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<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=151ab1da6b&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">CRP’s revolving door data</a>, which we will continue to update, shows that 42 of the 75 who left Capitol Hill at the end of the last Congress or sometime during that two-year term are currently employed — 18 of them by lobbying firms or law firms that also lobby.They include, among others, former Sen. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=2cb716fbe0&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Begich</a> (D-Alaska), who lost his bid for re-election and is now a “strategic advisor” at <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=2f795c226e&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck</a>; Rep. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=33ac351abc&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Lee Terry</a> (R-Neb.), one of only two incumbent GOP House members to lose his seat in the 2014 Republican wave and now a senior adviser at <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=4e18aa4a8f&e=44dfb36771" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432137493279_77690" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Kelley, Drye & Warren</a>; and Reps. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=9cc3fe94e2&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Jim Matheson</a> (D-Utah) and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=19437ec804&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Jack Kingston</a> (R-Ga.), who were both poached by powerhouse firm <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=4443f65012&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">Squire Patton Boggs</a>. Matheson retired, while Kingston lost his bid for a Senate seat to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=11e8a86f12&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; background: transparent;">David Perdue</a> (R).

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Alaskan <a href="http://donyoung.house.gov/" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rep. Don Young</a>, one of the House's most senior Republicans, has called global warming "the biggest scam since the Teapot Dome," referring to one of the most notorious bribery scandals in U.S. history. Young's state has warmed at twice the national average during the past 50 years. According to scientists, the permafrost underlying Alaska is melting and causing thousands of miles of road that lay on top of it to buckle and crack as it loses its form. Sections along the northwestern coast are eroding tens of feet per year, which has forced several coastal villages to be relocated. Melting glaciers are also causing dangerous flood surges toward major cities like Juneau, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/us/alaska-looks-for-answers-in-glaciers-summer-flood-surges.html" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">New York Times</a> reported this month.

Neither Grimm, Tipton nor Young responded to requests for comment.

Scientists say that climate change is a major factor in the rise of more frequent and severe extreme weather. The trend will continue, they say, until governments make drastic greenhouse gas reductions.

Currently, the United States is in the midst of its most extensive drought since the 1930s. Tens of thousands of <a href="http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">wildfires</a> have charred millions of acres of land in the American West, and more than <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Climate-Disconnect-Report-Analysis-of-Record-High-Temperatures-2013-7-9.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">30,000 temperature records</a> were broken last year alone.

According to a <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Climate-Disconnect-Report-Analysis-of-Record-High-Temperatures-2013-7-9.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">new report</a> by <a href="http://waxman.house.gov/" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rep. Henry Waxman</a> (D-Calif.), one of Congress's staunchest proponents of climate policy, the 10 congressional districts that experienced the highest number of temperature records last year are represented by politicians who voted against climate-related policies 97 percent of the time during the last Congress.

A Different Response

For Democrats, extreme weather events in their districts have prompted calls to action.

Months after taking office in 2009, Alaskan <a href="http://www.begich.senate.gov/public/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Sen. Mark Begich</a>, a Democrat, took a handful of senators on a tour of Alaska to show them the damage being caused by global warming.

"Alaska is ground zero for climate change," Begich told InsideClimate News. "While some would rather debate the causes of climate change, I am focused on dealing with the very real impacts we see every day."

