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===2006 McCaskill nullified these advantages, however, and was helped by nationwide anti-Republican sentiment to a 50%-47% victory over Talent.lcv 5%<a href="https://www.ontheissues.org/House/Jim_Talent_Environment.htm">https://www.ontheissues.org/House/Jim_Talent_Environment.htm</a>

Jim Talent, a former Republican Senator and one of Mitt Romney’s top campaign advisors, has played an instrumental role in the Romney camp’s positions on energy.  Specifically, Talent has pushed for greater consumption and mining of coal to meet America’s energy needs.

What the campaign failed to mention is that the lobbying firm that Talent is still on the payroll with lists one of the largest coal-producing companies in the country as one of its top clients.

And although Talent is <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/08/30/jim_talent_mitt_romney/" target="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">not registered as a lobbyist</a> in Washington, D.C.(thereby making it illegal for him to engage in lobbying activities,) his <a href="http://mercurypublicaffairs.com/staff-member/senator-james-talent" target="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">website clearly states</a> that “lobbying” is one of the services he is able to personally provide for clients.

<a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/coal-lobbyist-outfront-romney/" target="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">David Halperin has the story</a> at Republic Report:

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Greenpeace has posted these <a href="http://photo.greenpeace.org/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VBID=27MZVNDJTQ2ML&STID=27MZIFVATO96&PN=0&CT=Story" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">stark images</a> of the destruction Sandy brought to the New Jersey shore. The devastation on the ground is heartbreaking, and Americans are grateful for the courage and determination of people responding to the crisis. At the same time, it’s imperative that we start asking why we have seen so much extreme weather lately — and what kind of leadership it will take to truly address the crisis.

In the wake of the disaster, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2012/10/30/cuomo-we-have-a-new-reality-when-it-comes-to-these-weather-patterns/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;">said</a>, “There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement. That is a factual statement. Anyone who says there’s not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality.” Today, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Upton-Whitfield-Hurricane-Sandy-Letter-PR-2012-10-31_0.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">called</a> for congressional hearings, writing, “Hurricane Sandy is exactly the type of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce our carbon pollution.”

Unfortunately, big energy companies have spent tens of millions of dollars on lobbying, advertising, and <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2010/3/dealing-in-doubt.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">propaganda</a> aimed precisely at denying the powerful evidence that burning fossil fuels is contributing to climate change — and at blocking common sense energy reforms. And while Mitt Romney has <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/09/04/mitt-romney-climate-change-is.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">flip-flopped</a> on these issues, he has surrounded himself with people tied to the climate denial industry.

Romney’s campaign press secretary Andrea Saul previously worked, from 2005-07, at the Washington DC lobbying and public affairs firm DCI Group, where, on behalf of their client ExxonMobil, <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/science-denial-and-andrea-saul-%E2%80%93-romney-2012-campaign-spokesperson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">she worked on a campaign</a> seeking to undermine global warming evidence and policy changes. Saul was listed as a contact person on a 2006<a href="http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-30-2006/0004330403&EDATE=" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">press release</a> that stated, ”Coming off one of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent memory, many are quick to blame the strength and frequency of these storms on global warming. Leading climate scientists, however, say there is no link between increased storm activity and a massive change in global climate.”  Matt Rhoades, Romney’s campaign manager, also worked at DCI, from 2007-10.

In addition, while both Romney and President Obama have praised “clean coal” — even though there’s <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/4339171" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">no such thing</a>, at least not yet — Romney’s campaign is deeply connected to the coal industry, which is the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/coal/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">biggest human-made source of carbon dioxide emissions</a> and a <a href="http://www.fightcleanenergysmears.org/behind_the_smears.cfm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">major funder of climate denial</a>.

Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the nation’s largest privately-owned coal company, hosted a $1.7 million fundraiser for the campaign this year, and his firm’s employees have given Romney over $120,000.

Last fall, the Romney campaign released an energy policy paper that included a statement by Romney adviser and former Senator Jim Talent blaming government regulation for America’s energy challenges: “The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government—alone among the governments of the world—will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.” Where can such energy be found? Talent writes, “America has hundreds of years of coal reserves.’’ <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/jim-talent-s-profile-rises-as-top-romney-adviser/article_b201c725-01f9-5194-a840-da7de14707d3.html" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Talent</a>, a top candidate for Romney’s <a href="https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/27078/talent_as_romney_advissr" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">cabinet</a>, has a day job: <a href="http://www.mercurypublicaffairs.com/leadership" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">co-chairman of Mercury Public Affairs</a>, a D.C. lobbying and communications firm. As the Boston Globe first reported last year, Mercury lobbies for St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest private sector coal company. Peabody has paid Mercury nearly <a href="http://www.boston.com/2011/09/09/web-talent/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/story.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">$700,000</a> in the past <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000020856&year=2012://" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">six years</a>. The Romney energy paper did not disclose that Talent’s firm was earning money from the coal industry when Talent praised coal as a pillar of America’s energy future for centuries to come.

