Upton, F REP 29%
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bak 720</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/fred-upton">https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/fred-upton</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">48* 29%</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</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="voteYear" id="voteYear628907" 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="voteNumber628907" 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">427</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle628907" 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/2021-427-supporting-tribal-management-bison" 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 Tribal Management of Bison</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues628907" 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, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice628907" 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="voteYear630078" 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="voteNumber630078" 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">385</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle630078" 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/2021-385-transformative-climate-jobs-and-justice-investments-2x-score" 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">Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice Investments (2x Score)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues630078" 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, Air, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice, Transportation, Public Lands/Forests, Water, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice630078" 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="voteYear625631" 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="voteNumber625631" 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">385</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle625631" 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/2021-385-transformative-climate-jobs-and-justice-investments" 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">Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice Investments</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues625631" 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, Air, Clean Energy, Drilling, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests, Transportation, Water, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice625631" 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="voteYear628473" 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="voteNumber628473" 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">379</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle628473" 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/2021-379-censuring-paul-gosar" 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">Censuring Paul Gosar</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues628473" 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="voteChoice628473" 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="voteYear623929" 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="voteNumber623929" 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">272</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle623929" 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/2021-272-taking-action-pfas-contamination" 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">Taking Action on PFAS Contamination</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues623929" 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">Toxics/Public Right to Know</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice623929" 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="voteYear621892" 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="voteNumber621892" 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">260</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle621892" 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/2021-260-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="voteIssues621892" 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="voteChoice621892" 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="voteYear620650" 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="voteNumber620650" 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">247</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle620650" 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/2021-247-pro-environment-funding-package" 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">Pro-Environment Funding Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues620650" 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, Clean Energy, Clean Air, Clean Water, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice620650" 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="voteYear620116" 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="voteNumber620116" 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">217</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle620116" 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/2021-217-protecting-people-pfas" 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">Protecting People from PFAS</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues620116" 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">Toxics/Public Right to Know; Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice620116" 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="voteYear619151" 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="voteNumber619151" 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">208</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle619151" 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/2021-208-investing-transportation-and-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 Transportation and Water Infrastructure</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues619151" 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, Transportation, Water, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice619151" 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="voteYear629338" 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="voteNumber629338" 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">206</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle629338" 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/2021-206-building-climate-resilient-wastewater-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">Building Climate-resilient Wastewater Infrastructure</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues629338" 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, Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice629338" 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="voteYear628036" 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="voteNumber628036" 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">201</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle628036" 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/2021-201-investing-climate-smart-and-pro-wildlife-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 Climate-Smart and Pro-Wildlife Infrastructure</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues628036" 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">Transportation, Climate Change, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice628036" 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="voteYear627605" 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="voteNumber627605" 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">196</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle627605" 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/2021-196-removing-confederate-statues-us-capitol" 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">Removing Confederate Statues from the U.S. Capitol</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues627605" 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">Lands/Forests, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice627605" 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="voteYear619583" 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="voteNumber619583" 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">185</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle619583" 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/2021-185-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="voteIssues619583" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice619583" 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="voteYear618720" 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="voteNumber618720" 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">169</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle618720" 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/2021-169-corporate-climate-risk-disclosure-requirements" 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">Corporate Climate Risk Disclosure Requirements</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues618720" 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; Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice618720" 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="voteYear627172" 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="voteNumber627172" 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">145</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle627172" 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/2021-145-increasing-awareness-and-reporting-hate-crimes" 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">Increasing Awareness and Reporting of Hate Crimes</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues627172" 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="voteChoice627172" 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="voteYear623498" 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="voteNumber623498" 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">132</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle623498" 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/2021-132-washington-dc-statehood" 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">Washington, D.C. Statehood</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues623498" 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="voteChoice623498" 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="voteYear622968" 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="voteNumber622968" 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">91</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle622968" 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/2021-91-protecting-dreamers-and-immigrants-fleeing-disasters" 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">Protecting Dreamers and Immigrants Fleeing Disasters</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues622968" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice622968" 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="voteYear615113" 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="voteNumber615113" 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="voteTitle615113" 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-protecting-rights-workers-organize" 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">Protecting the Rights of Workers to Organize</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues615113" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice615113" 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="voteYear615849" 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="voteNumber615849" 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">62</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle615849" 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/2021-62-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="voteIssues615849" 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="voteChoice615849" 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="voteYear614679" 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="voteNumber614679" 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">45</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle614679" 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/2021-45-protecting-public-lands-and-waters-across-west" 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">Protecting Public Lands and Waters Across the West</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues614679" 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">Public Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice614679" 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="voteYear617346" 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="voteNumber617346" 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">17</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle617346" 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/2021-17-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="voteIssues617346" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice617346" 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="voteYear616813" 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="voteNumber616813" 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">11</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle616813" 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/2021-11-certifying-pennsylvania%E2%80%99s-electoral-votes" 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">Certifying Pennsylvania’s Electoral Votes</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues616813" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice616813" 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="voteYear616281" 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="voteNumber616281" 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">10</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle616281" 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/2021-10-certifying-arizona%E2%80%99s-electoral-votes" 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">Certifying Arizona’s Electoral Votes</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues616281" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice616281" 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="voteYear612185" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612185" 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">242</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612185" 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/2020-242-phasing-out-harmful-fishing-gear" 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">Phasing Out Harmful Fishing Gear</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612185" 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">Oceans, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice612185" 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="voteYear610449" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber610449" 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="voteTitle610449" 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/2020-203-increasing-funding-renewable-energy-research-development" 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">Increasing Funding for Renewable Energy Research & Development</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues610449" 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 Energy, Climate</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice610449" 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="voteYear613978" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber613978" 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">182</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle613978" 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/2020-182-protecting-us-postal-service" 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">Protecting the U.S. Postal Service</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues613978" 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-pro-env" id="voteChoice613978" 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="voteYear604840" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber604840" 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">166</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle604840" 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/2020-166-pro-environment-funding-package" 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">Pro-Environment Funding Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues604840" 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, Water, Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice604840" 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="voteYear612616" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612616" 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">164</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612616" 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/2020-164-slashing-epa-funding" 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">Slashing EPA Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612616" 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, Water, Air, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice612616" 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="voteYear604408" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber604408" 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">163</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle604408" 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/2020-163-blocking-trump%E2%80%99s-inadequate-soot-standard" 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">Blocking Trump’s Inadequate Soot Standard</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues604408" 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">Air, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice604408" 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="voteYear609587" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber609587" 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">156</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle609587" 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/2020-156-removing-confederate-statues-us-capitol" 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">Removing Confederate Statues from the U.S. Capitol</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues609587" 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></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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;">020</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="voteNumber603976" 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">155</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle603976" 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/2020-155-great-american-outdoors-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">Great American Outdoors Act</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues603976" 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">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice603976" 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="voteYear609154" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber609154" 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">147</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle609154" 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/2020-147-protecting-grand-canyon-and-colorado%E2%80%99s-public-lands" 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">Protecting the Grand Canyon and Colorado’s public lands</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues609154" 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">Public Lands/Forests, Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice609154" 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="voteYear608290" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber608290" 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">142</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle608290" 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/2020-142-maintaining-suspension-nuclear-weapons-testing" 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">Maintaining Suspension of Nuclear Weapons Testing</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues608290" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice608290" 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="voteYear602579" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber602579" 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">138</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle602579" 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/2020-138-investing-climate-ambitious-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 Climate-Ambitious Infrastructure</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues602579" 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, Transportation, Water, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice602579" 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="voteYear603010" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber603010" 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">136</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle603010" 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/2020-136-eliminating-lead-service-lines-protect-public-health" 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 Lead Service Lines to Protect Public Health</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues603010" 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, Environmental Justice</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice603010" 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="voteYear603442" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber603442" 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">135</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle603442" 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/2020-135-harming-workers-rolling-back-wage-protections" 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">Harming Workers by Rolling Back Wage Protections</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues603442" 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="voteChoice603442" 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="voteYear601312" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber601312" 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">122</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle601312" 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/2020-122-washington-dc-statehood" 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">Washington D.C. Statehood</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues601312" 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, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice601312" 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="voteYear610018" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber610018" 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">109</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle610018" 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/2020-109-heroes-act-covid-19-relief-package" 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">Heroes Act COVID-19 Relief Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues610018" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice610018" 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="voteYear602146" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber602146" 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">69</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle602146" 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/2020-69-protecting-wilderness-across-west" 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">Protecting Wilderness Across the West</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues602146" 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">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice602146" 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="voteYear606566" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber606566" 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">54</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle606566" 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/2020-54-emergency-and-climate-disaster-aid-puerto-rico" 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">Emergency and Climate Disaster Aid for Puerto Rico</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues606566" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice606566" 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="voteYear606136" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber606136" 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">50</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle606136" 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/2020-50-protecting-rights-workers-organize" 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">Protecting the Rights of Workers to Organize</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues606136" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice606136" 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="voteYear613546" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber613546" 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">36</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle613546" 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/2020-36-great-lakes-restoration-initiative" 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">Great Lakes Restoration Initiative</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues613546" 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="voteChoice613546" 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="voteYear600438" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber600438" 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">13</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle600438" 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/2020-13-protecting-people-pfas-pollution" 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">Protecting People from PFAS Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues600438" 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">Toxics/Public Right to Know; Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice600438" 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="voteYear600877" 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">2020</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber600877" 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">11</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle600877" 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/2020-11-closing-pfas-clean-water-loophole" 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">Closing the PFAS Clean Water Loophole</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues600877" 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">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice600877" 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="voteYear599905" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber599905" 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">701</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle599905" 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/2019-701-usmca-trade-deal" 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">USMCA Trade Deal</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues599905" 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, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice599905" 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="voteYear599473" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber599473" 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">666</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle599473" 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/2019-666-attack-marine-mammal-protections-harmful-air-gun-blasting-0" 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">Attack on Marine Mammal Protections from Harmful Air Gun Blasting</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues599473" 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, Oceans, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice599473" 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="voteYear599037" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber599037" 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">654</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle599037" 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/2019-654-protecting-right-vote" 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">Protecting the Right to