Kyl, Jon Sen

==<div><a href="https://www.republicreport.org/2018/who-kavanaugh-is-really-for-big-corporations/">https://www.republicreport.org/2018/who-kavanaugh-is-really-for-big-corporations/</a>refBrett Kavanaugh now faces a credible charge of sexual assault, as well as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaughs-unlikely-story-about-democrats-stolen-documents/?utm_term=.5ee3cd226b07" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">powerful evidence that he repeatedly lied</a> to the Senate to conceal, among other bad deeds, his improper use of stolen documents as a Bush White House aide. Even religious conservatives and others at the grassroots who have supported Kavanaugh should take this moment to reconsider whether this particularly nominee is worth fighting for. Because, although as a Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh might well vote to advance the social conservative agenda, his real specialty as a judge has been supporting large corporations and harming the interests of American workers and consumers. And the millions of dollars supporting his candidacy are coming from a network of Washington lobbyists and big business interests.Here are some of the key figures in the corporate special interest network that’s aiming to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court:— C. Boyden Gray is the D.C. swamp personified. He’s a corporate lobbyist who was the White House counsel under President George H.W. Bush. He has been a central player in pushing GOP judicial nominees for decades, while also serving the interests of some of America’s wealthiest corporations. Gray published an <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/yes-kavanaugh-hes-a-thorn-to-cronyism-and-big-bureaucracy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">essay</a> this month arguing that Kavanaugh should be confirmed in part because he will protect the rights of small businesses over those of big business and big government. But the argument hardly seems credible coming from Gray, whose own business is based on trading on the relationships he developed as a top Washington insider to advance the interests of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/C.Boyden_Gray" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">clients in the oil and chemical industries</a> and other monied special interests.Gray, a wealthy heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, has served on the board of the corporate-backed legal group the Federalist Society as well as of Citizens for a Sound Economy, a business group that was founded by the billionaire oil and chemical industry Koch brothers and later morphed into the Koch advocacy mega-operation Americans for Prosperity. Gray invited President Trump to his fancy Georgetown home earlier this year for a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/trump-donor-dinner-georgetown.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">dinner with wealthy Republican donors</a>, including other lobbyists and oil and banking executives, as part of efforts to raise $100 million this year, mostly in big donations, to support Trump and GOP candidates.—The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) is the conservative advocacy group that is leading a multi-million dollar public campaign, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/kavanaugh-ad-judicial-crisis-network-826088" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">with heavy TV advertising</a>, to confirm Kavanaugh. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/group-that-spent-millions-to-boost-gorsuch-also-paid-mysterious-inaugural-donor/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">JCN</a> is guided by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secrets-of-leonard-leo-the-man-behind-trumps-supreme-court-pick" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Leonard Leo</a>, who is also the executive vice president of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/brett-kavanaugh-federalist-society-emails/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">the Federalist Society</a>, and the man who has Trump’s ear when it comes to picking judges. The “dark money” JCN doesn’t reveal its donors, but it’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/group-that-spent-millions-to-boost-gorsuch-also-paid-mysterious-inaugural-donor/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">tied</a> to the political network of the Koch brothers, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judicial_Crisis_Network" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Boyden Gray</a>, and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/03/the-jcn-story-building-a-secretive-gop-judicial-machine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">mysterious wealthy contributors</a>. JCN was launched with <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/wellsprings-dark-money-crucial-to-trump-orbit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">seed money from real estate magnate Robin Arkley II</a> — who has made big money foreclosing on the homes of working people.— Jon Kyl was, until recently, a lobbyist at the DC mega law firm Covington & Burling, which has represented big tobacco’s Philip Morris, oil giant BP, retailer Wal-mart, energy and construction titan Halliburton, and other big corporations. Last year, the <a href="https://splinternews.com/trumps-supreme-court-nomination-already-reeks-of-dc-sle-1827456544" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Judicial Crisis Network paid Kyl</a>, who had been a U.S. senator from Arizona, to push the nomination of Trump’s previous Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch. The Trump administration this year hired Kyl to shepherd the Kavanaugh nomination, a role that ended when Arizona’s governor tapped Kyl to return to the Senate to take John McCain’s seat and, presumably, to vote to confirm Kavanaugh for the high court.— Lisa Blatt wrote an article last month entitled, “I’m a Liberal Feminist Lawyer. Here’s Why Democrats Should Support Judge Kavanaugh,” and she introduced Kavanaugh at his Senate hearing. Each time, in vouching for Kavanaugh as a person of integrity and empathy, Blatt stressed her liberal credentials as well as her impressive background as a lawyer who has argued before the Supreme Court more times than any other woman. What Blatt failed to explain is that <a href="https://www.republicreport.org/2018/liberal-democrat-lawyers-backing-kavanaugh-dont-tell-you-they-represent-big-corporations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">she’s a partner at the big DC corporate law firm Arnold & Porter</a>, where she represents giant tobacco and pharmaceutical interests seeking to defeat claims by workers and consumers.We haven’t heard from the feminist Blatt in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during high school, but a group of D.C. Republican women have spoken out on his behalf. As <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/19/republicans-on-k-street-kavanaugh-830722?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000159-6479-d08b-ad7f-7cfbb17b0000&nlid=630318" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Politico reports</a>, there are a lot of lobbyists for big corporations, like Dow Chemical and Citigroup, in this band of women for Kavanaugh.—The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is running a <a href="https://www.republicreport.org/2018/republican-attorneys-general-use-corporate-cash-to-lobby-for-kavanaugh/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">“Confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh!” campaign</a> on its website. State attorneys general frequently represent their states before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the concept of a group of them lobbying for their own Supreme Court justice is ethically concerning. But it’s worse when you consider that RAGA’s activities are funded by big corporations. RAGA’s biggest donor — providing $2.9 million in 2017 and $1.7 million already in 2018 — is the Judicial Crisis Network. It also gets money from numerous large corporations including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Monsanto, Facebook, Altria, Coca Cola, Wal-Mart, Mastercard, Johnson and Johnson, UPS, and Murray Energy, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Rifle Association (<a href="http://documentedinvestigations.org/2018/02/26/nra-second-highest-donor-republican-attorneys-general-association-2017/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">RAGA’s second largest donor in 2017</a>).— The Ethics and Public Policy Center is a Washington think tank whose president, Edward Whelan, briefly shook up the Kavanaugh debate Thursday night when he played Twitter Sherlock Holmes and accused a Kavanaugh classmate by name as the possible assaulter — only to delete his thread and apologize the next morning for “an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment.” Whelan is a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-ally-says-he-did-not-communicate-with-white-house-or-supreme-court-nominee-about-theory-of-another-attacker/2018/09/21/88335f1a-bdaa-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html?utm_term=.0d1ebbc5ed1a" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">close friend of Leonard Leo and of Brett Kavanaugh</a>, with whom he worked in the George W. Bush White House. In devising this Twitter rollout, Whelan was <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/21/ed-whelan-kavanaugh-tweets-pr-firm-836405" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">advised by the big DC PR firm CRC Public Relations</a>; CRC’s <a href="http://www.crcpublicrelations.com/Clients.