Newsweek ranked Peabody energy 500th out of 500 — dead last — in its environmental ranking of America’s 500 largest corporations in <a href="http://greenrankings2009.newsweek.com/companies/view/peabody-energy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">2009</a> and <a href="http://coalgeology.com/2010-newsweek-green-rankings-deeply-flawed-peabody-energy-nyse-btu/7603/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">2010</a>, because of the impact of mining and burning coal and because of Peabody’s aggressive stance against regulation. (The company managed to move up in the ratings for 2011 — to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/green-rankings/2011/us.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">492</a>.) Peabody is a corporate leader in <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/a-climate-of-corporate-control-report.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">denying the dangers of global warming</a>. Peabody’s website <a href="http://www.peabodyenergy.com/content/224/Video-Gallery/Energy-Access-For-All" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">says today</a>, “The greatest crisis society confronts is not a future environmental crisis predicted by computer models but a human crisis today that is fully within our power to solve… with coal” (ellipses in original).

Peabody is also a member of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry group that has spent millions campaigning against efforts to halt global warming. A leaked 2004 “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/leaked-clean-coal-strategy-memo-peabody-energy" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">strategy letter</a>” from the president of that organization to Peabody’s CEO outlines plans to oppose the McCain-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill ”that would be highly injurious to coal-based electricity” and to “sow discord” among Northeast states committed to a greenhouse gas reduction plan. Peabody has spent about $42 million on lobbying in Washington since 2005.

A U.S. President should not take advice from people who have worked to advance climate denial efforts, which have already caused immense harm.

This article also appears on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Huffington Post</a>.

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James Matthes "Jim" Talent, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party_U.S.A." title="Republican Party U.S.A." class="mw-redirect" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican</a>, was a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Senate" title="U. S. Senate" class="mw-redirect" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">senator</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" class="extiw" title="w:Missouri" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Missouri</a> from 2003 to 2007. He was defeated in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2006_congressional_elections" title="2006 congressional elections" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2006 congressional elections</a> by Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claire_McCaskill" title="Claire McCaskill" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Claire McCaskill</a> (D-Mo.).

In June 2007, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported that, in his new role as co-chair of the PR firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fleishman-Hillard" title="Fleishman-Hillard" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fleishman-Hillard</a>'s government relations (or lobbying) practice, Talent will be "spearheading the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers" title="Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</a>' bid to torpedo the effort to raise fuel mileage standards to 52 miles per gallon" by 2030. Instead, the automakers are supporting a compromise measure from Senators <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carl_Levin" title="Carl Levin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Carl Levin</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kit_Bond" title="Kit Bond" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Kit Bond</a>. "Talent cannot lobby for the Levin-Bond bill because of Senate rules," explained O'Dwyer's. "He can do media outreach on behalf of the carmakers." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0618talent_fh.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[1]</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1 Background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Senate_Career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.2 Senate Career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Positions_and_Views" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.3 Positions and Views</a>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Flag_Burning" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.3.1 Flag Burning</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Stem_Cell_Research" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.3.2 Stem Cell Research</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 Money in politics</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 Controversy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Committees_and_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Committees and Affiliations</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Committees_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.1 Committees in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Coalitions_and_Caucuses" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.2 Coalitions and Caucuses</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Boards_and_other_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.3 Boards and other Affiliations</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#More_Background_Data" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 More Background Data</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 Articles and Resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.1 Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.2 Articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.3 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7 Contact</a></li>

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In 1992, Talent defeated Bert Walker to won the Republican nomination for the state's 2nd Congressional District, based in St. Louis' western suburbs. He went on to defeat Democratic incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Kelly_Horn" class="extiw" title="w:Joan Kelly Horn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Joan Kelly Horn</a> in the general election. Talent won narrowly, but never faced another close race in what rapidly became a solidly Republican district. The only serious challenge he faced during this period came in 1996, when Horn sought a rematch. Even though popular Democratic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Missouri" class="extiw" title="w:Governor of Missouri" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Carnahan" class="extiw" title="w:Mel Carnahan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mel Carnahan</a> was running for reelection, Talent dispatched Horn fairly easily, winning 61% of the vote <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=4&oid=936&arc=1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[2]</a>. He served as chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Small_Business" title="House Committee on Small Business" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">House Committee on Small Business</a> from 1997 to 2001.