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, five senators from New

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

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

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Global_warming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.5 Global warming</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Healthcare" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.6 Healthcare</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#The_Economy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.7 The Economy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Taxes" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.8 Taxes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Veterans" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.9 Veterans</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#2008_elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2.1 2008 elections</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/Mark_Begich#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 Money in politics</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Campaign_contributions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3.1 Campaign contributions</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Committees_and_affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Committees and affiliations</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Committees" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.1 Committees</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4.2 Affiliations</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/Mark_Begich#More_background_data" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 More background data</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7.2 Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7.4 External articles</a></li>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; 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;">Begich says he supports expanding <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a> (SCHIP) to 250 percent of the poverty level ($66,000 for a family of four), allowing those up to age 25 to keep their parent-provided coverage regardless of student status, tax credits to help small businesses buy into the federal health care insurance plan and create incentives for states to create pooling opportunities for small businesses and non-profits. He also supports fully funding the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Veterans_Administration" title="Veterans Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Veterans Administration</a>, the expanded use of generic medicines in publicly-funded programs such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Medicare" title="Medicare" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Medicare</a> and Medicaid, giving seniors the option to buy prescriptions directly through Medicare and investing more in basic preventative care and wellness programs. Begich would also support policies that ensure that nobody is turned away from healthcare because of a pre-existing condition.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-project-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; 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);">Begich supports an aggressive target of producing at least 25% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2025, expandeding federal tax incentives for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">renewable energy</a> development,a new national Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund to help retrofit public buildings with energy efficient technology, a new federal funding program that rewards schools that adopt sustainable, high-performance building and reconstruction standard, and bipartisan proposals for a new financing system to rebuild our public infrastructure, including roads and highways, bridges, drinking water and wastewater systems, and public transportation system. Begich also supports getting affordable and reliable high speed internet for rural areas, increasing federal research funding, including funding for a new energy research block grant program that focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency innovation, increased funding for middle and high school career, technical programs and teacher recruitment, new funding to expand the number of trained workers who can conduct home energy audits, install energy-efficient technologies, build energy-efficient homes and businesses, and maintain alternative energy vehicles of the future. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-project-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; font-style: normal; font-variant: 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);">Begich was the Democratic nominee seeking to challenge Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ted_Stevens" title="Ted Stevens" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ted Stevens</a> (R-Alaska) in the 2008 congressional elections.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a> He won in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_election_dates" title="2008 U.S. congressional election dates" class="mw-redirect" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">primary</a> elections which took place on August 26, 2008. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-greenpapers-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-cqpolitics_aug-27-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a>. Begich went on to defeat incumbent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ted_Stevens" title="Ted Stevens" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ted Stevens</a> in November 2008 general elections. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_note-greenpapers-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a>

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This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.

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The following is drawn from government records of campaign contributions to Mark Begich. Campaign contributions are one of the most direct conduits for influencing members of Congress. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SouceWatch:Using_congressional_campaign_contribution_information" title="SouceWatch:Using congressional campaign contribution information" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">How to use this information.</a><crpcontribdata>cid=N00029901&cycle=2008</crpcontribdata>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_elections" title="2008 U.S. congressional elections" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2008 U.S. congressional elections</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Alaska_and_the_U.S._Congress" title="Portal:Alaska and the U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Portal:Alaska and the U.S. Congress</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-project-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.5</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.6</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-project_0-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.7</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://begich.com/issues" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">On the Issues</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> Philip Weiss, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/44-senators-including-many-democrats-sign-aipac-letter-to-obama-against-iran-negotiations.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">44 Senators, including many Democrats, sign AIPAC letter to Obama against Iran negotiations</a>, MondoWeiss, 16 June 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2008racetracker.com/page/AK-Sen" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2008 Race Tracker page on Alaska’s Senate Race</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://begich.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Begich for U.S. Senate website</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-greenpapers-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-greenpapers_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-greenpapers_5-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/AK.phtml" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">“Alaska 2008 General Election</a>,"The Green Papers, August 27, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-cqpolitics_aug-27-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Begich#cite_ref-cqpolitics_aug-27_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> Rachel Kapochunas, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=144&docID=news-000002941321" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Young Leads (Barely) in Alaska Primary Count, as Stevens Survives"</a>,CQ Politics, August 27, 2008</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2008racetracker.com/page/AK-Sen" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2008 Race Tracker page on Alaska’s Senate Race</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://begich.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Begich for U.S. Senate website</a></li>

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on the issues eh

Mark Begich on Energy & Oil

Click here for 10 full quotes on Energy & Oil OR background on Energy & Oil.

Advocate for opening up ANWR to drilling. (Nov 2008)

Short term: $2.5B for LIHEAP; 70M bbl from strategic reserve. (Sep 2008)

Long term: develop ANWR; build renewable energy plants. (Sep 2008)

Support US participation in binding climate agreements. (Sep 2008)

Open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (May 2008)

Alaska is ground zero for global warming. (May 2008)

Voted NO on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. (Apr 2011)

Voted YES on protecting middle-income taxpayers from a national energy tax. (Apr 2009)

Voted YES on requiring full Senate debate and vote on cap-and-trade. (Apr 2009)

Allow horizontal drilling into Alaska's Coastal Plain. (Feb 2009)

Mark Begich on Environment

Click here for 5 full quotes on Environment OR background on Environment.