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">clients</a> include the Judicial Crisis Network (<a href="https://twitter.com/NickSurgey/status/1043327986970386433" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">$3 million from JCN to CRC in 2016</a>), the Federalist Society, and the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, as well as <a href="http://www.crcpublicrelations.com/Casestudies.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">corporations</a> including Chevron, Visa, and Microsoft. [UPDATE 09-22-18 11:30 am: Garrett Ventry, a Grassley Judiciary Committee communications aide on leave from CRC, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">resigned this morning</a> after it was reported that he left his previous job amid a charge of sexual harassment.] The Ethics and Public Policy Center has received <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ethics_and_Public_Policy_Center" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">funding</a> from the family foundations of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers as well as other wealthy interests.Why are all these corporations and swampy DC lobbyists fighting so hard for Brett Kavanaugh? They have important interests, every year, in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court — cases that decide whether companies can bust unions and discriminate against workers, whether banks must treat customers honestly, whether companies must treat investors fairly, whether big tech companies can charge tolls to use the Internet and can spy on customers, whether predatory for-profit colleges can get away with deceiving students, whether makers of defective products and dangerous pharmaceutical can get away with harming consumers, and whether companies can create monopolies that allow them to control markets and jack up prices.While a range of Americans are focused on the impact of a five-justice conservative bloc on issues like civil rights, reproductive choice, and other political values, perhaps the most powerful and unifying feature of such a bloc would be its deference to the interests of big business over workers and consumers.Brett Kavanaugh’s <a href="https://www.chamberofcommercewatch.org/judge-kavanaugh-business-decisions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">record</a> as a <a href="https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/kavanaugh-first-amendment-08-29-2018.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">judge</a> on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit <a href="https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/us-court-appeals-kavanaugh-sided-corporations-87-percent-time-split-decisions" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">shows</a> that he has usually sided with big business interests — like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute — in cases involving protection of labor, consumers, health, safety, and the environment.That’s why big money and big corporations want so badly to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, despite enormous questions about his honesty and integrity.=</div>=www.washingtonpost.com › technology › 2019/08/20 › facebook-make...Facebook releases anti-conservative-bias report authored by ...Aug 20, 2019 - Facebook makes small tweaks after anti-conservative-bias report. ... 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For example, it notes that Facebook plans to create an oversight board to ...Missing: , hired ?| Must include: , hired=<div>=</div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7865562408camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;">Facebook's "right-wing bias" report is gaslighting all of us</h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7865562408camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" /></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv7865562408stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv7865562408camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><div style="line-height: 31px;">This week, Facebook released a report in relation to claims of anti-conservative bias on the platform. Both the report and a subsequent WSJ op-ed were authored by for former Republican Sen. Jon Kyl. There was no real evidence of conservative bias on the platform, because it doesn’t exist.The majority of complaints from conservatives derive from specific instances of content restrictions that can often be explained away by technical limitations, algorithm changes, or terms and conditions of the platform. We have looked into this in great detail with a <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f4f191a8d9da2f934afdb819046e64b0dddff82e33d26ca5400a79ed03a142f71f17fd632017384feebece1f95021dc77f1878c0cbbaed0f" title="series of studies">series of studies</a> on hundreds of Facebook pages dating back to 2018, and there is no evidence to suggest there is bias or censorship on the platform. In fact, some data suggests that right-wing media outlets outperform mainstream and left-leaning outlets on topics like <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f4f191a8d9da2f93a8f4b0d294a3b41a03ea49616e2eefca51db5c084ef8a01720a09d406777473668825c5873ee1fb9e2beb4625afeb0a0" title="abortion">abortion</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f4f191a8d9da2f93c5c10278cd776d981c1b66dc8854a8d78c68abf2da5e6fe17b991838db4ad4e86d667fdc6154bb45a6463305a221c17b" title="immigration">immigration</a>.However, as we have <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=f4f191a8d9da2f93d0a39de68c701de58cae81f436cda99d9f94a308faa58fb70da69737a3e1b4e62ba0e0630b13cfe2f0c6957801a0c098" title="documented">noted</a>, eliminating anti-conservative bias on Facebook is not the true objective here. It is simply another effort to work the refs. For decades, conservatives have used the same tactic with national newspapers and broadcast networks, all to push a narrative about conservatives that is not actually true; that conservatives are the victims. Facebook’s capitulation to right-wing figures not only allows them to be overrepresented on the platform, but also trivializes the real issues that exist in the tech industry.As Media Matters President Angelo Carusone said, “Facebook’s impulse to appease right-wing cries of bias, despite all evidence to the contrary, is yet again putting Facebook in a position where it'll be amplifying lies and enabling extremists, white supremacists, and Proud Boys at the expense of American democracy and with great risk to our safety.”</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div></div>Jon Llewellyn Kyl, a <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republican</a>, has represented <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_Arizona" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Arizona">Arizona</a> in the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate">United States Senate</a> since 1994.---<h2 class="Card-title" style="line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 0.35294em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: normal;" open="Open" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" oxygen="Oxygen" ubuntu="Ubuntu" cantarell="Cantarell" fira="Fira" droid="Droid" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/revolving-career-of-jon-kyl/" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; position: relative; z-index: 1;">revolving career of Jon Kyl</a></h2><div class="Card-meta" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.41176rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" open="Open" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" oxygen="Oxygen" ubuntu="Ubuntu" cantarell="Cantarell" fira="Fira" droid="Droid" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span class="Card-meta-item" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0.47059rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0.47059rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold; float: left; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/author/kwashburn/" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; position: relative; z-index: 1;">By Kaitlin Washburn</a>December 14, 2018 </div><div class="Card-description" style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" open="Open" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" oxygen="Oxygen" ubuntu="Ubuntu" cantarell="Cantarell" fira="Fira" droid="Droid" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Kyl, who will leave his seat Dec. 31, has had a decorated career in both Congress and the lobbying world.</div>F<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://rawstory.