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Talent did not seek re-election to Congress in 2000, instead running for governor. He was narrowly defeated by Democratic state treasurer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Holden" class="extiw" title="w:Bob Holden" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Bob Holden</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=14&oid=4265&arc=1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[3]</a>. In that same election, Carnahan, who remained on the ballot for election to a Senate seat even though he had died in a plane crash three weeks before the election, defeated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" class="extiw" title="w:John Ashcroft" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Ashcroft</a>. Lieutenant Governor Roger Wilson, as promised, appointed Carnahan's widow, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Carnahan" class="extiw" title="w:Jean Carnahan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jean</a>, in her husband's place. However, the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" class="extiw" title="w:Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Seventeenth Amendment</a> requires that such appointments last only until a special election is held. Talent received the Republican nomination, narrowly defeated Jean Carnahan in the midterm election of November 2002, and was sworn in later that month to fill out the balance of Mel Carnahan's term. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/chronlist.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[4]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=87&oid=24756&arc=1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[5]</a>

Talent sought re-election in 2006. His Democratic opponent was state auditor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claire_McCaskill" title="Claire McCaskill" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Claire McCaskill</a>. Polls conducted in the fall of 2005 suggest that the race was likely to be very close <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/January%202006/Missouri%20Senate%20January%202.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[6]</a>. Talent held a significant initial fundraising advantage <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11454552/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[7]</a>, due in part to support from the Bush administration; on Oct 11, 2005, Vice President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" class="extiw" title="w:Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dick Cheney</a> held a fundraiser for Talent. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Oct/20051022News024.asp" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[8]</a> McCaskill nullified these advantages, however, and was helped by nationwide anti-Republican sentiment to a 50%-47% victory over Talent. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/MO/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[9]</a>

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<h4 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stem Cell Research</h4>

<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since joining the Senate in 2002, Talent had supported federal legislation that would ban all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stem_cell_research" class="extiw" title="w:stem cell research" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">stem cell research</a>. This included co-sponsoring a bill (S.658)<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.00658:" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[10]</a> sponsored by Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sam_Brownback" title="Sam Brownback" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Sam Brownback</a> which would ban all forms of human cloning, including embryonic therapeutic cloning techniques that are seen as crucial to stem cell research. However, on Feb 10, 2006, Talent withdrew his support for the bill, citing the need to balance research and protection against human cloning. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/13845435.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[11]</a> This move followed criticism by Talent's likely Democratic opponent in the 2006 election, Claire McCaskill, as well as pressure from Missouri business interests that oppose restrictions on stem cell research. Though this reversal was widely criticized as bring due to politics <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11410626/site/newsweek/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[12]</a>, Talent told the Associated Press, ""The technology is changing all the time and so I'm always considering whether there is a better way to strike the balance."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/13710191.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[13]</a> Talent suggests that moral concerns might be put to rest through a possible future scientific breakthrough- replicating embryonic stem cells without the use of cloned embryos.

There is likely to be a ballot-initiative in Missouri in Nov. 2006 to allow Stem Cell research. Initially, Senator Talent indicated he might support the initiative <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11410626/site/newsweek/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[14]</a>, but has since declared his opposition. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/health/14485881.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[15]</a>

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from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Fundraising profile:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by industry:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00005004" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry" title="Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Forestry Conservation and Rural Revitalization</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Marketing Inspection and Production Promotion - Chair</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Special_Committee_on_Aging" title="Senate Special Committee on Aging" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Special Committee on Aging</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="Senate Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Committee on Armed Services</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Airland</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Seapower - Chair</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities</li>

