node-type-blog"><div class="node-inner"><div class="meta"><div class="submitted" style="font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 9px;">SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 7/1/2010 3:19 pm</div></div><div class="content" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152);">Since the establishment conservative movement never stops trying to co-opt the Tea Party mantle for itself, I guess that means I have to keep covering their efforts as well.I've written about <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/conservative-action-project" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Conservative Action Project before</a>, noting that it is one of the many right-wing coalitions that exist to establish the party line of the issue of the day, often though "Memo for the Movement" statements that it releases. These memos tend to be mostly meaningless collections of bullet points and links, but apparently members of the coalition feel they serve some purpose, which is why they keep issuing them.The latest memo carries the names of a wide variety of right-wing leaders - including Ed Meese, Wendy Wright, Grover Norquist, Gary Bauer, Mat Staver, Curt Levey, Andrea Lafferty, and Louis Sheldon - who have joined together to <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/articles/19119/MEDIA/nation/index.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">commend the Tea Party Movement for its "fidelity to the Constitution.</a>"And after the memo's standard pointless bullet points, this paragraph appears:<blockquote style="margin: 13px 35px 13px 8px; border-left: 7px solid rgb(140, 151, 171); padding-left: 20px;">Earlier this year, many Tea Party Movement leaders and conservative leaders found common ground at a meeting and ceremony at the Collingwood Library & Museum in Alexandria, VA-- part of the original Mount Vernon Estate owned by President George Washington. The Mount Vernon Statement, issued on February 17, 2010, restates the ideas of the American founding as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It was signed by over 100 leaders-including Tea Party Movement leaders--representing tens of millions of conservative activists nationwide and re-enforced the principles of Constitutional Conservatism for the 21st Century.</blockquote>Do you remember the Mount Vernon Statement?  It was the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/just-how-meaningless-mount-vernon-statement" style="text-decoration-line: none;">attempt earlier this year</a> by these very same activists to co-opt the Tea Party movement by merging it with the establishment conservative movement.But it was all for naught, as a short time later the Tea Party movement <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/social-conservatives-shut-out-tea-party-contract-america" style="text-decoration-line: none;">released its own "Contract From America" manifesto</a> which explicitly excluded any and all social issues.The Tea Party movement's consistent refusal to adopt the Religious Right's agenda as part of the Tea Party agenda has infuriated establishment conservatives to no end, which is why they have continuously worked to co-opt the movement for their own ends ... leading to situations like this where the conservative establishment drafts and signs a document proclaiming its own agenda while unilaterally claiming that it represents the Tea Party movement - and then later, using that same document as an excuse to commend itself for its "fidelity to the Constitution."</div><div class="terms-container" style="margin-top: 28px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.4em; padding-bottom: 9px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152);">FILED UNDER</h3><div class="tags"><div class="vocabulary-84"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">ORGANIZATIONS:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/conservative-action-project" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Conservative Action Project</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/religious-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Right</a></div><div class="vocabulary-85"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">PEOPLE:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/gary-bauer" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Bauer</a></div><div class="vocabulary-2"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">TOPICS:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Constitution</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/media" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Media</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/mount-vernon-statement" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mount vernon statement</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/religious-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Right</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-happens-when-right-buys-its-own-lies#sthash.kpWLdy4D.dpuf<div id="content-header"><h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; font-weight: normal;">Conservative Action Project: A New Name For the Same Old Right-Wing Agenda</h1></div><div id="content-area"><div id="node-34300" class="node node-type-blog"><div class="node-inner"><div class="meta"><div class="submitted" style="font-style: italic; padding-bottom: 9px;">SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/1/2010 1:13 pm</div></div><div class="content" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152);">Several months ago, I <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-many-coalitions-does-religious-right-need" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote a post</a> noting the emergence of the new right-wing coalition calling itself that Conservative Action Project. At the time, all that I could figure out about it was that its membership included several Religious Right leaders and it seemed to operate out of the Council for National Policy.Today, the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102860_pf.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Post examines</a> the role that new media is playing in shaping and disseminating conservative messaging throughout the right-wing echo chamber and reports that the Conservative Action Project is playing a a key role in that effort through the weekly meetings hosted by the Family Research Council:<blockquote style="margin: 13px 35px 13px 8px; border-left: 7px solid rgb(140, 151, 171); padding-left: 20px;">Inside the Beltway, much of it is fueled by the Conservative Action Project (CAP), a new group of conservative leaders chaired by Reagan-era attorney general Edwin Meese III. CAP, whose influential memos "for the movement" circulate on Capitol Hill, is an offshoot of the Council for National Policy, a highly secretive organization of conservative leaders and donors....At 7:30 a.m., members of the Conservative Action Project gather at the Family Research Council, a social conservative group.CAP grew out of a series of meetings of conservatives, determined to engineer a political comeback, in the weeks after Obama's election. One took place during a Council for National Policy meeting at a D.C. hotel, conservatives said. The secretive council was formed in the early 1980s to coordinate what was then called the "New Right."Key players in CAP, members said, include Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway; Greg Mueller, president of CRC Public Relations; and former congressman David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.). Its only paid staff member is Patrick Pizzella, an official in the George W. Bush administration, who works out of the Council for National Policy offices.Among CAP's projects was supporting the Health Care Freedom Coalition, whose more than 50 economic and social conservative groups quietly built health-care opposition, CAP members said. The coalition is a spinoff of FreedomWorks, the D.C.