Vote</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues599037" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice599037" 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="voteYear598605" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber598605" 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">634</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle598605" 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/2019-634-shark-finning-ban" 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">Shark Finning Ban</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues598605" 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">Oceans, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice598605" 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="voteYear598174" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber598174" 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">609</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle598174" 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/2019-609-protecting-colorados-public-lands-0" 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">Protecting Colorado's Public Lands</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues598174" 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">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice598174" 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="voteYear597742" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber597742" 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">602</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle597742" 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/2019-602-protecting-grand-canyon-toxic-uranium-mining-0" 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">Protecting the Grand Canyon from Toxic Uranium Mining</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues597742" 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, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice597742" 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="voteYear597310" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber597310" 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">597</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle597310" 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/2019-597-protecting-chaco-canyon-oil-and-gas-development-0" 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">Protecting Chaco Canyon from Oil and Gas Development</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues597310" 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, Drilling, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice597310" 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="voteYear596878" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber596878" 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">530</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle596878" 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/2019-530-restoring-protections-arctic-refuge-0" 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 Protections for the Arctic Refuge</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues596878" 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, Lands/Forests, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice596878" 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="voteYear596445" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber596445" 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">525</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle596445" 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/2019-525-banning-offshore-drilling-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans-0" 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">Banning Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues596445" 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, Drilling, Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice596445" 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="voteYear596012" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber596012" 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">521</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle596012" 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/2019-521-stopping-future-drilling-eastern-gulf-mexico" 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">Stopping Future Drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues596012" 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, Drilling, Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice596012" 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="voteYear595579" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber595579" 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">408</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle595579" 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/2019-408-pro-environment-funding-bill" 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">Pro-Environment Funding Bill</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues595579" 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, Lands/Forests, Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice595579" 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="voteYear595146" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber595146" 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">395</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle595146" 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/2019-395-preserving-mercury-air-toxics-standards" 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">Preserving the Mercury & Air Toxics Standards</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues595146" 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 Air, Toxics/Public Right to Know</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice595146" 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="voteYear594707" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber594707" 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">390</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle594707" 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/2019-390-eliminating-epas-chemical-hazard-assessment-program-iris" 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 EPA's Chemical Hazard Assessment Program, IRIS</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues594707" 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">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Clean Water, Clean Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice594707" 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="voteYear594268" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber594268" 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">385</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle594268" 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/2019-385-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">Methane Pollution Safeguards</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues594268" 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, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice594268" 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="voteYear593829" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber593829" 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">384</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle593829" 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/2019-384-halting-oil-drilling-arctic-refuge-0" 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">Halting Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues593829" 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, Lands/Forests, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice593829" 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="voteYear593390" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber593390" 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">383</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle593390" 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/2019-383-blocking-epa-reducing-carbon-pollution" 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">Blocking the EPA from Reducing Carbon Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues593390" 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 Chang</font></span></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14 good!</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="voteYear" id="voteYear592951" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber592951" 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">382</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle592951" 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/2019-382-blocking-logging-tongass-national-forest" 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">Blocking Logging in the Tongass National Forest</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues592951" 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">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice592951" 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="voteYear592512" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber592512" 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">381</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle592512" 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/2019-381-stopping-carbon-pollution-limits-power-plants" 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">Stopping Carbon Pollution Limits for Power Plants</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues592512" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice592512" 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="voteYear592073" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber592073" 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">372</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle592073" 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/2019-372-blocking-protections-endangered-whales" 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">Blocking Protections for Endangered Whales</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues592073" 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">Oceans, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice592073" 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="voteYear591634" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber591634" 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">367</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle591634" 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/2019-367-boosting-clean-energy-and-climate-funding" 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">Boosting Clean Energy and Climate Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues591634" 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 Energy, Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice591634" 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="voteYear591201" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber591201" 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">363</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle591201" 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/2019-363-blocking-disastrous-pebble-mine" 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">Blocking the Disastrous Pebble Mine</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues591201" 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, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice591201" 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="voteYear590762" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber590762" 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">362</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle590762" 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/2019-362-ignoring-costs-climate-change" 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">Ignoring the Costs of Climate Change</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues590762" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice590762" 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="voteYear590324" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber590324" 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">240</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle590324" 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/2019-240-protecting-dreamers-and-immigrants-fleeing-disasters" 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">Protecting Dreamers and Immigrants Fleeing Disasters</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues590324" 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="voteChoice590324" 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="voteYear589891" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber589891" 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">184</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle589891" 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/2019-184-keeping-americas-commitment-paris-climate-agreement" 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">Keeping America's Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues589891" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice589891" 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="voteYear589458" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber589458" 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">181</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle589458" 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/2019-181-addressing-climate-changes-damages" 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">Addressing Climate Change's Damages</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues589458" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice589458" 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="voteYear589020" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber589020" 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="voteTitle589020" 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/2019-175-recognizing-need-climate-justice" 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">Recognizing the Need for Climate Justice</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues589020" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice589020" 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="voteYear588583" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber588583" 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">118</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle588583" 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/2019-118-protecting-our-democracy" 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">Protecting our Democracy</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues588583" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice588583" 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="voteYear588150" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber588150" 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">95</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle588150" 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/2019-95-public-lands-package-0" 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">Public Lands Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues588150" 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">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice588150" 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="voteYear587717" 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">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber587717" 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">9</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle587717" 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/2019-9-stopping-border-wall-funding-0" 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">Stopping Border Wall Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues587717" 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, Lands/Forests, Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice587717" 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="voteYear553921" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber553921" 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">472</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle553921" 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/2018-472-border-wall-funding" 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">Border Wall Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues553921" 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="voteChoice553921" 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="voteYear553487" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber553487" 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="voteTitle553487" 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/2018-420-blocking-protections-gray-wolves" 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">Blocking Protections for Gray Wolves</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues553487" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice553487" 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="voteYear553055" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber553055" 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">392</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle553055" 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/2018-392-undermining-nepa-review-liquefied-natural-gas-projects" 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">Undermining NEPA Review in Liquefied Natural Gas Projects</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues553055" 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, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice553055" 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="voteYear552624" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber552624" 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">390</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle552624" 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/2018-390-minimizing-methane-pollution-0" 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">Minimizing Methane Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues552624" 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 Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice552624" 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="voteYear552193" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber552193" 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">365</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle552193" 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/2018-365-anti-environmental-spending-bill-0" 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">Anti-Environmental Spending Bill</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues552193" 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-anti-env" id="voteChoice552193" 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="voteYear551763" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber551763" 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">363</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle551763" 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/2018-363-anti-climate-solutions-resolution-0" 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">Anti-Climate Solutions Resolution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues551763" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice551763" 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="voteYear551333" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber551333" 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="voteTitle551333" 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/2018-357-undermining-access-courts" 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">Undermining Access to the Courts</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues551333" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice551333" 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="voteYear550903" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber550903" 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">356</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle550903" 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/2018-356-eliminating-environmental-justice-grants-1" 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 Environmental Justice Grants</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues550903" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice550903" 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="voteYear550472" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber550472" 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">355</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle550472" 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/2018-355-attack-ironwood-forest-national-monument-0" 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">Attack on Ironwood Forest National Monument</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues550472" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice550472" 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="voteYear550042" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber550042" 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">354</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle550042" 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/2018-354-blocking-protections-lesser-prairie-chicken" 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">Blocking Protections for the Lesser Prairie Chicken</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues550042" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice550042" 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="voteYear549612" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber549612" 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">353</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle549612" 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/2018-353-blocking-protections-new-mexico-meadow-jumping-mouse" 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">Blocking Protections for the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues549612" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice549612" 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="voteYear549182" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber549182" 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">351</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle549182" 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/2018-351-undermining-protections-chesapeake-bay-0" 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">Undermining Protections for the Chesapeake Bay</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues549182" 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">Oceans, Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice549182" 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="voteYear548752" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber548752" 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">350</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle548752" 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/2018-350-blocking-protections-prebles-meadow-jumping-mouse" 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">Blocking Protections for Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues548752" 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</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice548752" 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="voteYear548322" 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">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber548322" 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">348</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle548322" 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/2018-348-undermining-safeguards-safe-seafood-consumption-0" 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">Undermining Safeguards for Safe Seafood Consumption</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues548322" 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">Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice548322" 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; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Issue: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dirty</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Energy. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Upton</span> (R-MI) sponsored H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, which would further entrench fossil fuel energy while missing the chance to invest in a clean energy economy.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> H.R. 8 would accelerate the process for constructing pipelines through national parks and monuments, remove important protections for tribes and wildlife related to the construction of hydroelectric dams, and lock in ...</span></font></div></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4th phase denialism to DELAYISM</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/kremlin-praises-fox-news-fox-personalities-desperately-try-link-environmental-groups" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/kremlin-praises-fox-news-fox-personalities-desperately-try-link-environmental-groups</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>as Russia’s foreign minister <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-putins-invasion" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praises</a> Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine, the network has exploited the crisis to villainize the environmental movement, capitalizing on the global economic sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s invasion to recycle <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/16/2086235/-GOP-Revives-Pre-Re-DeBunked-Disinfo-From-Dr-Evil-Smearing-Green-Groups-With-Fake-Russian-Ties?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">previously debunked claims</a> that Russia is secretly funding “green campaigns” against oil drilling and fracking in the U.S.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox hosts and personalities took their cues from a March 10 <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/3.10.22-Letter-to-LCV.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">letter</a> from Republican members of the<b> House Energy Committee </b>asking three environmental groups – the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club – to provide evidence of any financial support from Russia.</span> Yet, as the Washington Post Fact Checker <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/bogus-allegation-that-putin-is-funding-california-environmental-charity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">explains</a>, the “bogus” allegations in the letter are remnants of a <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/23/fracking-russia-republicans-240834" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2017 scandal</a> concocted by Republicans to distract from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are some examples of Fox pushing this lie: </font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox host Jesse Watters suggested green energy campaigns “are taking dirty Russian money” in order “to scare Americans out of fracking and energy exploration.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesse Watters Primetime</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers/fox-host-jesse-watters-suggests-russians-are-funding-green-energy-campaigns-scare" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/3/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watters, and co-host Greg Gutfeld pushed this evidence-free claim again, saying that green energy campaigns in America are funded by Russia to increase dependence on foreign oil. [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Five</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/fox-news-hosts-make-evidence-free-claim-green-energy-campaigns-america-are-funded" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/4/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s Carley Shimkus stated that “a lot of Republicans are calling for an investigation into whether Russia was funding climate change groups in the U.S.” Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy followed up, “Of course they were.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986109" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gutfeld spent his monologue ranting that “the left are in lockstep with what Putin wants, for us to be dependent on other countries like his for energy,” saying “Russia duped Europe into depending on their energy by funding rabid environmental groups” and spread “disinformation within green groups to steer countries away from fracking and shale gas.