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</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Senate_Committee_on_Energy_and_Natural_Resources" title="Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Energy</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Speaker's Health Care Task Force, 1995-1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Deputy Whip/Member, President Bush's Export Council</li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">West County Chamber of Commerce</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H2173103" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Background information on Jim Talent from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H2173103" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Interest group scorecard ratings for Jim Talent from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/t000024" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Voting record for Jim Talent from the Washington Post database</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=MOJR&site=congressmerge" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Information on Jim Talent from Congress Merge</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://talent.senate.gov/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Official website</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Open Secrets</a> - 2006 congressional races database</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whereistand.com/Stands/JamesTalent/Detail/Disagree?list=ClaireMcCaskill" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Differences on the issues between Jim Talent and Claire McCaskill</a> at whereIstand.com</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chris Cillizza, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/02/insider_interview_scott_howell.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Insider Interview: Scott Howell -- GOP Imagemaker,"</a> The Fix/Washington Post, February 2006. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_Howell" title="Scott Howell" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Scott Howell</a> was Talent's "media consultant" in 2002.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Christina Bellantoni, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060706-103241-3393r.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Allen hires firm behind 'Hitler' ads,"</a> Washington Times, July 7, 2006: "facing re-election bids this fall" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Allen" title="George Allen" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George Allen</a> of Virginia and Talent "have chosen" Scott Howell's "firm and expect upbeat ads to dominate their campaigns."</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://claireonline.com/pressRelease.jsp?key=270&t=" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Press Release: "St. Louis Elected Officials Question Misleading Talent Campaign. Cite Talent's 'F' Rating From The NAACP And Long Record Of Voting Against African-American Interests,"</a> ClaireOnline.com, August 2, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael Abramowitz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401807.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"GOP Candidates Claim Degrees Of Separation From President,"</a> Washington Post, August 5, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Roy Temple, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.firedupmissouri.com/hail_to_the_chief" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Senator Talent's Brand of Bipartisanship,"</a> Fired Up! Missouri, August 5, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Roy Temple, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.firedupmissouri.com/talent_bush_sunshine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Just How Far Will Talent Try To Distance Himself From Bush,"</a> Fired Up! Missouri, August 9, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David A. Lieb, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/15254447.htm?source=rss&channel=kansascity_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Talent criticizes Bush ag policies,"</a> Associated Press (The Kansas City Star), August 11, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David A. Lieb, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS0602/608140350/1007/NEWS01" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Talent refuses to take position on wage bill,"</a> Associated Press (News-Leader.com), August 14, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/3C30BE5B35CD3A74862571CA007F194B?OpenDocument" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Editorial: "The purpling of Jim Talent,"</a> St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 15, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Phil Singer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dscc.org/news/roundup/20060906_talent/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Dazed & Confused: Talent's 2nd Flub in 2 Days!!!"</a> Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, September 6, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Garance Burke, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=21472" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Protestors lobby for minimum wage raise,"</a> Associated Press (Missourian), September 8, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Froma Harrop, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003254374_harrop12.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Opinion: "GOP inaction on illegal immigration gives Democrats an opportunity,"</a> Seattle Times, September 12, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0618talent_fh.htm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Big Three Put Talent in Driver's Seat</a>," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), June 18, 2007.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chatterbyrondavis.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Chatter</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snakesonasenate.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Snakes on a Senate</a>, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Senatorial_Campaign_Committee" title="Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee</a> website.</li>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Industries, 1991 - 2008</h2>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 605px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Industry</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Retired</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,628,842</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,628,842</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Lawyers/Law Firms</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,121,395</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$994,240</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$127,155</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Health Professionals</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,060,280</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$759,481</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$300,799</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Securities & Investment</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$992,408</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$822,033</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$170,375</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Real Estate</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$818,885</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$727,788</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$91,097</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Greenpeace has posted these <a href="http://photo.greenpeace.org/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&VBID=27MZVNDJTQ2ML&STID=27MZIFVATO96&PN=0&CT=Story">stark images</a> of the destruction Sandy brought to the New Jersey shore. The devastation on the ground is heartbreaking, and Americans are grateful for the courage and determination of people responding to the crisis. At the same time, it's imperative that we start asking why we have seen so much extreme weather lately -- and what kind of leadership it will take to truly address the crisis.

In the wake of the disaster, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo <a href="http://statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2012/10/30/cuomo-we-have-a-new-reality-when-it-comes-to-these-weather-patterns/">said</a>, "There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement. That is a factual statement. Anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality." Today, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Upton-Whitfield-Hurricane-Sandy-Letter-PR-2012-10-31_0.pdf">called</a> for congressional hearings, writing, "Hurricane Sandy is exactly the type of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce our carbon pollution."

Unfortunately, big energy companies have spent tens of millions of dollars on lobbying, advertising, and <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2010/3/dealing-in-doubt.pdf">propaganda</a> aimed precisely at denying the powerful evidence that burning fossil fuels is contributing to climate change -- and at blocking common sense energy reforms. And while Mitt Romney has <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/09/04/mitt-romney-climate-change-is.html">flip-flopped</a> on these issues, he has surrounded himself with people tied to the climate denial industry.

Romney's campaign press secretary Andrea Saul previously worked, from 2005-07, at the Washington DC lobbying and public affairs firm DCI Group, where, on behalf of their client ExxonMobil, <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/science-denial-and-andrea-saul-%E2%80%93-romney-2012-campaign-spokesperson">she worked on a campaign</a> seeking to undermine global warming evidence and policy changes. Saul was listed as a contact person on a 2006 <a href="http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-30-2006/0004330403&EDATE=">press release</a> that stated, ''Coming off one of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent memory, many are quick to blame the strength and frequency of these storms on global warming. Leading climate scientists, however, say there is no link between increased storm activity and a massive change in global climate."  Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, also worked at DCI, from 2007-10.

In addition, while both Romney and President Obama have praised "clean coal" -- even though there's <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/4339171">no such thing</a>, at least not yet -- Romney's campaign is deeply connected to the coal industry, which is the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/coal/">biggest human-made source of carbon dioxide emissions</a> and a <a href="http://www.fightcleanenergysmears.org/behind_the_smears.cfm">major funder of climate denial</a>.

Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the nation's largest privately-owned coal company, hosted a $1.7 million fundraiser for the campaign this year, and his firm's employees have given Romney over $120,000.

