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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">021</span></font></p><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626678" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">500</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626678" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-500-sung-confirmation-ninth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sung Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626678" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice626678" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear625971" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber625971" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">459</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625971" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-459-restoring-voting-rights-act" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Restoring the Voting Rights Act</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625971" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625971" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear625769" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber625769" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">426</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625769" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-426-p%C3%A9rez-confirmation-second-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pérez Confirmation (Second Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625769" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625769" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear625668" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber625668" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">420</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625668" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-420-voting-rights-and-democracy-reforms" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Voting Rights and Democracy Reforms</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625668" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625668" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear625130" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber625130" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">401</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625130" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-401-stone-manning-confirmation-blm-director" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Stone-Manning Confirmation (BLM Director)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625130" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625130" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear622362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber622362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">357</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle622362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-357-build-back-better-budget-resolution" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Build Back Better Budget Resolution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues622362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice622362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear622463" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber622463" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">346</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle622463" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-346-promoting-polluting-energy-sources" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Promoting Polluting Energy Sources</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues622463" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice622463" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear621091" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber621091" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">320</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle621091" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-320-eliminating-safeguards-fossil-fuel-production" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Eliminating Safeguards on Fossil Fuel Production</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues621091" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Drilling, Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Oceans, Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice621091" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear620788" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber620788" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">303</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle620788" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-303-defunding-civilian-conservation-corps-and-wildland-firefighting" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Defunding the Civilian Conservation Corps and Wildland Firefighting</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues620788" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Public Lands/Forests, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice620788" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear620687" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber620687" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">298</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle620687" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-298-restarting-construction-harmful-border-wall" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Restarting Construction of the Harmful Border Wall</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues620687" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wildlife, Public Lands/Forests, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice620687" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear620154" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber620154" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">279</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle620154" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-279-kim-confirmation-doj-enrd-assistant-attorney-general" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kim Confirmation (DOJ-ENRD Assistant Attorney General)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues620154" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice620154" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear621394" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber621394" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">246</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle621394" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-246-voting-rights-and-democracy-reforms" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Voting Rights and Democracy Reforms</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues621394" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice621394" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear618221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber618221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">236</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle618221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-236-fox-confirmation-epa-assistant-administrator" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fox Confirmation (EPA Assistant Administrator)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues618221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice618221" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear629477" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber629477" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">231</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle629477" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-231-jackson-confirmation-dc-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jackson Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues629477" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary, Climate Change, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice629477" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" miss-vote-icon-20.png="miss-vote-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear629376" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber629376" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">203</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle629376" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-203-clarke-confirmation-doj-crd-assistant-attorney-general" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Clarke Confirmation (DOJ-CRD Assistant Attorney General)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues629376" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice and Democracy, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice629376" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear629578" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber629578" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">178</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle629578" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-178-investing-water-infrastructure" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Investing in Water Infrastructure</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues629578" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice629578" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear619621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber619621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">175</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle619621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-175-repealing-assault-methane-pollution-safeguards" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Repealing Assault on Methane Pollution Safeguards</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues619621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice619621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626476" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626476" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">150</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626476" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-150-mallory-confirmation-council-environmental-quality-chair" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mallory Confirmation (Council on Environmental Quality Chair)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626476" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice626476" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626577" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626577" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">125</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626577" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-125-becerra-confirmation-health-and-human-services-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Becerra