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2020<div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber614146" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">224<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle614146" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-224-barrett-confirmation-supreme-court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Barrett Confirmation (Supreme Court)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues614146" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice614146" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear614046" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber614046" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">222<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle614046" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-222-barrett-cloture-vote-supreme-court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Barrett Cloture Vote (Supreme Court)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues614046" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice614046" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear613085" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber613085" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">168<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle613085" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-168-inadequate-covid-relief-package" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Inadequate COVID Relief Package</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues613085" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice613085" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear612985" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612985" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">126<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612985" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-126-inadequate-policing-reform" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Inadequate Policing Reform</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612985" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice612985" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear601684" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber601684" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">125<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle601684" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-125-wilson-confirmation-fifth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Wilson Confirmation (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues601684" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice601684" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear601583" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber601583" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">123<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle601583" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-123-walker-confirmation-dc-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Walker Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues601583" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice601583" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear603512" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber603512" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">121<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle603512" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-121-great-american-outdoors-act" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Great American Outdoors Act</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues603512" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice603512" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear612885" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612885" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">118<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612885" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-118-defeating-effort-derail-great-american-outdoors-act" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Defeating Effort to Derail the Great American Outdoors Act</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612885" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice612885" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear612785" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612785" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">72<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612785" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-72-danly-confirmation-federal-energy-regulatory-commission" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Danly Confirmation (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612785" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Dirty Energy, Clean Energy, Climate Change<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice612785" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear612685" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber612685" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">60<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle612685" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-60-macgregor-confirmation-interior-deputy-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">MacGregor Confirmation (Interior Deputy Secretary)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues612685" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Lands/Forests, Oceans, Drilling, Wildlife<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice612685" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear601482" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber601482" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">41<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle601482" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-41-kindred-confirmation-us-district-court-district-alaska" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Kindred Confirmation (U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues601482" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice601482" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear601381" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber601381" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">36<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle601381" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-36-brasher-confirmation-eleventh-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Brasher Confirmation (Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues601381" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice601381" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear599975" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2020<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber599975" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">14<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle599975" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2020-14-usmca-trade-deal" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">USMCA Trade Deal</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues599975" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change; Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice599975" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574943" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574943" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">339<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574943" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-339-undermining-land-and-water-conservation-fund-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Undermining the Land and Water Conservation Fund</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574943" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice574943" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574842" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574842" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">324<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574842" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-324-stopping-rollbacks-carbon-pollution-limits-power-plants" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Stopping Rollbacks of Carbon Pollution Limits for Power Plants</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574842" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574842" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">313<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-313-scalia-confirmation-labor-secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Scalia Confirmation (Labor Secretary)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">300<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-300-jorjani-confirmation-interior-solicitor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Jorjani Confirmation (Interior Solicitor)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other, Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574539" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574539" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">77<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574539" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-77-bernhardt-confirmation-interior-secretary-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Bernhardt Confirmation (Interior Secretary)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574539" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Drilling, Lands/Forests, Wildlife, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574539" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">68<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-68-wyrick-confirmation-district-court-western-district-oklahoma" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Wyrick Confirmation (District Court for Western District of Oklahoma)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other, Justice and Democracy<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">44<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-44-rao-confirmation-dc-circuit-court-appeals-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Rao Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other, Justice and Democracy<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574337" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574236" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574236" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">33<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574236" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-33-wheeler-confirmation-epa-administrator-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Wheeler Confirmation (EPA Administrator)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574236" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574236" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574135" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574135" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">29<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574135" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-29-miller-confirmation-ninth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Miller Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574135" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other, Justice and Democracy<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574135" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574034" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574034" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">22<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574034" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-22-public-lands-package-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Public Lands Package</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574034" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice574034" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear573933" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber573933" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">20<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle573933" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-20-undermining-antiquities-act-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Undermining the Antiquities Act</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues573933" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice573933" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear573832" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2019<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber573832" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">19<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle573832" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-19-blocking-permanent-reauthorization-land-water-conservation-fund" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Blocking Permanent Reauthorization of the Land & Water Conservation Fund</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues573832" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice573832" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539695" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2018<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539695" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">259<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539695" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-259-farm-bill-conference-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Farm Bill Conference Report</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539695" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Water<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice539695" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539594" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2018<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539594" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">254<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539594" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-254-mcnamee-confirmation-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">McNamee Confirmation (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539594" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Air<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539594" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539493" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2018<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539493" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">232<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539493" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-232-nelson-confirmation-ninth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Nelson Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539493" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539493" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539392" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2018<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539392" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">228<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539392" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-228-clark-confirmation-assistant-attorney-general-doj-environment-and-natural" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Clark Confirmation (Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539392" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water, Judiciary<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539392" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url("/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") 0% 0% / auto 20px no-repeat; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2018<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">223<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-223-kavanaugh-confirmation-supreme-court-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Kavanaugh Confirmation (Supreme Court)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Judiciary<span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539291" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">....</div>
=In conjunction with the release of new ads, LCV Victory Fund named Donald Trump the “Dirtiest of All Time” on its <a href="https://www.lcvvictoryfund.org/dirty-dozen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2020 Dirty Dozen list</a>. This unprecedented dishonor is LCV Victory Fund’s first Dirty Dozen announcement this year and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the program. Through the Dirty Dozen, LCV Victory Fund has targeted federal candidates — regardless of party affiliation — who consistently side against the environment. LCV Victory Fund’s 2020 Dirty Dozen will be a baker’s dozen, with 12 more candidate announcements to come. In <a href="https://www.lcv.org/2018-dirty-dozen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2018</a>, LCV Victory Fund defeated 84 percent of the Dirty Dozen targets with a one-time-only double list to highlight separate Senate and House candidates. The new House members who defeated members of the 2018 Dirty Dozen earned an average LCV score of 95% in 2019 — skyrocketing from the 6% average lifetime score of the members they defeated.not blackburn cruz scott<a href="https://www.lcv.org/2018-dirty-dozen/2018-senate-dirty-dozen/">https://www.lcv.org/2018-dirty-dozen/2018-senate-dirty-dozen/</a>=<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/05/john-hickenlooper-cory-gardner-us-senate-2020/">https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/05/john-hickenlooper-cory-gardner-us-senate-2020/</a>cover for what?...Years of under-funding of the National Park Service, said Francis, produced "an over $5 billion backlog in land acquisition.""Our parks protect critical watersheds, viewsheds, and ecosystems. If these lands not acquired soon," he warned, "the opportunities could be lost forever."According to Randi Spivak, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity, taking action to reverse this <a href="https://naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/KS_TrumpAttacks.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">latest</a> (pdf) conservation attack from the Interior Secretary—a former oil and gas <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/16/bernhardt-running-trumps-interior-dept-former-corporate-clients-lavishing-tens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">lobbyist</a>—must be a priority for the incoming administration."Bernhardt is shamelessly imposing his extremist anti-public lands policy in a blatant end-run around Congress," Spivak said in a statement, adding that the "order severely restricts conservation funding, violates bipartisan agreements, and undermines this wildly popular program.""It's a vindictive, illegal parting shot from a corrupt administration that only approved this bill to give political cover to two Senate Republicans whose re-elections were in jeopardy," she said, <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/508865-the-great-american-outdoors-act-passes-with" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">referring to</a> Cory Gardner of Colorado and Steve Daines of Montana."President-elect Biden should overturn this order as soon as possible," Spivak added.---<div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092020/senate-2020-colorado-climate-wildfire-cory-gardner-john-hickenlooper">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092020/senate-2020-colorado-climate-wildfire-cory-gardner-john-hickenlooper</a></div><div>=</div>=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/heres-why-cory-gardner-and-other-gop-senators-are-still-all-in-for-trump-even-if-it-costs-them-the-election/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/heres-why-cory-gardner-and-other-gop-senators-are-still-all-in-for-trump-even-if-it-costs-them-the-election/</a>alex hrecent polls have not been looking good for Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, who is trailing his Democratic opponent, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, by 9%, according to <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020/09/03/majority-makers-colorado-senate-hickenlooper-gardner/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Morning Consult</a> as well as <a href="https://giffords.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ColoradoResults1.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Public Policy Polling</a>. Trumpism is not serving Gardner well, begging the question: why is the Colorado Republican doubling down on his support of President Donald Trump even though it appears likely to cost him the election? Never Trump conservative journalist Jonathan V. Last answers that question in an <a href="https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/cory-gardner-and-the-toxic-republican-party/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">article published in The Bulwark</a> over Labor Day Weekend. And Last’s explanation applies not only to Gardner, but also, to Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and other incumbent GOP senators in swing states who refuse to say a word against the president.“Gardner is running behind Trump in a state that Trump is going to lose,” Last observes. “And yet, Gardner remains almost wholly beholden to Trump. Why is that?”Last, citing polling data from Morning Consult, stresses that Gardner’s “political career is over” in Colorado  — where “Democrats loathe him, independents are repelled by him, and Republicans see him as a cuck for not supporting Trump from the start.”“He almost certainly realizes that there is no path forward for him in Colorado politics,” Last argues. “The state is changing, demographically and politically, and he’s on the wrong side of everything: he’s not where the main body of voters are, and he’s not where the party base are, either. He’s both too Trump and not QAnon enough…. So why is Gardner still all-in for Trump?'the answer, according to Last: Gardner is putting “party over country.” Gardner, Last emphasizes, is the type of Republican who sees “the Republican Party as a higher priority than the country itself” — and when he loses to Hickenlooper, he “is going to have to make due with raking in the Benjamins in the private-sector sinecures reserved for washed-up politicos.”Last doesn’t discuss McSally in his Bulwark article on Gardner. But taking the conservative journalist’s arguments a step further, one could say that Gardner is thinking long-term: even if he is “washed up” in Colorado, he could still have a place in Republican politics in general — perhaps as a pundit at Fox News, perhaps writing books, perhaps hosting a radio program. The same applies to McSally. Although poll after poll shows her losing to Democrat Mark Kelly in Arizona’s 2020 U.S. Senate race, she isn’t about to criticize Trump because she knows there could be money-making opportunities for her down the road in the right-wing media.After being voted out of office in 2006, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was never elected to public office again yet remained a prominent figure in right-wing politics. CNN, in the Trump era, has often featured Santorum as a pro-Trump pundit. And former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the late Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, made millions of dollars as a pundit even though she never became vice president and never ran for political office again after 2008. Palin is an embarrassment, but in the right-wing media, she is taken seriously.The “private-sector sinecures reserved for washed-up politicos,” as Last describes them, can be incredibly lucrative. Palin is the butt of jokes outside of the GOP/Fox News/AM talk radio bubble, but that hasn’t stopped her from making millions of dollars.If recent polls are accurate, Trumpism will cause Gardner and McSally to be voted out of office in November — even if Trump himself manages to pull off a narrow victory in the Electoral College. But the right-wing media often find ways for wingnuts to prosper after they lose elections, from Fox News appearances and AM talk radio shows to book deals. And cable news viewers will probably be seeing a lot of Gardner and McSally in 2021 no matter how badly they lose in November.