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80b42ecc21f29763320aceb90&id=7aa81d86b8&e=4da1f92934" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">ormer Senator Jon Kyle Has Been Named McCain's Replacement — And He Was Kavanaugh's 'Sherpa' Through Confirmation Process</a>By Laura Clawson, Daily Kos<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=77747">https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=77747</a>Conservative <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00006406&cycle=2012" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)</a> has gone 360 degrees through the revolving door with his decision to join top-earning lobbying firm <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021942&year=2012" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Covington & Burling</a> upon his retirement from the Senate. Kyl began his career as a lawyer and lobbyist for the Arizona firm Jennings, Strouss & Salmon decades before he became Senate minority whip, that body's second-ranking Republican.The son of former Rep. John Henry Kyl (R-Iowa), the younger Kyl grew up in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to attend college at the University of Arizona in 1960. He first won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1987 and served until 1995 before beginning his 18-year Senate career. Kyl was ranked the fourth most conservative senator by National Journal in 2007 and has been an <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/08/jon-kyl/jon-kyl-says-abortion-services-are-well-over-90-pe/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">outspoken critic</a> of <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000591&year=2012" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Planned Parenthood</a> and the <a href="http://goo.gl/AL2Kf" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Affordable Care Act</a>. He is also known as an advocate of tougher immigration laws, and signed Grover Norquist's <a href="http://www.nolabels.org/pledges-signed-senators" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Taxpayer Protection Pledge</a>.<div id="toggleText" style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(210, 209, 214); border-bottom-color: rgb(210, 209, 214); border-left-color: rgb(210, 209, 214); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; padding: 20px; width: 531.516px; margin-bottom: 20px;">Kyl occupied many different leadership positions during his tenure on Capitol Hill, including senior roles on the Senate <a href="http://goo.gl/YvTN1" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Finance</a> and <a href="http://goo.gl/MtRCW" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Judiciary Committees</a>. He was named one of the top 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 by <a href="http://goo.gl/AMMA6" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Time Magazine</a>. In his post-Senate career, Kyl has already been named a <a href="http://www.aei.org/scholar/jon-kyl/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">visiting fellow</a> at the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000031480" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a> and a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/06/fox-hires-jon-kyl-former-republican-senator-tur/192933" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">contributor</a> to <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021224" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fox News</a>.In a <a href="http://www.cov.com/news/detail.aspx?news=1858" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">statement</a> on its website, Covington & Burling cited Kyl's "encyclopedic" legislative knowledge and said he's respected on both sides of the aisle. He is expected to work mostly on expanding Covington's global public policy practice, according to the firm. As a former senator, Kyl will have to wait two years before he may lobby his former colleagues in Congress, but, as he emphasized in an <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/03/06/former-sen-jon-kyl-joins-covington-burling/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">interview</a> with the Wall Street Journal's law blog, he is "not prohibited from giving them his best advice."
Updated January 2015</div><table class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 574px;"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Period</th><th class="left" style="padding: 3px; text-align: left; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Employer</th><th class="left" style="padding: 3px; text-align: left; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Title</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Additional Info</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr align="left"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2018-</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">US Senate
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?agency=US+Senate&id=LASEN" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">166</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Member</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_lob.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/agencysum.php?id=001" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Agency lobbying profile</a></td></tr><tr align="left" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2013-2018</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">American Enterprise Institute
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?priv=American+Enterprise+Institute" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">45</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Co-Chair, American Internationalism</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_org.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000031480" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Major Donor profile</a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2013-2018</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Covington & Burling
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?priv=Covington+%26+Burling" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">126</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Government Affairs</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_lob.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021942&year=2018" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Firm lobbying profile</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_org.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021942" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Major Donor profile</a></td></tr><tr align="left" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2007-2012</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Senate Minority Whip
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?agency=Senate+Minority+Whip&id=LASEN0107" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">9</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;" /><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" /></tr><tr align="left"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1995-2012</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">US Senate
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?agency=US+Senate&id=LASEN" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">166</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Member</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_lob.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/agencysum.php?id=001" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Agency lobbying profile</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_org.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000496" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Major Donor profile</a></td></tr><tr align="left" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1986-1994</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">US House of Representatives
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?agency=US+House+of+Representatives&id=LAHOU" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">559</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Member</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_lob.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/agencysum.php?id=002" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Agency lobbying profile</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_org.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000412" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Major Donor profile</a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="center" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1966-1986</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Jennings, Strouss & Salmon