Confirmation (Health and Human Services Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626577" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice626577" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626375" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626375" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">123</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626375" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-123-tai-confirmation-united-states-trade-representative" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tai Confirmation (United States Trade Representative)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626375" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice626375" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear618120" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber618120" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">119</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle618120" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-119-haaland-confirmation-interior-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Haaland Confirmation (Interior Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues618120" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice618120" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear615352" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber615352" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">116</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle615352" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-116-regan-confirmation-epa-administrator" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Regan Confirmation (EPA Administrator)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues615352" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Climate Change, Water, Air, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice615352" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear618019" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber618019" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">114</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle618019" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-114-garland-confirmation-attorney-general" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Garland Confirmation (Attorney General)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues618019" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice618019" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626274" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626274" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">113</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626274" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-113-fudge-confirmation-housing-and-urban-development-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fudge Confirmation (Housing and Urban Development Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626274" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice626274" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">86</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-86-striking-provisions-help-farmers-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Striking Provisions to Help Farmers of Color</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental Justice, Agriculture</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice626173" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear626072" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber626072" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">70</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle626072" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-70-raimondo-confirmation-commerce-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Raimondo Confirmation (Commerce Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues626072" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice626072" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear615251" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber615251" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">66</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle615251" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-66-granholm-confirmation-energy-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Granholm Confirmation (Energy Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues615251" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice615251" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear617384" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber617384" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">59</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle617384" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-59-impeachment-incitement-insurrection" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Impeachment for Incitement of Insurrection</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues617384" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice617384" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear625030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber625030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">43</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-43-bolstering-dirty-water-rule" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bolstering the Dirty Water Rule</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear624930" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2021</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber624930" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">32</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle624930" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2021-32-supporting-destructive-keystone-xl-pipeline" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Supporting the Destructive Keystone XL Pipeline</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues624930" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Environmental Justice</font></span></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5th to bail</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/roy-blunt/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/roy-blunt/</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/chris-wallace-2653084239/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/chris-wallace-2653084239/</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">vs blunt</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-page letter was signed by a number of Republican heavyweights from coal/gas/oil-rich states, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Ted Cruz of Texas.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Guardian calculated that the 22 senators received a total of $10,694,284 from oil, gas and coal money in just five years. (See the breakdown below.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that sum does not even come close to the amount of undisclosed funds coming from the deep pockets of Charles and David Koch's coal, oil and gas conglomerate, Koch Industries, and other outside groups.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Guardian explains:</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Visible donations to Republicans from those industries exceeded donations to Democrats in the 2016 election cycle by a ratio of 15-to-1, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that does not include so-called dark money passed from oil interests such as Koch industries to general slush funds to re-elect Republicans such as the Senate leadership fund.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"At least $90m in untraceable money has been funneled to Republican candidates from oil, gas and coal interests in the past three election cycles, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics."</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, shared recently his views on Trump's climate walkout.In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance, Sachs referenced the senators' letter and specifically cast blame on the billionaire oil barons for pulling the strings of Republican party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who both supported exiting the Paris accord.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the victory paid and carried out for 20 years by two people, David and Charles Koch," Sachs said. "They have bought and purchased the top of the Republican party. Trump is a tool in this."</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts explained why he thinks his Republican colleagues do not believe in the science of climate change.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This Conservative party in the United States is funded by the Koch brothers [and] it's funded by the coal industry," Markey said. "[They] insist that Scott Pruitt—the Attorney General of Oklahoma that actually sued the EPA 19 times on clean air, clean water, soot, mercury issues—becomes the head of the EPA in our country."</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican signatories' funding from Big Oil, Gas and Coal in the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016):</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cornyn, Texas</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Lee, Utah</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $231,520 + Coal: $21,895 = $253,415</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Cruz, Texas</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $2,465,910 + Coal: $103,900 = $2,569,810</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Perdue, Georgia</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $184,250 + Coal: $0 = $184,250</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thom Tillis, North Carolina</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $263,400 + Coal: $0 = $263,400</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $490,076 + Coal: $58,200 = $548,276</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pat Roberts, Kansas</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $388,950 + Coal: $28,825 = $417,775</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UKRAINE WAR WATERSHED GAS PRICE DRILL BABY</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">E&C Republicans </b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Urge Biden to </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Flip the Switch </b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">for More ...https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov › news</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 21, 2022 — Rep. John Joyce, M.D. (R-PA): “It's time to return not only to American energy independence, but American energy dominance. It's time ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/ec-republicans-urge-biden-to-flip-the-switch-for-more-american-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/ec-republicans-urge-biden-to-flip-the-switch-for-more-american-energy/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">no twt vid</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">BLOG</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">E&C Republicans Urge Biden to Flip the Switch for More American Energy</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>03.21.22</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Energy and Commerce Republicans continue to lead and urge President Joe Biden to<b> flip the switch and boost American energy production to lower costs, create jobs, and strengthen America’s geopolitical power.