=header:Interior Nominee And His Lobbying Firm Have Donated Almost $1 Million To Senators<a href="https://maplight.org/story/interior-nominee-and-his-lobbying-firm-have-donated-almost-1-million-to-senators/">https://maplight.org/story/interior-nominee-and-his-lobbying-firm-have-donated-almost-1-million-to-senators/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner</a>Cory Scott Gardner<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> (born August 22, 1974) is an American attorney and politician serving as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniority_in_the_United_States_Senate" title="Seniority in the United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">junior</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States Senator</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Colorado</a> since 2015. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Republican</a>, he was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Colorado's 4th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Colorado's 4th congressional district</a> from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_House_of_Representatives" title="Colorado House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Colorado House of Representatives</a> from 2005 to 2011.Gardner narrowly defeated Democratic incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Udall" title="Mark Udall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Udall</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_United_States_Senate_election_in_Colorado" title="2014 United States Senate election in Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2014 Senate race</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-abc.results-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Gardner was chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> from 2017 to 2019. As a result of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Colorado_elections" title="2018 Colorado elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2018 midterm elections</a>, he became the only Republican holding statewide elected office in Colorado, and is considered one of the most vulnerable senators running for reelection in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Colorado" title="2020 United States Senate election in Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Early_life,education,and_early_political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life, education, and early political career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Colorado_House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Colorado House of Representatives</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Tenure</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3U.S. House of Representatives</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Elections_2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Elections</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#U.S.Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4U.S. Senate</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Elections_3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1Elections</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Political_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Political positions</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Ideology_and_views_on_Trump_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Ideology and views on Trump administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.2Abortion</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Economy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.3Economy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.4Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Energy_and_environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5Energy and environment</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Foreign_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.6Foreign policy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Guns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.7Guns</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Health_care" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.8Health care</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.9Immigration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Net_neutrality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.10Net neutrality</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Same-sex_marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.11Same-sex marriage</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.12Trade</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Violence_Against_Women_Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.13Violence Against Women Act</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life, education, and early political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and early political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Gardner was born on August 22, 1974 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuma,Colorado" title="Yuma, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yuma, Colorado</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> the son of Cindy L. (née Pagel) and John W. Gardner. He is of Irish, German, Austrian, and English descent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> He graduated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Summa cum laude" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">summa cum laude</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University" title="Colorado State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado State University</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political science</a> in 1997.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-NatlJGardner-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>In college, Gardner switched from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> to the Republican Party<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> and interned at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_Capitol" title="Colorado State Capitol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colorado State Capitol</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> He went to law school at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Colorado School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Colorado</a> to earn his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> in 2001.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-NatlJGardner-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> Gardner served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="General Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">General Counsel</a> and Legislative Director for former U.S. Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allard" title="Wayne Allard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayne Allard</a> of Colorado from 2002-05.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-NatlJGardner-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-wsj-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Colorado House of Representatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Colorado House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Elections[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Gardner was appointed to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2005 and elected to a full term in 2006. He represented District 63 in the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 through 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-wsj-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Tenure</h3>Gardner proposed legislation in 2006 that would set aside money in a rainy-day fund that would help protect the state from future economic downturns. His proposal relied on money made available by Referendum C—which allowed state revenue caps to be exceeded for five years<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>—for future budget emergencies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> He staunchly opposed any tax increases. He helped create the Colorado Clean Energy Development Authority, which issued bonds to finance projects that involve the production, transportation and storage of clean energy until it was repealed in 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-DOE-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Committee assignments<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">House Education Committee<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Legislative Council<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">U.S. House of Representatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cory_Gardner,Official_Portrait,112th_Congress.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cory_Gardner,Official_Portrait,112th_Congress.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Gardner's </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="112th Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">112th Congressional</a> session official photo</div></div></div><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Elections[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2010</dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Colorado#District_4" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado § District 4</a></div>Gardner won the Republican primary in the 4th Congressional District to challenge Democratic incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Markey" title="Betsy Markey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Betsy Markey</a>. Also running were American Constitution Party nominee Doug Aden and Independent Ken "Wasko" Waszkiewicz. In an early September poll, Gardner was up 50% to 39% over Markey.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a>Gardner was named one of the GOP Young Guns. He was endorsed by former U.S. Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo" title="Tom Tancredo" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tom Tancredo</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[18]</a> On November 2, 2010, Gardner defeated Markey, 52%–41%.<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2012</dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Colorado#District_4" title="2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado § District 4</a></div>Gardner ran unopposed in the Republican primary before going on to defeat Democratic nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Shaffer" title="Brandon Shaffer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brandon Shaffer</a> 59%–37% in the general election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> He was helped by the 2010 redistricting, which cut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,Colorado" title="Fort Collins, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Collins</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larimer_County,Colorado" title="Larimer County, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Larimer County</a> out of the district. Fort Collins had long been the 4th's largest city. For years, Larimer and the district's second-largest county, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_County,Colorado" title="Weld County, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Weld County</a>, home to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeley,Colorado" title="Greeley, Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Greeley</a>, accounted for 85 percent of the district's population even though they only took up 15 percent of its land.Committee assignments<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Energy and Commerce</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Energy_and_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Power" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Energy and Power</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Communications_and_Technology" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Communications and Technology</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Oversight_and_Investigations" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Study Committee</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">U.S. Senate[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Committee assignments<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">
Caucus memberships</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Commerce,Science,and_Transportation" title="United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on_Aviation_Operations,Safety,and_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on_Communications,Technology,and_the_Internet" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on_Consumer_Protection,Product_Safety,and_Insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Commerce_Subcommittee_on_Science_and_Space" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Science and Space</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Energy_and_Natural_Resources" title="United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Energy" title="United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Energy</a> (Chairman)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Public_Lands,Forests_and_Mining" title="United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Water_and_Power" title="United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Water and Power" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Water and Power</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Foreign Relations</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_Western_Hemisphere,Transnational_Crime,Civilian_Security,Democracy,Human_Rights_and_Global_Women%27s_Issues" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights and Global Women's Issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights and Global Women's Issues</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_Europe_and_Regional_Security_Cooperation" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_East_Asia,The_Pacific_and_International_Cybersecurity_Policy" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on East Asia, The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy</a> (Chairman)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_International_Development,Multilateral_Institutions_and_International_Economic,Energy_and_Environmental_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development, Multilateral Institutions and International Economic, Energy and Environmental Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on International Development, Multilateral Institutions and International Economic, Energy and Environmental Policy</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Small_Business_and_Entrepreneurship" title="United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship</a></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_NextGen_9-1-1_Caucus" title="Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Elections[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2014</dt></dl><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_United_States_Senate_election_in_Colorado" title="2014 United States Senate election in Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2014 United States Senate election in Colorado</a></div>Gardner was the Republican nominee for Senate, and narrowly defeated incumbent Senator Mark Udall in the general election, 48% to 46%, receiving 965,974 votes to Udall's 916,245.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-abc.results-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels" title="No Labels" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">No Labels</a> performed independent get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of its Problem Solvers, including Gardner.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political positions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Ideology and views on Trump administration[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Ideology and views on Trump administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>According to Politico, "Gardner is reliably conservative on most issues other than immigration."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-:0-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> His positions mostly align with those of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>, whom he endorsed for reelection in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2020" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election, 2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020</a>, but according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a>, Gardner is "becoming known as someone who will do more than posture when he and the Trump administration disagree." Gardner has differed publicly with Trump on a number of issues. He criticized Trump's response to the 2017 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally" title="Unite the Right rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Unite the Right rally</a>, writing, "Mr. President—we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism." He opposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore" title="Roy Moore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roy Moore</a>'s Senate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Alabama" title="2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">candidacy</a> in Alabama in 2017, and in January 2018 criticized Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeff Sessions</a> for announcing a crackdown on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">marijuana</a> dispensaries around the country, which he claimed was contrary to what Sessions had told him during his confirmation hearings. In response, he placed a hold on Trump's judicial nominees.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-:0-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-WaPo152018-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> He has also opposed Trump on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-:0-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-DP672019-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>In April 2018 the Lugar Center and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgetown's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCourt_School_of_Public_Policy" title="McCourt School of Public Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McCourt School of Public Policy</a> ranked Gardner the 8th most bipartisan Senator in the first session of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">115th United States Congress</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> GovTrack noted that of the 157 bills Gardner cosponsored in 2017, 41% were introduced by legislators who were not Republican.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Gardner was ranked the 5th most bipartisan senator in 2019.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Abortion[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2006 Gardner opposed legislation to allow pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraception,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Marcotte-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> and offered an amendment to the budget to prohibit the state Medicaid plan from purchasing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception#Plan_B" title="Emergency contraception" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plan B emergency contraception</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> In 2007 he voted against a bill requiring hospitals to inform survivors of a sexual assault of the availability of emergency contraception.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a>In 2012-13 Gardner co-sponsored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood" title="Personhood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">personhood</a> legislation titled the "Life Begins at Conception Act".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-politico_personhood-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> Gardner later said that he changed his mind on personhood after listening to voters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a> According to The Denver Post, "Gardner conceded that with his new position on personhood, he might be accused of flip-flopping simply to make himself more palatable to statewide voters."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-denverpost_personhood-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a> The nonpartisan Factcheck.org said "It would be clearer to say that Gardner supports efforts to ban abortion that could also ban some forms of birth control. As for his change of position, voters in Colorado should know Gardner still supports a federal bill that would prompt the same concerns over birth control as the state measure he says he rejects on the same grounds."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a>In June 2014 Gardner called for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug" title="Over-the-counter drug" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">over-the-counter</a> access to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_contraceptive_pill" title="Oral contraceptive pill" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">oral contraceptives</a> and said the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill" title="Combined oral contraceptive pill" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">birth control pill</a> would be safer and cheaper if it was available over the counter.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a> He ran for Senate in 2014 as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-life" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pro-life</a> Republican.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a> He has consistently voted to defund <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Planned Parenthood</a> and in January 2018 voted in favor of a 20-week <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abortion</a> ban.