Am Council for Capital Formation accf

<h1>=</h1><div>see ACCF (15 tags)</div><h1><div style="font-weight: 400;">=</div><div style=""><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/">https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/</a></div><div style="">
</div></h1><h2 id="h-background" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">background</h2><h1>The <a href="http://accf.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)</a> is a Washington, DC-based free market think tank that <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160210231551/http://accf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/media_419.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">prides itself</a> on “economic growth through sound tax, regulatory, and environmental policies.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a>The group has <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120201025328/http://www.accf.org/media.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">called </a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120201025328/http://www.accf.org/media.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">itself</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120201025328/http://www.accf.org/media.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> a “well-connected spokesman for American business in Washington</a>,” a “key player” in policy circles, and “one of the most influential organizations operating behind the scenes” in the Washington policymaking arena. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160210232319/http://accf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BIO-Mark-February-2015.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; line-height: 15.4px;">ACCF‘s president and CEO, Mark A. Bloomfield</a> has been described as “a well-connected spokesman for American business” and “one of the most influential figures operating behind the scenes in the Congress.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[3</a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">]</a>ACCF is known for two studies, produced by the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Manufacturers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> industry and Koch-funded National Association of Scholars</a>, which critics have said feature a “distorted analysis” of proposed legislation to combat climate change. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[4</a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[5]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[6]</a></h1><h3 id="h-accf-center-for-policy-research" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ACCF Center for Policy Research</h3><h1>In 1973, ACCF created a 501(c)3 nonprofit entitled the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211195854/http://accf.org/center-for-policy-research/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research</a> that “brings together academics, policymakers, business executives and the media to discuss important new research on economic and environmental policies and explore the public policy implications of the research.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[7]</a></h1><h2 id="h-stance-on-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stance on Climate Change</h2><h1>ACCF does not deny the existence of global warming, as the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160210232830/http://accf.org/publications/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">ACCF statement on Energy and Climate Change Policy</a> shows:“Because energy use and economic growth go hand in hand, policymakers should develop a flexible, long-term approach to reducing the growth of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This will require a global effort based on technological innovation and technology transfer to developing countries where GHG emissions growth is most rapid. In addition, U.S. tax policies should be reformed to reduce the cost of capital for new energy efficient and pollution control technologies.”<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [8]</a>However, in the past ACCF‘s has denounced government policies that could be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as not worth the cost. For example, ACCF commented on regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act:“Expanding the jurisdiction of the CAA to regulate domestic emissions of carbon and other GHGs will provide no net benefits to environmental quality while posing serious risks to our nation’s competitiveness, and even hampering our ability to deploy the advanced technologies which will be necessary to deal effectively with the challenges posed by Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. ” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[9]</a></h1><h2 id="h-funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Funding</h2><h1>The following is based on data <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/american-council-for-capital-formation/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">archived at the Conservative Transparency (CT) project </a>combined with original 990 research by DeSmog.<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[10]</a>View the summary below, or see the attached spreadsheet for additional information on <a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/American%20Council%20Capital%20Formation%20Funding%202019_0.xlsx" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">ACCF funding by year (.xlsx)</a>. Note that not all CT values have been verified by DeSmog. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[10]</a><figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: scroll; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table style="background-color: transparent; width: 860px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Donor</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Total</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Exxon Mobil</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$1,564,523</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$475,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$350,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Searle_Freedom_Trust" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Searle Freedom Trust</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$275,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/scaife-family-foundations" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$125,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$125,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_M.Olin_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$100,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">American Natural Gas Alliance</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$37,500</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">True Foundation</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$12,300</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_William_Pope_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John William Pope Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$10,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_E.Simon_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">William E. Simon Foundation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$2,500</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Grand Total</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$3,076,823</td></tr></tbody></table></figure></h1><h3 id="h-exxon-funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Exxon Funding</h3><h1>*According to ExxonSecrets, the <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=77" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">ACCF has actually received over $1.6 million from ExxonMobil</a> for “climate change activities.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[11]</a></h1><h3 id="h-koch-funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch Funding</h3><h1>According to the most recent data available from <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/american-council-on-capital-formation-accf/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Greenpeace</a>, Koch foundations have donated $600,000 to the American Council for Capital Formation between 1999 and 2015: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[12]</a><figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: scroll; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table style="background-color: transparent; width: 860px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Year</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Charles Koch Foundation</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Grand Total</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1999</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$10,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$10,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">2005</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$25,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$25,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2006</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$40,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$40,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">2007</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$50,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$50,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2008</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$100,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$100,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">2009</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$100,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$100,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2010</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$50,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$50,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">2012</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$100,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$100,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2013</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$75,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$75,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">2015</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$50,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">$50,000</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Grand Total</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$125,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$475,000</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">$600,000</td></tr></tbody></table></figure></h1><h3 id="h-other-funders" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Funders</h3><h1>According to a 2004-05 document covering <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080512091840/http://www.corporateeurope.org/docs/ICCFsupporters.