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA): “Energy is foundational to everything we do.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">[…]</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“With an all-the-above strategy, we can again say ‘yes’ to America’s global leadership and lower energy prices. I continue to urge my colleagues across the aisle to work with us.<b> Let’s flip the switch </b>on American energy to ensure a better life and more secure future for all.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA): </b>“President Biden wants to ‘build back better.’ What he doesn’t realize is that, first, we must be able to build. Many otherwise ‘shovel-ready’ infrastructure projects get trapped in bureaucratic gridlock for years.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Developers routinely find themselves navigating environmental reviews that require up to over 60 authorizations from as many as 13 different federal agencies.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN):</b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“This administration is asking countries like</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Iran and Venezuela </span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">to compensate for the <b>ban on Russian imports </b>and ignoring American energy producers.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“I urge the administration to<b> flip the switch</b> and reduce our <b>dependence on foreign energy </b>by increasing production of oil and gas at home. We can do this!”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. John Joyce, <b>M.D</b>. (R-PA):</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> “It’s time to return not only to American <b>energy independence, but American energy dominance.</b> It’s time to get to work for the American people.”[~ gridlock aka GOP obstructionism/ polarization]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Check out these highlights of Energy and Commerce Republicans exposing what’s behind the pain at the pump in our joint forum with the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Select Climate Committee:</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Michael Burgess,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> M.D. (R-TX</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">)</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">: “By the stroke of a pen on his first day in office, President Biden weakened America’s energy independence by rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, killing the Keystone XL pipeline, and unlawfully blocking new energy development on federal lands.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV): </b>“The Biden Administration admits the quickest way to lower the price of gas is increasing production. Yet they still prioritize ending the use of fossil fuels over providing relief at the pump for Americans.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL): </b>“We cannot deflect the blame to Russia’s inhumane invasion purely. Gas prices were already skyrocketing thanks to President Biden completely ending fossil fuel projects on day one.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. John Joyce, M.D. (R-PA): </b>“This energy crisis is one of the most important issues we need to be addressing right now in the House of Representatives. Inflation is surging, gas prices are skyrocketing, and the Biden administration refuses act.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s time for Biden to take the responsibility for what his policies are doing to hardworking American citizens</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> It’s time for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Biden to care more about families in Pennsylvania than he does the Green New Deal.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> It’s time to drill American oil.”</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN): “We have the example in Europe (Germany) of what happens to a country when they get so far ahead and so much more worried about where they’re going on clean energy and they fail to look at the timeline of what’s doable and how that impacts their economy.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA): “I asked my constituents…how are high gas prices impacting you? Here are some are the responses I got.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Mark can’t visit his grandkids…Amanda is worried she will have to quit her job in home health because the commute is too expensive.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): “Two days ago, Secretary Granholm was celebrating that she issued two permits…but apparently that wasn’t good enough because yesterday she started talking about gouging.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL):</b> “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The House Progressive Caucus this week offered ideas to the Biden administration calling on the President to declare a ‘national climate emergency’ and to ban fossil fuel leases. We’ve got the administration bragging about 9,000 permits but you’ve got the progressive caucus calling for a complete ban on fossil fuels.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">SUBCOMMITTEES Energy (117th Congress)</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">ISSUES Energy Infrastructure</div></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The real way to support Ukraine is to flip the switch ... - The Hill  https://thehill.com › congress-blog › energy-environmen</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">t</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 3, 2022 — One of the best ways for the U.S. to apply pressure while promoting peace is to unleash American energy production.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">It's Time To Unleash American Energy Independence - The ...https://www.theintelligencer.net › opinion › 2022/04 › i...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Apr 2, 2022 — At peak capacity, the pipeline would deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day to American refineries. The president also put a moratorium on new ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Missing: #fliptheswitch</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">The Time Is Now for US<b> Energy Independence</b> - Citizens ...https://www.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">cagw</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.org › thewastewatcher › time-now-us...</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 23, 2022 — U.S. energy independence will stabilize and lower fuel prices for ... XL pipeline would not have resulted in the release of oil right now, ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Members of Alabama's GOP congressional delegation</b> urge ...https://yellowhammernews.com › Politics</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 8, 2022 — President Trump knew the importance of energy independence and made ... It's time to #FlipTheSwitch and unleash American energy production.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rob Wittman column: We must unleash American energy ...https://<b>richmond.com › opinion</b> › columnists › rob-wittma...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">3 days ago — Russia's barbaric and unprovoked attack on Ukraine highlighted and elevated the need for American energy independence — but it did not create ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Missing: #fliptheswitch</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">President Biden's continued assault... <b>- Rep. Larry Bucshon </b> https://www.facebook.com › RepLarryBucshon › videos</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">PREVIEW</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">1:20</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>President Biden's continued assault on American-made energy has killed jobs, ... Biden to #FlipTheSwitch and unleash American energy ⬇️.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Facebook · Rep. Larry Bucshon</b> · Mar 17, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">The HEAT Report - Republican Whip - Steve Scalise  https://www.republicanwhip.gov › news › the-heat-repo...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">introduced the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> American Energy Independence From Russia Act,</span> which would immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline, unleash U.S. LNG exports to boost natural ...</div></span></font></div><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KINDA ODD MINORITY HAS OWN WEBSITE?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PRESS RELEASES</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PRESS RELEASE</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Leader Rodgers: The 1970s are Calling. Socialist Price Controls will Make Energy Crisis Worse.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">05.16.22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke out at the House Rules Committee today on <b>H.R. 7688, the Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act would give President Biden power to declare an energy emergency, arming the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with tools to <b>impose de-facto, arbitrary caps on the price of gas[NOT TRUE BAD FAITH?]</b>. These socialist price controls are not the answer and will lead to even less oil and gas production at a time where we desperately need to increase both</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CRISIS AND DISTRACTION</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“America is in crisis. Store shelves are empty. New mothers can’t find formula for their babies. Overdose deaths continue to rise as deadly fentanyl pours across our southern border. Inflation is out of control and gas prices continue to reach record levels.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Yet here we are again in the Rules Committee, rushing through the Democrats’ latest attempt to impose socialist price controls on our economy instead of<b> taking responsibility for their actions.