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Economy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Economy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Gardner signed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Protection_Pledge" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxpayer Protection Pledge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Protection_Pledge" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxpayer Protection Pledge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taxpayer Protection Pledge</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-ATR-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> He supports legislation to require that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Federal_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="US Federal Reserve" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Federal Reserve</a> be audited.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a>In March 2011 Gardner introduced bipartisan legislation to require congressional committees to hold hearings on programs that are deemed duplicative by a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. Gardner has said he believes such a measure would reduce waste in government.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a>Gardner voted for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan_Budget" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Ryan Budget" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ryan budget plan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a>In July 2014 Gardner introduced legislation to reform the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Income_Tax_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Earned Income Tax Credit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earned Income Tax Credit</a> program. The legislation seeks to reduce fraud in the program and dedicate the savings to increasing the credit for working families.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In February 2019 Gardner was one of 20 senators to sponsor the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, enabling employers to contribute up to $5,250 to the student loans of their employees.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Energy and environment[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Energy and environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2014 Gardner said he believes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">climate change</a> is occurring and that "there is no doubt that pollution is contributing" to it.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a> He supports construction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline" title="Keystone Pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Keystone Pipeline</a> and is pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking" class="mw-redirect" title="Fracking" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fracking</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a>Shortly after taking office in the House of Representatives, Gardner introduced legislation that would speed up clean-air permits for companies engaged in offshore drilling in Alaska, which he says would create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a> The House passed Gardner's bill by a vote of 253 to 166 on June 22, 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a>In June 2013 Gardner introduced a bill to change the frequency of reports from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a> (EPA) about solid waste regulations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-billboosts-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a> Rather than automatically reviewing the regulations every three years, the EPA would be able to review them on an as needed basis.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-housestart2014-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a> It would also grant precedence to state requirements for solid waste disposal when creating new federal requirements.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-billboosts-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a>In December 2018 Gardner and Senator Michael Bennet introduced several bills to improve security of the country's electric grids. The bills would create a $90 million fund to be distributed to states to develop energy security plans. The legislation would also require the U.S. Energy Department to identify any vulnerabilities to cyberattacks in the nation's electrical power grid.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a>In March 2019 Gardner was an original cosponsor of a bipartisan bill intended to mandate that the Environmental Protection Agency declare per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances hazardous substances that can be addressed with cleanup funds via the EPA Superfund law and require that polluters undertake or pay for remediation within a year of the bill's enaction.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a>In April 2019 Gardner was one of 12 senators to sign a bipartisan letter to top senators on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development advocating that the Energy Department be granted maximum funding for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), arguing that American job growth could be stimulated by investment in capturing carbon emissions and expressing disagreement with President Trump's 2020 budget request to combine the two federal programs that do carbon capture research.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a>In September 2019 Gardner was one of eight senators to sign a bipartisan letter to congressional leadership requesting full and lasting funding of the Land and Water Conservation Act to aid national parks and public lands, benefit the $887 billion American outdoor recreation economy, and "ensure much-needed investment in our public lands and continuity for the state, tribal, and non-federal partners who depend on them."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Foreign policy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Foreign policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In September 2016 Gardner was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a> advocating that the United States clearly enforce "a legally binding Security Council Resolution" by using "all available tools to dissuade Russia from continuing its airstrikes in Syria that are clearly not in our interest".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a>In September 2017, Gardner co-sponsored the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Anti-Boycott_Act" title="Israel Anti-Boycott Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Israel Anti-Boycott Act</a> (S.270), which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a> for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Israeli settlements</a> in the occupied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" title="Israeli-occupied territories" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palestinian territories</a> if protesting actions by the Israeli government.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a>In April 2018 Gardner was one of eight Republican senators to sign a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of the Treasury</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mnuchin" class="mw-redirect" title="Steve Mnuchin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve Mnuchin</a> and acting Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J.Sullivan(diplomat)" title="John J. Sullivan (diplomat)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Sullivan</a> expressing "deep concern" over a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Nations</a> report that exposed "North Korean sanctions evasion involving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">China</a>", asserting that the findings "demonstrate an elaborate and alarming military-venture between rogue, tyrannical states to avoid United States and international sanctions and inflict terror and death upon thousands of innocent people", and calling it "imperative that the United States provides a swift and appropriate response to the continued use of chemical weapons used by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President Assad</a> and his forces, and works to address the shortcomings in sanctions enforcement."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a>In September 2018 Gardner was one of five senators to sign a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo" title="Mike Pompeo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Pompeo</a> urging him to employ more multifactor authentication measures to secure the State Department's information systems and seeking answers on how the department would boost its security following the Office of Management and Budget's designation of the department's cyber-readiness as "high risk", what the department would do to address the lack of multifactor authentication required by law, and statistics on the department's cyber incidents over the last three years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a>In November 2018, Gardner joined Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marco Rubio</a> and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in sending a letter to the Trump administration raising concerns about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">China</a>'s undue influence over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_the_United_States" title="Media of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">media outlets</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">academic institutions</a> in the United States. They wrote: "In American news outlets, Beijing has used financial ties to suppress negative information about the CCP. In the past four years, multiple media outlets with direct or indirect financial ties to China allegedly decided not to publish stories on wealth and corruption in the CCP...Beijing has also sought to use relationships with American academic institutions and student groups to shape public discourse."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a>In December 2018 Gardner voted against ending U.S. military support to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen" title="Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saudi Arabian-led coalition</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War(2015%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yemen war</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a> He said that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saudi Arabia</a> "is a country in a critical part of the region that has played a key role in our work protecting Israel."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a> In March 2019 Gardner voted against the resolution again, saying it would have empowered Iran.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a> In January 2019 Gardner joined Rubio, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch" title="Jim Risch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Risch</a>, and Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitch McConnell</a> in introducing legislation to impose sanctions on the government of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Syria" title="President of Syria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President of Syria</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bashar al-Assad</a> and bolster American cooperation with Israel and Jordan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a>In January 2019 Gardner was one of 11 Republican senators to vote to advance legislation intended to prevent President Trump from lifting sanctions against three Russian companies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a>In January 2019, following a report that Trump had expressed interest in withdrawing from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NATO</a> several times during the previous year, Gardner was one of eight senators to reintroduce legislation to prevent Trump from withdrawing the United States from NATO by imposing a requirement of a two-thirds approval from the Senate for a president to suspend, terminate or withdraw American involvement with it.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a>Gardner has criticized Trump for perceived softness in dealing with North Korea. “The president has, I’m afraid, taken pressure off of North Korea. He believes it’s a way for him to negotiate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong_Un" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong Un" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kim Jong Un</a>. I believe it’s a rope-a-dope."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-:0-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Guns[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Guns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2014 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a> (NRA) endorsed Gardner and gave him an A rating for being "the only candidate in this race who will support the rights of Colorado's law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen," according to the NRA-Political Victory Fund's Chris W. Cox.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-NRAEndorse14-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a> As of 2017 Gardner has received $3,879,064 in donations from the NRA.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Leonhardt1005g-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a>In 2016 Gardner voted against the Feinstein Amendment, which sought to ban gun sales to anyone who had been placed on the terrorist watch list for the last five years. He also opposed an amendment making it necessary for background checks to take place for guns bought at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun show" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gun shows</a> and online.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Verlee103-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a>In response to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_Strip_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting</a>, Gardner said, "Devastating news. Our hearts go out to all of the victims and their families in Las Vegas" and "This is a tragedy, and if you're trying to politicize it, or if anyone is trying to politicize it, then shame on them."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Jenkins17-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Chryssafis-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Health care[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=17&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Health care" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Gardner opposes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has voted to repeal it.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-:0-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>Gardner was part of the group of 13 Republican senators drafting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act_replacement_proposals#Senate_legislation" title="2017 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act replacement proposals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate version</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017" title="American Health Care Act of 2017" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Health Care Act</a>, which would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a> He voted in favor of all variations of AHCA that came up for a vote in the Senate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Times</a> reported that in September 2017, when the GOP made another attempt to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Gardner warned Republican legislators at a closed luncheon that failure to pass any repeal legislation would lead to a backlash by big donors to Republicans, as well as the grassroots.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a>In January 2019 Gardner was one of six senators to cosponsor the Health Insurance Tax Relief Act, delaying the Health Insurance Tax for two years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[80]</a>In 2011 Gardner voted for the "Respect for Rights of Conscience Act", which states that "nothing in the Affordable Care Act shall be construed to authorize a health plan to require a provider to provide, participate in, or refer for a specific item or service contrary to the provider's religious beliefs or moral convictions."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a>In 2013 Gardner announced that he would introduce a bill to prohibit executives of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthcare exchange" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">state healthcare exchanges</a> from getting bonuses.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Immigration[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In August 2014 Gardner broke ranks with the Republican Party and voted against a bill that would have dismantled the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a> He has said that he supports immigration reform in the form of a guest worker program and increased border security.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a>Gardner criticized Trump's 2017 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769" title="Executive Order 13769" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">executive order</a> to impose a ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, saying: "While I am supportive of strengthening our screening processes and securing our borders, a blanket travel ban goes too far. I also believe that lawful residents of the United States should be permitted to enter the country. I urge the Administration to take the appropriate steps to fix this overly broad executive order."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-Blake1-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a>In June 2018 Gardner was one of 13 Republican senators to sign a letter to Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeff Sessions</a> requesting a moratorium on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy" title="Trump administration family separation policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump administration family separation policy</a> while Congress drafted legislation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a>In March 2019 Gardner voted for Trump's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergency_Concerning_the_Southern_Border_of_the_United_States" title="National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">national emergency declaration</a> on the creation of a southern border wall (which allows Trump to take funding from other government functions in order to spend them on a border wall). Majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate (where 12 Republican Senators joined with Democrats) voted to overturn Trump's national emergency declaration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[88]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denver_Post" title="The Denver Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Denver Post</a> rescinded its 2014 endorsement of Gardner, citing his vote on Trump's national emergency declaration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[89]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[90]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Net neutrality[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Net neutrality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Gardner is an opponent of the Obama-era FCC policies on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">net neutrality</a>, calling the regulations "brazen abuse of power and overreach".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[91]</a> On May 16, 2018, he voted against The Congressional Review Act, a bill to reinstate net neutrality.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-92" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[92]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-93" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[93]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Same-sex marriage[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=20&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In response to the October 2014 U.S. Supreme Court announcement allowing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">same-sex marriage</a> to become law in 30 states including Colorado, Gardner reaffirmed his position that marriage should only be between a man and a woman but said, "This issue is in the hands of the courts and we must honor their legal decisions."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-94" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[94]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Trade</h3>In January 2018 Gardner spearheaded a letter to Trump signed by himself and 35 fellow Republican senators requesting he preserve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="North American Free Trade Agreement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">North American Free Trade Agreement</a> by modernizing it for the economy of the 21st century and offering their assistance.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[95]</a>Gardner supports free trade. In March 2018 he criticized Trump for imposing a 10% tariff on aluminum imports and a 25% tariff on steel imports, arguing that they would lead to a trade war that would threaten the American economy, particularly agriculture. "I am concerned that a tariff can result in a tax on the very same people that we are trying to help in this economy," he said.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[96]</a> In June 2019 Gardner again expressed concern over Trump's threats to impose tariffs on goods entering the United States from overseas. He argued that such tariffs would result in "a 1.1% tax increase for the lowest 20% of income earners; a 0.3% increase for those in the middle; and a zero net change for the upper middle class." Gardner said that by implementing harsh tariff policies America would be "turning [its] backs on American workers and consumers."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-DP672019-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Violence Against Women Act[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Gardner&action=edit&section=22&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Violence Against Women Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2012 Gardner was one of 33 Republicans to vote for the Senate version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act" title="Violence Against Women Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA)</a>, which reauthorized the bill and expanded protections for Native Americans, immigrants, and gays.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[97]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Electoral history</h2><div>...</div>