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">supporters of the American Council for Capital Formation, ACCF Center for Policy Research, and International Council for Capital Formation (PDF</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080512091840/http://www.corporateeurope.org/docs/ICCFsupporters.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">)</a>, the ACCF and their affiliate organizations have also received funding from other organizations including energy-sector and automobile companies: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[13</a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">]</a><figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: scroll; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table style="background-color: transparent; width: 860px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">ADP Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Advanced Medical Technology Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Benefits Council</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">American Business Conference</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Century Investments</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Chemistry Council</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Farm_Bureau_Federation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Farm Bureau Federation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Forest_and_Paper_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Forest & Paper Association</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Gas_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Gas Association</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Wholesale Marketers Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">AMT-The Association for Manufacturing Technology</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Associated Equipment Distributors</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">BellSouth Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Campbell_Soup" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Campbell Soup Company</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/about-center-energy-and-economic-development-ceed" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Center for Energy & Economic Development</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Cly-Del Manufacturing Company</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Conference of State Bank Supervisors</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Contran Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DaimlerChrysler" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">DaimlerChrysler Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Driscoll Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edison_Electric_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Edison Electric Institute</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Equipment Leasing Association of America</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Ernst & Young</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon_Mobil" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Exxon Mobil Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fidelity_Investments" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Fidelity Investments</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Financial Services Roundtable</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Fisher Scientific International, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FMC_Corporation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">FMC Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">FORATOM</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ford" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Ford Motor Company</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Dynamics" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">General Dynamics Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Mills" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">General Mills</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Motors_Corporation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">General Motors Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Harry S. Flemming Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Hillside Capital Incorporated</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/directory/vocabulary/2736" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Institute for Global Economic Growth</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">John L. Loeb, Jr. Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Kinsey Interests, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Loeb Partners Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Malek Family Trust Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marathon" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Marathon Oil Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Matrix Capital Markets Group, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Merrill_Lynch" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Metals Service Center Institute</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Microsoft Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Milliken & Company</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Morgan_Stanley" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Morgan Stanley</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Morgenthaler Management Corp.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Manufacturers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">National Association of Manufacturers</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">National Beer Wholesalers Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">National Electrical Contractors Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">National Marine Manufacturers Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Nationwide Insurance & Financial Co.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">New York Stock Exchange Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newspaper_Association_of_America" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Newspaper Association of America</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Nordberg Family Fund</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Nuclear Energy Institute</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oracle" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Oracle Corporation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pepco_Holdings" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Pepco Holdings, Inc.</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Portland Cement Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Principal Financial Group</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Qwest Communications, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Securities Industry Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Small Business Entrepreneurial Council</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Company" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Southern Company</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">T. Rowe Price & Associates</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Aluminum Association, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The Arthur Loeb Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Jeffrey Company</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The Prudential Foundation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Real Estate Roundtable</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Whitehead_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">The Whitehead Foundation</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Theragenics Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Toyota" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Toyota Motor North America, Inc.</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Tudor Investment Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Twenty-First Securities Corporation</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">TXU Business Services</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Uniform & Textile Service Association</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Westinghouse Electric Company</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Weyerhaeuser" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Weyerhaeuser Company</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Winthrop, Inc.</td></tr></tbody></table></figure></h1><h2 id="h-990-forms" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">990 Forms]</h2><div>...</div><div><div>no lnx</div><div>key People</div><div>
</div><div>Board of Directors</div><div>
</div><div>ACCF‘s Officers and Board of Directors has included former high-ranking politicians (predominantly Republican) in the U.S. government along with representatives of industry associations.</div><div>