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“We should be doing the hard work of legislating to fix these issues</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> and to reverse the damage of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> reckless spending and President Biden’s actions to shut down domestic energy production.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Time and again, the Democrats’ answer to President Biden’s inflation crisis is </span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">more</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> government control</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">, more government spending, and les</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">s freedom.”</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SOCIALIST PRICE CONTROLS</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The disastrous consequences these socialist price controls will have are not hypothetical, because we have seen them before.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Similar policies were used by</span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> Soviet Russia, Venezuela, North Korea and other </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Communist dictatorships</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> They led to massive shortages in goods, which resulted in economic and humanitarian devastation.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The United States even tried to control high gas prices and inflation through price controls in the 1970s. This led to the shortages, rationing, and mile long gas lines many of us remember from the Carter years and made us dangerously reliant on OPEC.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The 1970s appear to be here again. The Democrats are following the lead of Soviet Russia and Venezuela and failing to learn from our own history.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“It’s a deliberate, irresponsible attempt to distract the American people from their</span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> tax and spend agenda</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> and the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Biden administration’s war on American energy</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> that has put us in this position without regard for the devastating consequences their policies will have for the American people.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Meanwhile, President Biden is continuing full steam ahead with his</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> radical anti-American energy agenda.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In March 2020, Candidate Joe Biden said quote ‘<b>No more subsidies for fossil fuel industry</b>. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period.’</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“President Biden put in place a moratorium on new drilling.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“In May 2020, Candidate Joe Biden pledged to stop the<b> Keystone XL pipeline CANADIAN TAR SAND KOCH]</b>, and he did so on Day 1.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Just last week, he canceled lease sales for millions of acres for oil and gas production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Republicans have been sounding the alarm for over a year about the disastrous affect these policies would have on energy and gas prices and we are seeing the direct result of them today.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“Gas prices have gone up every day of this administration.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">FLIP THE SWITCH</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“I am co-leading the American Energy Independence from Russia Act [SPEARHEADED BY BIDEN, GOT THE GERMANS TO KILL NORSTREAM] with Natural Resources Republican Leader Bruce Westerman.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“To lower prices and </span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">protect our national security</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">, it</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> flips the switch </span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">on American energy and unleashes production. <b>It removes all barriers to U.S. LNG exports</b> and it unlocks America’s energy potential by requiring leasing and permitting of energy and minerals development on Federal lands and waters. It also would immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline; and <b>force the DOE Secretary to have a plan to increase domestic production before allowing any more non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Democrats have now blocked this five times. That’s five times they’ve denied increasing our domestic production to lower costs and <b>boost energy exports to help our allies counter Russian aggression.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>”</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SHIFTING BLAME</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Instead of doing what is necessary to meet energy demands, President Biden and Congressional<b> Democrats are trying to shift blame to ‘price gouging’ </b>for these record high prices.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“First, the administration tried blaming Putin – they called it the ‘Putin Price Hike.’ But anyone who has been filling up their tanks since last January knows this is not true.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The average gas price when President Biden took office was $2.38 and it climbed over a dollar more a gallon well before the invasion.[COVID, OIL WENT NEGATIVE]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The American people are too smart and have not fallen for this. So, the President is now shifting blame to the industry alleging price gouging.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Unless you ask his Energy Secretary who said in an Energy and Commerce hearing quote, <b>‘I’m not sure anyone is saying there is wholesale gouging.’</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“That was just hours after Democrats announced their plans to introduce this legislation before us today.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Regardless of Democrats not keeping their talking points straight, this price gouging conspiracy is nothing new.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The Federal Trade Commission has investigated price gouging in oil and gas markets on and off for over a hundred years. It has never found systemic price gouging. Instead, they found higher prices are attributable to supply and demand.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Americans are experiencing higher prices for virtually every single good and service, including gasoline.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is not because of some grand conspiracy that companies have suddenly decided to charge unaffordable prices. It is because of the Democrats’ out-of-control spending [GOP TAKE CREDIT FOR CARES BILLS THEY OPPOSED?] and regulations that have created an inflation crisis and devastated our supply chains.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“And the Democrats are not stopping with gas prices. Senator Warren and several House Members have just introduced legislation that would impose these price controls over our entire economy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Under the Democrats’ <b>radical socialist agenda</b>, the gas lines of the 1970s and the bread lines of Communist Russia and Venezuela will become reality in the United States of America.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This is unacceptable and should be unthinkable.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PROMISE OF AMERICA</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We’ve done more to<b> lift people out of poverty [SORTA // API TALK PT], raise the standard of living</b> than any nation in the history of the world.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“That is the promise of America.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Free enterprise — not socialism — is the proven and best way to restore prosperity and optimism for the hardworking people of this country again.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I urge my colleagues to stop this madness, abandon this socialist agenda, and work with us to unleash American energy.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">W</span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); box-sizing: border-box;">ashington, D.C. —</b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> Energy and Commerce Committee Republican</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Leader</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> [?] Cathy McMorris Rodgers</span></b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"> (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan.</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE EPA’S CRITICAL ROLE</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Welcome back to the Energy and Commerce Committee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, Administrator Regan.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Your annual testimony on the President’s proposed EPA budget is an important chance to examine your priorities and your agency’s performance.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA serves a critical role in our nation’s efforts to protect the environment and public health.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This role includes standard setting, regulatory science and risk assessments, and large amounts of technical and financial assistance for states, tribal communities, and localities.”</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CELEBRATING SUCCESS FOR A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As you well know, although you do not acknowledge it in your written testimony, EPA today is operating against a backdrop of a tremendous record of environmental improvements.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“A review released last month by the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies noted that for the past twenty years the public has perceived the nation’s environment as getting worse.</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Yet across the board, the opposite is the case.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Air quality, for example, has been steadily improving – ozone, NOx, particulate matter concentrations are fractions of the levels 40 years</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> ago.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And the trend has continued over the past decade – including in states with heavy industrial and economic activity.