-based group that works extensively with tea-party activists.CAP also worked unsuccessfully to defeat David F. Hamilton, Obama's first appellate judicial nominee. A Nov. 9 CAP memo calling Hamilton "an ideologue first and a jurist second" helped trigger blog blasts from Erickson and an anti-Hamilton speech at the conservative Federalist Society by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Judiciary Committee Republican.</blockquote></div><div class="terms-container" style="margin-top: 28px;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.4em; padding-bottom: 9px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152);">FILED UNDER</h3><div class="tags"><div class="vocabulary-84"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">ORGANIZATIONS:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/religious-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Right</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/freedomworks" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/federalist-society" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Federalist Society</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/family-research-council" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Family Research Council</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/council-for-national-policy" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Council for National Policy</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/conservative-action-project" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Conservative Action Project</a></div><div class="vocabulary-85"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">PEOPLE:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ed-meese" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ed Meese</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/kellyanne-conway" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kellyanne Conway</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jeff-sessions" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Sessions</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/george-w-bush" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a></div><div class="vocabulary-2"><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px none; margin-right: 5px; display: inline;">TOPICS:</h3><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/media" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Media</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/judiciary" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Judiciary</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/health-care" style="text-decoration-line: none;">health care</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/george-w-bush" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/bush-administration" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bush Administration</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/attorney-general" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/religious-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Right</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-action-project-new-name-same-old-right-wing-agenda#sthash.UqZMFtAQ.dpufTwo weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers.What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out "Made in the USA" clothing under re-education camp conditions.<a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116WXE" style="line-height: 8px;">The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of "liberty" versus big government tyranny.</a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;">Today, as Washington conservatives scramble to stay atop the growing grass-roots right, the cast of characters is remarkably similar. For example, the "Team Abramoff" lobbyist who ran the Marianas trips program in the 1990s, Patrick Pizzella, is reported by the Post to be the "only paid staff member" of the Conservative Action Project. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Pizzella has also been "involved" in the drafting of the Mount Vernon Statement, a conservative manifesto that is meant to rally the tea-partying base. tom franks wsj</a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;">
</a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;">=</a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;">rww</a><div id="content-header" style="line-height: 18.0125px;"><h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; font-weight: normal;">Conservative Action Project</h1></div><div id="content-area" style="line-height: 18.0125px;"><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><div class="below-content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18.0125px;"><div id="block-views-rww_taxonomy_terms-block_1" class="block block-views region-odd even region-count-1 count-12" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152);"><div class="block-inner"><h2 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; letter-spacing: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 12px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(152, 152, 152); width: 776px;"><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;" /><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;">Conservative Action Project Posts Archive</a></h2><div class="content"><div class="view view-rww-taxonomy-terms view-id-rww_taxonomy_terms view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-5"><div class="view-content"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first" style="margin-top: 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a name="U10514154116VCF" style="line-height: 8px;"></a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-groups-and-chamber-commerce-fail-block-district-court-nominee" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Religious Right Groups And Chamber of Commerce Fail To Block District Court Nominee</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 05/04/2011, 3:20pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Religious Right and pro-corporate groups failed today to block President Obama’s nominee for U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, John McConnell, from receiving an up-or-down vote in the Senate. The Senate invoked cloture on McConnell’s nomination in a 63-33 vote, defeating the filibuster against McConnell. Filibusters against district court judges are extremely rare—only a handful of District Court nominees have ever faced cloture votes, and none have ever been blocked—and many Republicans previously vowed they would never filibuster a judicial nominee. Today’... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-groups-and-chamber-commerce-fail-block-district-court-nominee" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-happens-when-right-buys-its-own-lies" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">What Happens When The Right Buys Its Own Lies</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/01/2010, 3:19pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Since the establishment conservative movement never stops trying to co-opt the Tea Party mantle for itself, I guess that means I have to keep covering their efforts as well. I've written about the Conservative Action Project before, noting that it is one of the many right-wing coalitions that exist to establish the party line of the issue of the day, often though "Memo for the Movement" statements that it releases. These memos tend to be mostly meaningless collections of bullet points and links, but apparently members of the coalition feel they serve some purpose, which... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-happens-when-right-buys-its-own-lies" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-283" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Right Wing Leftovers</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 05/24/2010, 5:35pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">The Judicial Crisis Network calls Elena Kagan an "inexperienced rubber stamp." The Conservative Action Project issues a "memo to the movement" on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Coral Ridge Ministries also supports maintaining DADT. Joseph Farah warns people not to be fooled by Newt Gingrich. You know what is ruining "America Idol"? Ellen DeGeneres and her lesbianism. Focus on the Family Action is now officially known as CitizenLink. Finally, "Christian Financial Expert Releases Do-It-Yourself Mortgage Modification Kit."... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-283" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wings-meaningless-manifesto" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">The Right Wing's Meaningless Manifesto</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 02/16/2010, 11:52am</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Last week it was reported that, on Wednesday, a large group of conservative leaders were going to unveil what they call "definitive statement" regarding the central principles of the conservative movement, to be known as "The Mount Vernon Statement." And apparently it is a pretty big deal, as it is already getting all sorts of media coverage ... most of which makes it pretty clear that, despite all the hype, this new manifesto is really going to say anything at all:  The "Mount Vernon Statement,'' to be signed on an Alexandria estate once owned by George... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wings-meaningless-manifesto" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-action-project-new-name-same-old-right-wing-agenda" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Conservative Action Project: A New Name For the Same Old Right-Wing Agenda</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 02/01/2010, 1:13pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Several months ago, I wrote a post noting the emergence of the new right-wing coalition calling itself that Conservative Action Project. At the time, all that I could figure out about it was that its membership included several Religious Right leaders and it seemed to operate out of the Council for National Policy. Today, the Washington Post examines the role that new media is playing in shaping and disseminating conservative messaging throughout the right-wing echo chamber and reports that the Conservative Action Project is playing a a key role in that effort through the weekly...<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-action-project-new-name-same-old-right-wing-agenda" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-available-everything-except-lisa-miller-coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Staver Available For Everything ... Except Lisa Miller Coverage</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 01/11/2010, 3:15pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">I have been keeping track of how long it takes Mat Staver or anyone at Liberty Counsel to make any comment about their star-client Lisa Miller's disappearance with her daughter (it has been ten days, now).   While Miller and Liberty Counsel continually insist that Staver is "unavailable to comment" on the case, the fact is that he appears readily available for all sorts of other things, like appearing on Janet Porter's radio program last week or joining Lou Engle and other Religious Right leaders in Houston next week to protest a new Planned Parenthood facility... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-available-everything-except-lisa-miller-coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(142, 142, 142); margin-bottom: 14px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remember-back-when-right-hated-filibuster" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">Remember Back When the Right Hated The Filibuster?</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/10/2009, 4:55pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Once upon a time, activists on the Right were vehemently opposed to the use of the filibuster against judicial nominees, declaring on principle that its use was flagrantly unconstitutional and calling on Senate Republicans to do away with the Democratic minority's ability to use them against President Bush's nominees. But then President Obama took office and made a Supreme Court nomination and those "principles" went right out the window and suddenly those who had been, just a few years earlier, decrying the filibuster as downright evil were championing it. Which brings us to this... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remember-back-when-right-hated-filibuster" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div><div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even views-row-last" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 201, 200); margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-many-coalitions-does-religious-right-need" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 3px; width: 776px; display: block;">How Many Coalitions Does The Religious Right Need?</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 10/07/2009, 3:02pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node" style="width: 776px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 17px;">Over the last several months, we've been chronicling the seemingly endless emergence of new Religious Right groups and coalitions.  In recent months we've witnessed the arrival of the American Principles Project and the Faith and Freedom Institute, which was followed by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, while Newt Gingrich was unveiling his Renewing American Leadership effort, and Lou Engle was announcing his Call to Action.  And then a bunch of Religious Right leaders came together under the banner of the Freedom Federation, but apparently the Freedom Federation wasn'... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-many-coalitions-does-religious-right-need" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>=tpm<section class="badge" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; padding-right: 0px !important;">NOVEMBER 11, 2010</section>Another indicator of the changing of the guard in Washington came yesterday as dozens of representatives and leaders from conservative groups convened for a private meeting in the suburbs of Virginia. Representatives of a wide variety of Tea Party groups, mainstream conservative think tanks and right-wing media outlets came together to talk about the future of the conservative movement, TPMmuckraker has learned.The agenda indicates that they attempted to hash out some of their priorities for the legislative agenda in the upcoming Congress, which will feature a GOP-controlled House for the first time in four years.The hush-hush meeting was sponsored by the Conservative Action Project (CAP), an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102860.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">offshoot</a> of the Council for National Policy.Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese, the head of the CAP (not to be confused with the liberal Center for American Progress), was scheduled to address the summit, which drew attendees with speeches from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA). Press secretaries for both members did not respond to requests for comment about their remarks.Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway was also on the Conservative Leadership Summit agenda, along with Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, and former Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.). Press representatives for Conway and Feulner did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment, but a secretary for McIntosh confirmed that he was speaking at the summit.A group discussion was to focus on the outcome of the election and the future of the conservative movement. Attendees were also invited to discuss economic, social and national security issues, judicial nominations and state elections and issues.Organizations scheduled to be represented at the meeting included the National Organization for Marriage, the Media Research Center, Susan B. Anthony List, the Heritage Foundation, 60 Plus Association, the Federalist Society, the Family Research Council, Americans for Tax Reform, Concerned Women for America and the Tea Party Patriots.Employees of the American Spectator, the Washington Examiner and Human Events were also invited, as were John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online (Lopez told TPMmuckraker she did not end up attending).Republican House and Senate staffers from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Republican Conference made the guest list alongside conservative luminaries like Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Republican super-lawyer Cleta Mitchell, ATR’s Grover Norquist, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, RNC chair candidate Ken Blackwell, American Values President Gary Bauer and David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union.Frank Gaffney, the president of the right-wing Center for Security Policy who has <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/the_war_on_sharia_started_long_before_you_ever_hea.php" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">raised fears over the imposition of Sharia law in America</a>, attended the meeting, his secretary confirmed.Kevin Gentry of Koch Industries — the oil and gas company <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">which has funded Tea Party groups</a> — was also invited, but declined to tell TPMmuckraker whether he attended, instead referring calls to Koch’s PR shop.Patrick Pizzella, a former Bush administration official who is the only paid member of the Conservative Action Project, was out of the office and at a CAP event, according to the individual who picked up his phone. 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font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">Principal at Patrick Pizzella, LLC</li></ul></dd><dt id="overview-summary-past-title" class="summary-past" style="margin: 1px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 1; width: 116px; text-align: right; left: -10px;">Past</dt><dd class="summary-past" style="margin: -2.55em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px 122px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden;"><ul class="past" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management & Chief Information Officer at <a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/u.s.-department-of-labor?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Labor</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">Member, Board of Directors at <a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/overseas-private-investment-corporation?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Overseas Private Investment Corporation</a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">Chief of Staff at U.S. Office of Personnel Management</li></ul><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#" id="morepast-show" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" sprite="sprite" sprite_3px_arrow_999.png="sprite_3px_arrow_999.png" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(">see all</a></dd><dt id="overview-summary-education-title" class="summary-education" style="margin: 1px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 1; width: 116px; text-align: right; left: -10px;">Education</dt><dd class="summary-education" style="margin: -2.55em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px 122px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">University of South Carolina - The Moore School of Business</li></ul></dd><dt style="margin: 1px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 1; width: 116px; text-align: right; left: -10px;">Connections</dt><dd class="overview-connections" style="margin: -2.55em 0px -6px; padding: 0px 0px 3px 122px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; overflow: hidden;">500+ connections</dd></dl><div class="section subsection-reorder" id="profile-experience" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.6px;"><div class="header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px 4px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); outline: none 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Pizzella's Experience</h2></div><div class="content vcalendar" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position first experience vevent vcard summary-current" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Principal</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">Patrick Pizzella, LLC</h4></div><abbr class="dtstart" title="2009-03-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">March 2009</abbr> – <abbr class="dtstamp" title="2013-08-28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Present</abbr> (4 years 6 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Alexandria, VAA management consulting organization focusing on government, administrative and public policy issues.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management & Chief Information Officer</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/u.s.-department-of-labor?