</div><div>Name 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2015 2016[14] 2018 Description</div><div>Richard W. Rahn Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, Improbable Success Productions</div><div>Steven A. Wechsler Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts</div><div>Mark A. Bloomfield Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Susan K. Neely Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Beverage Association</div><div>Richard D. Shelby Y Partner, Capitol Hill Consulting Group</div><div>Dave McCurdy Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Gas Association</div><div>M. Christine Jacobs Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chief Executive Officer and President, Theragenics Corporation</div><div>Gary C. Hufbauer Y Nonresident Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics</div><div>Donald L. Lucas Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Venture Capitalist</div><div>Frederic V. Malek Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Founder and Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners, L.P.</div><div>George P. Shultz Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Director of Office of, Budget and Management and Secretary of Labor</div><div>John C. Whitehead Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Deputy Secretary of State</div><div>Kenneth M. Duberstein Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chief of Staff to President Reagan</div><div>Robert S. Strauss Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former U.S. Trade Representative</div><div>William H. Gray, III Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, House Committee on the Budget</div><div>James R. Jones Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Member of Congress</div><div>Glenn English Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</div><div>Bill Archer Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means</div><div>Gerald L. Parsky Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, Aurora Capital Group</div><div>Mark A. Weinberger Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Global Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young</div><div>Thomas R. Kuhn Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President, Edison Electric Institute</div><div>Charles W. Stenholm Y Y Y Y Y Y former Member of Congress</div><div>Don Nickles Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Budget</div><div>John Engler Y Y Y Y Y Y former Governor State of Michigan</div><div>Jim Kolbe Y Y Y Y former Member of Congress</div><div>Michael G. Oxley Y Y Y Y former Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services</div><div>Donna A. Harman Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Forest & Paper Association</div><div>Andrew Card Y Y Y Y former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation</div><div>Robert W. Galvin Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chairman Emeritus Motorola, Inc.</div><div>L. William Seidman Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</div><div>William D. Ruckelshaus Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</div><div>Charls E. Walker Y Y Y Y Y Y Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury</div><div>Kyle E. McSlarrow Y Y Y Y President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association</div><div>Margo Thorning Y Y Y Y Senior Economic Policy Advisor</div><div>William J. McDonough Y Y Y Vice Chairman & Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.</div><div>Marc E. Lackritz Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former President and Chief Executive Officer, Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association</div><div>Red Cavaney Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Petroleum Institute</div><div>Frank L. (Skip) Bowman Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute</div><div>David Rehr Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Broadcasters</div><div>Bob Stallman Y Y Y Y Y President, American Farm Bureau Federation</div><div>Frederick L. Webber Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</div><div>Lloyd Bentsen Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Secretary of the Treasury</div><div>J. Barry Griswell Y Y Y Y Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Principal Financial Group</div><div>J. Stephen Larkin Y Y President, The Aluminum Association, Inc.</div><div>John J. Byrne Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd.</div><div>William E. Brock Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former U.S. Senator</div><div>Mark Heesen Y Y Y Y President, National Venture Capital Association</div><div>Joe F. Colvin, II Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute</div><div>Barry K. Rogstad Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President, American Business Conference</div><div>James B. Graham Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chief Executive Officer, Viztec, Inc.</div><div>Matthew P. Fink Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President, Investment Company Institute</div><div>Ronald W. Readmond Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Private Investor</div><div>W. Henson Moore Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President, American Forest & Paper Association</div><div>William D. Witter Y Y Y Y Y Y William D. Witter, Inc.</div><div>Harry S. Flemming Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, Advantor Holding Company</div><div>John M. Derrick, Jr. Y Y Y Y Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pepco Holdings Incorporated</div><div>Josephine S. Cooper Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</div><div>David J. Drury Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, Principal Financial Group</div><div>Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capricorn Holdings, Inc.</div><div>Kenneth L. Lay Y Y Y Y Y Chairman, ENRON</div><div>Paul A. Volcker Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System</div><div>H. Onno Ruding Y Y Y Y Vice Chairman and Director, Citibank</div><div>David B. Duncan Y Partner, Arthur Andersen LLP</div><div>M.B. Oglesby, Jr. Y Y Y former Assistant to President Reagan for Legislative Affairs</div><div>John H. Martinson Y Chairman, National Venture Capital Association</div><div>Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council of Life Insurance</div><div>Edward F. Mitchell Y Y Y Chairman of the Board, Potomac Electric Power Company</div><div>James E. Rogers, Jr. Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Cinergy Corporation</div><div>M. Kathleen Behrens Y President, National Venture Capital Association</div><div>Allen J. Krowe Y Y Texaco Inc.</div><div>Jack D. Rehm Y Y Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, retired, Meredith Corporation</div><div>James Ericson Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company</div><div>John S. Nolan Y Y Partner, Miller & Chevalier, Chartered</div><div>Philip J. Carroll Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Shell Oil Company</div><div>Brian H. Dovey Y President, National Venture Capital Association</div><div>Carl D. Thoma Y President, National Venture Capital Association</div><div>Charles J. DiBona Y President, American Petroleum Institute</div><div>
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</div><div>Board of Advisors</div><div>Name 2015 2016[14] 2017 2018 Description</div><div>Andrew Card Y Y Y Y former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation</div><div>Bill Archer Y Y Y Y former Chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means</div><div>Charles W. Stenholm Y Y Y Y former Member of Congress</div><div>Don Nickles Y Y Y Y former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Budget</div><div>Donald L. Lucas Y Y Y Y Venture Capitalist</div><div>Frederic V. Malek Y Y Y Y Founder and Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners, L.P.</div><div>George P. Shultz Y Y Y Y former Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Director of Office of, Budget and Management and Secretary of Labor</div><div>Gerald L. Parsky Y Y Y Y Chairman, Aurora Capital Group</div><div>James R. Jones Y Y Y Y former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Member of Congress</div><div>Jim Kolbe Y Y Y Y former Member of Congress</div><div>Jim McCrery Y Y Y Y former Member of Congress</div><div>Kenneth M. Duberstein Y Y Y Y former Chief of Staff to President Reagan</div><div>Mark A. Weinberger Y Y Y Y Global Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young</div><div>Thomas R. Kuhn Y Y Y Y President, Edison Electric Institute</div><div>Steve Moore Y Y former Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member</div><div>Tom Ridge Y Y former Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Pennsylvania and Member of Congress</div><div>Joe Lieberman Y Former United States Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 2000</div><div>Donna A. Harman Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Forest & Paper Association</div><div>John Engler Y Y former Governor State of Michigan</div><div>Michael G. Oxley Y Y former Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services</div><div>Jo Ann Emerson Y Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</div><div>Richard D. Shelby Y Partner, Capitol Hill Consulting Group</div><div>Dave McCurdy Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Gas Association</div><div>Glenn English Y Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</div><div>John C. Whitehead Y former Deputy Secretary of State</div><div>Robert S. Strauss Y former U.S. Trade Representative</div><div>William H. Gray, III Y former Chairman, House Committee on the Budget</div><div>
</div><div>Officers & Staff</div><div>
</div><div>Name 2002 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016[15] 2017 2018 Description</div><div>Margo Thorning Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Senior Economic Policy Advisor</div><div>Mark A. Bloomfield Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Mike Burita Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Director of Communications</div><div>Pinar Cebi Wilber Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chief Economist</div><div>Hamideh Kashaninejad Y Y Y Y Treasurer</div><div>Timothy M. Doyle Y Y Vice President of Policy and General Counsel</div><div>George David Banks Y Y Y Executive Vice President</div><div>Drew Bond Y Senior Fellow & Director of Energy Innovation Programs, ACCF Center for Policy Research</div><div>Frédérique Schreuder Y Executive Assistant and Director of Events</div><div>Tony Nash Y Y Senior Economic Adviser for International Economic Policy</div><div>Aaron Weston Y Senior Fellow and Director of Nuclear Energy Programs, ACCF Center for Policy Research</div><div>Robert Dillon Y Vice President of Communications</div><div>Ashley Laing Y Membership & Events Manager</div><div>Jeff Crater Y Senior Fellow & Director of U.S. Defense Industry and Economy</div><div>Marie Sanderson Y Senior Fellow & Director of State and Local Economic Policy</div><div>Ashley Mitchell Y Membership and Events Manager</div><div>John Maguire Y Y Y Vice President for Strategic Planning</div><div>Tracy Ellis Y Y Vice President of Membership</div><div>Mari Lee Dunn Y Y Y Senior Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Charls E. Walker Y Y Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury</div><div>Ernestine R. Johnson Y Assistant Secretary-Treasurer</div><div>Distinguished Fellows (Center for Policy Research)</div><div>Name 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016[16] Description</div><div>Robert J. Gordon Y Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Department of Economics, Northwestern University</div><div>Michael J. Boskin Y Y Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, George H.W. Bush</div><div>John B. Taylor Y Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Y 1995 Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of Chicago</div><div>Allan H. Meltzer Y Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>William M. Gentry Y Professor of Economics, Williams College</div><div>Jagdish V. Bhagwati Y University Professor, Columbia University</div><div>Edward C. Prescott Y Y 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Arizona University</div><div>N. Gregory Mankiw Y Y former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, President George W. Bush</div><div>Charls E. Walker Y Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury</div><div>Ernestine R. Johnson Y Assistant Secretary-Treasurer</div><div>Margo Thorning Y Senior Economic Policy Advisor</div><div>Mari Lee Dunn Y Senior Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Mark A. Bloomfield Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Dale W. Jorgenson Y Y Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University</div><div>James M. Poterba Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research</div><div>Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin Y Y Y former Director, Congressional Budget Office</div><div>Gary C. Hufbauer Y Nonresident Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics</div><div>Henry D. Jacoby Y Environmental Policy Fellow, 1998. Pounds Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div>Richard L. Schmalensee Y Gordon Y Billard Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div>Thomas Horst Y TCW Fellow, 1997. Former director of the International Tax Staff, U.S. Department of the Treasury Managing Director, Horst, Frisch, Clowery & Finan</div><div>Gary W. Yohe Y Environmental Policy Fellow, 1996. Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University</div><div>John B. Shoven Y Charles Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Arnold C. Harberger Y Y Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles</div><div>B. Douglas Bernheim Y Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>R. Glenn Hubbard Y former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, President George W. Bush</div><div>Board of Scholars (Center for Policy Research)</div><div>Name 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2005 2016[17] 2017 2018 Description</div><div>Arnold C. Harberger Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles</div><div>B. Douglas Bernheim Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Charles McLure, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Senior Fellow (Emeritus), Hoover Institution, Stanford University</div><div>Michael J. Boskin Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, George H.W. Bush</div><div>Robert E. Hall Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Roger B. Porter Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard University</div><div>John B. Shoven Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Charles Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>James M. Poterba Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research</div><div>Burton G. Malkiel Y Y Y Y Y Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Princeton University</div><div>Laurence H. Meyer Y Y Y Y Y former Governor, Federal Reserve Board</div><div>Rudolph G. Penner Y Y Y Y Y former Director Congressional Budget Office</div><div>Gary C. Hufbauer Y Y Y Y Y Nonresident Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics</div><div>R. Glenn Hubbard Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, President George W. Bush</div><div>N. Gregory Mankiw Y Y Y Y Y Y former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, President George W. Bush</div><div>Dale W. Jorgenson Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University</div><div>Edward C. Prescott Y Y Y Y 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Arizona University</div><div>Harvey S. Rosen Y Y Y Y former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, President George W. Bush</div><div>John D. Graham Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget</div><div>Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin Y Y Y former Director, Congressional Budget Office</div><div>Jagdish V. Bhagwati Y Y Y University Professor, Columbia University</div><div>John B. Taylor Y Y Y Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Y Y Y 1995 Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of Chicago</div><div>William M. Gentry Y Y Y Professor of Economics, Williams College</div><div>Jason Furman Y Y Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, President Barack Obama</div><div>Kenneth B. Medlock III Y Y James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, Rice University</div><div>Robert Hahn Y Y Smith School Director of Economics, Oxford University</div><div>Robert J. Gordon Y Y Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Department of Economics, Northwestern University</div><div>William A. Galston Y Y former Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy, President William Clinton</div><div>Chad P. Bown Y Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics</div><div>Kevin A. Hassett Y Y Y Y Y Director of Economic Policy, American Enterprise Institute</div><div>Allan H. Meltzer Y Y Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>James A. Baker, III Y Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, Rice University</div><div>Susan G. Baker Y Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, Rice University</div><div>Alan S. Manne Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Professor Emeritus, Operations Research, Stanford University</div><div>Ed Zschau Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard University</div><div>Murray L. Weidenbaum Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Washington University</div><div>Richard L. Schmalensee Y Y Y Y Y Y Gordon Y Billard Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div>Sidney L. Jones Y Y Y former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury</div><div>David F. Bradford Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University</div><div>Lawrence H. Goulder Y Y Y Y Y Y Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University</div><div>Board of Trustees (Center for Policy Research)</div><div>Name 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 2008 Description</div><div>Ernest S. Christian, Jr. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Attorney-at-Law</div><div>Manuel H. Johnson Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y former Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System</div><div>Charls E. Walker Y Y Y Y Y Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury</div><div>Margo Thorning Y Y Y Y Y Senior Economic Policy Advisor</div><div>Mari Lee Dunn Y Y Y Y Y Senior Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Mark A. Bloomfield Y Y Y Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council for Capital Formation</div><div>Josephine S. Cooper Y Y President and Chief Executive Officer, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</div><div>Maxine C. Champion Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Vice-President, Government and International Relations, Nestle USA, Inc.</div><div>Thomas D. Campbell Y Y Y Y Y Y Y President, Thomas D. Campbell & Associates</div><div>Larry W. Pollock Y Y Y Y Y Y Vice-President and Director of Taxes, Weyerhaeuser Company</div><div>Paul R. Huard Y Y Y Y Y Senior Vice-President, Policy and Communications, National Association of Manufacturers</div><div>Rudolph G. Penner Y Y Y Y Y former Director Congressional Budget Office</div><div>George N. Carlson Y Y Y Partner, Arthur Andersen & Co.</div><div>Kathleen B. Cooper Y Y Y Chief Economist, Exxon Corporation</div><div>Thomas White Y Y Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Enron Ventures Corp.</div><div>John P. Renshaw Y Y  </div><div>Theodore R. Eck Y Y Chief Economist, Amoco Corporation</div><div>Norman B. Ture Y President, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation</div><div>----</div></div><div>
</div><div><h3 id="h-actions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">actions</h3>September 25, 2019The ACCF claimed that a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190926224339/https://www.insidesources.com/climate-change-not-a-top-priority-new-poll-finds/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">new poll</a> it conducted in collaboration with Morning Consult proved that Americans do not view climate change as a top political priority, and that they distrust government to solve the problem. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s25" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[25]</a>When respondents were asked if they were willing to pay more in taxes, transportation, food, and electricity costs to fund a “complete shift to renewable energy,” most responded unfavorably. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s25" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[25]</a>Eighty-one percent of those polled, however, reported feeling “worried” about the environment, while 57% felt that climate change was caused by human activity. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s25" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[25]</a>January 2016Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211201303/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/major-new-iowa-statewide-tv-ad-buy-shines-spotlight-on-corn-ethanols-environmental-toll-300209120.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">ACCF sponsored an ad portraying ethanol as an unclean fuel</a>, and opposing an ethanol mandate policy: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[18</a>[vid]aCCF Executive Vice President <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211202652/http://www.telegram.com/article/20160124/OPINION/160129617" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">George David Banks also denounces corn in the Telegram</a>: “As we hear more about the Renewable Fuel Standard this primary season, it’s important to keep in mind the reality of the corn ethanol mandate: less energy, higher costs and more emissions. And if that sounds like a bad deal, well, that’s because it is.”<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s19" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [19]</a>August 30, 2015ACCF‘s Senior Economic Policy Advisor Margo Thorning wrote an <a href="https://web.archive.org/save/http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/end-ban-on-oil-exports-boost-state-s-economy-1.1934535" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Op-Ed article in The Times-Tribune advocating for an end to oil export bans</a>: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[20]</a><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Allowing the exportation of crude oil will only further incentivize production and drive the Pennsylvania economy for decades to come,” Thorning writes.</blockquote>December 14, 2011   ACCF‘s Senior Vice President and Chief Economist<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=359" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> Margo Thorning </a>testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160211185517/http://accf.org/clean-energy-tax-incentives-what-role-should-government-play/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">on the role of government in clean energy subsidies</a>. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[21]</a>Thorning concludes that clean energy industries including those associated with wind, solar power, biofuel and ethanol are “not essential for U.S. economic and job growth and they are unlikely to provide benefits commensurate with their costs.”According to Thorning, “increased access to domestic onshore and offshore oil and gas reserves, including shale gas, could strongly boost U.S. economic recovery, manufacturing and job growth as well as increasing energy security.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[21]</a>March 2008The ACCF‘s Vice President, Margo Thorning, teamed up with the <a href="http://www.nam.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">National Association of Manufacturers</a>, the <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">US Chamber of Commerce</a> and a think tank called the <a href="http://www.yourenergyfuture.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth,</a> to conduct a four-State speaking tour to discredit the proposed America’s Climate Security Act authored by US Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s22" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[22]</a>2009According to Greenpeace, ACCF has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers to <a href="http://accf.org/accfnam-study-on-waxman-markey-bill/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">produce and disseminate</a> “distorted economic analyses that overstate the costs of climate legislation.” The group has also been prominently featured at <a href="http://www.yourenergyfuture.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">US Chamber of Commerce-organized forums</a> on climate. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[12]</a>The ACCF/NAM studies have been <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ljohnson/namaccf_distorting_their_own_d.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">debunked</a> more than once. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[5]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; line-height: 17.6px;">[6]</a><h2 id="h-american-council-for-capital-formation-contact-location" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Council for Capital Formation Contact & Location</h2>As of June 2016, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160629010220/http://accf.org/contact/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) listed the following contact information</a> on its website: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s24" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[24]</a><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Council for Capital Formation 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 620 Washington, DC 20036 Email: <a href="mailto:info@accf.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">info@accf.org</a> Phone: (202) 293-5811 Fax: (202) 785-8165</blockquote><h2 id="h-related-organizations" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related Organizations</h2><h3 id="h-accf-association-council" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ACCF Association Council</h3>The ACCF previously listed an “Association Council” of organizations on its website:<figure class="wp-block-table" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-x: scroll; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table style="background-color: transparent; width: 860px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">ACCF Association Council Member</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041203192642/http://www.accf.org/programs/assoc-council.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">2004</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050414093615/http://www.accf.org:80/programs/assoc-council.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">2005</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080511144433/http://www.accf.org/programs/assoc-council.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">2008</a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Advanced Medical Technology Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_of_Automobile_Manufacturers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Benefits Council</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">American Business Conference</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Chemistry Council</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Farm_Bureau_Federation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Farm Bureau Federation</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Forest_and_Paper_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Forest & Paper Association</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Gas_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Gas Association</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Gear Manufacturers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-petroleum-institute" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">American Wholesale Marketers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Associated Equipment Distributors</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edison_Electric_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Edison Electric Institute</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Equipment Leasing Association of America</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Family Company Group</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Financial_Services_Roundtable" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Financial Services Roundtable</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Futures Industry Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grocery_Manufacturers_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc.</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Investment_Company_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Investment Company Institute</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Metals Service Center Institute</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Manufacturers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">National Association of Manufacturers</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">National Beer Wholesalers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">National Electrical Contractors Association, Inc.</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">National Marine Manufacturers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newspaper_Association_of_America" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Newspaper Association of America</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Nuclear Energy Institute</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Portland Cement Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Rubber Manufacturers Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Securities Industry Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Small Business & Entrepreneurial Council</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Small Business Survival Committee</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The Aluminum Association, Inc.</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">The Ohio Society of CPAs</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Real Estate Roundtable</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Y</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Uniform & Textile Service Association</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);">Y</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 15px; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);"> </td></tr></tbody></table></figure><h3 id="h-other-affiliations" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Affiliations</h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">In August 2002, ACCF established its International affiliate, the<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=117" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> International Council for Capital Formation</a>, of which <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120309215143/http://www.iccfglobal.org/pdf/ICCFbrochure1.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Margo Thorning is the Managing Director</a>. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-council-for-capital-formation/#s23" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[23]</a></li></ul>Hoover Institution  A number of individuals associated with the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) are also affiliated with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hoover_Institution_on_War,Revolution_and_Peace" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Hoover Institution</a>, a public policy think tank located at Stanford University focusing on conservative and libertarian ideas.Below are some examples:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183033/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/richard-w-rahn" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Richard W. Rahn</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/donald-l-lucas" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Donald L. Lucas</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/gerald-parsky" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Gerald L. Parsky</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/george-p-shultz" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">George P. Shultz</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/michael-j-boskin" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Michael Boskin</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-b-taylor" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John Taylor</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/allan-h-meltzer" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Allan H. Meltzer</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/jagdish-bhagwati" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Jagdish Bhagwati</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/edward-prescott" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Edward C. Prescott</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/james-m-poterba" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">James Poterba</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/douglas-holtz-eakin" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Douglas Holtz-Eakin</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183055/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-shoven" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John B. Shoven</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/r-glenn-hubbard" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">R. Glenn Hubbard</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/michael-j-boskin" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Michael J. Boskin</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183055/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/robert-e-hall" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Robert E. Hall</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183056/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/kevin-hassett" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Kevin A. Hassett</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/r-glenn-hubbard" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">R. Glenn Hubbard</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183055/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/charles-e-mclure-jr" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Charles McLure, Jr.