Revolving Door Personnel: (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.php?priv=Jennings%2C+Strouss+%26+Salmon" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">1</a>)</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Attorney</td><td class="center" nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/link_org.gif" border="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 10px;" /><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000026767" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Major Donor profile</a></td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td colspan="4" style="padding: 10px 5px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/key_lob.gif" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> Lobbying Firm    <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/key_priv.gif" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> Private Sector    <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/key_gov.gif" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> Federal Govt.    <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/revolving/img/key_sta.gif" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> State/Local Govt.</td></tr></tfoot></table><table class="datadisplay" id="lobbyist_summary" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 40px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; width: 574px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021942&year=a" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Covington & Burling</a></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046855&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">American Automotive Policy Council</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046905&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">American Council on Education</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000042510&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Anheuser-Busch InBev</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000032432&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Celgene Corp</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F204958&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Coalition for American Retirement</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021995&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Freeport-McMoRan</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000034015&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Georgetown University</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F192918&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Graham, Donald E</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022016&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">H&R Block</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000026924&year=a" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Judicial Crisis Network</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F210611&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">JW Aluminum</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000275&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Merck & Co</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000170&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Northrop Grumman</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000504&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000794&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Qualcomm Inc</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000175&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Raytheon Co</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000043247&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">SAP SE</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F227444&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Sondland, Gordon</a>
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F227546&year=a" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Wal-Mart Stores</a></td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style="list-style" none="none"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(" images="images" list-bullet.png="list-bullet.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" px="px">Visiting Fellow - American Enterprise Institute</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(" images="images" list-bullet.png="list-bullet.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" px="px">Distinguished Fellow in Public Service - College of Public Programs, Arizona State University</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(" images="images" list-bullet.png="list-bullet.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" px="px">Distinguished Scholar - Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University</li></ul>5. Becky Norton Dunlop
Another conservative linked to the Heritage Foundation, Dunlop started her political career in the White House under Reagan.She has met Helmer several times, including at the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe in November 2016 and the Jerusalem Leaders’ Summit a year earlier.She is currently working in Trump’s transition team as deputy to Ed Feulner, who is understood to be assembling lists of recommendations for appointments in the next cabinet.
6. Jon Kyl
Now a lobbyist for an international law firm, Kyl was a senator in Arizona for 18 years, and was ranked in 2007 as the fourth-most conservative senator in the US.He met Helmer in 2008 when they both addressed a reception at the Margaret Thatcher Centre in Washington, DC, which is also part of the Heritage Foundation.Kyl may be on the verge of joining politics again, as he is one of the potential picks for defence secretary in Trump’s government.lcv green grade 7 of 100--
<h2 class="ruleAbove" style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Campaign Cmte Fundraising, 2007 - 2012</h2><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px;"><table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 549px; border: 0px;"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="flatTableTitleA" style="font-weight: bold; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Raised:</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="15" width="150" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $1,194,360</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img class="crpSpark" src="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/drawSpark.php?a=1194360&y=2012&c=S&m=y&t=r" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle;" /> <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/sparklines_pop.php" style="background: transparent; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/icon_help_white.gif" border="0" alt="Sparklines Explanation coming soon" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="flatTableTitleB" style="font-weight: bold; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Spent:</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="15" width="138" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $1,094,550</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img class="crpSpark" src="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/drawSpark.php?a=1094550&y=2012&c=S&m=y&t=s" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle;" /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="flatTableTitleA" style="font-weight: bold; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Cash on Hand:</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="15" width="65" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $512,807</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img class="crpSpark" src="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/drawSpark.php?a=512807&y=2012&c=S&m=y&t=c" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="flatTableTitleB" style="font-weight: bold; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Debts:</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="15" width="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /> $0</td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><img class="crpSpark" src="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/drawSpark.php?a=0&y=2012&c=S&m=y&t=d" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle;" /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="flatTableTitleA" style="font-weight: bold; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Last Report:</td><td colspan="2" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Friday, September 30, 2011</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="contentBlockSeparator" style="background-color: rgb(34, 43, 74); width: 574px; height: 8px; clear: both; margin: 10px 0px;"><div class="headerWithIcons"><a name="cont" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><a name="cont" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Top 5 Contributors, 2007 - 2012, Campaign Cmte</a></h2></div><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px;"><table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 549px;"><thead><tr><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Contributor</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Citigroup Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$25,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$5,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">KKR & Co</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">McKesson Corp</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$20,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">American Express</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$10,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$10,000</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">US Oncology</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$10,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$10,000</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2012&cid=N00006406&type=I&newmem=N" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">...view more data</a></div></div><div class="contentBlockSeparator" style="background-color: rgb(34, 43, 74); width: 574px; height: 8px; clear: both; margin: 10px 0px;"><div class="headerWithIcons"><a name="ind" style="background-image: initial; 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text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Pharmaceuticals/Health