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gutfeld!</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986099" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>] </font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later in the episode, Gutfeld suggested that opposition to fracking in the U.S. had been “driven” by Russian propaganda efforts: “The past 10 years, all this stuff – all the documentaries, all the Hollywood celebrities, all the stuff about fracking – might have all been driven by Russia, or at least paying for that.” [Fox News,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Gutfeld!</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986101" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/16/22</a>] </font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gutfeld repeated the claim yet again the next day, saying the Democrats should be thanking Putin for rising gas prices “because after all, it was Russia who infiltrated the green groups to get us off our domestic oil and buy their foreign oil.” [Fox News, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Five</em>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3986102" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/17/22</a>]</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox personalities have been criticized for pro-Kremlin commentary – and the Kremlin itself has noticed, as exposed by minister Sergey Lavrov's <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-putins-invasion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remarks</a> about Fox and a recently reported <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/report-kremlin-memo-tells-russian-media-feature-fox-host-tucker-carlson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">memo</a> from the Russian government that directed the country’s media outlets to promote as many clips of Fox News star Tucker Carlson as possible. (The Kremlin’s propaganda and Carlson’s own rhetoric have <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/tucker-carlsons-history-pro-kremlin-anti-ukraine-propaganda" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remarkable</a> similarities.) The narratives parroted by Fox to earn this praise – from blaming Joe Biden for rising gas prices to suggestions the war in Ukraine is pushed by elitist self interests – are baseless and incendiary. Their recent push of easily debunked anti-environmental conspiracies are no different.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The allegations stem from whether the aforementioned environmental groups received donations from the <a href="https://www.seachange.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Sea Change Foundation</a>, an environmental philanthropy group run by billionaire <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/nathaniel-simons/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Nat Simons</a>. In 2015, a baseless report from the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> GOP lobbyist-led front group <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/environmental-policy-alliance-berman_n_4913303" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Environmental Policy Alliance</a></span> accused the law firm that set up a Bermuda-based company financing Sea Change of having extremely vague ties to an adviser to Putin. The firm <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/us-republicans-brewing-russian-scandal-to-target-greens-2/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">refuted</a> these allegations as “completely false and irresponsible,” saying, “We can state categorically that at no point did this philanthropic organization receive or expend funds from Russian sources or Russian-connected sources.” In fact, the <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/7/20/top-climate-change-donors-pull-back-the-curtain-on-their-past-and-future-giving" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sole source</a> of the foundation’s funding is the Simons family. Despite the appearance of Kremlin-linked donations being obliterated, that did not stop 2017 House GOP members from <a href="https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/06_29_2017%20CLS%20%26%20Weber%20-%20Mnuchin.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">requesting an investigation</a>, and now recycling the debunked claims. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network’s hosts and guests – primarily recently promoted prime-time stars <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/fox-news-names-misinformation-machine-jesse-watters-permanent-host-7-pm-hour" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jesse Watters</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/fox-news-rewards-greg-gutfelds-bigotry-lies-and-sycophancy-another-weekday-show" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Greg Gutfeld</a> – are also conflating a separate <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-groups-europe-united-state" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">online article</a> from Fox that quotes “experts” like the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heritage Foundation’s James Carafano</span> noting that “Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe.” (Carafano has been a <a href="https://twitter.com/JJCarafano/status/1479814396293570563" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vocal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JJCarafano/status/1451517522126180355" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">critic</a> of climate science and recently co-authored a piece describing the Biden administration’s climate policies as a “<a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/biden%E2%80%99s-climate-policy-titanic-disaster-waiting-195790" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">titanic disaster in waiting</a>.”) The article’s so-called “experts” also included right-wing media’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-medias-favorite-climate-contrarians-go-fox-shows-bash-bidens-climate-plan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">favorite climate contrarian</a>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Michael Shellenberger, a <a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/07/shellenbergers-op-ad/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1239364394863063046" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">natural gas</a> advocate who’s pushed lies about the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/04/why-renewables-cant-save-the-climate/?sh=39128e723526" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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Not only did the report not provide any evidence that the channel had been successful, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but <b>as of March 4, RT America announced it was “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/media/rt-america-layoffs/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ceasing production</a>.</b>” It is simply preposterous to believe that over a decade of fracking commentary was driven by the network prior to its dissolution</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some efforts against European drilling and fracking have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">linked</a> to Kremlin propaganda designed to increase dependency on Russian oil exports, but with each reshaping of the conspiracy theory, there has been no evidence of any similarly funded successful campaign in the United States.</b></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref 1</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-groups-europe-united-state" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-groups-europe-united-state</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx pix [vid?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RUSSIA Published <b>March 15, 2022 </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Russia duped Europe into energy dependence by funding 'rabid environmental groups': experts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Expert James Carafano: 'Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Emma Colton | Fox News</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[soc med]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">For years, world leaders have accused Russia of funding environmental groups in Europe to steer nations away from energy independence and strengthen Russia’s iron grip over the continent</span>.<b> As nations across the globe begin shunning Russian oil in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. leaders are also questioning how deep Russia’s ties go in the environmental community. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe because they sic them on the energy projects that aren’t Russian," James Carafano, vice president of the Kathryn and <b>Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, </b>told Fox News Digital in a recent phone interview. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Back in June 2014, just months after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, European leaders sounded off that Russia was using disinformation operations with environmental groups to steer countries away from fracking in favor of Russian oil.</b> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark and then-secretary-general of NATO, said, according to the Guardian. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NATO’s press office passed the remarks off as Rasmussen’s personal views, but one NATO official sounded the alarm that Russia’s grip on Europe was tightening. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We don't go into the details of discussions among allied leaders, but Russia has been using a mix of hard and soft power in its attempt to recreate a sphere of influence, including through a campaign of disinformation on many issues, including energy. In general, the potential for Russia using energy supplies as a means of putting pressure on European nations is a matter of concern. No country should use supply and pricing terms as tools of coercion," the NATO official told the Guardian in 2014. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental groups have meanwhile feverishly denied any ties to Russia. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The idea we’re puppets of Putin is so preposterous that you have to wonder what they’re smoking over at NATO HQ,<b>" Greenpeace </b>told the Guardian in 2014.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By 2016, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and Bulgaria had all banned fracking, either temporarily or permanently. Russia’s power over European energy grew large by 2022, providing roughly 40% of the continent’s natural gas supply. Lithuania, for example, gets 83% of its oil imports from Russia, Poland gets 58% and Finland 80%, The Hill reported. [DENMARK?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"You're not really an independent nation if you depend on foreign countries so heavily for your energy supplies," Michael Shellenberger, the<b> best-selling</b> author of "Apocalypse Never," told Fox News earlier this month. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shellenberger said that 15 years ago, "Europe produced more natural gas than Russia," but that all changed as "Russia increased its natural gas production and Europe reduced it." </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Europe decided not to frack in large part in response to climate activists," Shellenberger told Fox News. "We now think there is strong evidence suggesting [the climate activists] were supported directly through financing from Russia.</span>" </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In the U.S., Republican <b>Reps. Lamar Smith and Randy Webe</b>r sent a letter to then-Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin in 2017 arguing that Russia’s goal is to "suppress the widespread adoption of fracking in Europe and the U.S." by funding such environmental groups. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The two Republicans even cited former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who complained during a private 2014 speech about "phony environmental groups" pushing an anti-fracking agenda. </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We were even up against<b> phony environmental groups</b>, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia," Clinton said, according to excerpts leaked by WikiLeaks in 2016. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are now holding three environmental groups’ feet to the fire. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Republicans, led by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, are demanding that the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club disclose their ties to a<b> San Francisco-based nongovernmental organization</b> that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly uses to wield power over American energy production.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Provided the public reporting of Putin's dark money influence in Europe and the concerns surrounding similar efforts in the United States, we write today to explore your connections with<b> Sea Change</b>," the Republicans wrote in the letter to the three groups last week. "Any action by President Putin, the Russian government, or Putin's allies to undermine American energy security must be addressed."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The three groups denied any ties in a previous comment to Fox News, describing the accusations as "completely false," "rooted in a smear campaign," and a phony "conspiracy theory."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"It is vital to our national security to know if Vladimir Putin, the Russian government, or Putin’s allies are meddling with America’s energy affordability and security. If the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, or Sierra Club have nothing to hide, then we look forward to seeing the evidence they provide by March 25th," House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leader McMorris Rodgers told Fox News Digital</span>. </font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref {note many lnx are just to fox category/tag]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans</b> are calling on certain environmental groups to disclose their ties to a non-governmental organization which is, according to the committee, reportedly used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to make an impact on American energy production.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three environmental groups – the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Sierra Club – reportedly have ties to the San Francisco-based NGO environmental organization called the Sea Change Foundation, according to Republicans on the committee.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a letter sent to each of the three groups, Republicans inquired about the funding the groups have received from Sea Change since 2006 and called for disclosure of whether the groups "are aware of concerns that Sea Change may be a conduit for Russian funding."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Provided the public reporting of Putin's dark money influence in Europe and the concerns surrounding similar efforts in the United States, we write today to explore your connections with Sea Change," the Republicans stated in the letter. "Any action by President Putin, the Russian government, or Putin's allies to undermine American energy security must be addressed."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the Republicans asked the groups if they have received funds or took a particular action after a request "from the Russian government or anyone connected with the Russian government."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All three of the groups, according to Republicans on the committee, were identified as top recipients of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sea Change</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> grants since 2006. The letter was signed by more than 20 Congressional Republicans, including Energy and Commerce Committee Republican leade</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Wash., and ranking member</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.</span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club have nothing to hide, then we look forward to seeing the evidence by March 25," a spokesperson for Energy and Commerce Republicans told Fox News.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a response shared with Fox News, Bob Deans, the director of strategic engagement for the NRDC, suggested the "allegations are false" and are "rooted in a smear campaign."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We receive no funding from the governments of Russia or China," Deans said. "We answer to our independent leadership, and we don’t do the bidding of any government – foreign or otherwise – in our work to advocate for commonsense environmental protections in the public interest. These allegations are rooted in a smear campaign orchestrated nearly a decade ago by fossil fuel interests and a right-wing think tank. They only serve then, as now, as a distraction."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, a statement provided to Fox News from the LCV said the "story is completely false and has been put to rest for years."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We have no connections to Russia, or China, and have been an effective advocate for environmental protection for over 50 years," the group stated. "These false and poorly researched allegations are rooted in a nearly 10-year-old right-wing think tank and fossil fuel industry-funded smear campaign that gets revived every few years to serve as a distraction."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement shared with Fox News, Melinda Pierce, Sierra Club's legislative director, concluded the allegation of collusion is a "false conspiracy theory."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"This false conspiracy theory, invented by the same deceitful front groups paid to do polluters' and big tobacco’s dirty work, has been repeatedly debunked over its nearly 10-year existence,</b>" Pierce said. "The Sierra Club has no connections to Russia or China, and proudly fights for clean energy and climate action because this is what our planet requires, our families deserve, and what the overwhelming majority of Americans across the country demand."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News did not receive an immediate response from the Sea Change Foundation.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gasoline prices in America hit a record high this week amid Russia’s continued invasion into Ukraine and the announcement that the United States would suspend purchases of Russian oil. As of Thursday, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline reached $4.318, according to AAA data. Prices surpassed the $4 mark Sunday for the first time in 14 years.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">upton barton whores</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">our old nemesis-- and by "our" I mean planet Earth's, the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">L.A. Times</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> explaining that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">his "disdain for green regulation, he represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth"-- got his energy bill passed yesterday. Upton's <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d114:HR00008:@@@D&summ2=m&" style="">H.R. 8</a>, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, passed the House <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll672.xml" style="">249-174</a>, only 3 Republicans (libertarian leaning GOPers Justin Amash, Walter Jones and Thomas Massie) voting against it... although 9 worthless DINOs crossed the aisle in the other direction-- as they always do-- and voted with the GOP:</span>
</font><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); margin: 0.75em 0px; border-style: dotted; border-color: rgb(85, 153, 102); border-image: initial; border-width: 1px 0px; padding: 5px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>•</b> Brad Ashford (<b>Blue Dog</b>-NE)
<b>•</b> Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)
<b>•</b> Gwen Graham (Blue Dog-FL)
<b>•</b> Gene Green ($1,221,738-TX)
<b>•</b> Ann Kirkpatrick (New Dem-AZ)
<b>•</b> Ann Kuster (New Dem-NH)
<b>•</b> Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
<b>•</b> Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR)
<b>•</b> Kyrsten Sinema (Blue Dog-AZ)</font></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">If it passes the Senate-- unlikely-- President Obama has promised to veto it. It was known around Capitol Hill as Fred Upton and Global Warming Denier's Corporate Energy Bill</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">. Pennsylvania progressive Democrat Matt Cartwright, who offered a motion to recommit, predicted that Upton and the Republican climate change deniers would go down in history as the "greatest ignoramuses of all time... Sticking our heads in the sand, pretending a serious problem will go away on its own, doing nothing in the face of a grave threat, is not the American way, and it never was."</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">The League of Conservation Voters urged all Members of Congress to vote no because Upton's bill "further entrenches fossil fuels while failing to make the necessary clean energy investments for our future" and included a provision "that would allow pipelines to be built on National Park land without the necessary environmental reviews.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">.. This bill contains an efficiency title that would increase energy use and costs to consumers, a hydropower title that curtails NEPA review along with state, local, and tribal authority over projects on their own lands, and provisions that could lock in dirty fossil energy for decades to come at a time that we should be investing in cleaner, cheaper alternatives." They also asked congressmembers to reject Joe "Oily Joe" Barton's amendment "that would lift the crude oil export ban. This provision is a massive giveaway to the oil industry and would be on top of billions in existing permanent tax subsidies. Multiple analyses show that lifting the crude oil export ban would increase oil production by at least 500,000 barrels per day, leading to more climate pollution and more drilling on our public lands, in the Arctic, and off our coasts."</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Frank Pallone is the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and he took to the floor of the House to warn that Upton's lobbyist-written bill meant bad news for "the environment,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> on air pollution and on climate change" and offered an amendment to prevent the bill from becoming law until the Energy Information Administration had analyzed the impact and scored its carbon impact. That was voted down </span><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll670.xml" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">181-243</a><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">, a little closer because 4 Republicans (2 from districts in Florida already being impacted by rising oceans) voted with the Democrats, while only 4 (instead of 9) hardcore energy industry whores among the Democrats-- Costa, Peterson, Schrader and, Washington state New Dem Rick Larsen-- voted with the Republicans.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The bill is also a national security threat inasmuch as it lifts the ban on selling U.S. crude oil overseas, something the oil companies heavily bribed Upton and Joe Barton to include</span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">. Since 1990 Upton has taken $2,494,518 from energy special interests, more than any other current members of the House other than Joe "Oily Joe" Barton (R-TX) and Steve Pearce (R-NM), formerly an oilfield services company owner himself. This current cycle has seen the Energy Sector step up to the plate for Upton again, his $282,650 (so far) being second only to Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's $292,550.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">The Democrat in southwest Michigan opposing Upton and his Big Oil Machine is professor and environmental activist </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Paul Clements</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> (you can </span><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/blueamerica16?refcode=dwt&recurring=11&tandembox=show" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">help him win here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">) who told us right after the vote that "Congressman Upton is one of the top ten recipients of campaign contributions from Big Oil in the House and Senate combined. With H.R. 8 he once again increases profits for carbon polluters, raises costs for consumers, and undermines environmental protections. We need to quit subsidizing the energy of the past and take the lead in energy for the future."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So who got the biggest payoffs so far <b style="">this cycle</b> from the Energy Sector? No surprises here; these are the dirty dozen, polluting the earth to pad their campaign war chests this year:</span>
</font><blockquote style="margin: 0.75em 0px; border-style: dotted; border-color: rgb(85, 153, 102); border-image: initial; border-width: 1px 0px; padding: 5px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)- $292,550</b>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fred Upton (R-MI)- $282,650