</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/allan-h-meltzer" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Allan H. Meltzer</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183054/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/james-m-poterba" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">James M. Poterba</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/edward-prescott" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Edward C. Prescott</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183055/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-shoven" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John B. Shoven</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160211183053/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-b-taylor" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">John B. Taylor</a></li></ul><h2 id="h-social-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Social Media</h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ACCFmedia" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">@ACCFmedia</a> on Twitter</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">“<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ACCFDC/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Council for Capital Formation</a>” on Facebook.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">“<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/us-council-for-capital-formation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Council for Capital Formation</a>” on LinkedIn.</li></ul><h2 id="h-resources" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resources</h2></div><div>...</div><h1><div style=""><div style="font-weight: 400;">=</div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-appointees-pledged-not-to-lobby-after-they-leave-now-lobbying">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-appointees-pledged-not-to-lobby-after-they-leave-now-lobbying</a></div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Trump’s Appointees Pledged Not to Lobby After They Leave. Now They’re Lobbying.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Despite agreeing to five-year bans, at least six former administration officials are registered lobbyists and others are doing similar work without registering.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski May 3, 3:07 p.m. EDT</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Days after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring every political appointee to sign a pledge as a condition of taking office. The appointees agreed not to lobby the agencies they had worked in for five years after they left government service. Nor would they lobby anyone in the White House or political appointees across federal agencies for the duration of the Trump administration.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">But never doubt the ingenuity of the Washington swamp class. At least eight former Trump officials have found ways around the so-called ethics pledge.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Using staffing lists compiled for ProPublica’s Trump Town, the first exhaustive database of current political appointees, we found at least 184 people who have left the Trump administration. Of those, at least six former officials are now registered lobbyists and several others work at firms in roles that resemble lobbying in all but name.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Tracking White House staffers, Cabinet members and political appointees across the government</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Their techniques vary from the bureaucratic to the audacious: Some former officials are tiptoeing around the rules by not registering as lobbyists or by exploiting loopholes. Others obtained special waivers allowing them to go back to lobbying. And at least one never signed the pledge at all.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Needless to say, roundtrip traffic between lobbying and government has long been endemic in Washington. The Obama administration, despite campaign promises to the contrary, hired dozens of previously registered lobbyists and many officials returned to K Street firms afterward. “The revolving door is a persistent feature of Washington if you work in an administration and you develop some expertise over an area of policymaking,” said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow who studies lobbying at New America, a left-leaning Washington think tank. “There’s a high demand for someone with your knowledge and connections.”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Candidate Trump famously vowed to put an end to such D.C. practices by “draining the swamp.” Indeed, in some respects, the Trump administration’s ethics pledge is tougher than those in place under Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Trump’s version expanded the prohibition from lobbying to what his executive order called “lobbying activities” after people leave government. This was intended to stop former officials not only from communicating directly with government officials but also from helping other lobbyists do that.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">The goal, as Trump put it at a Wisconsin campaign rally in October 2016, was to “expand the definition of ‘lobbyist’ so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants, advisers, all of these different things, and they get away with murder.”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Violating the pledge exposes former officials to possible extended bans on lobbying, civil proceedings or fines, or being barred from lobbying entirely.   </div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Paradoxically, experts warn that tougher enforcement could be spurring the growth of “shadow” lobbyists. That’s the term for those whose tasks look much like lobbying but which they label, say, “strategic consulting.” It also applies to those who don’t meet the legal threshold requiring them to formally register as lobbyists. According to the Lobbying Disclosure Act, a lobbyist must register if he or she spends “20 percent or more of his or her time in services for [a] client over any three-month period.”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">THE TRUMP ETHICS PLEDGE (p. 1)</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Selected portion of a source document hosted by DocumentCloud</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump Ethics Pledge stipulates that former appointees can't lobby their old agencies or political appointees across federal agencies for the rest of the Trump administration.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">View the entire document with DocumentCloud</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">But calculating that 20 percent can get mushy. “A former senior official who is now a non-lobbyist lobbyist can send a text and have it returned immediately. How do you count that against the 20 percent threshold? What is the disclosure? How do you decide how to bill for that?” said Sam Geduldig, a partner at CGCN Group, a Republican lobbying firm in Washington.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Even pinning down what constitutes lobbying — compared to, for example, advising — can be tricky. “Of course there is an incentive” for would-be lobbyists not to register, said Paul Miller, a former president of the industry trade group, American League of Lobbyists. “It’s not by coincidence that the new [lobbyists] aren’t registered and the ones who were registered are de-registering because they think they no longer meet the threshold.”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">The result is that the Trump pledge is less impregnable than it might seem. Here’s how some of the president’s former appointees dodged the restrictions:</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Route 1: The “Non-Lobbyist Lobbyist”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Shadow lobbying typically takes two forms, experts say. The first: Those who spend 20 percent or less of their time on lobbying and, because of the legal threshold instituted during the Obama administration, don’t have to register as lobbyists.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Take the example of former White House environmental policy adviser George David Banks. Before spending a year that ended early in 2018 at the White House, Banks was an executive vice president at the American Council for Capital Formation, where he lobbied on environmental, tax and regulatory issues. And before that, Banks represented a number of utilities and energy trade groups, advocating for nuclear energy and lobbying on clean power legislation.</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">George David Banks</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="">Banks resigned from his White House position this February; Politico quoted him saying he was denied a permanent security clearance over admitted marijuana use in 2013. The next month, Banks resumed his previous post at the American Council for Capital Formation, but has not re-registered as a lobbyist. In an interview with E&E News shortly after his resignation, Banks was quoted joking that “going back to be a full-time swamp creature is certainly an attractive option.”</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="font-weight: 400;">Banks’ previous registration was a mistake, countered Mike Burita, a spokesman for the council. He told ProPublica that Banks’ earlier activity didn’t meet the legal threshold to register as a lobbyist because he spent “little to no time” on the Hill. Banks did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comment.</div></div></div></h1><h1>=</h1><h1>Case Study: Koch Organizations Instrumental in Dissemination of ACCF/NAM Claims</h1>