Products</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$59,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$59,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Securities & Investment</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$50,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,900</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$16,500</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Hospitals/Nursing Homes</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$50,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$4,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$46,000</td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Food & Beverage</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$41,644</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$25,644</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$16,000</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;">Health Professionals</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$40,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$7,800</td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$32,500</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=N00006406&type=I&newmem=N" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">...view more data</a></div></div>careerClub for Growth$155,753$152,148$3,605Snell & Wilmer$104,616$104,616$0Viad Corp$100,700$80,700$20,000Pinnacle West Capital$97,495$71,245$26,250Squire Patton Boggs$82,650$77,650$5,000Citigroup Inc$74,350$50,850$23,500Farnsworth Companies$69,885$69,885$0American Airlines Group$67,500$45,750$21,750Tuttle-Click Automotive Group$65,700$65,700$0State of Arizona$63,415$63,415$0Naumann Hobbs Material Handling$57,100$57,100$0Robson Communities$54,800$54,400$400American Bankers Assn$54,533$20,000$34,533Blue Cross/Blue Shield$54,195$24,820$29,375Salt River Project$52,350$19,400$32,950Shamrock Foods$52,049$52,049$0Jennings, Strouss & Salmon$49,105$47,105$2,000American Medical Assn$48,500$2,500$46,000DMB Assoc$45,679$45,679$0Freeport-McMoRan$44,250$39,750$4,500Jon Llewellyn Kyl (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="background: none; text-decoration: none !important;">/ˈkaɪl/</a>; born April 25, 1942)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a> is a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senator</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arizona</a>, where he served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Senate Minority Whip</a>, the second-highest position in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> Senate leadership. He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington%26_Burling" title="Covington & Burling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Covington & Burling</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a>The son of U.S. Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Kyl" title="John Henry Kyl" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Henry Kyl</a>, he was born and raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nebraska</a> and lived for some time in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Iowa</a>. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arizona" title="University of Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Arizona</a>. He worked in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Phoenix, Arizona</a> as a lawyer and lobbyist before winning election to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a>, where he served from 1987 to 1995. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and continued to be re-elected by large margins until his retirement.In 2006, he was recognized by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Time</a> magazine as one of as one of America's Ten Best Senators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Kyl was ranked by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Journal" title="National Journal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Journal</a> in 2007 as the fourth-most conservative U.S. Senator.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> He has been a fixture of Republican policy leadership posts, chairing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Policy_Committee_Chairman_of_the_United_States_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Policy Committee</a> (2003–2007) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Conference_Chairman_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Republican Conference Chairman of the United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Conference</a> (2007). In December 2007 he became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Minority_Whip" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Minority Whip" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Senate Minority Whip</a>. He was named one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100" title="Time 100" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">100 most influential people in the world</a> in 2010, for his persuasive role in the Senate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a>In February 2011, Kyl announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2012 and would retire at the end of his third term,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-politico01-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a> which concluded on January 3, 2013. He expressly ruled out running for further office except, if offered, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vice Presidency</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" id="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Early_life.2C_education_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Early life, education and career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#U.S_House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2U.S House of Representatives</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#U.S.Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3U.S. Senate</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1Committee assignments</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Leadership" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2Leadership</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Political positions</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Crime_victims.27_rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1Crime victims' rights</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Arms_control" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2Arms control</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Internet_gambling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3Internet gambling</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Healthcare" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.4Healthcare</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Other" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.5Other</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5Controversies</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Planned_Parenthood" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.1Planned Parenthood</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#Political_campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6Political campaigns</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Nov 27, 2007 - Ten things you didn't know about Jon Kyl compiled by the U.S. News library staff.</a></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. Kyl was in private practice with the firm of Jennings, Strouss, and Salmon in Phoenix from 1966 to 1986. In 1985, he served on the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.</div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Beginning in 1987, he served four terms in the House of Representatives.<div data-config-distributor-id="90080" id="ndn-video-player-2" class="ndn_embed ndn_embedding ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1" data-config-site-section="ndn1_usnews" data-config-height="9/16w" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 636.656px;"><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Kyl considers Vice President Cheney a role model. Cheney was a party leader when Kyl first went to Congress in 1987, and the new congressman sought out Cheney as a model. Both share the belief that "you don't need to be out front to get things done."<div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 0px; transition: height 0.5s;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="teads-ui-components-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; text-align: center !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; height: 21px !important; line-height: 21px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. Kyl was elected to the Senate in 1994, and again in 2000 and 2006.</div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Kyl reportedly has a reputation as a workhorse in Congress. In 2006, Time magazine named him one of "America's 10 Best Senators." Dubbing him "The Operator," the magazine said: "He had succeeded by mastering a tactic that is crucial in a body in which any one member can bring the place to a halt as a ply or out of pique: subterfuge."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></a></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">First, the GOP filibustered a Democrat-led effort to extend the Bush