Last fall, the Romney campaign released an energy policy paper that included a statement by Romney adviser and former Senator Jim Talent blaming government regulation for America's energy challenges: "The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government--alone among the governments of the world--will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess." Where can such energy be found? Talent writes, "America has hundreds of years of coal reserves.'' <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/jim-talent-s-profile-rises-as-top-romney-adviser/article_b201c725-01f9-5194-a840-da7de14707d3.html">Talent</a>, a top candidate for Romney's <a href="https://www.stlbeacon.org/#%21/content/27078/talent_as_romney_advissr">cabinet</a>, has a day job: <a href="http://www.mercurypublicaffairs.com/leadership">co-chairman of Mercury Public Affairs</a>, a D.C. lobbying and communications firm. As the Boston Globe first reported last year, Mercury lobbies for St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private sector coal company. Peabody has paid Mercury nearly <a href="http://www.boston.com/2011/09/09/web-talent/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/story.html">$700,000</a> in the past <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000020856&year=2012://">six years</a>. The Romney energy paper did not disclose that Talent's firm was earning money from the coal industry when Talent praised coal as a pillar of America's energy future for centuries to come.

Newsweek ranked Peabody energy 500th out of 500 -- dead last -- in its environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations in <a href="http://greenrankings2009.newsweek.com/companies/view/peabody-energy">2009</a> and <a href="http://coalgeology.com/2010-newsweek-green-rankings-deeply-flawed-peabody-energy-nyse-btu/7603/">2010</a>, because of the impact of mining and burning coal and because of Peabody's aggressive stance against regulation. (The company managed to move up in the ratings for 2011 -- to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/green-rankings/2011/us.html">492</a>.) Peabody is a corporate leader in <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/a-climate-of-corporate-control-report.pdf">denying the dangers of global warming</a>. Peabody's website <a href="http://www.peabodyenergy.com/content/224/Video-Gallery/Energy-Access-For-All">says today</a>, "The greatest crisis society confronts is not a future environmental crisis predicted by computer models but a human crisis today that is fully within our power to solve... with coal" (ellipses in original).

Peabody is also a member of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry group that has spent millions campaigning against efforts to halt global warming. A leaked 2004 "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/leaked-clean-coal-strategy-memo-peabody-energy">strategy letter</a>" from the president of that organization to Peabody's CEO outlines plans to oppose the McCain-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill "that would be highly injurious to coal-based electricity" and to "sow discord" among Northeast states committed to a greenhouse gas reduction plan. Peabody has spent about $42 million on lobbying in Washington since 2005.

A U.S. President should not take advice from people who have worked to advance climate denial efforts, which have already caused immense harm.

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by <a href="http://www.grist.org/people/Christopher+Mims">Christopher Mims</a>

14 Sep 2011 11:57 AM

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It should surprise no one that Mitt Romney's pro-coal, anti-carbon regulations energy plan was crafted by a coal zombie, but here are the deets anyway: Jim Talent, a key Romney advisor, leads a lobbying firm that took $125,000 from Peabody Energy to promote coal-related interests.

“America has hundreds of years of coal reserves," writes Talent, a Republican and key Romney economic advisor, blaming government regulation for hampering domestic coal mining and other energy production.

“The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government – alone among the governments of the world – will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.’’

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The NewSpeak runs thick here. Replace "our government is alone in the world in hampering coal production" with "our government is alone among the ruling bodies of developed countries in its inability to pass legislation even hinting at a price on carbon" and you've got it about right. Hell, <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/23/china-even-beats-us-to-cap-and-trade-due-to-republican-opposition-to-climate-legislation/">even China is hip to this whole cap-and-trade game</a>.

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<h2>straight to the source</h2>

<li><a class="link" href="http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/09/romney-adviser-pushes-coal-has-link-industry/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/index.html">Romney adviser pushes coal, has link to industry</a>, Boston Globe</li>

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By <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/author/lee-fang/">Lee Fang</a> on Sep 12, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO), a lobbyist and current advisor to Mitt Romney

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Boston Globe reporter Donovan Slack <a href="http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/09/romney-adviser-pushes-coal-has-link-industry/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/index.html">reports</a> today that Mitt Romney’s top energy advisor also works for a lobbying firm that counts coal giant Peabody Energy as a top client.

Former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) has emerged as a key player in Romney’s policy circle, and is featured in Romney’s jobs plan writing about the importance of the coal industry. As Slack reports, Talent simultaneously maintains a lucrative career at a firm that represents Peabody, one of the largest coal companies in the world:

What the former Missouri senator’s essay does not mention is that the Washington lobbying and communications firm he leads as co-chairman, Mercury Public Affairs, counts among its clients Peabody Energy, a St. Louis-based company that is one the largest coal producers in the world.