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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Cory Scott Gardner (born August 22, 1974) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Colorado since 2015.</a><div class="P1usbc" data-ved="2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQrz0wC3oECAQQBw" style="display: table; margin: 5px 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=757&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner+cory+gardner+sourcewatch&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQHzALegQIBBAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><div class="VNLkW" style="display: table-row; vertical-align: top;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=757&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner+cory+gardner+sourcewatch&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQHzALegQIBBAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=757&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner+cory+gardner+sourcewatch&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQHzALegQIBBAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1600&bih=757&q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner+cory+gardner+sourcewatch&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQHzALegQIBBAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Political party‎: ‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQs2YoADALegQIBBAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">Republican</a></div><div class="G1Rrjc" data-ved="2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQsz0oATALegQIBBAK" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Children‎: ‎3</div></div><div class="VNLkW" style="display: table-row; vertical-align: top;"><div class="i4vd5e" data-ved="2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQsz0oAjALegQIBBAL" style="display: table-cell;">Education‎: ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_State_University&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQs2YoADALegQIBBAM" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">Colorado State University</a>‎ (‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQs2YoATALegQIBBAN" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">BA</a>‎); ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQs2YoAjALegQIBBAO" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">Uni...</a></div><div class="G1Rrjc" data-ved="2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQsz0oAzALegQIBBAP" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leader‎: ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQs2YoADALegQIBBAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">Mitch McConnell</a></div></div></div><div class="TXwUJf" style="">Missing: <s>sourcewatch</s> ‎| ‎Must include: ‎<a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&biw=1600&bih=757&q=cory+gardner+%22sourcewatch%22&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQ5t4CMAt6BAgEEBI" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">sourcewatch</a></div></div><div data-base-uri="/search?sa=X&biw=1600&bih=757" id="ed_8" data-ved="2ahUKEwjXjaeh6qjlAhVQIqwKHZXwDRYQ2Z0BMAt6BAgEEBM"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; 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A key GOP senator in Colorado is facing increasingly steep odds of keeping his seat
Written by Alex Henderson October 18, 2019When political pundits list incumbent GOP senators who are considered vulnerable in the 2020 election, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado is usually at the top of the list along with Iowa’s Sen. Joni Ernst, Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins and Arizona’s Sen. Martha McSally. And a Keating Research/OnSight Public Affairs survey released this week only confirms Gardner’s vulnerability.
The survey found that in a hypothetical matchup, centrist Democrat and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper would defeat Gardner by 11%. Moreover, Keating/OnSight found that only 34% of Colorado residents view Gardner favorably.
More bad news for Gardner in the survey: 54% of the respondents favored an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, whose reelection Gardner has endorsed. And with the Ukraine scandal moving along, Gardner finds himself in the difficult position of being afraid to criticize Trump at a time when most people in his state believe an impeachment inquiry is warranted.
The impeachment inquiry came about after a whistleblower in the intelligence community formally made a complaint about Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A rough transcript of that conversation shows that Trump tried to pressure Zelensky into helping him dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
Last week, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough (a vehemently anti-Trump conservative) gave Gardner hell for refusing to answer a simple, straight-forward question from reporters: is it OK for a president to urge a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? Scarborough, a former GOP congressman, berated Gardner mercilessly on his program, “Morning Joe,” declaring, “Hey, Cory, the correct answer is ‘no.’”
Speaking to reporters last week, a frustrated Gardner was quite evasive and was clearly trying to dodge that question. Gardner, mentioning various states where incumbent GOP senators are considered vulnerable, angrily told reporters, “Why is it that when you all do stories, or we see reports in the news, it’s about four states: Colorado, Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Seems to be about politics and elections other than the serious process than it is.”
The reporters, however, kept after him with their question: is it or isn’t it OK for a president to urge a foreign leader to investigate a political revival? And Gardner never gave them a straight answer.
“But you’re not answering,” one of the reporters told Gardner. “We want to hear from you.”
Another vulnerability for Gardner is health care. The Colorado senator has supposed Republican efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, and his Democratic opponent in 2020 is almost certain to use health care and his opposition to the the policy against him.
In the meantime, Gardner finds himself continuing to face the impeachment issue and the very real possibility that — should Trump be indicted on articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives — he could be called upon to vote “guilty” or “not guilty” in a Senate trial. Voting “guilty” would be the kiss of death when it comes to Trump’s support; voting “not guilty,” however, could hurt him with anti-Trump voters in his state.
Curtis Hubbard of OnSight Public Affairs stated, “The impeachment inquiry is supported by strong majorities of Democrats and unaffiliated voters across Colorado. And support for impeaching and removing Trump from office is particularly strong in suburban swing counties near Denver. Taken together, that is a horrible combination for Republicans as the 2020 elections draw near.”<div>
</div>==few Republican senators had very bad weeks back home due to their absolute refusal to answer a very simple question: Is it okay for a president to ask a foreign leader to produce dirt on a political rival? Sens. <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/10/1891546/-Meet-Trump-s-second-biggest-protector-after-McConnell-Foreign-Relations-chair-Jim-Risch" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jim Risch</a> of Idaho, <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/10/1891567/-The-simple-question-Republicans-won-t-answer-Is-asking-foreign-leaders-to-investigate-rivals-okay" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Cory Gardner of Colorado, and Joni Ernst</a> of Iowa all went to great lengths to avoid answering that hypothetical.Risch made the <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/politics/idaho-sen-jim-risch-walks-out-of-interview-with-boise-state-public-radio-news-reporter/277-9a16904e-7efc-4235-abc6-683a33605634" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">top story</a> on the evening news with his continued <a href="https://twitter.com/CynthiaSewell/status/1182331344296108034" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">stonewalling</a> of the state’s largest newspaper, generally <a href="https://twitter.com/KTVBBrian/status/1182306476762619907" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">angering</a> all of the Idaho press for his refusal to answer the question first posed by Boise Public Radio reporter Heath Druzin. “As the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, do you think it’s appropriate that the president asked?” Risch refused to answer and walked away, earning the condemnation of plenty of Idaho reporters who have long and difficult experience with the famously nasty and usually absent Risch. As Druzin shared with the KTVB TV reporter: “Since reporters here in Idaho don’t get many opportunities for an in-person interview with the senator, he wanted to cover relevant topics.”<div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teads-adCall" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 15px;">Gardner isn’t <a href="https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2019/10/10/cory-gardner-impeachment-trump/amp/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">coming off any better</a> in the local Colorado press for his performance this week after he “repeatedly declined to say Thursday whether President Donald Trump’s call with a Ukrainian president was appropriate, weeks after that call set off an impeachment inquiry in Congress.”The Canon City Daily Record noted that he “at times sound[ed] exasperated by the repeated questions about impeachment.” It also noted that he “did not directly answer a question about whether he would accept foreign support in his closely watched 2020 Senate race.” That doesn’t seem like it would be a particularly difficult question for any senator to answer, but even that was too much for Gardner to commit to.<div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="lightbox-inline-form-b00052c7-64de-4049-944f-8160479112fb" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Iowa Starting Line flipped the question <a href="https://iowastartingline.com/2019/10/11/what-if-russia-interfered-in-joni-ernsts-reelection/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">for Ernst</a>.