tax cuts on only the first $250,000 of income. The party leadership's

hard-line stance – supported by barely a third of all voters – turned

$90 billion over to the wealthiest Americans. It also set a precedent

for further extensions that would cost nearly $1 trillion over the next

decade. At the same time, the GOP drove through a deal that actually raised

taxes for couples who make less than $40,000 a year – and then turned

much of the extra cash over to couples who earn more than $200,000.

Obama agreed to this massive transfer of wealth in order to retain the

Bush tax cuts for the middle class – but the only other significant

thing he got in return was a one-year extension of jobless benefits for

the long-term unemployed.</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">

</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">But even the GOP's big payday for the wealthy pales in comparison to

the handout that Republicans secured by gutting the estate tax. With the

expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the inheritance tax was set to snap

back to its Clinton-era standard: exempting the first $1 million of all

estates from taxation, and stepping up the tax rate on the wealthiest

estates to 55 percent. Instead, Obama agreed to raise the exemption to

$5 million and lower the top tax rate to 35 percent – an apparent horse

trade demanded by the Senate's second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyl of

Arizona, who then allowed the president's nuclear-stockpile treaty with

Russia to move forward in the Senate.</a>

Shockingly, the deal actually sweetened the bargain the super-rich

had received in 2009, enabling the heirs to the richest 0.25 percent of

estates to pocket an extra $23 billion they would have otherwise owed in

taxes under Bush. In fact, under the terms Kyl demanded, the federal

government will spend more to eliminate or cut taxes for 100,000 rich

people than it will to extend unemployment benefits for 7 million Americans.

In a little-noticed detail, the two-year deal also created a loophole

that allows the wealthiest couples to pass on $10 million to a child

today – while they're still living – without paying a penny of tax. That

means the rich can offload their wealth to their children before it

increases in value – evading higher estate taxes in the future. "In the

next two years," one tax attorney crowed to The Wall Street Journal,

"wealthy people have an unprecedented opportunity to push a lot of the

value of their assets out of the estate-tax system." According to tax

historians, the new rules create the most generous tax environment for

wealth transfers for the super-rich since 1931.

And that was just the beginning of the budget-busting handouts the

GOP demanded for the rich. In April, Republicans in the House passed a

budget that would have slashed income taxes on corporations and the

wealthiest Americans to just 25 percent – a $3 trillion giveaway that

would have been financed by doubling out-of-pocket expenses for future

retirees on Medicare. Top Republicans like Cantor have also pushed for a

replay of the American Jobs Creation Act – endorsing a new tax amnesty

that would allow corporate giants like Apple and Pfizer to bring home

$1.4 trillion in offshore profits that would be taxed at just 5.25

percent – a favor for the wealthy that would generate another $79

billion in deficits. "At the same time they're talking about these big

deficit problems, running around saying, 'We're broke,' they're

contemplating one of the most egregious tax giveaways in recent memory,"

says Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "The

potential windfall gains are beyond enormous – and the lion's share

would go to shareholders of these big corporations and their

executives."...The Republican mania for rewarding the rich with tax cuts has become

so warped that the normal rules of budgeting no longer seem to apply.

Arguing for an extension of the Bush tax cuts, Sen. Kyl spelled out what

could well serve as the Party of the Rich's credo: "You should never

have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on

Americans." The same rule, of course, doesn't apply to spending for

those in need: At the time he called for more borrowing on behalf of the

rich, Kyl was also fighting to deny unemployment benefits to 5 million

Americans. "Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation," he

scoffed, "is a disincentive for them to seek new work."