Peabody Energy has paid Talent’s firm an average of $125,000 every year for the past five years to help represent its interests in Washington. The energy company also retains other firms, spending an average of $2 million each year on lobbying, records show.

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As ThinkProgress Green’s Brad Johnson <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/05/11/175018/romney-jeff-holmstead/">noted</a> back in May, Romney has sought energy advice from other polluter lobbyists. One of them, Jeffrey Holmstead, has worked as a registered lobbyist for Duke Energy, Southern Company, and other fossil fuel giants.

Romney’s current energy policy includes polluter friendly ideas like “amending the Clean Air Act to exclude regulation of carbon and opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for oil production.”

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<h1 class="title-blog">Top Romney Advisor Jim Talent Tied to Coal Lobbying, Walmart Spying -- and Todd Akin</h1>

<div class="blog_padding relative" style=" padding-top: 15px;">Posted: 10/01/2012 4:26 pm</div>

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Former Missouri Senator Jim Talent has emerged as a <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/jim-talent-s-profile-rises-as-top-romney-adviser/article_b201c725-01f9-5194-a840-da7de14707d3.html">key policy advisor and public surrogate</a> for Mitt Romney, and he is "<a href="https://www.stlbeacon.org/#%21/content/27078/talent_as_romney_advissr">regarded by insiders as a contender for a Cabinet-rank position if Romney wins the election</a>," maybe even <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/09/who_will_get_top_jobs_in_a_romney_administration">Secretary of Defense</a>. Just this morning, Talent <a href="http://rundown.msnbc.com/?videoDate=20121001">appeared</a> on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown to preview Romney's debate performance and criticize President Obama's handling of the economy, the federal deficit and the Middle East.

At the same time, Talent runs a big D.C. lobbying firm that represents major corporations, like the coal industry.

Last fall, the Romney campaign released an <a href="http://www.mittromney.com/sites/default/files/shared/Energy.pdf">energy policy paper</a> that included a statement by Talent blaming government regulation for America's energy challenges: "The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government -- alone among the governments of the world -- will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess." And where can such energy be found? Talent has an idea: "America has hundreds of years of coal reserves.''

Even as he touts long-term use of coal for Romney, Talent remains today the <a href="http://www.mercurypublicaffairs.com/leadership">co-chairman of Mercury Public Affairs</a>, a D.C. lobbying and communications firm. As the Boston Globe first <a href="http://www.boston.com/2011/09/09/web-talent/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/story.html">reported</a> last year, Mercury lobbies for St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private sector coal company.

Peabody has paid Mercury nearly <a href="http://www.boston.com/2011/09/09/web-talent/Vmtsu918Yd0ioJ6QU6nZAO/story.html">$700,000</a> in the past <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000020856&year=2012"> six years</a>. The Romney energy paper did not disclose that Talent's firm was earning money from the coal industry when Talent praised coal as a pillar of America's energy future for centuries to come.

Newsweek ranked Peabody energy 500th out of 500 -- dead last -- in its environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations in <a href="http://greenrankings2009.newsweek.com/companies/view/peabody-energy">2009</a> and <a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/10/18/newsweeks-green-rankings-what-they-mean-and-dont">2010</a>, because of the impact of mining and burning coal and because of Peabody's aggressive stance against regulation. (The company managed to move up in the ratings for 2011 -- to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/green-rankings/2011/us.html">492</a>.)

Peabody is a corporate leader in <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/a-climate-of-corporate-control-report.pdf">denying the dangers of global warming</a>. Peabody's website <a href="http://www.peabodyenergy.com/content/224/Video-Gallery/Energy-Access-For-All">says today</a>, "The greatest crisis society confronts is not a future environmental crisis predicted by computer models but a human crisis today that is fully within our power to solve... with coal" (ellipses in original).

Peabody is a member of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry group that has spent millions campaigning against efforts to halt global warming. A leaked 2004 "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/leaked-clean-coal-strategy-memo-peabody-energy">strategy letter</a>" from the president of that organization to Peabody's CEO outlines plans to oppose the McCain-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill "that would be highly injurious to coal-based electricity" and to "sow discord" among Northeast states committed to a greenhouse gas reduction plan.

Peabody has <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000020856&year=2011" target="_hplink">spent about</a> $42 million on lobbying in Washington since 2005.

Last year, the controversial corporate front group the American Legislative Exchange Council <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Award_Winners">presented an award</a> to Kelly Mader, Peabody's Vice President of State Government Relations, as a Private Sector Member of the Year.  (At least 25 major corporations have <a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/gm-walgreens-dump-alec-while-organization/">left ALEC</a> this year, after disclosures of ALEC's support for controversial anti-voting and gun legislation.)