Implemented energy efficiency and conservation in Anchorage. (May 2008)

Respect unique cultural role of subsistence whaling. (May 2007)

Voted YES on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems. (May 2013)

Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program. (Aug 2009)

Rated 100% by HSLF, indicating a pro-animal welfare voting record. (Jan 2012)

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lcv

2012 Score 64%

Lifetime Score 77%

AllYearRoll CallVote NameAllIssuesVote

2012206Military Investments in Alternative FuelsClean Energy

2012159Industrial Farm Clean Water ViolationsWater

2012155Conservation ComplianceLands/Forests, Water

2012148Conservation on Private FarmlandsLands/Forests, Water

2012139Toxic Air Pollution from Power PlantsAir

2012106Genetically Engineered SalmonWildlife, Oceans, Other

201263Oil Subsidies & Clean Energy IncentivesDirty Energy, Clean Energy

201247Environmental Review in Transportation RebuildingOther, Transportation

201239Clean Energy Tax IncentivesClean Energy

201238Arctic Refuge & Offshore Drilling & KXLClimate Change, Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests, Water, Wildlife

201234Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (KXL)Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Water

201232Gulf Coast Restoration & Land and Water Conservation FundLands/Forests, Oceans, Water

201230Toxic Pollution from Industrial BoilersAir

201228Offshore DrillingDrilling, Dirty Energy

2011229Undermining Critical Environmental ProgramsOther

2011202Broad Environmental Assault (S. 1720)Air, Dirty Energy, Drilling, Water, Wildlife

2011201Cross-State Air Pollution Air

2011196Broad Environmental Assault (S.1786)Air, Climate Change, Other

2011190Gutting Transportation EnhancementsTransportation

201190Ending Ethanol SubsidiesDirty Energy

201187Regulatory RollbacksOther

201173Offshore Drilling Dirty Energy, Drilling

201172Oil SubsidiesDirty Energy, Drilling

201154Global Warming Pollution Climate Change

201136Sweeping Environmental Funding and Policy AssaultAir, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Water, Wildlife

2010275Funding Renewable EnergyClean Energy

2010234Biodiesel Tax CreditDirty Energy, Lands/Forests

2010187Cutting Oil SubsidiesDrilling, Clean Energy, Dirty Energy

2010184Dirty Air Act (2x Score)Climate Change, Air

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Americans for Prosperity, the arch-conservative advocacy group backed largely by the Koch Brothers, released their latest attack ad against Obamacare on Wednesday, criticizing Alaskan Democratic Senator Mark Begich for his support of the Affordable Care Act.

The commercial in question appears to feature an unidentified Alaskan voter, who complains about the betrayal at the hands of both Begich and Obama, while walking leisurely around her kitchen with a cup of coffee. But Connie Bowman, the woman in the video was interviewed <a href="http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&key=9292a89875833d3830a2d19c626b7012&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2013%2F11%2F20%2Fkoch-brothers-mark-begich_n_4312485.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dbusiness%26ir%3DBusiness&v=1&libId=c1c8ef73-7200-4b92-b538-8b97329ccde9&out=http%3A%2F%2Fthecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F11%2F20%2Fin-an-attack-ad-an-alaskan-voter-is-really-an-actress-from-maryland%2F%3Fsmid%3Dtw-share%26_r%3D1%26gwh%3D3ADBDA894F11970BFFD80F9D118C3686&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CDwQFjAB%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252F2013%252F11%252F20%252Fkoch-brothers-mark-begich_n_4312485.html%253Futm_hp_ref%253Dbusiness%2526ir%253DBusiness%26ei%3DyEqOUvToOYLdsATT6oLAAg%26usg%3DAFQjCNHp9Ah4HuXckql1ebzneahcisT6Rg%26sig2%3Dkh9gbHx9sSGoEnwFd1M78A%26bvm%3Dbv.56988011%2Cd.cWc&title=Koch%20Brothers%20Use%20Actress%20To%20Portray%20Disgruntled%20Voter%20In%20Mark%20Begich%20Attack%20Ad&txt=according&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13850596359496" style="text-decoration: none;">by the New York Times</a>, and she said she's “just an actress,” with a fairly prolific voice-over and commercial career.

And she doesn't live anywhere near Alaska. She lives in Maryland.

“Today’s misleading ad from the Koch brothers is just more evidence that even billions of dollars can’t buy integrity,” Begich spokeswoman Rachel Barinbaum said in a statement.

The ad comes days after the billionaire brothers announced their $4 million anti-Obamacare advertising campaign, sponsored by the Americans for Prosperity, which plans to target six congressional democrats who supported the Affordable Care Act. Begich is just the first.

Begich, who is currently up for reelection in the red state, described his plans on Tuesday for legislation that calls for creating a new category of insurance plans within Obamacare that would offer citizens lower premiums with higher out-of-pocket costs.

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