<div>The Koch web is playing a role in promoting studies that exaggerate the costs of climate policy. In 2008, the Koch-web-funded American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF) teamed up with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) to sponsor and disseminate a study of the economic impact of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. Every step of the way, Koch-funded anti-clean energy groups played a key role in moving the NAM/ACCF study in the media and at the grassroots level.</div>

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<li>ACCF funded and co-released the study with NAM.</li>

<li>ACCF disseminated the results in presentations at over a dozen <a href="http://www.yourenergyfuture.org/" target="blank">"Climate Dialogues"</a> organized by the U.S. Chamber's <a href="http://www.fightcleanenergysmears.org/behind_the_smears.cfm#aeeg" target="blank">Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG)</a>.  </li>

<li>The AEEG "climate dialogues" involved other organizations funded through the Koch web, including:

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<li>The <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/the-heritage-foundation/" title="Greenpeace Koch Industries Heritage Foundation" target="blank">Heritage Foundation</a> which provided <a href="http://www.michamber.com/mx/climatechange" target="blank">speakers for some events</a>;  </li>

<li>Frontiers of Freedom staff and scholars <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/history-background-research-alliance-energy-economic-growth" target="_blank">participated</a> in some of the dialogues.</li>

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<div class="tags"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/case-study-koch-organizations/">http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/case-study-koch-organizations/</a></div>

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">American Council for Capital Formation</h1>

American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">think tank</a> that prides itself on "economic growth through sound tax, regulatory, and environmental policies." ACCF is a very influential in Washington D.C. with ACCF's President Mark Bloomfield as being, "one of the most influential figures operating behind the scenes in the Congress," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Novak" title="Robert Novak">Robert Novak</a>, 1997.

ACCF has a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> perspective of economic policy and favors policies that favor big business. ACCF's <a href="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" class="external text" title="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" rel="nofollow">Officers and Board of Directors</a> included former high-ranking politicians (predominantly Republican) in the U.S. government along with representatives of industry associations, including individuals from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Petroleum_Institute" title="American Petroleum Institute">American Petroleum Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Principal_Financial_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Principal Financial Group (page does not exist)">Principal Financial Group</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council">American Chemistry Council</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Farm_Bureau_Federation" title="American Farm Bureau Federation">American Farm Bureau Federation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Business_Conference&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Business Conference (page does not exist)">American Business Conference</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Forest_%26_Paper_Association" title="American Forest & Paper Association" class="mw-redirect">American Forest & Paper Association</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edison_Electric_Institute" title="Edison Electric Institute">Edison Electric Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Association" title="National Rural Electric Cooperative Association">National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</a> and other pro-industry <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trade_association" title="Trade association" class="mw-redirect">trade associations</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Corporation" title="Corporation">corporations</a>. Individuals from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution" class="mw-redirect">Hoover Institution</a> are members of ACCF's Board of Scholars.