Mercury Public Affairs's website <a href="http://www.mercurypublicaffairs.com/feeds/testimonials">includes</a> these words of praise from Fred Palmer, Peabody's Vice President of Government Relations: "Mercury's smart, comprehensive strategies and unrelenting work ethic combine to provide our company with truly effective advocates on [Capitol] Hill."

Although Talent apparently has <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/08/30/jim_talent_mitt_romney/">not registered with the government as a lobbyist</a>, his webpage on the Mercury site <a href="http://mercurypublicaffairs.com/staff-member/senator-james-talent">lists</a> "lobbying" as one of the "actions" he is available to perform.

Romney appears to get much of his policy advice from people who are paid by special interests to advocate on policy issues. Earlier this year, Romney held a <a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/5-reasons-mitt-romney-would-be-the-first-corporation-elected-president/">fundraising event</a> in Washington. For $10,000 one could participate in a policy roundtable. The energy discussion was led by L.E. Simmons, founder of a Texas private equity firm that invests in energy companies. The financial institutions component was handled by investment company CEO Richard Breeden. The health care panel was run by former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, now chair of Leavitt Partners, which advises corporate clients on health care issues. Education was addressed by Bill Hansen, president of testing technology maker Scantron, which sits on the education policy task force of the controversial corporate advocacy group ALEC.  And the infrastructure panel was run by corporate lobbyist Jim Talent.

Talent, who oversees coal industry lobbying and then endorses coal in a Romney policy paper, symbolizes how Romney's "No Apology" mantra might play out in Washington -- as president, it seems, Romney could hand over public policy to special interests.

Here's more on lobbyist / top Romney advisor Jim Talent:

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<li class="first">In June, Stephanie Harnett, a senior associate at Talent's firm Mercury, was <a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/walmart-sends-fake-reporter-spy-warehouse-workers/">caught posing as a reporter</a> and spying on labor organizers at a Walmart warehouse. At the time, Mercury represented Walmart. After the spying was disclosed, Mercury fired Harnett and claimed it didn't authorize her actions. Walmart then <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/25/local/la-me-0625-walmart-20120625">cut ties</a> with Mercury.</li>

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<li>In 2001 -- after his unsuccessful bid to be Missouri's governor and prior to his successful 2002 Senate run -- Talent <a href="http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=3&LOB=TALENT,%20JAMES%20M.&LOBQUAL==" target="hplink">was employed</a> for ten months by the Washington lobbying and law firm Arent Fox, which paid him $230,000 even though he was barred by law from lobbying and not licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia. Arent Fox <a href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=allfields%28talent%29%20and%20allfields%28arent%29%20and%20allfields%28absurd%29%20AND%20date%282/20/2002%20to%204/6/2002%29&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2/20/2002%20to%204/6/2002%29&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28%22talent%22%29%20and%20%28%22arent%22%29%20and%20%28%22absurd%22%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no" target="hplink">said</a> it was "absurd" for critics to claim that the firm paid Talent to curry favor with a potential senator, but the firm admitted that Talent's GOP tie did help him get hired, to balance out prominent Democrats at the firm.</li>

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<li class="last">While aggressively stumping for Romney, Talent also is now <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/28/3838698/kit-bond-jim-talent-change-minds.html" target="_hplink">publicly supporting</a> the Senate bid of his fellow Missouri Republican, Rep. Todd Akin, whose campaign stumbled after he said women had "ways" to shut down pregnancies in the event of "legitimate rape."  Even former Missouri Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is not backing Akin at this point.</li>

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The orginal version of this article appeared on <a href="http://RepublicReport.org" target="_hplink">Republic Report</a>.

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Jim Talent is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where he specializes in military readiness and welfare reform issues.

In announcing his 2007 appointment, Heritage President Ed Feulner praised the former U.S. Senator as “uniquely qualified” to provide policy recommendations on these two disparate issues. “Jim not only understands the policy pressure points of debate over defense and welfare issues, he has experience writing legislation addressing these critical issues,” Feulner said. “This gives him practical skills and insights beyond what most experts offer.”

One of Talent’s objectives at Heritage is to raise awareness—within Congress and throughout the country—of the importance of assuring stable, robust funding of America’s military, in peace as well as war.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, Talent was in the thick of the debate over strengthening the armed forces, taking a firm stance to protect America’s military from cuts in size and funding. Such activism dates to his freshman year in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993, when he formed a special congressional panel to address the decline in readiness.

He continued to focus on defense issues in the Senate.  He served as a member of that chamber’s Armed Services Committee, and chaired the Sea Power Subcommittee for four years.

Talent also was a leading voice on welfare issues throughout his congressional career.  As a freshman member in the House, he introduced the Real Welfare Reform Act of 1994.  This proposal subsequently became the basis for the bipartisan reforms enacted as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. The legislation is credited with moving 4.2 million welfare recipients from dependency on the government to jobs and self-sufficiency.