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Labor</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="2001-03-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">March 2001</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2009-01-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2009</abbr> (7 years 11 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington D.C.Nominated by President Bush on April 25, 2001 and confirmed by the Senate on May 9, 2001 and served until January 2009. The Assistant Secretary served as principal advisor to the Secretary of Labor in the administration and management programs of the DOL and as Chief Human Capital Officer. While there the DOL's workforce declined by 7% and its discretionary budget authority fell from $12 billion in FY2001 to $11.8 billion in 2008--the largest decline in discretionary budget authority of the 15 Cabinet Departments from 2001-2008.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Member, Board of Directors</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/overseas-private-investment-corporation?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Overseas Private Investment Corporation</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 51-200 employees; International Trade and Development industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="2004-01-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2004</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2005-04-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">April 2005</abbr> (1 year 4 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, D.C.Designated by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of OPIC whose mission is to mobilize and facilitate the participation of United States private capital and skills in the economic and social development of less developed countries and areas, and countries in transition from non-market to market economies</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Chief of Staff</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/opm?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Office of Personnel Management</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="2001" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">2001</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2001" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">2001</abbr> (less than a year) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCThe Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the federal agency responsible for upholding and providing oversight and compliance with federal Merit Systems principles, the formulation and implementation of policies and procedures relating to human resources management government-wide, and for administering health, retirement, and insurance benefit programs to more than nine million current federal employees, retired employees, and their survivors. As Chief of Staff, for the first eight weeks of the new Administration, I served in a confidential advisory role on substantive policy, organization and internal management matters.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Policy Coordinator, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Team</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition</h4></div><abbr class="dtstart" title="2000-11-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">November 2000</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2001-01-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2001</abbr> (3 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCResponsible for recruiting and coordinating a four person team to review GSA policies and make recommendations to the new Administration.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Government Affairs Counselor</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds</h4></div><abbr class="dtstart" title="1996-03-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1996</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2001-01-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2001</abbr> (4 years 11 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCFrom 1996 to 2001, Pizzella was a member of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, L.L.P. policy practice group and served as a Government Affairs Counselor with responsibility for the coordination of the firm's grassroots and coalition's management practice.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Director, Office of Administration</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/federal-housing-finance-board?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Federal Housing Finance Board</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Banking industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1990-05-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">May 1990</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1995-06-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">June 1995</abbr> (5 years 2 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCThe Federal Housing Finance Board oversaw the Federal Home Loan Bank System----a Government Sponsored Enterprise. As Director, Office of Administration, I served as the Agency's Chief Administrative Officer, with responsibility for supervision of the agency's $16 million budget, personnel functions, information systems, contracting and procurement, financial management, and general administrative services.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Deputy Under Secretary for Management</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/u.s.-department-of-education?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Education</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1988-08-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">August 1988</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1989-03-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1989</abbr> (8 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington D.C.Responsible for the Department's personnel management, labor relations, training, procurement activity and administrative services. Other duties included being Audit Follow-up Official, Equal Employment Opportunity Official and representing Department on the President's Council on Management Improvement.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Administrator for Management Services</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/u.s.-department-of-education?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Education</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1986-09-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">September 1986</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1988-08-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">August 1988</abbr> (2 years) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCReported to the Deputy Under Secretary for Management and directed activities relating to personnel, management improvement, administrative services and the Federal Real Property Assistance Program</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Director of Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/us-small-business-administration?