<b style="">•</b> Steve Scalise (R-LA)- $258,550</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Charles "Lord Charles" Boustany (R-LA)- $196,750</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Ed Whitfield (R-KY)- $159,600</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Bill Shuster (R-PA)- $156,700</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> John Shimkus (R-IL)- $144,500</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Joe "Oily Joe" Barton (R-TX)- $143,650</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Steny Hoyer (D-MD)- $133,400</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Greg Walden (R-OR)- $129,800</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Will Hurd (R-TX)- $125,400</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Bill Flores (R-TX)- $124,859</span></font></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); clear: both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;" /><p class="blogger-labels" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Labels: <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Oil" style="">Big Oil</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/energy%20bill" style="">energy bill</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Fred%20Upton" style="">Fred Upton</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20warming" style="">global warming</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Matt%20Cartwright" style="">Matt Cartwright</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/MI-06" style="">MI-06</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Clements" style="">Paul Clements</a></font></p></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">revolving door</a> spins with rapidity in Washington following election season, and <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/polluter-info/194" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tom Hassenboehler</a> serves as an Exhibit A.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hassenboehler <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Hassenboehler%2C%20Tom&id=Y0000045141L&year=2012" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">served for the past two years as a lobbyist</a> for <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/6013" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America's Natural Gas Alliance</a>, the most powerful lobbying force for the unconventional oil and gas industry. Hassenboehler recently accepted a new position working for the <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/blogs/influencealley/2012/12/upton-taps-natural-gas-lobbyist-as-senior-aide-06" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> House Energy and Commerce Committee's Energy and Power Subcommittee</a>, and will serve as Senior Counsel under the tutelage of <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/polluting-democracy-released" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> Rep. Fred Upton (R-<span class="caps" style="">MI</span>)</a>, the head of the Subcommittee.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style="">Upton is the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/07/us-chesapeake-mcclendon-profile-idUSBRE8560IB20120607" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">cousin</a> of <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74089_Page2.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Katie Upton</a>, the wife of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/worlds-biggest-fracker-aubrey-mcclendon-should-walk-the-plank-20120424" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">controversial</a> Chesapeake Energy <span class="caps" style="">CEO</span> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-big-fracking-bubble-the-scam-behind-the-gas-boom-20120301" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Aubrey McClendon</a></b>.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> McClendon, in turn, was <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/aubrey-mcclendon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">one of the founders</a> of <span class="caps" style="">ANGA</span>. Given these ties that bind, one can safely hypothesize that Hassenboehler will continue his promotion of <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fracking</a> as a “public servant.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Prior to working for <span class="caps" style="">ANGA</span>, Hassenboehler <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/polluter-info/194" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">served as a Congressional staffer</a> for climate change denier, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> Sen. James Inhofe (R-<span class="caps" style="">OK</span>)</a></b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Greenpeace <span class="caps" style="">USA</span>'s </b><a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/polluter-info/194" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“PolluterWatch” profile for Tom Hassenboehler</a> shows that he has worked for years as a hired gun in concert with the oil and gas industry and is also a climate change denier. <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/polluter-info/194" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Highlights</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hassenboehler played a major role in working to derail efforts by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) to pass a cap-and-trade bill in 2008.</b> “He joined just before Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill hit the floor and was instrumental in working to defeat it,” Matt Dempsey, Inhofe’s spokesman, said.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Commitee for Rep. Joe Barton, Hassenboehler made several trips funded by the natural gas interests he now represents as a lobbyist.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hassenboehler wrote a letter to the <span class="caps" style="">EPA</span> opposing the Waxman-Markey climate legislation and questioning the existence and science behind global warming.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With a track record like this, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dollarocracy-Billionaires-Buying-Democracy-About/dp/1568587074" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dollarocracy</a>” - not representative democracy - appears more likely to ensue in the Energy and Power Subcommittee during the 113th session of the <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> Congress. And given a <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/4/world_bank_study_warns_of_devastating" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate crisis worsening with each passing day</a>, this is much more than a matter of money's clout in politics.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no sourcewatch?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Frederick Stephen Upton</b> (born April 23, 1953) is an American politician serving the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <span data-sort-value="Michigan06 !"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Michigan's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan's 6th congressional district</a></span>, serving since 1987. The district, numbered as the 4th District from 1987 to 1993, is based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalamazoo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kalamazoo</a> and stretches along the Michigan-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a> border in the southwestern part of the state. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> and former Chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Energy and Commerce</a>, he has played a major role in shaping post-Obamacare health-care legislation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Following the retirement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sander_Levin" title="Sander Levin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sander Levin</a> at the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">115th Congress</a>, Upton became the dean of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Michigan" title="United States congressional delegations from Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan's congressional delegation</a>. In the 116th Congress, he is a <b>co-chair of the House moderate Republican faction, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Group" title="Tuesday Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tuesday Group</a></b>, alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brooks" title="Susan Brooks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Susan Brooks</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Katko" title="John Katko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Katko</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Early_life,education,and_early_political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life, education, and early political career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Healthcare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Healthcare</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Environment_and_energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Environment and energy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Technology</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Gun_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gun policy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Opioid_crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Opioid crisis</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#LGBT_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">LGBT issues</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Fiscal_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Fiscal issues</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Donald_Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Donald Trump</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Caucus memberships</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_early_political_career"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life,education,and_early_political_career">Early life, education, and early political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Joseph,Michigan" title="St. Joseph, Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">St. Joseph, Michigan</a>, the son of Elizabeth B. (née Vial) and Stephen Edward Upton.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Upton attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattuck-Saint_Mary%27s" title="Shattuck-Saint Mary's" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shattuck-Saint Mary's</a>, graduating in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> He earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> in journalism from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Michigan</a> in 1975. He was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi" title="Alpha Delta Phi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alpha Delta Phi</a> fraternity, Peninsular Chapter and became a sports editor at <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michigan_Daily" title="The Michigan Daily" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Michigan Daily</a></i> and thought he might someday cover the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chicago Cubs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-wapo-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> <b>He served on the congressional staff of U.S. Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman" title="David Stockman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Stockman</a> (R-MI) from 1976-80. He was in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Office of Management and Budget</a> (OMB) under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> from 1981–85, while Stockman served as OMB Director</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rep_Fred_Upton.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rep_Fred_Upton.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton during the </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_United_States_Congress" title="100th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">100th Congress</a></font></div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C49769(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C49769(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton with </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> in 1988</font></div></div></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1986 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton ran in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Michigan's 4th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan's 4th congressional district</a> against incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Siljander" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Siljander" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Siljander</a>, Stockman's successor. Upton won the Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">primary</a> 55%–45%.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He won the general election with 62% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1988 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton won re-election to a second term with 71% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1990 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He faced a challenge in the Republican primary by Ed Fredericks, ultimately defeating Fredericks by a margin of 63%–37%.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> In the general election, he won re-election to a third term with 58% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1992–2000 elections</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After redistricting, Upton decided to run in the newly redrawn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Michigan's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan's 6th congressional district</a>, winning re-election in 1992 to a fourth term with 62% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> During this time period, he didn't have a Republican challenger and never won re-election with less than 62%.</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After redistricting, Upton faced a primary challenge from state senator Dale Shugars. Upton defeated Shugars 66%–32%.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> He won the general election with 69% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democrat</a> Scott Elliott, an art gallery owner, 65%–32%.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton defeated Democratic challenger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Clark(candidate)" title="Kim Clark (candidate)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kim Clark</a> 61%–38%.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton defeated Democratic challenger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cooney" title="Don Cooney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Don Cooney</a>, a Kalamazoo City Commissioner, 59%–39%.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton was challenged in the Republican primary by former State Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hoogendyk" title="Jack Hoogendyk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Hoogendyk</a>. Upton defeated him 57%–43%.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> In the general election, he defeated Cooney in a rematch 62%–34%.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2011, Hoogendyk met with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Club for Growth</a>, a conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)organization" title="501(c) organization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">501(c)4</a> organization, about running against Upton in a rematch in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[20]</a></sup> Upton has been criticized for not being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">conservative</a> enough by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rush Limbaugh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Beck</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">FreedomWorks</a>, Right to Life of Michigan, and the Southwest Michigan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Patriots" title="Tea Party Patriots" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tea Party Patriots</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a></sup> On January 17, 2012, Hoogendyk announced that he would challenge Upton in the primary</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the winner of which would face Democrat </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_O%27Brien(Michigan_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike O'Brien (Michigan politician)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike O'Brien</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the general election.</span><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Upton defeated Hoogendyk in the August 2012 Republican primary, advancing to the general election in November.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While initial polls showed Upton with a sizable lead over the challenger, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine (military)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">marine</a> and businessman Mike O'Brien, a poll in October showed Upton and O'Brien locked in a dead heat heading into the final stretch of the campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton won with 55.9% of the vote, defeating D<b>emocrat Paul Clements</b>, Libertarian Erwin Haas, and Green Party candidate John Lawrence.</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2016 election</font></dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_6" title="2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 6</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton won re election in 2016, defeating Democratic challenger, Paul Clements, a Political Science Professor at Western Michigan University, 58.48%-36.41%, gaining a total of 193,259 votes, compared to Clements 119,980 votes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018 election</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton won reelection with 50.2% of the vote against Democratic candidate Matt Longjohn (45.75%) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Taxpayers_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Taxpayers Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Taxpayers Party</a> candidate Stephen Young (4.1%).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Upton&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Upton has been a member of moderate Republican factions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuesday_Group(of_moderate_Republican_congressmen)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tuesday Group (of moderate Republican congressmen)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">The Tuesday Group</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Main Street Partnership</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Healthcare">Healthcare</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Upton voted against passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> (PPACA) and has since voted in favor of its complete repeal, stating that the law ignored the will of the people and that a bill that important should not have been passed without strong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bipartisan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">bipartisan</a> support</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.1em; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2011)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He believes that with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt" class="mw-redirect" title="United States public debt" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">the current level of debt</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the USA cannot afford the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">PPACA</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In November 2013, in response to Americans losing their </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance" title="Health insurance" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">health insurance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> coverage because of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Affordable Care Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Affordable Care Act</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Upton proposed a bill what would allow them to retain their health insurance coverage.</span><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The essence of the Upton bill is to allow insurance companies to maintain their current individual insurance market policies according to state insurance rules that are in effect as of 2013.</span><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In November 2013, Upton introduced the Keep Your Health Plan Act, which would let health-care insurers continue to sell plans that did not meet the Affordable Care Act’s “essential health benefits” standard. It passed the House with support from 39 Democrats plus all but four Republicans, but did not become law. In an article for USA Today, Upton explained that he had heard from “countless constituents in Michigan” who, despite President Obama's promise that “If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan,” were “losing their coverage,” as were “millions of Americans who took the president at his word and are now receiving insurance termination notices and alternatives that are often much more expensive.”<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On September 27, 2013, Upton introduced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Quality_and_Security_Act(H.R.3204;113th_Congress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug Quality and Security Act (H.R. 3204; 113th Congress)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Drug Quality and Security Act (H.R. 3204; 113th Congress)</a>, a bill that would grant the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Food and Drug Administration</a> more power to regulate drug <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compounding" title="Compounding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">compounding</a> in the wake of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center_meningitis_outbreak" title="New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-senateinches_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-senateinches-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> Upton indicated that three of the deceased were from his district.<sup id="cite_ref-uptonPR_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-uptonPR-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> The bill passed in the House and was being debated in the Senate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed Upton's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Cures_Act" title="21st Century Cures Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">21st Century Cures Act</a> <sup id="cite_ref-21st_Century_Cures_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-21st_Century_Cures-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> into law. The bill, co-sponsored by Upton and Diana DeGette (D-CO) passed the House 392 to 26 and the Senate 94 to 5. The act establishes funds for biomedical research and to develop and implement a strategic plan for biomedical research.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2017, Upton said: “Obamacare has not delivered on countless promises.” It was reported in April 2017 that Upton had “serious concerns” with President Donald Trump’s proposed health-care law because it would mean “potential higher costs to those with pre-existing illnesses.” In May 2017, after the addition of a new amendment written by Upton that provided additional funds for those with pre-existing conditions, he said he would vote for the bill and said he believed it could now pass the House. In July, Upton was among a group of members from both parties who “unveiled a set of solutions” intended to improve health-care coverage.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Environment_and_energy">Environment and energy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">In 2007 Upton was a co-sponsor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Independence_and_Security_Act_of_2007" title="Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007</a> which among other things mandated phased-in energy efficiency standards for most <b>light bulbs</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[37]</a></sup> At the time, Upton noted that the legislation, ultimately signed into law by President George W. Bush, would "help preserve energy resources and reduce harmful emissions, all while saving American families billions of dollars on their electric bills."<sup id="cite_ref-Time050913_38-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-Time050913-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[38]</a></sup> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Beck</a> called Upton "all socialist" for supporting the 2007 bill</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April 2009, he maintained that "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a> is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions. Everything must be on the table."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[40]</a></sup> However, "Upton has gradually retreated from his moderate stance on climate change and carbon emissions."<sup id="cite_ref-MoJo_41-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-MoJo-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[41]</a></sup> Upton led a failed effort to stop the Obama Administration from enforcing the new energy standards.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Time050913_38-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-Time050913-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Upton's website once stated: "I strongly believe that everything must be on the table as we seek to reduce </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emissions" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon emissions" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">carbon emissions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-MoJo_41-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-MoJo-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In late 2010, he co-authored a <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Wall Street Journal</a></i> editorial saying he was "not convinced" that "carbon is a problem in need of regulation," and urging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Congress</a> to overturn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_v.Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency</a>. (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases_under_the_Clean_Air_Act" title="Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">climate change denia</a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">l</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>He is the co-sponsor, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Whitfield" title="Ed Whitfield" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ed Whitfield</a>, of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Tax_Prevention_Act" title="Energy Tax Prevention Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy Tax Prevention Act</a> of 2011" H.R. 910</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[43]</a></sup> Due to his environmental policies, <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Los_Angeles_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Los Angeles Times</a></i> wrote in 2011 that <b>Upton "represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2012, Upton, as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> said that Congress’s refusal to set </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas" title="Greenhouse gas" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">greenhouse gas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> limits “constituted a decision and that lawmakers should act now to reverse the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">EPA</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> emissions rules.” Carbon regulation, he said, “threatens to drive energy prices higher, destroy jobs and hamstring our economic recovery.”</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On October 22, 2013, Upton introduced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Energy_Infrastructure_Act(H.R.3301;113th_Congress)" class="mw-redirect" title="North American Energy Infrastructure Act (H.R. 3301; 113th Congress)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">North American Energy Infrastructure Act (H.R. 3301; 113th Congress)</a>, a bill that would make changes to permitting requirements for pipelines and other energy infrastructure at international borders</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-3301cbo_46-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-3301cbo-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3301sum_47-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-3301sum-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Upton said that the bill "is a sincere effort to focus a targeted solution to lessons learned from the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keystone pipeline</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">... No one can rightly argue that the current presidential permit process as the State Department is not broken, no matter what side of the climate debate you're on."</span><sup id="cite_ref-WHthreatensCarna_48-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-WHthreatensCarna-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy" title="Global warming controversy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">global warming controversy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) Upton also argued that "we're creating a fair and transparent approval process for cross-border energy projects, putting them all on a level playing field for the benefit of North American energy security, lower energy prices, and jobs."</span><sup id="cite_ref-PassutNGI_49-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-PassutNGI-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">As of 2017, Upton has received more than $2 million in campaign donations from oil and gas companies and electric utilities over the course of his political career.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[50]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2018, he joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Solutions_Caucus" title="Climate Solutions Caucus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Solutions Caucus</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Technology">Technology</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Upton introduced legislation to reverse the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FCC's</a> ruling on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">net neutrality</a> in 2015</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_policy">Gun policy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Upton&action=edit§ion=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gun policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2019, Upton supported a bill that closed a loophole that allowed people buying firearms through private sales to skip background checks.