As a Senator, he introduced the Compassion and Personal Responsibility Act of 2003 to build on the success of the 1996 welfare reform package. He designed the anti-poverty measure to assist more citizens to realize the American dream through opportunity, work, independence and healthy marriages. Talent also was Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business.

Talent’s political career began in 1984, when, at age 28, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. His legislative successes there over eight years included measures to build roads, toughen drug laws, secure taxpayer rights and reduce taxes. At 32, he was chosen unanimously by colleagues as Minority Leader, the highest-ranking Republican position in the Missouri House. He served in that role until 1992, when he was elected to Congress representing Missouri’s 2nd District.

After serving eight years in Congress, Talent ran unsuccessfully for Missouri Governor in 2000 before winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in a special election in 2002. He narrowly lost his bid for a second Senate term in November 2006.

Talent was born and raised in Des Peres, Mo. He is a 1978 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he received the Arnold J. Lien Prize for most outstanding political science student. He graduated Order of the Coif from University of Chicago Law School in 1981, then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for two years.  He and his wife, Brenda, have three children. The family lives in Chesterfield, Mo.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 18px; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is a trade association of nine car and light truck manufacturers.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: 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/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 History</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#2007_fight_against_fuel_efficiency_standards" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 2007 fight against fuel efficiency standards</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#Membership" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Membership</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#Contact_details" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#SourceWatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 SourceWatch resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">History</h2>Afraid that their vote to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration might make Congress more likely to increase fuel efficiency standards, the automobile industry is "trying to polish its image." The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is claiming, in newspaper and radio ads, and on cleaning sponges given to Congressional staffers, that "cars are 99% cleaner than they used to be." (The Union of Concerned Scientists calls the Auto Alliance campaign "highly misleading.")An Auto Alliance spokesperson said increased fuel standards would be "very difficult to achieve," because of the popularity of large vehicles. "It's not what we manufacture; it's what consumers buy," she said. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Business/031605.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">[1]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">2007 fight against fuel efficiency standards</h2>"Automakers plan to attack congressional efforts to raise fuel mileage standards in a series of radio and newspaper advertisements this weekend, the unofficial start of summer driving season," reported The Hill in May 2007. "The ad campaign, sponsored by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, focuses on states with a high proportion of truck and SUV drivers to stoke grassroots opposition to a Senate bill that would raise fuel standards for cars and trucks by 10 miles per gallon over the next 10 years. " <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/auto-group-to-attack-fuel-mileage-standards-2007-05-25.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">[2]</a>The auto lobby has a website at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.drivecongress.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.drivecongress.com</a> with a toll-free number to get US drivers lobbying Congress against fuel efficiency standards.In his new role as co-chair of the PR firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fleishman-Hillard" title="Fleishman-Hillard" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fleishman-Hillard</a>'s government relations (or lobbying) practice, former U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Talent" title="Jim Talent" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jim Talent</a> will be "spearheading the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers' bid to torpedo the effort to raise fuel mileage standards to 52 miles per gallon" by 2030, reported O'Dwyer's PR Daily in June 2007. Instead, the automakers are supporting a compromise measure from Senators <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carl_Levin" title="Carl Levin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carl Levin</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kit_Bond" title="Kit Bond" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kit Bond</a>. "Talent cannot lobby for the Levin-Bond bill because of Senate rules," explained O'Dwyer's. "He can do media outreach on behalf of the carmakers." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0618talent_fh.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Membership</h2>Members, as of March 2005, are:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BMW&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BMW (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BMW</a> Group,</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DaimlerChrysler" title="DaimlerChrysler" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DaimlerChrysler</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ford" title="Ford" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ford</a> Motor Company</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Motors" title="General Motors" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">General Motors</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mazda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mazda (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mazda</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitsubishi_Motors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mitsubishi Motors (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mitsubishi Motors</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Porsche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Porsche (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Porsche</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Toyota" title="Toyota" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Toyota</a>; and</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Volkswagen" title="Volkswagen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Volkswagen</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contact details</h2>1401 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 326-5500
Fax: (202) 326-5598
Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.autoalliance.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.autoalliance.org/</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">SourceWatch resources</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_for_Energy_and_Economic_Growth" title="Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coalition_for_Vehicle_Choice" title="Coalition for Vehicle Choice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Coalition for Vehicle Choice</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fuel_efficiency_standards_and_the_laws_of_physics" title="Fuel efficiency standards and the laws of physics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fuel efficiency standards and the laws of physics</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External links</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jim Snyder, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Business/031605.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Lobbyists see a tradeoff -- ANWR for CAFE standards</a>", The Hill, March 16, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jim Snyder, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/auto-group-to-attack-fuel-mileage-standards-2007-05-25.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg") 100% 50%;">Auto group to attack fuel-mileage standards</a>, The Hill, May 25, 2007</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0618talent_fh.htm" style="text-decoration: none; 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