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Small Business Administration</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1986-05-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">May 1986</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1986-09-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">September 1986</abbr> (5 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington D.C.I helped coordinate support for the President's budget initiative to reduce the size and reorganize the SBA. I also assisted the Acting Administrator in putting together a team of SBA regional administrators who supported the Reagan Administration's cost-cutting policies</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy Administrator</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/us-small-business-administration?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Small Business Administration</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1985-07-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">July 1985</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1986-05-01" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">May 1986</abbr> (11 months) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCI worked closely with top-level management officials on matters concerning the Office of the Associate Deputy Administrator, particularly those issues pertaining to agency personnel and budget.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="position experience vevent vcard summary-past" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a class="include" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49#name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Special Assistant to Administrator</a></h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;"><a class="company-profile-public" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/gsa?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. General Services Administration</a></h4></div><p class="orgstats organization-details past-position" style="margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word;">Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry<abbr class="dtstart" title="1981" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">1981</abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="1985" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">1985</abbr> (4 years) <span class="location" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington, DCI served as GSA liaison to the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. I handled many confidential matters involving agency personnel for the Administrator, particularly related to the hiring of 10 Regional Administrators and Schedule C and non-career Senior Executive Service appointments. I also assisted in the transition period and Senate confirmation process for Gerald P. Carmen to become Administrator of GSA.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="section" id="profile-courses" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.6px;"><div class="header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px 4px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); outline: none 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Pizzella's Courses</h2></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="competency courses" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="course-group" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; list-style: none outside none;"><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Director, Office of Administration</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">Federal Housing Finance Board</h4></div><ul style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Managing Multiple Projects, Objectives & Deadlines</li><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen Covey Seminars</li><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">GSA Information Technology Forum</li></ul></li><li class="course-group" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" list-style="list-style" outside="outside" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Administrator for Management Services</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">U.S. Department of Education</h4></div><ul style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Seminar for Senior Executives</li><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Managing the Federal Real Estate Portfolio</li><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Worker's Compensation</li><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Heritage Foundation: Improving Management Decisions through a Better Understanding of Public Policy</li></ul></li><li class="course-group" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" list-style="list-style" outside="outside" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><div class="postitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="false" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Deputy Under Secretary for Management</h3><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.4;">U.S. Department of Education</h4></div><ul style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="competency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Northeastern University Data Communications Buzzwords for Executives</li></ul></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" id="profile-honorsawards" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.6px;"><div class="header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px 4px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); outline: none 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Pizzella's Honors and Awards</h2></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="honorawards documents" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="honoraward first" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Top Doers, Dreamers and Drivers Award</h3><div class="org-position" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Government Technology (GT) Magazine & Center for Digital Government</div><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">March 2005</li></ul></li><li class="honoraward " http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Outstanding Leadership Award in Support of Federal Government Management</h3><div class="org-position" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">President's Council on Management Improvement</div><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">September 1988</li></ul></li><li class="honoraward " http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">America's Top Forty Performers in Public Service--40 years of age and younger</h3><div class="org-position" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Management Magazine, a publication of OPM</div><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">March 1987</li></ul></li><li class="honoraward " http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">Administrator's Public Service Award</h3><div class="org-position" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. General Services Administration</div><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">February 1984</li></ul></li><li class="honoraward " http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;">OPM Senior Executive Service Advisory Board</h3><div class="org-position" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management</div><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">March 1987</li></ul>Appointed by OPM Director Constance Horner</li></ul></div></div>---<div class="section" id="profile-publications" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 9.