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup> He has called for a bipartisan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_law" title="Red flag law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">red flag law</a> to be passed by Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Opioid_crisis">Opioid crisis</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Upton&action=edit§ion=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Opioid crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May 2018, Upton and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Dingell" title="Debbie Dingell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Debbie Dingell</a> (D-Dearborn) worked together on legislation designed to combat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Opioid crisis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">opioid addiction</a>. Among other things, it would allocate funding for research into new, non-addictive pain reliever</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s.</span><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="LGBT_issues">LGBT issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Upton&action=edit§ion=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: LGBT issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2013, Upton condemned controversial anti-gay remarks made by Republican National Committeeman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Agema" title="David Agema" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Agema</a> of Michigan. Upton said in a statement: "There is never an acceptable time or place to tolerate discrimination."<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Fiscal_issues">Fiscal issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Upton&action=edit§ion=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Fiscal issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the 111th session of Congress, Upton tabled $7,225,000 in federal funds through eleven earmarks,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup> but political pressure from inside of the Republican Party led Upton to announce his support for a Republican initiative to install a moratorium in Congress on legislative earmarks to reduce unnecessary budget expenditures and the fiscal deficit.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup> According to the Council of Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog group, Upton refrained from all earmarking activities during the 112th Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton has been criticized by the conservative website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human Events</a> for being liberal with regards to fiscal issues.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title=" Dead link since May 2020">dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup> He has been recognized by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> with the "Spirit of Enterprise" award for "standing firmly against overreaching regulations and job-destroying mandates".<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup> In 2019, during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th_United_States_Congress" title="116th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">116th Congress</a>, Upton broke with his party, one of seven Republicans siding with Democrats, by voting for legislation that would fund government services and end a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States" title="Government shutdowns in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">shutdown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Donald_Trump">Donald Trump</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4"><b>As of August 2019, Upton has voted "in line with Trump positions" 84.8 percent of the time</b>, according to the website FiveThirtyEight.com.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[64]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">In July 2019, Upton was one of four Republican House members to vote in support of a motion to condemn comments by President Trump made on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Twitter</a> calling on four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Democratic</a> Congresswomen, three of whom were born in the US, to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."<sup id="cite_ref-Sonmez_65-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-Sonmez-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[65]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LeBlanc_66-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-LeBlanc-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[66]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On December 18, 2019, Upton voted against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="Impeachment of Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">both articles of impeachment against Trump</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Committee on Energy and Commerce</font></a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Congressional Automotive Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a></sup> (Co-Vice Chair)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Congressional Competitiveness Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Diabetes Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">India Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Indian-Americans Caucus<sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus" title="United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[69]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sportsmen's Caucu</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s</span><sup id="cite_ref-votesmart.org_68-5" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-votesmart.org-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Baltic_Caucus" title="House Baltic Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Baltic Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus" title="Congressional Arts Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Arts Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Upton's grandfather and namesake, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_and_Louis_Upton" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick and Louis Upton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frederick Upton</a>, was co-founder of appliance manufacturer and marketer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Corporation" title="Whirlpool Corporation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whirlpool Corporation</a></b>, headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_Harbor,_Michigan" title="Benton Harbor, Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Benton Harbor</a>. He and his wife have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-pvs_72-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-pvs-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup> Upton's niece is supermodel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Upton" title="Kate Upton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kate Upton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a></sup> In 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Radio" title="Michigan Radio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan Radio</a> reported that Upton had a net worth of $7.3 million.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upton is a supporter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines" title="Michigan Wolverines" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michigan Wolverines</a> athletics as well as an enthusiastic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chicago Cubs</a> baseball fan.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-wapo-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Verban" title="Emil Verban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Emil Verban</a> Society.<sup id="cite_ref-pvs_72-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Upton#cite_note-pvs-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Electoral_history"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Electoral history</font></span></h2><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dk $ mayer:</font></p><p><b style="font-weight:normal;" id="docs-internal-guid-e9f679f3-ade1-a4f1-24e4-63ddf1d51485"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>112th congress 2010 biggest leap to right on record; waxman lost chr on energy</b> (pt man on cap in trade win) ; koch $ > exxon 22/of 31; 5 of 6 frosh AFP $ </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Pledge, created 2008 to ~ scotus on GHG EPA 274</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Morgan Griffith > Boucher on energy comm. Took lead on war on EPA, “rein in, cut 27% (senate limited to 16) ½ US lives 10 mi of toxic waste 274. Crossett Ark 11/15 fam cancer G-P paper mill effluent. Air usa today most toxic 1%; class action fail; lisa jackson vowed action.</font></span></p><p><b style="font-weight:normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch TRI #1: 950 mil lbs/yr 275, release 56.8 so #5 polluter; 24 mill tons ghg/yr by 2011 = 5 mil cars.</font></span></p><p><b style="font-weight:normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Frosh Mike Pompeo</b> (koch $ in his aerospace co) ~ EPA GHG and dBase consumer complaints on unsafe products 276</font></span></p><p><b style="font-weight:normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2011 koch 8m$ lobby congress, most green. </span><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><b> Upton</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had been mod on env, but</span><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant="font-variant" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent"><b> naked belly crawl </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to find on flank (like Inglis) [BULB bill?] co- author op-ed with Tim P WSJ CPP? “Unconst pwr grab...kill millions of jobs” ; got chair, said he’d make LJ need parking space.</span></font></p><p><b style="font-weight:normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Wish list:</b> no new ESA, uranium adjacent to grand cyn, dereg mountain top, coal ash not designated as air pollution 277. Req EPA to consider costs without regard to health or science ~ Clean air act rip heart out. ~ alt energy: Solyndra walton backers (pgm was B2 and turned profit); another solar co fail backed by D Doll, koch donor. AFP => gop on grn.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hr 8 veto threat</font></p><p><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/114/saphr8r_20151130.pdf"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/114/saphr8r_20151130.pdf</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">// sen <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s2012">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s2012</a> fred likes sen</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/8"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/8</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7/<b>15</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sadly, my prediction came true on Wednesday when Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/house-committee-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-organ-harvesting-video/" style="">announced</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote" style="">[8]</span> they’d hold hearings on the video.</font></p><blockquote><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This
video is abhorrent and rips at the heart. The committee will get to the
bottom of this appalling situation,” the press release quotes
Republican lawmakers <b>Fred Upton,</b> Marsha Blackburn, Tim Murphy, and Joe
Pitts as saying.</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6/15</font></p><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 5px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 24px;"><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pharmaceutical interests are pushing hard in favor of a bill that could speed up Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of new drugs. But the bipartisan <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr6/text" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">21st Century Cures Act</a>, which was <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr6" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">approved</a> last month by the the House Energy and Commerce Committee (the <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/about/membership" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">members</a> of which have all sponsored the bill) and could reach the House floor by the end of June, has some health advocates up in arms.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <a title="Will the 21st Century Cures Bill Lower Standards for Some Drug Approvals? " href="http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/05/29/will-the-21st-century-cures-bill-lower-standards-for-some-drug-approvals/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">primary concern</a> is that the bill would encourage the FDA to move away from its reliance on controlled trials — and specifically those using randomization — as the main marker for determining whether a drug is safe and effective enough to go on the market. Instead, it suggests that “clinical experience,” which includes observational study, patient anecdotes, and other such methods, be given more consideration. Clinical experience is and has been used as supplemental evidence by the FDA, but not as the primary method for determining a drug’s safety and efficacy.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. John Powers, the former lead medical officer for antimicrobial development and resistance issues at the FDA and a member of the National Physicians Alliance’s FDA task force, said that such a method was akin to using “Star Trek medicine mentality” that relies on unsubstantiated belief instead of valid scientific evidence.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The number of ways patients can be different from each other that can influence patient-centered outcomes independent of treatment is innumerable,” Powers told OpenSecrets Blog, adding that with clinical experience, one “can’t take into account all complexities that happen in the human body.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 21st Century Cures initiative was <a title="A Path to 21st Century Cures" href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/path-21st-century-cures" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">launched</a> on April 30, 2014 by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and committee member Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), and a <a title="21st Century Cures: A Call to Action" href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/analysis/21stCenturyCures/20140501WhitePaper.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">white paper</a> on the initiative was <a title="Roundtable and White Paper A Part of 21st Century Cures - See more at: http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/roundtable-and-white-paper-part-21st-century-cures#sthash.ZuBHDSXl.dpuf" href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/roundtable-and-white-paper-part-21st-century-cures" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">released</a> the following day. The legislation, which was introduced by Upton last month (with a<a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/114/Analysis/Cures/20150127-Cures-Discussion-Document.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">discussion document</a> <a title="21st Century Cures Legislative Phase Now Underway - Continued Feedback Sought as #Cures2015 Begins in Earnest - See more at: http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/21st-century-cures-legislative-phase-now-underway-continued-feedback-sought-cures2015-begins-in-earnest#sthash.BUwJTKYW.dpuf" href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/21st-century-cures-legislative-phase-now-underway-continued-feedback-sought-cures2015-begins-in-earnest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">released</a> in January), currently has 138 sponsors — most of whom boast the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?cycle=2014&ind=H04" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">pharmaceuticals/health products</a> industry as one of their top 20 contributors in the 2014 election cycle.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That includes all of the bill’s original sponsors: $302,700 for <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00004133&type=I" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Upton</a>, $184,500 for <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00001633&type=I" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Joe Pitts </a>(R-Pa.), $174,072 for <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00000781&type=I%20" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Frank Pallone</a> (D-N.J.) — the Committee’s ranking member, $112,949 for <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00006134&type=I%20" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">DeGette</a> and $72,044 for <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2014&cid=N00005870&type=I%20" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gene Green</a> (D-Texas).</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pallone’s district contains the headquarters of pharmaceutical giant <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000386&year=2014" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Johnson & Johnson,</a> whose PAC <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000781&cycle=2014&type=I&newMem=N&recs=100" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">gave</a> him $10,000 in the last election cycle.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company has <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientissues_spec.php?id=D000000386&year=2015&spec=HCR" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">lobbied</a> on the initiative as well — as have numerous pharmaceutical companies and trade groups, which bring vast resources to bear on anything going on in Washington that might affect their interests. In fact, the pharmaceuticals/health products industry consistently <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2015&indexType=i" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">spends more on lobbying</a> than any other interest group. Big spenders over the past two years that have mentioned the initiative most frequently in lobbying reports include drug companies <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000215&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sanofi</a>(which spent nearly $6 million on lobbying in 2014, $1.8 million in the first quarter of 2015), <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000043112&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">AstraZeneca PLC</a> ($2.9 million in 2014, $503,000 in 2015) and<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000133&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">GlaxoSmithKline</a> ($4.4 million in 2014, $1.7 million in 2015) — as well as industry associations such as the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000024369&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Biotechnology Industry Organization</a> ($8.3 million in 2014, $2 million in 2015) and the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000504&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America</a>(PhRMA) ($16.6 million in 2014, over $5.4 million in 2015).</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both name brand and generic drug companies, often at odds, want the bill to go through. The <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000026186&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Generic Pharmaceutical Association</a>‘s President and CEO Ralph G. Neas referred to it in a <a href="http://www.gphaonline.org/gpha-media/press/statement-by-ralph-g-neas-president-and-ceo-gpha-regarding-21st-century-cures" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">press release</a> as a “bipartisan achievement that should enhance the drug approval process and significantly boost critical research and development efforts.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the first quarter of 2015, 208 entities lobbied on the initiative, a list with countless pharmaceutical and biotechnology-centered companies.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman from the House Energy and Commerce Committee maintains that safety will not be compromised by the bill. “Modernizing health care innovation and maintaining the highest standards of safety and efficacy are not mutually exclusive,” she said. “This is why the committee brought every key player to the table — including the FDA, the NIH, top scientists, researchers, and thought leaders — for more than a year to carefully develop this vital legislation.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former FDA commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, who served under former President George W. Bush, along with Manhattan Institute scholar Paul Howard, wrote in support of the bill in the <a title="21st Century Cures Legislation: Embracing the Future of Medicine" href="http://morningconsult.com/opinions/21st-century-cures-legislation-embracing-the-future-of-medicine/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><em>Morning Consult</em></a> this week. “Armed with massive computing power and modern analytics, advanced diagnostics like functional MRIs, and electronic medical records, researchers can now compile massive databases containing genomic variants and patient health outcomes that can allow them to rapidly identify, test, and validate hypothesis about effective disease fighting strategies,” von Eschenbach and Howard write. “With this information in hand, it is unnecessary and perhaps even unethical to demand that we conduct traditional large, blinded and randomized controlled trials for precision medicines supported by a variety of mechanistic and pre-clinical data.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But two other former FDA commissioners have concerns with 21st Century Cures — even though it does <a title="FDA overhaul bill moves ahead after funding deal" href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150523/MAGAZINE/305239960/fda-overhaul-bill-moves-ahead-after-funding-deal" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">allot </a>over $10 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and $550 million to the FDA over five years. Margaret Hamburg, a recently departed commissioner, <a title="FDA's Hamburg, on her way out, blasts bill aimed at speeding innovation" href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150327/NEWS/150329910" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">said </a> in a March speech, that “there’s a misperception that you might be able to speed up innovation by lowering the standards for safety and efficacy, and I think that would be a terrible mistake that would not only just damage patients, but industry as well.” David Kessler, who served as commissioner during both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, wrote this month in a joint <a title="Don’t Weaken the F.D.A.’s Drug Approval Process" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/dont-weaken-the-fdas-drug-approval-process.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><em>New York Times</em></a> op-ed that the act “could substantially lower the standards for approval of many medical products, potentially placing patients at unnecessary risk of injury or death.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the <a href="http://center4research.org/about-us/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Center for Health Research</a>, a think tank involved in research “used to encourage new, more effective programs, policies, and medical treatments,” is also worried about the legislation. In addition to uneasiness about relying on clinical experience, other concerns include parts of the Act that would allow new drugs to be approved for select individuals based on preliminary data, create financial incentives for the use of new antibiotics, and could allow companies to use limited evidence in order to get FDA approval for new medical devices.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So far, it’s only in the House where the two sides are tussling over whether the bill is a salutary prescription; no companion measure is yet pending in the Senate.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Correction, 6/16: This post has been corrected to reflect the fact that formal 21st Century Cures legislation was not introduced until the second quarter of 2015; the companies mentioned lobbied on the initiative<i>.</i>
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Fred Upton (R-Miss.) is among the deniers who sit on the House energy committee.</b></font></span></p><section class="article-body" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">The House Energy and Commerce Committee wasted a good chunk of time Tuesday on <a href="http://grist.org/news/the-three-anti-environmental-bills-that-are-wasting-congress-time/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">yet more</a> anti-environmental legislation that doesn’t stand a snowflake’s chance in climate-changed hell of becoming law. <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.3826:" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">H.R. 3826</a>, The Electricity Security and Affordability Act, would suspend the EPA’s <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/epa-chief-tells-grist-what-coal-will-have-to-do-to-survive-in-a-carbon-constrained-future/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">proposed climate rules for power plants</a>.</font></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And for bonus points, the committee threw out an amendment to the doomed bill that would have acknowledged that climate change is real.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), presumably tired of yawning her way through anti-scientific charades, added the amendment, merely acknowledging the banal fact that greenhouse gas pollution “threatens the American public’s health and welfare” by contributing to climatic changes. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/28/3215971/house-members-deny-climate-change/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Here’s ClimateProgress explaining</a> how the Republicans responded:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="more-222929" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;" /></font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 42px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: auto !important;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[The bill] passed in Tuesday’s committee, but the amendment, which would have placed on the record that the committee accepts that climate change is happening and is caused by greenhouse gas pollution, did not.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Twenty-four E&C [Energy & Commerce Committee] members — all Republicans — voted against the amendment. Among them was E&C Chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who has said before that he doesn’t think climate change is caused by human activity, and Joe Barton (R-TX), who also questions humans’ role in climate change. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">…</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit;">This isn’t the first time House Republicans have rejected amendments stating the reality of climate change</span><b>. In 2011, House Republicans voted down amendments that called on Congress to accept that climate change is real, man-made, and a human health threat.</b></font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How could the Republicans on the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">energy</em> committee be so unfathomably stupid as to continue to claim that climate change is some kind of dystopian fantasy, despite all the science to the contrary?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maybe they aren’t stupid. Maybe there’s another explanation. “In total,” ClimateProgress reported, “the Republicans who voted to deny climate change have accepted about $9.3 million in career contributions from the oil, gas, and coal industries.”...