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These positive results extend to land, water, and air toxics.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You should celebrate and promote these results, Mr. Administrator, and do your part to explain how and why this has happened.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And you should talk about the challenges ahead, as tighter requirements run up against technological and economic limits.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Continuous tightening of the screws, especially when standards are not technologically feasible risks broader economic harms to the very people you are seeking to h</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">elp.”</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S REGULATORY </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OVERREACH</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> AND BUDGET</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“I worry that this administration’s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> radical climate agenda, will distract EPA from the hard work to ensure existing standards are implemented</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">, and existing programs can succeed.</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve seen what can happen.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Obama administration issued controversial, damaging rules that threatened to cut opportunity for people in struggling communities as jobs left regions.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Look at the Clean Power Plan rule which sought to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“EPA overreached with that regulation, which threatened American jobs and the economy. A legal challenge to that regulation is pending before the Supreme Court right now.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Senator Capito and I led a<b> bicameral amicus brief </b>in that case, focused on the <b>need to stop federal agencies from going beyond their statutory authorities </b>and ignoring Congressional intent.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Because of President Biden’s inflation crisis, families and retirees today are paying more for less, from the gas pump to the grocery store.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This calls for <b>responsible federal budgets [TRUMP VOODOO TAX CUT CORP OLIG GIVEAWAY]</b> that focus on core missions, and effective management—the ingredients for accountability and success.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The EPA fiscal year 2023 budget request is nearly $12 billion. This amount is $681 million more than the request from last fiscal year [TRUMP CUTS?] , and that was a more than 20 percent increase.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“States are tasked with enforcing most of EPA’s regulatory requirements;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> but, this budget request calls for growing EPA’s workforce by 10 percent compared to current levels.</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You testified to the House Appropriations Committee recently that EPA is not ‘inflating itself’ because ‘a majority’ of EPA’s budget goes to the States.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But not even 50 percent of your requested budget would go to the States.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WINNING THE FUTURE</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I hope you will agree with me that we need to return to building – not dismantling – the American economy [RECORD REBOUND FROM TRUMP COVID FAIL RECESSION, LOWEST UNEMPL IN 40 YRS?].</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I’m concerned about actions at the EPA to destroy next-generation technologie</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">s by having <b>premarket chemical reviews [VS PRECAUT WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE? TRUMP SAB] </b>collect dust on the desks of Federal bureaucrats. I’m concerned how EPA is <b>creating uncertainty,</b> including delays or cancellations, in our permitting processes; and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> expanding regulations further, like the coal ash rule, WOTUS, and the cross-state air pollution rule.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“These are actions that ultimately</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> drive projects out of America and make us more reliant on countries like China </span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">with the lowest environmental and labor standards.</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Projects taking years to develop, and money lost due to abrupt policy changes have a chilling impact on peoples’ willingness and ability to make things in America.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“To succeed, EPA must not be an obstacle to development and p</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rosperity for American families, especially as they struggle to afford everyday life because of the administration’s energy and inflation crisis.”</span></font></b></p><div class="misc-relationship-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; line-height: 1.28; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin: 25px 0px 15px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(203, 186, 151); width: 749.99px; max-width: 100%;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="h5 inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.11em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SUBCOMMITTEES</font></font></font></font></div> <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittee/environment-and-climate-change-117th-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 225ms ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: none !important;">Environment and Climate Change (117th Congress)</a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box;">Washington, D.C. —</b><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> In the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing today, Subcommittee Republican </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Leader</b> David B. McKinley (R-WV</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">) delivered the following opening remarks during a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan.</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Excerpts and highlights from his prepared remarks:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WORST FEARS NEW BEING REALIZED</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Our worst fears are now being realized. Pursuing an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> ideologically driven goal of 100% renewables i</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">n such a condensed time frame</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> will cause the grid to collapse. [PERRY AEA IER BS]</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Last summer, the head of global research at General Electric in New York told Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko and me unequivocally that this would happen.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And now, according to the Wall Street Journal, warnings of electricity shortages are growing across the United States.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the Midwest, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator is working to prepare for ‘worst case scenarios’ and expect a 5 gigawatt shortfall this summer.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And just last Friday, Texas had to take steps to reduce strain on the grid. Nearly 3 gigawatt of capacity have gone offline because of high temperatures.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Even California had to <b>extend</b> [? ]the operation of its gas-fired power plants last year.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RENEWABLES AREN’T RELIABLE TO POWER OUR GRID</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So, what is the EPA doing to preserve and protect our grid?</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It seems like President Biden and the EPA are increasing regulations, rather than addressing the pending crisis we’re facing.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Rather than ensure a reliable and resilient grid and keep the lights on across the country<b>, the EPA is requesting almost $12 billion to pursue its climate change and environmental justice initiatives.[BI-PART INFRA bbb?]</b></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Look, with today’s science, renewables simply aren’t ready to fully power our grid.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to the Energy Information Administration, wind only works 35% of the time and solar only 25% of the time.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And the Lawrence Livermore Lab found 81% of wind projects and 84% of solar projects do not reach commercial operations.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So why does this EPA continue to pursue an agenda that will only take more fossil fuel capacity offline?”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA ISN’T BEING COOPERATIVE</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Chairman, the threat of electricity shortages has utilities taking steps to keep aging power plants running longer, but they’re fighting regulations. EPA is not being cooperative.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And Congress has made significant investments over the last two years in carbon capture, like coal first, and carbon dioxide pipelines.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These investments will let us preserve our fossil fuels and protect our grid.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But EPA’s agenda doesn’t recognize that. You seem to want to fund more climate change and environmental justice programs.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Neither of which will lead to grid</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> liability [SIC HEH] ,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> only blackouts across the nation.”