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 4px 4px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); outline: none 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Pizzella's Publications</h2></div><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="publications documents" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li class="publication vevent vcard first" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwashingtonexaminer%2Ecom%2Farticle%2F117919&urlhash=dM_x" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">How to cut the budget, for real</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Washington Examiner</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">September 1, 2011</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a>, James Carter</div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">How the DOL actually cut spending during Secretary Chao's tenure.
Discretionary budget authority fell from $12 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $11.8 billion in 2008.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fspectator%2Eorg%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fcard-check-a-time-to-reflect-b&urlhash=OxOr" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">'Card Check'--A Time to Reflect, But Not Rest</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">The American Spectator</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">April 7, 2011</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A brief summary of the eight year legislative history of the Employee Free Choice Act--from birth to burial.....but reminder to be vigilant.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwashingtonexaminer%2Ecom%2Farticle%2F39005&urlhash=QL0v" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">It's still Ronald Reagan's world</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Washington Examiner</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">February 5, 2011</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A look at the continuing impact of President Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgcn%2Ecom%2Farticles%2F2009%2F02%2F11%2Fpizzella-commentary-egov-vision-realized%2Easpx&urlhash=Gxq6" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Guest Commentary--Another View: GovBenefits.gov: E-Government vision realized</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">GCN</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">February 11, 2009</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Since its inception nearly seven years ago, GovBenefits.gov has grown into what many consider to be one of the most successful e-government initiatives, serving as a resource for millions of the nation’s citizens. It has also revealed lessons on the expectations citizens have of their government and the challenges of making government resources readily available.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efederaltimes%2Ecom%2Fprint%2Farticle%2F20090201%2FADOP06%2F902010302%2FCommentary-Staying-power-Continuity-led-successes-Labor&urlhash=3Jvw" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Commentary: Staying Power: Continuity Led to Successes at Labor</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Federal Times</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">February 1, 2009</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Personnel is Policy--and continuity of Secretay of Labor Elaine L. Chao's appointees from 2001-2009 contributed to DOL's many successes.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egovtech%2Ecom%2Fpcio%2FDepartment-of-Labor-CIO-Patrick-Pizzella%2Ehtml&urlhash=6YIr" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Department of Labor CIO Patrick Pizzella Talks Federal E-Government</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Public CIO</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">December 22, 2008</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The longest-serving cabinet-level CIO in the federal government, looks back over nearly eight years and reflects on the many e-government successes achieved at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) under the leadership of Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ethepublicmanager%2Eorg%2Fdocs_articles%2Fcurrent%2FVol37%2C2008%2FVol37%2CIssue04%2FVol37N4_ManagingtoGreen_Pizzella%2Epdf&urlhash=wFvp" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">MANAGING to GREEN at the DEPARTMENT of LABOR</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">The Public Manager</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">December 2008</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Winter 2008-2009 publication...Successful implementation of the President's Management Agenda at DOL</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><cite style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Good Management, Good Policy</cite></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">American Society for Public Administration</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">December 2008</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A review of eight years (2001-2009) of management and policy successes at Department of Labor published in PA Times Special Section on Success Stories.</div></li><li class="publication vevent vcard" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" bg="bg" bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png="bg_grey_dotted_h-line_3x1.png" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat="repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url("><h3 style="margin: 10px 0px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egovexec%2Ecom%2Fmagazine-advice-and-dissent%2Fmagazine-advice-and-dissent-viewpoint%2F2008%2F10%2Fa-beneficial-union%2F27770%2F&urlhash=5Nmc" target="blank" title="New window will open" name="publicationsite" class="url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">A Beneficial Union</a></h3><ul class="specifics" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Government Executive Magazine</li><li class="dtstart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">October 1, 2008</li></ul><div class="attribution" style="margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-pizzella/11/795/b49" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Pizzella</a></div><div class="summary" style="margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: none 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Better technology combined with open labor relations can cut the cost of official time. 
Since 2004, Labor has reduced official time usage by 37,000 hours, or 40 percent, an average of three hours per bargaining unit employee. The department has been at the vanguard of official time management, decreasing those hours 16 percent from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2007. 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