The House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday voted down an amendment that would have stated conclusively that climate change is occurring.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E&C Committee members voted 24-20 against <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Schakowsky-Amendment-HR-3826-FC-2014-1-28.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">the amendment</a>, introduced by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) to <a href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF03/20140128/101691/BILLS-113HR3826ih-HR3826theElectricitySecurityandAffordabilityAct.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">H.R. 3826</a>, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act. That bill, if it makes it through Congress, would <a href="http://www.bna.com/week-ahead-obama-b17179881574/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">put an end</a> to EPA regulations on emissions for new power plants until technologies like carbon capture and storage are commercially viable in at least six states for one year. It passed in Tuesday’s committee, but the amendment, which would have placed on the record that the committee accepts that climate change is happening and is caused by greenhouse gas pollution, did not.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twenty-four E&C members — all Republicans — voted against the amendment. Among them was E&C Chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate-denier-caucus/#WI" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">said before</a> that he doesn’t think climate change is caused by human activity, and Joe Barton (R-TX), who also questions humans’ role in climate change. In total, the Republicans who voted to deny climate change have accepted about $9.3 million in career contributions from the oil, gas and coal industries, according to analysis by the CAP Action War Room.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn’t the first time House Republicans have rejected amendments stating the reality of climate change. In 2011, House Republicans <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/149585-house-gop-rejects-amendment-that-says-climate-change-is-occurring" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">voted down</a> amendments that called on Congress to accept that climate change is real, man-made, and a human health threat.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientists, of course, disagree with the committee members. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/17/97-percent-of-scientific-studies-agree-on-manmade-global-warming-so-what-now/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ninety-seven percent</a> of scientific studies that take a stance on climate change agree that human activity is causing climate change. In October, a <a href="http://instaar.colorado.edu/news-events/instaar-news/instaar-study-shows-unprecedented-warmth-in-arctic/#sthash.yrd2SqSt.dpuf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">study</a> found that temperatures in the Canadian Arctic today are warmer than at any point in the last 44,000 years and possibly even as far back as 120,000 years.</font></p><p style=""><span id="trigger-slidedown" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22.44px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.44px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The key piece here is just how unprecedented the warming of Arctic Canada is,” Gifford Miller, UC Boulder Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Associate Director and lead author of the study <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/27/3207621/hockey-stick-warming/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a>. “This study really says the warming we are seeing is outside any kind of known natural variability, and it has to be due to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>WASHINGTON, DC</strong>, April 16, 2013 (ENS) – In a new report, “Cooking the Books: How The State Department Analysis Ignores the True Climate Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline,” environmental groups and scientists opposed to the pipeline warn of “climate disaster” if President Barack Obama allows it to cross the Canada-U.S. border, carrying tar sands bitumen from Alberta to Nebraska.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is simply incorrect,” states “<a href="http://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cooking_the_Books_FINAL-SCREEN.pdf" target="blank">Cooking the Books.</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span>”In its <a href="http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/" target="blank">latest environmental analysis</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> of the pipeline, issued March 1, the State Department asserts that if the pipeline is not built, the Alberta tar sands will be exploited one way or another and carbon dioxide will be emitted anyway.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would send at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent each year into the atmosphere, warming the Earth’s climate, finds the report’s authors Steve Kretzmann, Lorne Stockman, David Turnbull and Paulina Essunger of Oil Change International.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These emissions compare to the emissions from 51 coal-fired power plants or the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars – more cars than are now registered in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Michigan, and New York combined, calculates the report, which was issued by some of the nation’s largest and most influential environmental groups: Natural Resources Defense Council, 350.org, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Greenpeace and Oil Change International.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alberta-based TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP has applied for a Presidential Permit authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the U.S.-Canada border carrying 830,000 barrels of diluted bitumen per day from the tar sands of northern Alberta to an existing pipeline in Steele City, Nebraska.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The proposed project would consist of 1,204 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline, with 329 miles of pipeline in Canada and 875 miles in the United States. It would cross the international border between Saskatchewan and Montana.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is the State Department’s responsibility to determine if granting a permit is in the national interest. President Obama will make the final decision.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people,” Obama said then. “I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my administration’s commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil.”On January 18, 2012 President Obama rejected TransCanada’s first permit application, refusing to be pushed by Congressional Republicans who tied the pipeline decision to a bill providing a payroll tax cut extension.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Republicans are still trying to force a decision favorable to the $7 billion pipeline. They plan to vote by Memorial Day on legislation that would go around President and give congressional approval to TransCanada.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton Upton, a Michigan Republican, is a coauthor of the legislation </b>– the Northern Route Approval Act (H.R. 3) – which would clear regulatory and legal hurdles, and remove the project’s requirement for a Presidential Permit.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton told a House subcommittee April 10, “We have an historic opportunity with the Keystone XL pipeline to create thousands of good-paying American jobs and reduce our reliance on overseas energy.” Upton did not mention the pipeline’s impact on the planetary temperature.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalists dispute the “thousands” of jobs to which Upton refers, saying only a few dozen permanent jobs would be created.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The State Department has issued two Environmental Impact Statements, both of which find that the Keystone XL pipeline is “not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects,” and “no substantive change in global greenhouse gas emissions.”</font>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an effort to block a <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_37,Mandatory_Labeling_of_Genetically_Engineered_Food%282012%29" target="hplink">ballot measure in California</a> that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods, shape a <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/oh/ohio_senate_mandel_vs_brown-2100.html" target="hplink">Senate race in Ohio</a> with potential repercussions for fracking, and influence a host of <a href="http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Elections/2012/House/Michigan/6/" target="_hplink">House contests</a> key to toxic chemical reform -- the chemical industry has been busy wielding its wallet, say environmental advocates.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New numbers support that assertion: Tens of millions of dollars continue to feed industry friendly causes and candidates this election season, with federal campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures by the chemical industry more than doubling since 2000.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The more the truth has gotten out about the chemical regulatory system not working; the more the science has shed light on the consequences for American families as they bear the burden of problems linked to environmental exposures such as learning disabilities, childhood cancer and breast cancer; I think the more it has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/national-stroller-brigade-toxic-chemical-reform_n_1536587.html" target="hplink">increased demands for change</a>," said Andy Igrejas, national campaign director for the nonprofit <a href="http://www.saferchemicals.org/" target="hplink">Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families</a>.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"And industry has ramped up its spending to block such a change," he added.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">The chemical and agro-chemical industries have generally argued that stiffer regulations would be overly burdensome to companies and costly to the country.</span><b><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> Anne Kolton of the American Chemistry Council,</span></b><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> a lobbying group for the chemical industry, said the ACC is </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanChemistry" target="_hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">"proud" of its efforts</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> to "highlight the good work being done in Washington to grow the economy and create jobs."</span></font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://monsantoblog.com/2012/08/14/taking-a-stand-proposition-37-the-california-labeling-proposal/" target="hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Monsanto</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> and other agro-chemical companies have invested </span><a href="http://votersedge.org/california/ballot-measures/2012/november/prop-37/funding" target="hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">more than $20 million</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> -- on top of the food industry's nearly equivalent contribution -- for ads </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/gmo-proposition-37-study-funding-research_n_1904535.html" target="_hplink"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">opposing Proposition 37</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, a California measure that would require labeling of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. Proponents of the bill have raised less than $8 million.</span></font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, chemical interests have spent some $375 million since 2005 to help elect and try to influence federal leaders, specifically in regards to a pending overhaul of the </b><a href="http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/tsca.html" target="hplink"><b>Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976</b></a><b> (TSCA), according to a </b><a href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/COMMONCAUSE_TOXICSPENDING-10%2023%20FINAL.PDF" target="hplink"><b>report</b></a><b> released this week by </b><a href="http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8281551" target="_hplink"><b>Common Cause</b></a><b>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization.</b></font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's been 36 years since they passed TSCA, and people are showing how it really fails to protect people," said James Browning, Common Cause's regional director for state operations and a principal author of the report. "Public health advocates are starting to win the fight, they have so much evidence on their side. Industry is realizing it needs to start spending more to stop it."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July, the Safe Chemicals Act <a href="http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=337325" target="hplink">passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee</a>. First introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in 2005, the act would replace the TSCA and essentially <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/safe-chemicals-act-flame-retardants_n_1699384.html" target="hplink">reverse the burden of proof</a> on chemical safety. In other words, chemicals would be required to be tested and proven safe before they are placed on store shelves -- something that it not the case today. The bill is now awaiting a vote from the full Senate.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACC, whose <a href="http://www.americanchemistry.com/Membership/MemberCompanies#M" target="_hplink">member companies'</a> spending was included in the Common Cause report, has said it is committed to working on a bipartisan bill, but has also expressed concerns with the Safe Chemicals Act.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As one of America's most significant manufacturing industries, we have a significant interest in seeing good policies enacted that will encourage economic growth and job creation including a balanced approach to regulation, a strong domestic energy policy and sound tax and trade policies, and we believe it is important to support leaders in Congress who share those priorities," Kolton said.</font>
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<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overall, Common Cause found that chemical industry contributions in the current election cycle have gone predominantly to Republicans: 78 percent compared to 22 percent for Democrats. President Barack Obama received $217,283, for example, compared to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's $704,337.</font></b>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report, titled "Toxic Spending," also highlights how the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision opened up a new "avenue of influence" for the chemical industry in the form of so-called <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/outside-groups-senate-races_n_2011468.html" target="_hplink">Super PACs</a>. Chemical interests have given $23 million to these groups in the current elections, according to the study.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Browning noted that actual spending numbers are likely even higher due to incomplete tracking of ad spending and a surge of undisclosed contributions from <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare" target="_hplink">nonprofit organizations</a>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year, chemical interests are targeting a few key races, Browning said, including a heated Senate battle in Ohio. Josh Mandel, the Republican contender, ranks third among recipients of chemical industry campaign contributions, and has expressed plans to <a href="http://www.ohio.com/blogs/drilling/ohio-utica-shale-1.291290/mandel-ruffles-feathers-in-anti-fracking-community-1.312941?month=7&year=2012" target="_hplink">open up more land to natural gas drilling</a>. Calls and emails to Mandel's campaign office seeking comment were not returned.</font></p>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A </b><a href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/Ohio--Deep%20Drilling%20Deep%20Pockets%20Nov%202011.pdf" target="_hplink"><b>Common Cause report from last year</b></a><b> found people on Rep. Fred Upton's (R-Mich.) House Energy & Commerce Committee who voted for the so-called Haliburton loophole -- which essentially exempts the natural gas industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act -- received more than six times as much money from oil and gas companies as people who voted against it.</b></font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, is stepping down after a nearly four-year tenure marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect the nation's economy and people's health.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jackson, the agency's first black administrator, constantly found herself caught between administration pledges to solve controversial environmental problems and steady resistance from Republicans and industrial groups who complained that the agency's rules destroyed jobs and made it harder for American companies to compete internationally.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The GOP chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Fred Upton, said last year that Jackson would need her own parking spot at the Capitol because he planned to bring her in so frequently for questioning.</b> Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called for her firing, a stance that had little downside during the GOP primary.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jackson, 50, a chemical engineer by training, did not point to any particular reason for her departure. Historically, Cabinet members looking to move on will leave at the beginning of a president's second term.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), an influential energy policymaker, appeared to reverse his position on renewable energy in a debate with GOP challenger Jack Hoogendyk on Sunday, telling a Western Michigan University audience he believes in government support for "all the alternative energy policies."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked by a moderator what alternative energy processes he favors and whether there should be subsidies for alternative energy, Upton replied, "I supported <span style=" font-weight: bold;">all the alternative energy policies, not just Keystone, that's clean coal, safe nuclear.</span></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"All of these forms of energy need to make it on their own," the congressman added, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/06/fred_upton_jack_hoogendyk_deba_1.html" target="_hplink">according to a transcript of the debate</a> provided by the <em>Kalamazoo Gazette</em>. "We need to support them. We need a North American energy plan which makes us energy independent. I'm convinced we can do that and renewable need to be part of that mix along with the other things I mentioned.”</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For anyone who has been listening, that doesn't square with what Upton has been saying as the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. <span style=" font-weight: bold;">Upton has been among the Republicans leading the investigation of Solyndra, </span>the California-based solar company that went bankrupt after receiving a half-billion dollars in federal loans, saying in September, "I question whether the government is qualified to act as a venture capitalist, picking winners and losers in speculative ventures and shelling out billions of taxpayer dollars to keep them afloat." Nevermind that he previously lobbied the Department of Energy <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-09-26/Rep-Fred-Upton-Michigan-GOP-Energy-Department-loan-guarantees-Obama/50561590/1" target="_hplink">requesting loans for at least four energy projects</a> in his home state.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More recently Upton mocked what he called President Barack Obama's "affinity for massive taxpayer spending on more expensive energy sources." In his op-ed in the <em>American Magazine</em> entitled "<a href="http://american.com/archive/2012/march/rethinking-americas-energy-policy" target="_hplink">Rethinking America's Energy Policy,"</a>, Upton wrote:</font></p>
<blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I first became involved in these issues, President Jimmy Carter told us our domestic energy supplies were running out and a foreign cartel would determine everything from the cars we drove to the temperatures in our homes. The future he painted looked bleak. Consider oil and natural gas. Not long ago, many believed supplies had peaked and it was only a matter of time until we were left with nothing but dry holes in the ground and increased dependence on foreign imports. Based on this belief, Washington decided that American taxpayers needed to spend dramatically on developing alternative supplies to replace hydrocarbons. President Obama continues this policy today. During his recent energy public relations tour, he repeatedly referred to Republicans as subscribers to the ‘flat earth’ worldview because we do not share his affinity for massive taxpayer spending on more expensive energy sources. But if anyone is stuck in the past, it’s President Obama, as he has refused to acknowledge the great potential of America’s energy resources thanks to new technologies that help us unlock them. New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change -- particularly in the past few years --continues to accelerate.</font></blockquote>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton's statement praising investment in renewables came in the first debate in Michigan's Aug. 7 Republican primary. But a GOP Energy and Commerce spokesman told The Huffington Post on Tuesday night that Upton fully intended for all aforementioned forms of energy to make it on their own, adding that an "all of the above energy strategy" is one that allows all forms of energy to compete without the government artificially putting a thumb on the scale. Such initiatives, he said, are best supported by cutting red tape and making sure government doesn't get in the way of any form of energy development.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/06/fred_upton_and_jack_hoogendyk.html" target="_hplink">150 people showed up</a> at Western Michigan University's Schneider Hall Auditorium for the debate, sponsored by WMUK and the <em>Kalamazoo Gazette</em>.</font>
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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton tells reporters the House leadership is looking at every option after President Barack Obama decided this week to block the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, at least temporarily. The Michigan Republican and other House GOP lawmakers argue that the decision was politically driven and will deny the nation both jobs and a new energy source.</font></h2>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The McLendons have concentrated their donations on top Republicans (in fact, the only Democrat to receive any money from the pair was West Virginia Sen. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00032838&cycle=2012">Joe Manchin</a>, who received $4,800). The couple has given $61,600 to the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cycle=2012&cmte=RNC">Republican National Committee</a>, $55,000 to the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00075820&cycle=2012">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> and $10,000 to the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00027466&cycle=2012">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a>. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They have also given a combined $10,000 to Rep. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00004133&cycle=2012">Fred Upton</a> (R-Mich.), the chairman of the powerful <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/overview.php?cmteid=H07&cmte=HENE&congno=112&chamber=H">House Energy and Commerce Committee</a>, which has oversight over issues central to Chesapeake's interests. And besides that, Upton is a first cousin of McClendon's wife -- and, according to OpenSecrets.org data, an investor in Chesapeake: in 2010, he held <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00004133&year=2010">a stake worth between $150,000 and $350,000</a>.</font></div>
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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LakeMoneyPoliticsJune2011.jpg" target="hplink">Numerous</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/opinion/sunday/tuning-out-the-democrats.html" target="hplink">recent polls</a> reveal that the American people believe that Congress is more responsive to their campaign donors than their own constituents. In addition, Americans of all affiliations <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/03/03/174932/americans-oil-subsidies/" target="_hplink">clearly favor ending oil industry handouts</a>. The question is, whose side is Fred Upton on: the American people's or Big Oil's?</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://priceofoil.org/2011/08/17/oil-money-and-the-supercongress/" target="_hplink">Rep. Upton is Big Oil's biggest champion on the newly named Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction</a>. All six Republicans on the Committee have consistently voted to preserve oil industry handouts.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Six months into his tenure as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Fred Upton has stopped even trying to hide his pro-Big-Oil agenda. Upton consistently sides with the oil and gas industry -- and it's clear why.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his House career, Upton has <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00004133" target="hplink">received</a> $281,350 in oil and gas industry campaign contributions and more than a third that total, $100,700, during the 2010 election cycle. The energy industry is opening their wallets for Upton -- in the second quarter of 2011 alone, Upton <a href="http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2011/07/22/fred-upton-holding-court-polluters-fund-his-campaign" target="hplink">raised</a> $104,000 in campaign contributions from oil, gas and coal -- and its not even an election year.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This may seem like a lot of money, until you consider the return on Big Oil's investment. The oil industry has spent roughly $280,000 to back Upton and <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0309/Budget-hawks-Does-US-need-to-give-gas-and-oil-companies-41-billion-a-year" target="_hplink">$4 billion is the low end of credible estimates of the value of their subsidies.</a> Eliminating some of the zeroes, would you invest $2.80 to get $40,000 in return? Of course you would. Big Oil could spend a hundred or even a thousand times more on Fred Upton, and it would still be a great bargain for them.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil industry lobbyists have made keeping the corporate welfare a top priority. The American Petroleum Institute <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/american-petroleum-instit_n_827819.html" target="hplink">announced earlier this year</a> that it would for the first time begin directly donating to candidates, adding to the more than <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=E01&recipdetail=A&sortorder=U&cycle=2010" target="hplink">$13.6 million the oil industry gave to current members of Congress during the last election cycle.</a></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July, Upton <a href="http://upton.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=253880" target="hplink">pushed legislation</a> that would speed up the development of the Keystone XL pipeline through his committee. Common sense would make that a risky political decision, considering what Michiganites have endured since the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/07/26/daily43.html" target="hplink">Enbridge Energy oil spill</a> into the Kalamazoo River that feeds Lake Michigan. But Upton has already shown his disregard for Michigan families by <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/135845-upton-spotted-at-oil-industry-event" target="_hplink">appearing</a> in the front row of an API conference, just six months after the spill of a million gallons of oil into the river running right though his district.
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, since taking the chairmanship, Upton has been maneuvering to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of the Interior, blasting the standards and protections that keep American families safe from the reckless practices of Big Oil companies. And he's not doing this on behalf of the working men and women of this district. A recent poll from the American Lung Association revealed <a href="http://www.lungusa.org/assets/documents/healthy-air/clean-air-memo062011.pdf" target="_hplink">65 percent of Michigan and Ohio voters supported stricter EPA limits</a>.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big Oil is working hard to keep campaign checks flowing and the access they bring open and active. The 2010 increase in funds marked a dramatic shift in Upton's politics. Unfortunately for regular families, that kind of access is limited if you can't write a huge check.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, Upton's priorities continue to seemingly move away from protecting families and towards pushing the agenda of his financiers.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is Fred Upton willing to act on behalf of Michigan families for a change? <a href="http://bit.ly/r9tnjk" target="_hplink">Or will he continue to be Big Oil's champion? </a>The answer will show us all who Fred Upton really listens to most.</font>
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<div class="byline" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="http://www.politico.com/reporters/DarrenGoode.html" rel="nofollow">DARREN GOODE</a> | 7/12/11 7:48 PM EDT</font></div>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House lawmakers Tuesday stymied an initial effort by Republicans to put an end to infamous light bulb efficiency standards.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) to repeal part of a 2007 energy law requiring traditional incandescent light bulbs to be 30 percent more energy efficient beginning in 2012 failed to get the necessary two-thirds support needed for approval under expedited rules. A majority of members â 233 â supported the repeal, including five Democrats. Ten Republicans joined 183 Democrats opposing the measure.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi personally whipped Democratic Caucus members to vote against the bill, a Democratic aide told POLITICO.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">âI was concerned that Ms. Pelosi might make it a litmus test issue in her caucus, and she did,â Barton said after the vote. âWe only got 5 Democrat votes. Everybody in the Blue Dog caucus and the Black caucus that voted no, voted against their constituents.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I thought I had 25 at a minimum. I thought, if it were truly a free vote, I thought weâd pass it on suspension,â he added.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barton said his plan is to move the measure under a regular rule requiring only majority support or as a spending bill amendment.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We can put it on an appropriations bill. We can back it under a rule. I can try and go to some of the Democrats who didnât vote for it and figure out a way to get them to consider voting for it in a little bit of a different format," he said.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The expedited procedure used Tuesday is normally meant to fast-track noncontentious bills without committee consideration, such as post office namings, and requires two-thirds support from those present and voting and does not allow for amendments.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill would fall under the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose chairman â Michigan Republican Fred Upton â helped put the efficiency language in the 2007 bill.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton reversed his stance on the language he helped co-author with Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) â and was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uptonâs change of heart came as he was trying to shore up his conservative credentials while running for the energy panel chairmanship.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The light bulb efficiency standard has become a symbol of federal government stymieing of consumer choice that has been roundly attacked by conservatives.</font>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rush Limbaugh says that Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) should not become chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee because he co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to phase out incandescent light bulbs.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On his show yesterday <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110910/content/01125113.guest.html">Limbaugh</a> said:
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, this would be a tone deaf disaster if the Republican leadership lets Fred Upton ascend to the chairmanship of the House energy committee. This is exactly the kind of nannyism, statism, what have you, that was voted against and was defeated last week. No Republican complicit in nannyism, statism, can be rewarded this way. But seniority may rule the day.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2007 Upton, together with Jane Harman (D-CA) sponsored a bill to phase out the 100 watt incandescent light bulb by 2012, ban all incandescents by 2014, and require that light bulbs be at least three times as efficient as todayâs 100-watt incandescent bulb by 2020. This measure became part of the <a href="http://energy.senate.gov/public/_files/RL342941.pdf">Energy Independence and Security Act</a>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A release from Harmanâs office estimated that the light bulb legislation will prevent the emission of 100 million tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2030.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">âWe must continue to put the spotlight on energy savings,â Upton said this spring as he and Harman introduced a bill to extend efficiency standards to outdoor lighting, âAs our nationâs energy needs are expected to jump significantly over the next two decades, it is imperative that we take advantage of burgeoning efficient technologies. With American industry taking the lead, we will help create jobs here at home and save communities billions of dollars each year in their energy bills.â</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Limbaugh predicted widespread resistance to energy-saving compact fluorescent lighting.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uptonâs competition for the chairmanship comes from Joe Barton (R-TX) â who apologized to BP for having to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill â and Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) who rejected concerns about climate change on the grounds that <a href="http://michiganmessenger.com/43280/uptons-opponent-for-energy-chair-on-global-warming">the earth will end only when God decides it will be over</a>.</font></p>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Representative Fred Uptonâ(R-MI), District 6
âPeople in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction.â
Chair, House Energy and Commerce Committee22
In top 25% of House members receiving campaign cash from fossil fuel companies7
Coal Polluters of Uptonâs District23
Cobb Generating Plant (owner, Consumers Energy Company
[subsidiary of CMS Energy[) within 100 miles of district.
⢠No mercury controls.
⢠Minimal nitrogen dioxide controls.
⢠No sulfur dioxide controls.
J.H. Campbell Generating Plant (owner, Consumers Energy Company
[subsidiary of CMS Energy]) within 100 miles of district.
⢠No mercury controls.
⢠No nitrogen dioxide controls.
⢠No sulfur dioxide controls.
Eckert Station (owner, Lansing Board of Water & Light [a subsidiary of the
City of Lansing, Michigan]), within 100 miles of district.
⢠No mercury controls.
⢠Minimal nitrogen dioxide controls.
⢠No sulfur dioxide controls.
There are 3 other coal-fired power plants within 100 miles of District 6.
Impact Annually of These Three Coal Plants6
⢠Deaths: 194
⢠Heart Attacks: 317
⢠Asthma Attacks: 3200
⢠Hospital Admissions: 140
⢠Chronic Bronchitis: 119
⢠Asthma ER Visits: 193
Yearly Costs: $1,490,768,0006</font>
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Coal Polluters Support Representative Upton</font>
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Fossil fuel industry has given Upton $541,450 since the 1998 election season. Coal donors include CMS Energy ($65,200),
DTE Energy ($48,100), and American Electric Power ($31,150).7
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton Represents Coal Polluters</font>
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Upton voted to stop EPA from reducing mercury and other toxic air pollution from cement plants.12
Coal Caucus members are threatening with a bill to strip EPAâs budget to reduce mercury pollution from coal-fired power
plants. Upton voted yes for this bill in committee..14
Upton sponsored and pushed through his committee a bill to keep EPA from making coal companies reduce global warming
pollution.2
Upton voted yes to an amendment in the budget bill that would stop EPA from developing protections from coal ash pollution.