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</div><div style="">A  newly-leaked audio recording reveals that oil and gas executives in a private meeting were “giddy” with laughter in the summer of 2017 as they rejoiced over the “unprecedented access” they were being given to the highest levels of the Trump administration, boasting about their ability to have closed-door meetings with top officials and the ascendance of their own industry colleagues to some of the most powerful seats of government.</div><div class="p1_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among the topics in the recording, <a href="https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/behind-trumps-energy-dominance-rebroadcast/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reports</a> Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting—which was provided the audio—the oil and gas executives who belong to theIndependent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) “are heard discussing David Bernhardt, now deputy secretary of the Interior and a former industry lobbyist.” Notably, Bernhardt—described by the executives in the recording as a close friend and industry operative—has now been nominated by President Trump to be the next Secretary of Interior, with his confirmation hearings scheduled for next week.<div class="p2_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lance Williams, a senior reporter for Reveal, detailed the contents of the recorded June 2017 meeting, which took place inside a Ritz-Carlton hotel conference room in Southern California, with an extensive piece for Politico‘s weekend magazine <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/23/trump-big-oil-industry-influence-investigation-zinke-226106?cid=apn" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">published</a> Saturday. Williams said the “recording gives a rare look behind the curtain of an influential oil industry lobbying group” congratulating itself on their political fortunes under a friendly administration.<div class="p3_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Williams reports:<div class="p4_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;">Dan Naatz, the association’s political director, told the conference room audience of about 100 executives that Bernhardt’s new role meant their priorities would be heard at the highest levels of Interior.<div class="p5_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We know him very well, and we have direct access to him, have conversations with him about issues ranging from federal land access to endangered species, to a lot of issues,” Naatz said, according to an hourlong recording…<div class="p6_20" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></blockquote>To a room full of laughter, IPAA’s CEO Barry Russell in the recording described one meeting with Scott Pruitt, the president’s EPA administrator at the time. What was expected to be a simple meet-and-greet, Russell explained, quickly became a friendly opportunity for the fellow industry insiders to provide Pruitt with a wish list for deregulation and agency rule changes. “What was really great is there was about four or five EPA staffers there, who were all like, ‘Write that down, write that down,’ all the way through this,” Russell stated. “And when we left, I said that was just our overview.”<div class="p7_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Russell, with the room reportedly still laughing, subsequently bragged: “It’s really a new world for us and very, very helpful.”<div class="p8_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Specifically, the IPAA and other allies were holding meetings during that period with the Interior Department, the EPA, and other agencies to reduce regulations on fracking, public lands restoration, methane restrictions, and species protection. From Politico:<div class="p9_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none !important;">At the meeting, the association’s leaders distributed a private “regulatory update” memo that detailed environmental laws and rules that it hoped to blunt or overturn. The group ultimately got its way on four of the five high-profile issues that topped its wish list.<div class="p10_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump himself was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-economic-growth/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a driving force</a> behind deregulating the energy industry, ordering the government in 2017 to weed out federal rules “that unnecessarily encumber energy production.” In a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/so_3349-american_energy_independence.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">2017 order</a>, Zinke called for his deputy secretary—Bernhardt—to make sure the department complied with Trump’s regulatory rollbacks.<div class="p11_20" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></blockquote>The leaked recording comes in the wake of reporting by journalist Andrew Perez of Maplight on Friday <a href="https://maplight.org/story/interior-nominee-and-his-lobbying-firm-have-donated-almost-1-million-to-senators/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">revealed</a> that Bernhardt and the lobbying firm he once worked for, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, have donated almost a million dollars over the last five years to the very senators who will soon vote on his confirmation.<div class="p12_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://maplight.org/story/interior-nominee-and-his-lobbying-firm-have-donated-almost-1-million-to-senators/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">According</a> to Perez:<div class="p13_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;">A MapLight review of campaign finance data found that Bernhardt, Brownstein Hyatt employees and the firm’s political action committee contributed more than $225,000 to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee between 2013 and 2018. The panel will hold a hearing on his nomination next week.<div class="p14_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The firm and its employees also donated more than $960,000 to current members of the Senate, who will cast the final vote on Bernhardt’s confirmation.<div class="p15_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Colorado’s senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, were the top recipients of cash from Brownstein Hyatt, which has a major lobbying presence in Denver. The third-biggest haul went to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Bennet voted to confirm Bernhardt as deputy secretary but has <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2019/02/14/michael-bennet-vote-david-bernhardt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">announced</a> he will oppose his nomination to lead the agency.<div class="p16_20" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></div></blockquote>Asked to comment on the audio recording of the IPAA meeting, Nada Culver, senior counsel for the Wilderness Society, told Politico that the lobby group’s access ultimately resulted in attaining much of what it wanted from the Trump administration. “The IPAA’s wish list was granted as asked, in the executive order, and in the actions taken by the Department of the Interior,” Culver said. “It pains me to say it.”<div class="p17_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With Bernhardt’s confirmation hearing set for next week, environmental groups are rallying constituents to call their senators to reject the nominee.<div class="p18_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Anne Hawke of the NRDC told her group’s members this week, “Bernhardt’s sorry record in protecting America’s natural resources, wildlife and waters makes him uniquely unfit for the job, and we urge you to call on lawmakers to reject his nomination.”<div class="p19_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President Trump, the Hawke further warned, “is handing over the future of our public lands, wildlife, waters and all they support to a man who has made a living for decades attacking all of that to benefit some of the biggest industrial polluters on the planet.”<div style="">
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WASHINGTON -- Republican Senate candidates Scott Brown and Cory Gardner on Monday embraced the notion that climate change is caused in part by human activity, despite previously expressing skepticism that man-made climate change is real.