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#Board">1 Board</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#External_links">3 External links</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#Related_Sourcewatch">4.1 Related Sourcewatch</a></li>

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Accessed May 2010: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Archer" title="Bill Archer" class="mw-redirect">Bill Archer</a> - former Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee as Republican congressman from Texas for 30 years.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_A._Bloomfield" title="Mark A. Bloomfield">Mark A. Bloomfield</a> - President and CEO, American Council for Capital Formation and host of the blog, www.MrCapitalGains.com</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Red_Cavaney" title="Red Cavaney">Red Cavaney</a> - former President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute, founder of American Plastics Council and current SVP at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ConocoPhillips" title="ConocoPhillips">ConocoPhillips</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_M._Duberstein" title="Kenneth M. Duberstein">Kenneth M. Duberstein</a> - former Chief of Staff to President Reagan and chairman of the Duberstein Group</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler" title="John Engler">John Engler</a> - President and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Glenn_English&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glenn English (page does not exist)">Glenn English</a> - CEO, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_W._Galvin" title="Robert W. Galvin">Robert W. Galvin</a> - Chairman Emeritus, Motorola, Inc.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_H._Gray_III" title="William H. Gray III">William H. Gray III</a> - former Chairman, House Committee on the Budget and Democratic Majority Whip, now chairman of lobbyist group, Gray Loeffler, LLC</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donna_A._Harman" title="Donna A. Harman">Donna A. Harman</a> - President and CEO, American Forest & Paper Association</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=M._Christine_Jacobs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. Christine Jacobs (page does not exist)">M. Christine Jacobs</a> - Chairman, President and CEO, Theragenics Corporation</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_R._Jones" title="James R. Jones">James R. Jones</a> - former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Congressman from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma" class="mw-redirect">Oklahoma</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Kolbe" title="Jim Kolbe">Jim Kolbe</a> - former Republican congressional representative for Arizona, from 1985 to 2007</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_R._Kuhn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas R. Kuhn (page does not exist)">Thomas R. Kuhn</a> - President, Edison Electric Institute</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_L._Lucas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald L. Lucas (page does not exist)">Donald L. Lucas</a> - Venture Capitalist and former owner of the automotive dealership Lucas Dealership Group</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederic_V._Malek" title="Frederic V. Malek">Frederic V. Malek</a> - Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners, L.P. and Republican politician most recently serving as co-Finance chair for the McCain campaign</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dave_McCurdy" title="Dave McCurdy">Dave McCurdy</a> - President, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and former conservative Democratic congressman from Oklahoma</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_J._McDonough" title="William J. McDonough">William J. McDonough</a> - Vice Chairman & Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kyle_E._McSlarrow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kyle E. McSlarrow (page does not exist)">Kyle E. McSlarrow</a> - President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Nickles" title="Don Nickles">Don Nickles</a> - former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Budget and Republican U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_G._Oxley" title="Michael G. Oxley" class="mw-redirect">Michael G. Oxley</a> - former Republican Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services as a congressman from Ohio</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gerald_L._Parsky" title="Gerald L. Parsky">Gerald L. Parsky</a> - Chairman, Aurora Capital Group and Republican politician who has served all 5 US presidents since Richard Nixon</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_W._Rahn" title="Richard W. Rahn">Richard W. Rahn</a> - Chairman, Novecon and on Board of Directors of the taxfree offshore financial center, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority from 2002-2008</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Rehr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Rehr (page does not exist)">David Rehr</a> - President and CEO, National Association of Broadcasters</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_D._Ruckelshaus" title="William D. Ruckelshaus">William D. Ruckelshaus</a> - former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Nixon and Reagan administrations</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_P._Shultz" title="George P. Shultz">George P. Shultz</a> - former Secretary of State in the Reagan administration</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_W._Stenholm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles W. Stenholm (page does not exist)">Charles W. Stenholm</a> - former Member of Congress as a conservative Democrat</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_S._Strauss" title="Robert S. Strauss">Robert S. Strauss</a> - former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, trade negotiator and head of Democratic Party under Jimmy Carter</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Margo_Thorning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margo Thorning (page does not exist)">Margo Thorning</a> - Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, American Council for Capital Formation</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charls_E._Walker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charls E. Walker (page does not exist)">Charls E. Walker</a> - Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_A._Wechsler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steven A. Wechsler (page does not exist)">Steven A. Wechsler</a> - President and CEO, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_A._Weinberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark A. Weinberger (page does not exist)">Mark A. Weinberger</a> - former Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Department of the Treasury</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_C._Whitehead" title="John C. Whitehead">John C. Whitehead</a> - former Deputy Secretary of State in the Reagan adminstration</li>

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<h2>Contact details</h2>

1750 K Street, N.W.

Suite 400

Washington, D.C. 20006

Phone: (202) 293-5811

Fax: (202) 785-8165

Web: <a href="http://www.accf.org" class="external free" title="http://www.accf.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.accf.org</a>

<h2>External links</h2>

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<li>Jonathan Weisman,"<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63037-2003Jan15?language=printer" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63037-2003Jan15?language=printer" rel="nofollow">White House Intensifies Push for Tax Plan</a>", Washington Post, Jan 16, 2003.</li>

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<a name="Resources_and_articles" id="Resources_and_articles">American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)</a><a name="Resources_and_articles">

$215,000 received from Koch foundations 2005–2008

[Total Koch foundation grants 1997–2008: $225,000]

ACCF has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers to produce and disseminate distorted economic

analyses188 that overstate the costs of climate legislation and have been prominently featured at US Chamber of Commerce organized

“forums”189 on climate over the past year. The ACCF/NAM studies have been credibly debunked190 more than once.191

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<h3>Related Sourcewatch</h3>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" class="external text" title="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" rel="nofollow">Directors</a>, American Council for Capital Formation, accessed May 9, 2010.</li>

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