</span></font></b></p><div class="misc-relationship-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; line-height: 1.28; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin: 25px 0px 15px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(203, 186, 151); width: 749.99px; max-width: 100%;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="h5 inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.11em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SUBCOMMITTEES</font></font></font></font></div> <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittee/environment-and-climate-change-117th-congress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 225ms ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: none !important;">Environment and Climate Change (117th Congress)</a></div></div><p style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> capt 614                        </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">david roberts grist 3/15 Last year, the House of Representatives passed two absurd anti-science bills, the <b> Secret Science Reform Act </b>and the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act. It will come as no surprise that both bills, under the guise of “reform,” would have the practical effect of crippling the EPA’s efforts to assess science in a fair and timely way. I don’t have the heart to get into it — follow the links above for the details.  The bills are back; the House considered them both again yesterday. Emily Atkin has the gory details if you’re interested. They might get a little further this time — the Democratic Senate didn’t take them up last year, obviously, but the GOP-controlled Senate might this year — though it won’t matter in the end, as Obama has threatened to veto both. So it’s mainly yet another act of reactionary symbolism from the right.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All that is by way of background so I can draw your attention to a hilarious amendment attached to the Science Advisory Board bill. It comes by way of the bill’s sponsor, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.),</span> a far-right, coal-country, climate-denying conservative of the old school.  Here’s the amendment. Its sole purpose is to prohibit the EPA’s Science Advisory Board from taking into consideration, for any purpose, the following reports:  the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s National Climate Assessment the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the May 2013 Technical Update of the<b> Social Cost of Carbon</b> for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866 (which I wrote about here)the July 2014 Pathways to Deep Decarbonization Report, from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (which I wrote about here)So. When considering what to do about carbon pollution, EPA may not consider what America’s best scientists have concluded about it, what an international panel of scientists has concluded about it, how the federal government has officially recommended calculating its value, or the most comprehensive solutions for it. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Oh, and it can’t consider Agenda 21 either.</span> Otherwise the EPA can go nuts.  As I’ve said many, many times, most Americans have no idea how batshit crazy the House GOP has gone. They serve the base, and only the base (and Politico obsessives) pay close attention. But imagine, if you will, a GOP House and Senate paired with President Jeb Bush. A bill like this might pass. Politicians might be picking and choosing, based on ideological criteria, which scientific reports administrative agencies are allowed to consider. It’s amusing in its own dark way, but it’s not a sitcom or a satire. It’s real life.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">why blunt content here? </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LCV 23%  4% lifetime</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> 2013180McCarthy Confirmation (EPA)Air, Water 2013151Border FenceLands/Forests, Water, Wildlife 2013145Advancing Conservation in the Farm BillWater, Lands/Forests, Wildlife 2013119Clean Water ProtectionsWater 2013116National Endowment for the OceansOceans 201394Jewell Confirmation (DOI)Lands/Forests, Wildlife 201376Climate Change SafeguardsClimate Change 201372Toxic Air Pollution from Power PlantsAir 201361Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (KXL)Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Water 201359Pricing Carbon PollutionClimate Change 201346Big Oil BudgetOther 201341Military Investments in Advanced BiofuelsClean Energy, Dirty Energy 20134Disaster Relief for Hurricane SandyLands/Forests, Wildlife, Climate Change, Other 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 PollutionAir</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> === ===</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/ </a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. House-passed 2015 Defense Appropriation bill apparently intends to have the Pentagon stop using leading scientific assessments of global climate disruption in national security planning. The Pentagon takes climate change and its impacts seriously and has included these issues in two Quadrennial Defense Reviews. But an amendment by a coal-state Republican would direct DoD to disregard the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the IPCC international assessment.  Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015, passed by the House of Representatives on June 20.Environment & Energy Daily reported today (by subscription):The amendment by Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) -- one of more than 150 amendments offered to the appropriations bill -- would prevent the Defense Department from helping to plan or implement the National Climate Assessment and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amendment targets two perennial GOP targets: the NCA and the U.S. contribution to the IPCC -- which seek to measure the effects of climate change in the United States and globally.  This is a radical amendment. Currently, the climate change problem is studied and taken into consideration as a matter of course in national security planning. The Pentagon takes climate change and its impacts seriously and has included these issues in two Quadrennial Defense Reviews. The McKinley amendment apparently intends to have the DoD essentially stop considering climate change as a national security issue. (For a bit more background on McKinley's views, see here and here.)McKinley's amendment reads:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or carry out the U.S. Global Climate Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nations' Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.The same amendment was attached last month to the House version of the 2015 National Defense Authorization bill ("House Directs Pentagon To Ignore Climate Change"):[McKinley wrote in a memo to House colleagues:] "The climate is obviously changing; it has always been changing. With all the unrest around the [world], why should Congress divert funds from the mission of our military and national security to support a political ideology?"</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research suggests, however, that the Department of Defense has a number of reasons to be worried about climate change. The department said in its own evaluation last year that climate change presents infrastructure challenges at home and abroad. Meanwhile, a March Pentagon report found that climate change impacts are "threat multipliers," and that the rapid rise of global temperatures and associated extreme weather events could exacerbate issues like "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions -- conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."Nor is climate change a threat that the Obama administration dreamed up to distract the DOD. A National Intelligence Assessment issued during the George W. Bush administration concluded that climate change poses a significant threat to national security. And just this week, Tom Ridge, who served as homeland security secretary under Bush, said that climate change is "a real serious problem," one that "would bring destruction and economic damage" if we ignore it.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley's amendments may be unlikely to survive consideration of the Defense appropriation and budget authorization bills in the Senate.Climate Wire reported on May 14 (by subscription):Former military leaders push for quicker effort to deal with climate change  Seven years ago a group of senior retired generals broke new ground when they warned climate change poses a serious security threat. Now, those top military leaders say the U.S. and others have not done enough to prepare for the challenge.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing in a major new report out today, the 16-man military team -- including retired four-star Adm. Frank Lee "Skip" Bowman, former director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program; retired Gen. Charles "Chuck" Wald, former deputy commander of the United States European Command; and retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the 32nd chief of staff of the Army -- concludes that its early fears about climate change were well-founded. The threats are worsening and the political discourse is discouraging, the report says."We are dismayed that discussions of climate change have become so polarizing and have receded from the arena of informed public discourse and debate. Political posturing and budgetary woes cannot be allowed to inhibit discussion and debate over what so many believe to be a salient national security concern for our nation," they wrote. "Time and tide wait for no one."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report comes on the heels of the White House releasing its National Climate Assessment, which like the United Nations' recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that climate change is happening now and the damage associated with it is widespread, affecting everything from farming to military bases. ...Sherri Goodman, executive director of the CNA Military Advisory Board who served in the DOD as a deputy undersecretary from 1993 to 2001, called the report a "clarion call." She applauded the fact that addressing climate change has become a mainstream topic within defense and national security circles and said she expected as much."In two decades working with the military, I'm not surprised. Because when the military identifies a risk ... it really begins to work on it. They get it," Goodman said. But in the political sphere, she said, much more needs to get done.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board report, National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate ChangeColumnist Paul Farrell, commenting on this development in the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch ("GOP climate-science deniers threaten national defense--Republican House wants to limit Pentagon’s use of climate studies"):Last week 227 of 231 GOP members of the House voted to turn the Pentagon into climate-science deniers, a decision certain to weaken national security. That’s about as absurd as telling Silicon Valley they can’t use technology.