Brown, a former Massachusetts senator, is seeking to unseat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, while Gardner, a congressman from Colorado, is looking to defeat Sen. Mark Udall in that state. Both Senate races, regarded as unexpectedly competitive for Democrats, had debates on Monday -- the first for New Hampshire candidates, the second for Colorado. In both, candidates were asked if they believed that humans were causing climate change.

Gardner briefly weighed in on the human contributions to climate change, then used his response to criticize the so-called Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed by House Democrats in 2010:

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democrats were quick to point out that in January of this year, Gardner <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/28/3215971/house-members-deny-climate-change/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">voted against an amendment</a> that would have explicitly stated that climate change is real. The measure, which failed to clear the House Energy and Commerce Committee, stated that "Congress accepts the scientific finding of the Environmental Protection Agency (contained in the proposed rule referred to in section 4(2)) that '[g]reenhouse gas (GHG) pollution threatens the American public’s health and welfare by contributing to long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment."

Gardner also rejected the theory of man-made climate change as a Colorado state representative in 2010. "I think the climate is changing, but I don't believe humans are causing that change to the extent that's been in the news," <a href="http://archive.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=153730" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he said at the time.</a>

In the New Hampshire debate, Brown said he believes climate change is "a combination of manmade and natural."

"That's what I've said, and I continue to believe that," he said, before listing ways he has appreciated the environment and encouraging the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign oil:

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">The question is how do we deal with not only respecting our environment -- as someone who's hiked Mount Washington with [New Hampshire state Sen.] Jeb Bradley and appreciated the environment as a triathlete, swimming, biking, camping. We want to respect that environment but we also want to find a way to balance the ability to live within the environment and use its natural resources to become energy independent and to step back from our dependence on foreign oil. I think that's very critical and you can find that balance and there are opportunities to do just that.

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brown's comments marked a departure from a GOP primary debate in late August, when he was asked if he believed that the theory of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/25/scott-brown-climate-change_n_5711431.html" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">man-made climate change had been scientifically proven.</a> At that debate, Brown responded, "Uh, no."

That answer, too, was dubbed a flip-flop from Brown's position in the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, when he lost his seat to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D). During that race, Brown said he "absolutely" believed that climate change was real and deemed its causes to be "a combination of man-made and natural."

Brown's campaign has insisted that his stance on the issue is what he stated both on Monday and in 2012 -- that climate change is real and caused by factors that are both man-made and natural. But Democrats in New Hampshire accused Brown on Monday of trying to have it both ways by refusing to endorse climate change during the primary, when he took on a more conservative tone, only to revert back to his more centrist position now that the general election is underway.

Despite the reversal by both Gardner and Brown, environmental groups remain unconvinced. NextGen Climate, the progressive group founded by billionaire investor Tom Steyer, recently <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/scott-brown-climate-chang_n_5825584.html" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">launched a truck tour</a> targeting Brown's environmental record, citing his support for the Koch brothers and "Big Oil tycoons." The group has also gone after Gardner through <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2014/09/16/nextgen-climate-colorado-cory-gardner-mark-udall/112823/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">attack ads</a> on television and billboards in Colorado.

NextGen Climate spokesman Bobby Whithorne said Brown and Gardner only seemed willing to move to the middle when it was politically convenient.

"First he denied the basic science behind climate change, now he’s changing his tune," Whithorne said in an email to HuffPost. "Scott Brown can’t make up his mind about what he believes. One thing is clear, he’ll say anything that’s politically convenient to try to get himself elected."

Gardner, according to Whithorne, "couldn't even answer the question without attempting to deny and deceive."

"First he ducked it entirely, then deceived Coloradans with an incomplete answer to deliberately mislead voters on his record," Whithorne said. "Maybe he thinks all of the pollution is caused by cow farts? The facts are clear; Gardner has taken votes to deny the reality of climate change and to let power plants dump unlimited carbon pollution into the air."

HuffPost's Pollster average, which combines all publicly available polling, shows Gardner and Udall tied....