<a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/11/27/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-jon-kyl+jon+kyl&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiancrw5bfQAhXig1QKHYttC8gQHwg6MAQ" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">In

retrospect, the true victor of the midterm elections last year was not

the Tea Party, or even Speaker of the House John Boehner. It was </a><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grover-norquist-the-billionaires-best-friend-20111109">Grover Norquist</a>.RS
 November 24, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone.
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109?print=true">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109?print=true</a>
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<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Record_and_controversies">1 Record and controversies</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Iraq_War">1.1 Iraq War</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Iran">1.2 Iran</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Environmental_record">1.3 Environmental record</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Fake_conversation_included_in_brief_to_Supreme_Court">1.4 Fake conversation included in brief to Supreme Court</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Anonymous_holds">1.5 Anonymous holds</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Remote_Sensing_prohibition_for_Israel">1.6 Remote Sensing prohibition for Israel</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Bio">2 Bio</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#2006_elections">2.1 2006 elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Republican_leadership_position">2.2 Republican leadership position</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Money_in_politics">3 Money in politics</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Committees_and_affiliations">4 Committees and affiliations</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Committees">4.1 Committees</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29">4.2 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Affiliations">4.3 Affiliations</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#More_background_data">5 More background data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Contact">6 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Articles_and_resources">7 Articles and resources</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#References">7.1 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Resources">7.2 Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Articles">7.3 Articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites">7.4 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li></ul>

</li></ul>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

</a><h2><a name="Record_and_controversies" id="Record_and_controversies">Record and controversies</a></h2>

<div style="margin:0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding:.25em .25em 0.25em .25em;"><a name="Record_and_controversies" id="Record_and_controversies">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>.

You can add information you find on how Jon Kyl voted by clicking the

"[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</div>

</a><h3><a name="Iraq_War" id="Iraq_War">Iraq War</a></h3>

<div style="margin:0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding:.25em .25em 0.25em .25em;"><a name="Iraq_War" id="Iraq_War">For more information see the chart of </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Senate_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War">U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div>

</a><h3><a name="Iran" id="Iran">Iran</a></h3>

<a name="Iran" id="Iran">On September 20, 2007, Sens. </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman" class="mw-redirect">Joe Lieberman</a>, Jon Kyl, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Norman_Coleman" title="Norman Coleman" class="mw-redirect">Norman Coleman</a>, and <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham">Lindsey Graham</a> filed a "Sense of the Senate" resolution as Amendment No. 3017<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a> to the FY 2008 Defense Authorization bill "that the U.S. should 'combat, contain, and roll back' <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>'s 'violent activities and destabilizing influence inside <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>.'

It counsels doing so 'through the prudent and calibrated use of all

instruments of [U.S. power], including diplomatic, economic,

intelligence, and military instruments.' It also urges the

administration to designate the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist

organization."<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

</a><h3><a name="Environmental_record" id="Environmental_record">Environmental record</a></h3>

<a name="Environmental_record" id="Environmental_record">For more information on environmental legislation, see the </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a>

</a><h3><a name="Fake_conversation_included_in_brief_to_Supreme_Court" id="Fake_conversation_included_in_brief_to_Supreme_Court">Fake conversation included in brief to Supreme Court</a></h3>

<a name="Fake_conversation_included_in_brief_to_Supreme_Court" id="Fake_conversation_included_in_brief_to_Supreme_Court">In February 2006, Kyl and Sen. </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham">Lindsey Graham</a>

(R-S.C.) cited a conversation regarding the Detainee Treatment Act in a

brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. The conversation, however, had never

actually taken place. Rather, it was inserted into the official

Congressional Record after the debate had concluded. In July 2006, the

Supreme Court noted the unspoken conversation in it’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

Justice John Paul Stevens remarked, "Those statements appear to have

been inserted in the Congressional Record after the Senate debate." On

July 6, 2006, Kyl defended his actions, arguing that legislators

frequently insert material into the record following a debate. <a href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=69183" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=69183" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

</a><h3><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds">Anonymous holds</a></h3>

On May 24, 2007, an anonymous hold was placed on the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National (OPEN) Government Act of 2007

(S.849), a bill to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, when it

was sent to the floor for a vote. On May 31, 2007, Sen. Kyl "revealed

his identity [as the Senator who placed the hold]... days after the

bill's backers launched an e-mail and telephone campaign, urging

supporters to help in 'smoking out Senator Secrecy.' They pointed out

the irony that an open government bill was being blocked using a rule

that allowed secrecy." In a statement, Kyl said that "the Justice

Department has 'uncharacteristically strong' objections to the bill" and

that he would "block a vote until both sides can work out the

differences." Kyl faced much criticism for blocking the government

transparency bill.

<dl><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds" /><dd><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds"></a><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds" /><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds" /><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds" /><a name="Anonymous_holds" id="Anonymous_holds">Main article: </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=OPEN_Government_Act_of_2007" title="OPEN Government Act of 2007">OPEN Government Act of 2007</a></dd></dl>

When an anonymous hold was placed on the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act,

which would require senators to file their campaign finance reports

electronically to the Federal Election Commission, Sen. Kyl was one of

the two final Senators who did not confirm whether they were responsible

for the objection. On April 23, Kyl did eventually issue his denial.