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Upton voted three times in support of coal-industry amendments on mountaintop removal mining.15
Jobs to Produce Power in Michigan
Wind and Solar: 7,45313,18
Coal: 2,3204</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Upton was named chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee in December, climate activists breathed a sigh of relief. At least the two other frontrunners â Joe Barton, a longtime shill for the oil and gas industry, and John Shimkus, who invokes the Bible to justify doing nothing to stop global warming â didn't get the job. But Upton, a moderate who has backed new standards for more efficient light bulbs and admitted that "we need to reduce emissions," won the chairmanship by shamelessly transforming himself into a Tea Party wanna-be. He now claims he is "not convinced" that carbon needs to be regulated and denounces climate legislation as "an unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs." As chairman, Upton is expected to further boost his credibility with the Tea Party by launching an all-out war on new regulations proposed by the EPA, including stricter air-quality standards and tougher limits on toxic coal ash. In fact, Upton has promised that EPA officials will spend so much time being questioned before his committee that "we will give them their own parking place" on Capitol Hill.</font>
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<em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see peterson-upton-inhofe</font></em>
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<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206/5"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206/5</font></a>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton received $20,000 in donations from Koch employees</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in 2010, making them among his top 10 donors in that</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA had the</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">power to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollutants</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">under the Clean Air Act. Pompeo, Griffith and others</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">want to strip the EPA of that authority.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Until recently, Upton would have been an unlikely</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">champion of that view.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2009, he told a Michigan newspaper: "Climate change</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">is a serious problem that necessitates serious</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">solutions." Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Upton for his</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sponsorship of an energy-saving bill. Tea party groups</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">opposed his bid for the committee chairmanship.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But as chairman, Upton said that EPA Administrator Lisa</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jackson would have to attend so many hearings before his</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">committee that she would need her own parking space on</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Capitol Hill. In daily e-mail blasts, he hammered at the</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA's "job-killing" regulations.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His bluntest rhetoric against the EPA came in late</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December, in a Wall Street Journal commentary he wrote</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">with Phillips of Americans for Prosperity.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, they</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wrote, "represents an unconstitutional power grab that</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">will kill millions of jobs â unless Congress steps in."</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an e-mail statement, Upton denied that his position</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">on climate change had shifted, and he explained his work</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">with conservative activists. "Meeting with and listening</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to individuals and organizations that will be affected</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by the laws and regulations this committee oversees is</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">one of our fundamental responsibilities," he said.</font>
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<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-03-fred-uptons-bizarre-war-on-24-million-americans-with-asthma"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-03-fred-uptons-bizarre-war-on-24-million-americans-with-asthma</font></a>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Cross-posted from the <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/fred_uptons_bizarre_war_on_24.html">Natural Resources Defense Council</a></em>.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is teaming up with House Energy and Commerce Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to introduce a bill to allow America's biggest polluters to continue dumping <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-02/epa-chief-jackson-urges-u-s-lawmaker-not-to-slash-her-agency-s-funding.html">unlimited amounts of carbon emissions into the air</a>. It's not that surprising that Inhofe is pushing this in the Senate. After all, Inhofe has always prided himself on being a little "out there" in a distinctly Charlie Sheen "wild man" <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2011/02/25/VI2011022502718.html">kind of way</a>.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what is going on with the <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/01/fred-upton-global-warming">formerly-known-as reasonable</a> Rep. Upton?</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just about every major health group in the United States is now telling Upton that he is putting <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/leading_health_groups_oppose_u.html">the welfare of millions of Americans at risk</a> who suffer from asthma (that's 24 million people right there -- including 7 million children!) and other respiratory diseases.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consider this from the <a href="http://www.lungusa.org/press-room/press-releases/upton-clean-air-bill.html">American Lung Association</a>:</font></p>
<blockquote style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The enactment of Chairman Fred Upton's bill would strip away Clean Air Act protections that safeguard Americans and their families from air pollution that puts their lives at risk. The protections against the health harm from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution are essential to public health and must be preserved. -- Charles D. Connor, president and chief executive officer</font></blockquote>
<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And it's not like people back home in the Michigan sixth congressional district are exactly clamoring for more pollution. The <a href="http://www.lungusa.org/finding-cures/our-research/trend-reports/estimated-prevalence.pdf">American Lung Association estimates</a> [PDF] that over 225,000 Michigan children have asthma, a condition made worse and more dangerous by air pollution.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps not surprisingly, our <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/Upton%20MI-6Results.pdf">Feb. 2011 survey</a> [PDF] conducted in Upton's congressional district found:</font></p>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">62 percent of Upton's constituents oppose a bill he is sponsoring to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce carbon dioxide and other pollutants;</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">67 percent -- including 60 percent of Republicans -- agreed with the statement that "Congress should let the EPA do its job," as opposed to the minority who believe that "Congress should decide" what actions are taken to curb carbon pollution;</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">61 percent say that "the EPA needs to do more to hold polluters accountable and protect the air and water";</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">57 percent favor "the EPA setting new standards with stricter limits on air pollution."</font></li>
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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you were a member of Congress would you look at the following chart and assume that your constituents are best served by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency in its efforts to keep our air as clean as possible?</font>
<span class="media mediaItem" style=" width: 615px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.grist.org/i/assets/upton-altman-pie.JPG"><img brain="false" alt="Most of Congressman Upton\'s Constituents Think Congress Should Let the EPA Do Its Job" src="http://www.grist.org/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=http://www.grist.org/i/assets/upton-altman-pie-616.jpg&w=615" /></a><span class="caption">Click for a larger version.</span></font></span>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, the easy Washington answer here is to say "follow the money."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And it's worth noting that over the course of his career, Upton has taken over <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00004133&type=I">$750,000</a> from polluters.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As <a href="https://www.politicopro.com/login/">PoliticoPro</a> [$ubreq] reported yesterday:</font></p>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The leaders -- from American Electric Power, NextEra Energy, Southern Co., and Dominion Resources -- said to varying degrees that they support allowing the EPA to proceed on a "reasonable" time frame on greenhouse gas rules for power plants, petroleum refiners and other major stationary sources.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also didn't sound so thrilled with the draft bill preempting the EPA that House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) plans to start moving later this spring.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I think that's probably a bit strong," said Michael Morris, president and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based AEP, in an interview at an energy industry conference in Washington. "Congressman Upton is a dear friend and a very strong leader and a visionary elected official, but I think even he knows that that probably isn't going to happen."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I don't support complete preemption," Lewis Hay, chairman and CEO of NextEra Energy, a Juno Beach, Fla.-based power company, told <em>Politico</em>. "When I look at what EPA has done so far and the position they've taken on greenhouse gases, I think it's actually been pretty moderate."</font></p>
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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So just <em>why </em>is Fred Upton waging this war against 24 million American asthma victims?</font>
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<em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cross-posted from the <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/12/28/upton-koch-skinning/">Wonk Room</a>.</font></em>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703929404576022070069905318.html"><em>Wall Street Journal</em> op-ed</a>, incoming energy chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) joined Americans For Prosperity (AFP) President Tim Phillips, a <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/16/phillips-climate-denier/">global warming denier</a>, to support the lawsuits by global warming polluters against climate rules. One of the companies <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/27/afp-pollution-plan/">leading the charge</a> against the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas endangerment finding is Koch Industries, the private pollution giant whose billionaire owners have been directing the Tea Party movement through its AFP front group.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Upton was once considered a "<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101109/full/468146a.html">moderate</a> on environmental issues," but has worked hard to refashion himself as a hard-right defender of pollution in recent months. Some Tea Party groups tried to block Upton from taking the gavel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/24/back-freedomworks-upton/">attacking his past support</a> for energy-efficient light bulbs. Upton previously claimed that "<a href="http://www.rivercountryjournal.com/?p=7369">climate change</a> is a serious problem" and that "the world will be better off" if we reduced carbon emissions. However, in the course of the past two years -- as he received <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00004133&type=C">$20,000</a> from Koch Industries -- Upton has shifted to oppose not only cap-and-trade legislation but any form of limits on climate pollution whatsoever, instead supporting <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/10/upton-climategate/">investigations</a> against climate scientists and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703929404576022070069905318.html">lawsuits against the EPA</a> and its supposed "unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs":</font></p>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>April 2009:</strong> "Climate change is a <a href="http://www.rivercountryjournal.com/?p=7369">serious problem</a> that necessitates serious solutions."</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>June 2009:</strong> "We have a unique opportunity and a <a href="http://www.rivercountryjournal.com/?p=10773">responsibility to reduce emissions</a> and preserve our economy -- the American public is desperate for solutions, but a national energy tax is not the answer."</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>December 2009:</strong> "I think we can <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/12/gop-delegation-regales-copenhagen-understanding-science">lower our emissions</a>. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap-and-trade."</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>January 2010:</strong> "No matter what we did between now and 2050, it, there was <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/10/upton-climategate/">no real science</a> to verify that it would reduce the temperature rise that some predicted. And that's why we do need hearings."</font></li>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>December 2010:</strong> "Moreover, the principal argument for a two-year delay is that it will allow Congress time to create its own plan for regulating carbon. This presumes that carbon is a problem in need of regulation. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703929404576022070069905318.html">We are not convinced</a>."</font></li>
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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA," Upton and Phillips wrote in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, invoking the grisly image of the president murdering his fellow citizens. The world would be better off if Upton went back to believing instead in serious solutions to serious problems.</font>
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<p><span class="posted-and-updated"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted: <span itemprop="datePublished"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">10/25/2012 </span>6:57 pm EDT</span> Updated: <span itemprop="dateModified">10/25/2012 7:51 pm EDT</span></font></span></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an effort to block a <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_37,Mandatory_Labeling_of_Genetically_Engineered_Food%282012%29" target="hplink">ballot measure in California</a> that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods, shape a <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/oh/ohio_senate_mandel_vs_brown-2100.html" target="hplink">Senate race in Ohio</a> with potential repercussions for fracking, and influence a host of <a href="http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Elections/2012/House/Michigan/6/" target="_hplink">House contests</a> key to toxic chemical reform -- the chemical industry has been busy wielding its wallet, say environmental advocates.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New numbers support that assertion: Tens of millions of dollars continue to feed industry friendly causes and candidates this election season, with federal campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures by the chemical industry more than doubling since 2000.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The more the truth has gotten out about the chemical regulatory system not working; the more the science has shed light on the consequences for American families as they bear the burden of problems linked to environmental exposures such as learning disabilities, childhood cancer and breast cancer; I think the more it has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/national-stroller-brigade-toxic-chemical-reform_n_1536587.html" target="hplink">increased demands for change</a>," said Andy Igrejas, national campaign director for the nonprofit <a href="http://www.saferchemicals.org/" target="hplink">Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families</a>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"And industry has ramped up its spending to block such a change," he added.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The chemical and agro-chemical industries have generally argued that stiffer regulations would be overly burdensome to companies and costly to the country. Anne Kolton of the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the chemical industry, said the ACC is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanChemistry" target="_hplink">"proud" of its efforts</a> to "highlight the good work being done in Washington to grow the economy and create jobs."</font>
<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://monsantoblog.com/2012/08/14/taking-a-stand-proposition-37-the-california-labeling-proposal/" target="hplink">Monsanto</a> and other agro-chemical companies have invested <a href="http://votersedge.org/california/ballot-measures/2012/november/prop-37/funding" target="hplink">more than $20 million</a> -- on top of the food industry's nearly equivalent contribution -- for ads <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/gmo-proposition-37-study-funding-research_n_1904535.html" target="_hplink">opposing Proposition 37</a>, a California measure that would require labeling of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. Proponents of the bill have raised less than $8 million.</font></span>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile,<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> chemical interests have spent some $375 million since 2005 to help elect and try to influence federal leaders, </span>specifically in regards to a pending overhaul of the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/tsca.html" target="hplink">Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976</a> (TSCA), according to a <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/COMMONCAUSE_TOXICSPENDING-10%2023%20FINAL.PDF" target="hplink">report</a> released this week by <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8281551" target="_hplink">Common Cause</a>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's been 36 years since they passed TSCA, and people are showing how it really fails to protect people," said James Browning, Common Cause's regional director for state operations and a principal author of the report. "Public health advocates are starting to win the fight, they have so much evidence on their side. Industry is realizing it needs to start spending more to stop it."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July, the Safe Chemicals Act <a href="http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=337325" target="hplink">passed out of the Senate<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Environment and Public Works</span> Committee</a>. First introduced by Sen. Frank <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lautenberg </span>(D-N.J.) in 2005, the act would replace the TSCA and essentially <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/safe-chemicals-act-flame-retardants_n_1699384.html" target="hplink">reverse the burden of proof</a> on chemical safety. In other words, chemicals would be required to be tested and proven safe before they are placed on store shelves -- something that it not the case today. The bill is now awaiting a vote from the full Senate.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACC, whose <a href="http://www.americanchemistry.com/Membership/MemberCompanies#M" target="_hplink">member companies'</a> spending was included in the Common Cause report, has said it is committed to working on a bipartisan bill, but has also expressed concerns with the Safe Chemicals Act.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As one of America's most significant manufacturing industries, we have a significant interest in seeing good policies enacted that will encourage economic growth and job creation including a balanced approach to regulation, a strong domestic energy policy and sound tax and trade policies, and we believe it is important to support leaders in Congress who share those priorities," Kolton said.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overall, Common Cause found that chemical industry contributions in the current election cycle have gone predominantly to <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republicans: 78 percent </span>compared to 22 percent for Democrats. President Barack Obama received $217,283, for example, compared to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's $704,337.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report, titled "Toxic Spending," also highlights how the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision opened up a new "avenue of influence" for the chemical industry in the form of so-called <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/outside-groups-senate-races_n_2011468.html" target="_hplink">Super PACs</a>. Chemical interests have given $23 million to these groups in the current elections, according to the study.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Browning noted that actual spending numbers are likely even higher due to incomplete tracking of ad spending and a surge of undisclosed contributions from <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare" target="_hplink">nonprofit organizations</a>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year, chemical interests are targeting a few key races, Browning said, including a heated Senate battle in Ohio. Josh Mandel, the Republican contender, ranks third among recipients of chemical industry campaign contributions, and has expressed plans to <a href="http://www.ohio.com/blogs/drilling/ohio-utica-shale-1.291290/mandel-ruffles-feathers-in-anti-fracking-community-1.312941?month=7&year=2012" target="_hplink">open up more land to natural gas drilling</a>. Calls and emails to Mandel's campaign office seeking comment were not returned.</font></p>
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<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Clearly, they see Ohio as pivotal and that race as pivotal," Browning said.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/Ohio--Deep%20Drilling%20Deep%20Pockets%20Nov%202011.pdf" target="_hplink">Common Cause report from last year</a> found people on Rep. Fred Upton's (R-Mich.) House Energy & Commerce Committee who voted for the so-called Haliburton loophole</span> -- which essentially exempts the natural gas industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act -- received more than six times as much money from oil and gas companies as people who voted against it.</font>
<font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">"There's a long history of industry throwing weight around and with it being successful," Browning added.</font></p>
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