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/republicans-climate-change_n_5941866.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/republicans-climate-change_n_5941866.html</a>

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Here at the League of Conservation Voters, we are committed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mMp21cWJVM#t=11" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">making</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ubjGrTipk#t=19" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sure</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13jWE4CjAAg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">that voters</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_tupiPl5c" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">know</a> when candidates share the Koch brothers’ agenda of propping up the dirty energy industry and dismantling environmental protections.  Using ad spending reports, voting records, debate responses, and more, we track the money Koch-backed front groups are pouring into these races, and how these candidates in turn stand with the Kochs on issues like <a href="http://www.lcv.org/media/blog/dont-fall-for-the-kochs.html" target="blank" title="Don’t Fall for the Kochs’ Claims on Oil Subsidies" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">defending</a> Big Oil’s subsidies and <a href="http://americansforprosperity.org/newsroom/afp-reacts-to-new-epa-rules" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">attacking</a> the EPA’s climate change plan.

But every once in a while, we get to hear about this sordid relationship straight from the horse’s mouth. That’s what happened recently when <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/koch-brothers-ernst-cotton-gardner_n_5718773.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">audio leaked</a>detailing what Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner, Iowa State Senator Joni Ernst, and Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell had to say behind closed doors at a secret Koch brothers retreat held in June at California’s St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort.

Seeking financial support from the Kochs’ network of wealthy donors, Congressman Gardner <a href="http://ladylibertine.net/2014/08/26/u-s-senate-candidates-speak-at-koch-donor-summit/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">proclaimed</a> that “third party” money would make the difference in his race. To build a sense of urgency, Gardner mentioned LCV and a couple other groups that are actively opposing his candidacy, adding, “We’ve seen the Climate Action folks come in to Colorado and organize because they know the threat that we pose.”

Gardner wasn’t expecting these remarks to ever see the light of day, but that acknowledgment – that Gardner and his allies pose a “threat” to those who are concerned about climate change – is spot on. Gardner is a <a href="http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1059982532/print" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/05/gop-senate-candidates-grope-for-safe-position-on-climate-change/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">denier</a> who has <a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-106-carbon-pollution" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none;">voted</a> to block the EPA from addressing carbon pollution from power plants, so when he tells the Koch brothers’ network that he wants to “change the course of this country,” we know exactly what he means: Stop the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and give polluters a free pass...

<a href="http://www.lcv.org/media/blog/leaked-audio-reveals.html">http://www.lcv.org/media/blog/leaked-audio-reveals.html</a>

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koch FW 70- 80%  <a href="http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/cory-gardner">http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/cory-gardner</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Alumni_in_Congress">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Alumni_in_Congress</a>

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It's so tempting to call the overwhelming majority of the 17 Republican members of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee dunces, doofuses, know-nothings, nincompoops, ignoramuses or cuckoo birds when it comes to climate change. If you watched even a brief part of Wednesday's <a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/moniz-mccarthy-fight-off-climate-change-deniers-at-house-hearing/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hearing</a> on the subject with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifying, you can see that this GOP crew most certainly qualifies for any and all those descriptors.

Indeed, 14 of them are outright climate change deniers. Total scientific illiterates. Or at least pretending to be by carrying water for the fossil fuel companies that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades injecting disinformation into public discourse about climate change and smearing scientists whose research showed that it is happening and that it ishuman-caused. That was why several members of the audience <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/environmental-activists-wear-tinfoil-hats-to-republican-hear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">donned tinfoil hats</a> to mock those committee members when they asked questions. The 14:

<a href="http://whitfield.house.gov/press-release/whitfield-blasts-use-false-science-copenhagen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Chairman: Ed Whitfield</a> (Kentucky); <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/rep_scalise_voices_fresh_doubt.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Vice Chairman: Steve Scalise</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/12/ralph-hall-speaks-out-climate-change" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Ralph Hall</a>(Texas); <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg66704/html/CHRG-112hhrg66704.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Michael C. Burgess, M.D.</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/3680018" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Pete Olson</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/10/rep-joe-barton-biblical-great-flood-shows-climate-change-isnt-man-made/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Joe Barton</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_7h08RDYA5E" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">John Shimkus</a> (Illinois); <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/xl-pipeline-pros-and-cons-11446071" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Lee Terry</a> (Nebraska); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/12/16/390886/republican-house-profits-over-public-health/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Bill Cassidy</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/10/20/1st-district-update-more-west-virginia-politicians-ignore-the-mounting-science-about-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">David McKinley</a> (West Virginia); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/09/21/206758/house-races-climate-change-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Cory Gardner</a> (Colorado); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/03/15/174947/koch-committee-climate-denial/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Mike Pompeo</a> (Kansas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MUMKQlLtM" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Morgan Griffith</a> (Virginia); and<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/08/142997/upton-climate-denier/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Fred Upton</a> (Michigan).

Three other Republican members on the subcommittee, Joseph R. Pitts of Pennsylvania, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Bob Latta of Ohio have not directly denied that human-made climate change is happening. But on related issues they vote just like the outright deniers.

These aren't the only deniers on the subcommittee. There's also John Barrow of Georgia, one of the few remaining Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.

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Adam Kinziger (IL-11) has taken the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity's "no climate tax" pledge, along with Bass, Gardner, Griffith, Harper, McKinley, McMorris Rodgers, Olson, Pompeo, and Walden.  Of the 13 incoming members, I consider 8 to be clearly infected with Teh Stoopid, while the AFP pledge

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Americans for Prosperity is the political arm of the

Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which David Koch

co-founded in the 1980s under the name Citizens for a

Sound Economy. He is chairman of the board of the

foundation, which says it aims to educate citizens on "a

return of the federal government to its constitutional

limits."

Americans for Prosperity says it spent $40 million in

the 2010 election cycle, organized rallies and phone

banks, and canvassed door to door in nearly 100 races

across the country. The organization found scores of

energetic activists in the "tea party" movement to carry

its message.

Throughout this effort, Americans for Prosperity kept a

strong emphasis on promoting its views on climate change

and energy regulation. In 2008, it began circulating a

pledge asking politicians to denounce a Democratic-led

effort to compel oil refineries and utilities to clean

up emissions of greenhouse gases through a so-called

cap-and-trade system. The organization said it amounted

to a hidden tax increase.

The cap-and-trade legislation passed the House but died

in the Senate. Americans for Prosperity began working to

defeat House Democrats who voted for the bill, showing

the power of its new activist base.

The advocacy group does not disclose spending in

individual races. But it said it facilitated tens of

thousands of phone calls and organized dozens of events

in recent congressional campaigns. Among the

beneficiaries, besides Griffith, were newly elected

Reps. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)

Cory Gardner (R-Koch, uh BP, uh Anadarko, uh nevermind)

and Adam Kinzinger

(R-Ill.). All three now sit on the Energy and Commerce

Committee.

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In my previous diary I focused on how corporate influence has supplanted normal party operations for fundraising and organizing. Now I'm going to look at the messaging side. Specifically I'm going to look at the greenwashing that the secretly-funded astroturf organizations do. My congressman, Cory Gardner, rather than supporting the burgeoning green energy industry in his district, he instead supports his oil and gas buddies.

Gardner has been busy going against the wishes of his constituents.  He sponsored H.R. 97, a bill so short that it can be <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.97:">quoted</a> in full:

<blockquote>To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.

* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

* This Act may be cited as the `Free Industry Act'.

SEC. 2. GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN AIR ACT.

* Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: The term air pollutant' shall not include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.'.

SEC. 3. CLIMATE CHANGE NOT REGULATED BY CLEAN AIR ACT.

* Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.

</blockquote>

He justified this position as <a href="http://gardner.house.gov/press-release/hearty-oversight-epa-gardner%E2%80%99s-watch">follows</a> from his press release:

<blockquote>The EPA has been using the Clean Air Act to quietly impose carbon emission restrictions that are outside the authority of the Act, placing a bigger burden on local governments and consumers as they struggle to comply with the stricter regulations.  Rep. Gardner, whose district is predominantly rural, is especially concerned with the impact EPA policies are having on farmers and ranchers.</blockquote>

Predominately rural? According to the <a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cd109th/CO/ur_c9_08.pdf">Census Bureau</a> CD4 is 75% urban.

Furthermore, he's not representing his district. Here's an <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/media/2011/110210.asp">NRDC poll</a> of his district:

<blockquote>Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.

(519 voters interviewed February 4-5/margin of error: plus or minus 4.3 percent)

* 66 percent say "Congress should let the EPA do its job."

    * 54 percent say that "EPA needs to do more to hold polluters accountable and protect the air and water."

    * 61 percent oppose the Upton proposal "that would block the EPA from limiting carbon dioxide pollution."

* 55 percent favor "the EPA setting new standards with stricter limits on air pollution."