<dl><dd>Main article: <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Campaign_Disclosure_Parity_Act_of_2007" title="Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act of 2007">Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act of 2007</a></dd></dl>

</a><h3><a name="Remote_Sensing_prohibition_for_Israel" id="Remote_Sensing_prohibition_for_Israel">Remote Sensing prohibition for Israel</a></h3>

<a name="Remote_Sensing_prohibition_for_Israel" id="Remote_Sensing_prohibition_for_Israel">In 1997, Jon Kyl and Jeff Bingaman passed the Kyl-Bingaman amendment

which prohibits US-based companies from disseminating remote

sensing/satellite photos of Israel. The consequence of this is that

Google Earth has no coverage of Israel.</a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a> The sponsors of the amendment were Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>.

</a><h2><a name="Bio" id="Bio">Bio</a></h2>

<a name="Bio" id="Bio">Kyl was born April 25, 1942, Oakland, Nebraska. He graduated from the

University of Arizona with honors. Before entering politics, he was a

lawyer and lobbyist with </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennings,Strouss%26_Salmon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jennings, Strouss & Salmon (page does not exist)">Jennings, Strouss & Salmon</a> in Phoenix. His father, also named John Kyl, was a U.S. Representative for Iowa.

Kyl served in the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">U.S. House of Representatives</a> from 1987-1995 and was first elected to the Senate in 1994. He faced a strong challenge from <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_G.Coppersmith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel G. Coppersmith (page does not exist)">Samuel G. Coppersmith</a> (D), then an Arizona member of the House of Representatives. Kyl replaced Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_DeConcini" class="extiw" title="w:Dennis DeConcini">Dennis DeConcini</a> in the Senate after DeConcini retired following his implication in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five" class="extiw" title="w:Keating Five">Keating Five</a> financial scandal.

In 2000, he ran without opposition.

</a><h4><a name="2006_elections" id="2006_elections">2006 elections</a></h4>

<a name="2006_elections" id="2006_elections">In 2006, the </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> nominated <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Pederson" title="Jim Pederson">Jim Pederson</a> to face Kyl in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) <a href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=AZ&year=2006" class="external autonumber" title="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=AZ&year=2006" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> Kyl retained his seat.

</a><h4><a name="Republican_leadership_position" id="Republican_leadership_position">Republican leadership position</a></h4>

<a name="Republican_leadership_position" id="Republican_leadership_position">In the 109th Congress, Kyl served as Republican Policy Committee chairman. In the </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=110th_Congress" title="110th Congress" class="mw-redirect">110th Congress</a>, Kyl moved up to the position of <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Republican_Conference" title="Senate Republican Conference">Senate Republican Conference</a> chairman. The position had been held previously by Sen. <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a> (Pa.), who was defeated in his 2006 bid for reelection. In January 2008, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lamar_Alexander" title="Lamar Alexander">Lamar Alexander</a> (R-Tenn.) became the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

</a><h2><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics">Money in politics</a></h2>

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

databases.

<crpcontribdata>cid=N00006406&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata>

<table class="prettytable"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Jon Kyl

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td>Fundraising profile:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by industry:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00006406" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<ul><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><li><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics"></a><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics" /><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Kyl%2C+Jon" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Kyl%2C+Jon" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Jon Kyl</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li><li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00006406" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Jon Kyl</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li><li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00006406" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00006406" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Jon Kyl</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li></ul>

</a><h2><a name="Committees_and_affiliations" id="Committees_and_affiliations">Committees and affiliations</a></h2>

</a><h3><a name="Committees" id="Committees">Committees</a></h3>

<ul><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><li><a name="Committees" id="Committees"></a><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a name="Committees" id="Committees" /><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Finance" title="Senate Committee on Finance">Senate Committee on Finance</a></li><li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Committee on the Judiciary</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law</li><li>Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Refugees</li><li>Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security</li></ul>

</li></ul>

</a><h3><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></h3>

<ul><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><li><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29"></a><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a name="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" id="Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" /><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Finance" title="Senate Committee on Finance">Senate Committee on Finance</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Health Care</li><li>Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy</li><li>Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight - Chair</li></ul>

</li><li><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Committee on the Judiciary</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts</li><li>Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs</li><li>Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship</li><li>Subcommittee on Intellectual Property</li><li>Subcommittee on Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security - Chair</li></ul>

</li></ul>

</a><h3><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations">Affiliations</a></h3>

<ul><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><li><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations"></a><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations" /><a name="Affiliations" id="Affiliations">US Advisory Council, </a><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Atlantic_Bridge" title="The Atlantic Bridge">The Atlantic Bridge</a> <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></li></ul><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl">http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jon_Kyl</a>

</a><h2><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data">More background data</a></h2>

<ul><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><li><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data"></a><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a name="More_background_data" id="More_background_data" /><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H0121103" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H0121103" rel="nofollow">Background information on Jon Kyl from Project Vote Smart</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H0121103" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H0121103" rel="nofollow">Interest group scorecard ratings for Jon Kyl from Project Vote Smart</a></li></ul>

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