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get it? The Republican Party is now officially on record as the party of climate-science denialism. These research programs, ongoing and widely used by the Pentagon in strategic national defense planning for many years, could, if the Senate agrees, become illegal to use.Yes, this Marine veteran is mad as hell. GOP science deniers have “crossed the line,” they’re now messing with national security. ... The military has been using climate-science research for decades. This vote is self-destructive. These research studies are essential in our national defense. ...Ask the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board, a longtime Pentagon consultant that includes 16 retired generals and admirals. They just updated a report that earlier “described projected climate change as a threat multiplier.”Get it? The Pentagon has seen climate change as a threat to our national defense for over seven years. Their updated report “drills down on the new vulnerabilities created and tensions amplified due to climate change, which it deems a catalyst for conflict.” No wonder the Dems warned GOP leaders before that radical amendment to the budget vote: “That’s science denial at its worst and it fails our moral obligation to our children and grandchildren.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board's National Security and the Accelerating Risks of  Climate Change  re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. - See more at: http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks#sthash.4UMiO8Sz.dpufthe CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board's National Security and the Accelerating Risks of  Climate Change  re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world.The Board’s 2007 report described projected climate change as a “threat multiplier.” </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this report the 16 retired Generals and Admirals who make up the board look at new vulnerabilities and tensions posed by climate change, which, when set against the backdrop of increasingly decentralized power structures around the world, they now identify as a “catalyst for conflict.”In the seven years since the first Military Advisory Board (MAB) report, developments in scientific climate projections, observed climate changes (particularly in the Arctic), the toll of extreme weather events both at home and abroad, and changes in the global security environment have all served to accelerate the national security implications of climate change.  While there has been some movement in efforts to plan effective responses to these challenges, the lack of comprehensive action by both the United States and the international community to address the full spectrum of projected climate change issues remains a concern.The specific questions addressed in this update are:Have new threats or opportunities associated with projected climate change or its effects emerged since our last report? What will be the impacts on our military?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2014 National Climate Assessment indicates that climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. What additional responses should the national security community take to reduce the risks posed to our nation and to the elements of our National Power (Political, Military, Social, Infrastructure, and Information systems (PMESII))?- See more at: http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks#sthash.4UMiO8Sz.dpuf*    *    *Earlier posts:Commander of U.S. Forces Pacific: Climate Change is Top Threat House Science Committee majority plays out the politics of climate science denialism </font>

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</font></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Blunt"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Blunt</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy D. Blunt, a Republican, has been a U.S. Senator from Missouri since 2011. Previously he was a member the U.S. House of Representatives from the 7th Congressional District of Missouri 1997-2011. The district is located in the Ozarks region in the southwestern part of the state and includes Springfield and Joplin (map). Blunt was the House minority whip for the 110th Congress. [1]Contents  [hide] 1 Record and controversies1.1 Iraq War1.2 Environmental record1.3 Oil Voting Record1.4 Tom DeLay1.5 Ties to tobacco industry1.6 Jack Abramoff1.7 Matt Blunt1.8 Trips by staffers1.9 House delegate voting rights2 Bio2.1 Background2.2 Congressional career2.2.1 Abortion2.2.2 Religious education2.2.3 Guns2.2.4 Business2.3 Blunt's K Street cabinet2.4 Majority Leader2.4.1 2006 elections3 Money in politics3.1 Oil contributions3.2 Coal Contributions4 Committees and coalitions4.1 Committees4.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)5 More background data6 Contact6.1 Twitter7 Articles and resources7.1 References7.2 External resources7.3 Local blogs and discussion sites7.4 Articles</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Record and controversies</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's articles on legislation. You can add information you find on how Roy Blunt voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to cite your sources!</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Iraq WarBlunt voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 that started the Iraq War.[2]When in March 2007, House Democrats introduced their plan to withdrawal U.S. troops from Iraq through the FY2007 supplemental spending bill, Minority Whip Blunt, agreeing with an assessment made by Vice President Cheney, stated that Democrats were “not able to come up with a strategy” for victory. He promised to do everything in his power to defeat the measure from passing in the House.Main article: U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007 (H.R.1591)For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.Environmental recordFor more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal  </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Oil Voting Record Roy Blunt has voted in favor of big oil companies on 91% of important oil-related bills.</b> These include Iraq Oil Funding, Climate Change Studies, Clean Energy, and Ending Oil Subsidies. See money in politics below.[citation needed]Tom DeLayIn 1999 Roy Blunt began working with Tom DeLay as his deputy whip rounding up votes on the House floor. He was also introduced to DeLay's political machine that operated in the form of the Alexander Strategies Group (ASG) and theU.S. Family Network, both founded by ex-DeLay chief of staff and personal minister Ed Buckham. Buckham and another DeLay associate Jim Ellis ran a nonfederal version of DeLay's ARMPAC out of ASG. A nonfederal PAC does not have to file paperwork with the FEC and does not contribute to candidates. Blunt started his own nonfederal version of his Rely On Your Beliefs (RoyB) PAC in 1999. Soon these two nonfederal PACs, RoyB and ARMPAC, would become intimately involved with one another.According to a report from The New Republic, Blunt's nonfederal PAC showed reciepts in 2000 of $249,837 with $150,000 coming from two transfers from DeLay's ARMPAC to Blunt's RoyB. The New Republic writes, "over the course of the year, [RoyB] recorded expenditures of just over $150,000 to ASG and other DeLay operations. That amount looks suspiciously similar to the $150,000 RoyB took in from DeLay's ARMPAC during this same period."[1]Digging deeper into the transfers the article uncovers the following information:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2000, RoyB ran up a $145,000 bill with ASG for what it described as either "consulting" or "strategy and fundraising," and it paid out another $5,281 to ASG's usfn and Ellis for rent and utilities. In addition, right after the first $50,000 arrived from armpac, RoyB donated $10,000 to DeLay's Foundation for Kids, a Texas-based charity that DeLay uses for p.r. and to justify golfing events. Could ASG have been worth $145,000 in "strategy and fundraising" to RoyB's PAC? Well, RoyB actually raised only $99,837 in 2000. Spending $145,000 to raise less than $100,000 doesn't make a lot of sense. And Blunt did not need strategic advice from Ellis and other Washingtonians to know how to spend his money in Missouri. In other words, the $145,000, along with the $10,000, looks like a subsidy to ASG and to DeLay himself that the Houston representative was trying to hide by transferring the money from one nonfederal PAC to another.[2]Ellis was later indicted for money laundering and conspiracy in relation to Tom DeLay's use of another political action committee in Texas, TRMPAC.[3] Buckham is currently under investigation in connection to the Jack Abramoff scandal.[4]On November 16, 2005, Travis County, Texas District Attorney Ronnie Earle subpoenaed documents that purportedly show communication between DeLay's political action committee and that of Roy Blunt. The subpoenaed documents were bank records of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority PAC, which gave $75,000 to start the Texans for a Republican Majority. Federal Election Commission records show that Blunt's PAC also paid roughly $88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant facing indictment in Texas in the same case as DeLay.DeLay said of Blunt: "Roy Blunt has done a tremendous job. . . . His leadership is vital to our cause." [5]Ties to tobacco industry</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2002, Blunt attempted to insert a provision in support of tobacco corporations into the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. According to the Washington Post, "The provision would have made it harder to sell tobacco products over the Internet and would have cracked down on the sale of contraband cigarettes, two practices that cut into Philip Morris's profits."[6] Blunt said that he pushed for the provision after speaking with John F. Scruggs, vice president of government affairs for Altria. At the time, Blunt was dating Altria (the parent group that owns Philip Morris) lobbyist Abigail Perlman, whom he later married. His son, Andrew, also works as a lobbyist for Philip Morris in Missouri. In contrast to House tradition, the rider had not been cleared by the House leadership. It was removed from the final bill by an anonymous Republican member.[7]</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jack AbramoffIn 2003 Roy Blunt co-signed a letter written by lobbyist Todd A. Boulanger, part of Team Abramoff, to the Interior Department endorsing the position of one of Abramoff's tribal clients, the Louisiana Coushatta's in their fight to protect their casino turf.[8] Blunt's leadership PAC, Rely On Your Beliefs, received $8,500 from Abramoff.Blunt was one of 18 lawmakers, lobbyists, and lawyers who was listed as "FOO Comp" at Abramoff's restaraunt Signatures, meaning that he could dine for free.[9]Matt BluntAccording to The Hill, Missouri state records revealed contributions to Blunt's son Matt's campaign for Missouri Governor from firms and individuals with business pending before Roy Blunt's subcommittees. Although some of the companies have significant interests in the state, others didn't.Top executives at Freddie Mac, for example, contributed $4,000 to his campaign. On Nov. 6, 2000, Senior Vice President Gary Lanzara and Vice President Lelan Brendsel gave $1,000 each. Two weeks later, Freddie Mac lobbyist David Glenn and his wife, Cherie, also contributed $1,000 apiece. Cherie is listed as a homemaker; the couple reside in Great Falls, Va.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contributions from telecommunications-related entities accounted for over $10,000. Railway transportation companies also contributed more than $6,000 to Matt Blunt's campaign. John Scruggs, a top lobbyist for Altria, formerly Phillip Morris, contributed $1,000. Other contributions came from companies and executives in — or representatives for — such heavily regulated industries as healthcare, insurance, chemicals and defense technology.By far the biggest outside contributors to Matt Blunt's campaign, however, were colleagues of Roy Blunt. Campaign finance documents show 84 House lawmakers made 95 contributions to the secretary of state campaign, totaling more than $65,000.[10]Principally as a result of these scandals involving influence peddling in exchange for family benefits, Blunt was named in 2006 by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as one of the twenty most corrupt US legislators.[11]Trips by staffersIn July 2006, a study by the Center for Public Integrity, American Public Media, and the Northwestern University’s Medill News Service concluded that Blunt’s staff spent over $385,000 on trips over the previous five-and-a-half years. The destinations included Switzerland, Hawaii, Florida, Austria, Amsterdam, Russia, California, and France. The study found that over this period, members of Congress and their aides took at least 23,000 trips valued at almost $50 million.[12]House delegate voting rightsOn January 24, 2007, after Democrats took control of the House following the 2006 congressional elections, a rule change was again passed providing delegates and the resident commissioner with limited voting rights. The change allowed delegates and the resident commissioner (4 of 5 of whom were Democrats) to vote on the House floor in the "Committee of the Whole," whereby bills are debated and amendments are added. The rule, however, stipulated that if a delegate's vote was decisive, the committee would disband and a new vote would be taken without the non-voting members.[3]All but one House Republican, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), opposed the change. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called it, “An outrageous grab of power by the majority,” while Minority Whip Blunt argued it amounted to, “Representation without taxation.”[4]Main article: Voting rights in the District of Columbia</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BioBackground</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born January 10, 1950, Blunt earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Southwest Baptist University. Blunt also earned a Master's degree in History from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University). Blunt taught history and government at both the high school and college levels.Blunt comes from a family of Missouri politicians. His father, Leroy Blunt, was a state legislator and his grandfather was a county politician</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Blunt began his career in politics as a driver for John Ashcroft </b>during his failed 1972 congressional bid.[13] According to the 2006 Almanac of American Politics, Blunt "showed up at campaign headquarters in his pickup truck, Ashcroft asked, 'Have you got gas in this truck?' Blunt said yes and became his driver". In 1973 Blunt was elected county clerk and chief election official of Greene County, Missouri (where Springfield is located). Blunt was the Republican nominee for Missouri lieutenant governor in 1980, but lost to Democrat Kenneth Rothman. He served as Greene County clerk until 1984, when he was elected Missouri Secretary of State--the first Republican to hold that post in 50 years. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Missouri in 1992, losing the Republican primary to Missouri Attorney General William L. Webster. From 1993 to 1996, Blunt was president of his alma mater.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional career</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blunt was first elected to Congress in 1996. In 2004, he was reelected to his fifth term in the House with 70.4% of the vote[14].After only one term, Blunt was appointed as Chief Deputy Whip, the highest appointed position in the House Republican Caucus. In that capacity, he served as the Republicans' chief vote-counter. When Dick Armey retired and fellow Texan DeLay was elected to succeed him, DeLay personally selected Blunt to replace him as Majority Whip.Blunt has been a key vote counter throughout the period of Tom DeLay's term as Majority Leader. One of his greatest accomplishments was marshalling the controversial Medicare prescription drug bill of 2003 through a divided House. Blunt even set up a "war room" for lobbyists, the largest of its kind, during the lead up to the Medicare vote.[15] The Republicans eventually won by one vote after keeping the voting open for hours - accusations of vote buying and arm twisting followed the controversial vote.[16]AbortionAlthough Missouri Right to Life endorsed Webster over Blunt in the 1992 Republican gubernatorial primary, Blunt has voted pro-life in Congress and has a conservative record on most other social issues. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has voted to ban partial-birth abortion, and to make it more difficult for minors to get an abortion.[17] He also voted in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment which bans same-sex marriages and has voted against same-sex adoptions. He received a 14% rating from the American Civil Liberties Union [18] and a 92% rating from the conservative Christian Coalition. [19]Religious educationBlunt has voted in favor of school prayer and supported the No Child Left Behind Act. He has voted in favor of school vouchers within the District of Columbia but has voted against broader legislation allowing states to use federal money to issue vouchers for private or religious schools. He has received a 17% rating from the National Education Association. [20]GunsBlunt has voted to prohibit lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers if the guns they manufacture or sell are later used in a crime. He has also voted to reduce the waiting period for purchasing a gun from 72 hours to 24 hours. He has received an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. [21]Business</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blunt received a 97% rating from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce indicating a pro-business voting record. He supported efforts to overhaul U.S. bankruptcy laws, requiring consumers who seek bankruptcy protection to repay more of their debts.[22]Blunt's K Street cabinetIn an article titled "House Majority Whip Exerts Influence by Way of K Street" the Washington Post detailed the group of lobbyists that Blunt plots strategy with for congressional sessions:At the top of the Republican leadership's K Street lobbying arm, there is a de facto "executive committee," a hard-core base of about 25 lobbyists. Among them are Ed Gillespie, former Republican Party chair; Mark Isakowitz, formerly with the National Federation of Independent Business; Samantha Poole, Blunt's former senior legislative assistant; former DeLay aide Tony Rudy; Lyle Beckwith, senior vice president of the National Association of Convenience Stores; and Ralph Hellmann, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council.[23]Blunt has proved effective at directing support from the lobbying community to gain victories on the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, both tough and controversial bills.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Majority LeaderOn September 28, 2005 Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on felony charges of money laundering and conspiracy. House GOP rules mandate that any member of the leadership must immediately resign his/her post if they are indicted for a felony crime. DeLay stepped down and pushed for Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-CA) to fill his Majority Leader post. The rank and file Republicans revolted at this selection of a new Majority Leader for a number of reasons. One reason was that they felt that DeLay was going over their heads in appointing someone rather than letting the caucus vote on who his replacement would be. And second, Dreier has long been rumored to be gay[24], a sexuality that may not go over well with GOP grassroots voters who flocked to the polls in 2004 to vote on anti-gay marriage amendments. After a closed door meeting the Republican caucus emerged to announce that Roy Blunt had been unanimously chosen as the interim Majority Leader.[25]On January 8, 2006, one day after DeLay announced that he would not seek to regain his position, Blunt announced he would run to permanently replace DeLay. [26] On January 14, 2006, he issued a release claiming that the majority of the Republican caucus had endorsed him as DeLay's successor. [27] Blunt faced opposition from a former member of Newt Gingrich's leadership team, John Boehner of Ohio, and hard-line conservative from Arizona John Shadegg. Both Shadegg and Boehner ran as reformers and attempted to cast Blunt as unable to lead the Republicans beyond the scandals brought on by Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and Duke Cunningham.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On February 2, 2006 the GOP held the election for Majority Leader by secret ballot. The first ballot showed Blunt with the highest number of votes, but not enough to secure the nomination. Shadegg received the fewest votes in the first ballot and was forced to drop out. He then directed his supporters to back Boehner against Blunt. With Shadegg's supporters behind him, John Boehner emerged as the victor on the second ballot, with 122 votes to 109 for Blunt.[28]2006 electionsIn 2006, the Democrats nominated Jack Truman to face Blunt in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [29] Blunt defeated Truman, receiving 67% of the vote. [30]Money in politics</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.  cid=N00005195&cycle=2006 Links to more campaign contribution information for Roy Blunt from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org site.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fundraising profile:2006 election cycleCareer totals</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top contributors by organization/corporation:2006 election cycleCareer totalsTop contributors by industry:2006 election cycle Career totals</font></p>