</blockquote>

So, how did he get elected when he is so out of step with his moderate, purple, district? Short answer,  greenwashing. Long answer, below the fold.

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Gardner help found The Western Skies Coalition, a 501 (c)(4) advocacy group incorporated in Virginia but with an office in Littleton.  Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens and former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett are two of the noted members of the organization’s “constantly growing” executive committee. Here's their <a href="http://www.westernskiescoalition.org/pdf/WSC_PR_10-11-07.pdf">announcement</a>:

<blockquote>Western Skies Coalition Launches Website Coalition dedicated to promoting issues that make America great

Denver, Colo. (October 10, 2007) – Today, Western Skies Coalition established a strong presence on the Internet by launching an interactive, information-packed website at www.WesternSkiesCoalition.org. Western Skies Coalition, a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization, is dedicated to promoting issues that make America great: protection of individual freedom; a pro-growth economic agenda; a strong national defense strategy; and the preservation of the environment.

“Working with policy experts and a strong grassroots network, our goal is to educate elected officials and promote policies through broadcast media, mail and the Internet,” said Sean Tonner, president of Western Skies Coalition. Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens and Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett are two of the noted members of the constantly growing Western Skies Coalition’s Executive Committee.

The website includes discussions and white papers on topics such as tax reform, immigration, health care, energy and U.S. competition, as well as recent news stories and contribution information. “Launching this site is the first step toward bringing important policy information to citizens of the West,” Tonner said.

Editorial Contact

Sean Tonner

Mobile: (303) 916-0266

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So, Western Skies has said above that they are organized as a 501(c)(4). They've yet to file with the Internal Revenue Service, according to a <a href="http://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/search.do?nameSearchTypeStarts=false&names=western+skies&nameSearchTypeAll=true&city=&state=All...&country=USA&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=search&submitName=Search">search</a> I did of IRS records.

Sean Tonner of Phase Line Strategies, a conservative consulting firm based in Highlands Ranch, <a href="http://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/ViewImage.do?masterFileId=20081183494&fileId=20081183494">filed</a> Western Skies as a foreign entity with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office on April 2 of 2008.

Speaking of Sean Tonner here he's <a href="http://completecolorado.com/mcinnis.html">referred</a> to in a voice mail by Scott McInnis for his 527 (which is a no no because of coordinations with campaigns).

<blockquote>WANNA VISIT WITH YOU ON THIS TWO-THOUSAND-AND-TEN GOVERNOR'S RACE...

I'M GONNA RUN FOR GOVERNOR, WE'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM ON-BOARD, WE'RE PICKING UP A LOT OF SUPPORT, I KNOW YOU HEAR THAT, BUT THE FACT IS UHH, FROM CANDIDATES, BUT THE FACT IS WE REALLY HAVE. IT'S GOING VERY WELL.

WE'VE GOT SEAN TONNER ON BOARD, BARB CARD ON BOARD, SHE'S DOIN' OUR FINANCE, SEAN'S DOIN' OUR 5-UH....(COUGH) OR A-527, MIKE HESSE IS, UH, DOIN' OUR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS, WE'VE GOT BARB McTURK ON OUR VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS,

WE'VE GOT LOTS OF SUPPORT IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, LOTS OF SUPPORT IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, LOTS OF SUPPORT FROM, UH, THE LEGISLATIVE ARENA, ESPECIALLY FORMER LEGISLATORS, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH,

</blockquote>

When asked about the voicemail by the Denver Post, McInnis <a href="http://www.politicswest.com/39794/mcinnis_voicemail_raises_campaign_law_questions">replied</a>.

<blockquote>McInnis, who verified that he left the message, points out he's not officially announced his candidacy or formed a candidate committee, so the rules do not yet apply.

And what he really meant to say was that Tonner, president of consulting firm Phase Line Strategies, is a supporter and answering questions about potential future 527s, he said.

</blockquote>

The only 527-style organization that I can find done by Phase Line is the Western Skies Coalition and it puts the oil and gas comment also in perfect context. From my poking around it really appears that candidates like McInnis and Norton were the real Tea Party candidates.  That is, those with the backing of the corporations. (This is how Governor Walker snuck in. People weren't looking for who was owned by the corporations but who was the craziest as the Tea Party candidate.) When the useful idiots picked the wrong guys (Maes and Buck) they were left to flail in the wind because they weren't as "owned" by the corporate donors. Remember <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15735182">this</a>? When it looked like McInnis' plagarism was fatal to his cause and Maes was going to win, the powers that be courted ReMax founder, Dave Liniger immediately prior to the primary:

<blockquote>ReMax founder Dave Liniger is being courted by fellow Republicans to jump into the governor's race, a prospect Liniger is considering, multiple sources involved in or close to the conversations told The Denver Post Tuesday.

...

GOP donors and leaders have had on-going conversations about trying to squeeze McInnis out. His big donors and GOP stalwarts, such as former Gov. Bill Owens or former Sen. Hank Brown, are expected to try and convince him that abandoning the race in favor of someone else is the party's best chance for success in November, GOP sources said.

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Another Phase Line Strategies principal is Mike Ciletti who is Gardner's campaign manager. According to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Ciletti">Source Watch</a>.

<blockquote>Mike Ciletti was a principal in Phase Line Strategies, a Colorado public affairs and political consulting firm founded in 2002. In 2006, he was a spokesman for Wal-Mart.  In 2009 he started New West Public Affairs , a Colorado firm that organizes grassroots advocacy campaigns and promotes Teleforum [Note: remember this as I will be bringing this up later.]  as a PR and advocacy tool to help influence statewide legislation. He started the firm with his friend, Jake Zambrano .

Prior to joining Phase Line, Ciletti served as Deputy Director for Colorado Governor Bill Owens ' Office of Innovation and Technology. He also worked for for U.S. Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) and Congressman Joel Hefley (R-CO). [2] He was also political director of the Colorado Republican Party from 1999-2000. He obtained a BS in political science from Regis University in 1994

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The Colorado Independent <a href="http://coloradoindependent.com/7766/the-petroleum-pledge-western-skies-backers-sign-onto-%E2%80%98energy-action-plan%E2%80%99">found</a> the following when they looked into Western Skies Coalition in 2008:

<blockquote>Rep. Frank McNulty is one of a trio of GOP state lawmakers thought to be behind the Western Skies Coalition — a Virginia corporation raising oil and gas money to target keystate senate races.

In an interview with Colorado Independent, McNulty (R-Highlands Ranch) declined to discuss the group’s funding sources.

“I signed the Western Skies pledge on a balanced energy portfolio,” McNulty said. “I think that’s critically important. We need to be looking at traditional sources like coal, and hopefully clean-coal technologies, and natural gas. We also need to look at increasing the use of hydro power. And I think we need to look at nuclear.”

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What is this <a href="http://www.coloradoindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/western-skies-coalition-energy-leadership-action-plan-091008.jpg">pledge</a>?

They continue.

<blockquote>Several sources, both on and off the record, have told Colorado Independent that McNulty, along with Sen. Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) and Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma), are behind the Western Skies Coalition (WSC), which bills itself as a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization but has not registered as such with the Internal Revenue Service.

WSC has a Littleton office, but messages left there have not been returned, and both Penry and Gardner did not return numerous phone calls and e-mails seeking comment.

So-called C4 organizations by law do not have to disclose donors but must engage in promoting social issues, with no more than 49 percent for their contributions spent on political advocacy. Western Skies in recent weeks ran thousands of dollars worth of television ads in support of Republican state senate candidates Shawn Mitchell and Libby Szabo.

The ads have portrayed both Mitchell, an incumbent from Broomfield and Szabo, a businesswoman running for Senate District 19 on the Front Range, as green-energy advocates. In fact, Mitchell has repeatedly voted against increasing the state’s renewable-energy portfolio and Szabo is running on a pro-traditional-energy platform. Neither Mitchell nor Szabo returned messages requesting comment.

According to an Aug. 29 story in the Rocky Mountain News, Mitchell also signed the Western Skies pledge, but did so because of its traditional-energy opportunities rather than its nod to pursuing renewable sources, telling the paper, “What I’m not is a clean-energy statist that’s going to force consumers to transition before it makes sense.”

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TV ads were not the only way greenwashing occurred. Two other ways were used. One was the microtargeted mailing and the other is the phony townhall. First, the microtargeted mailing.  Note the <a href="http://archives.realvail.com/RealNews/383/GOP-lawmakers-taking-energy-pledge-put-forth-by-shadowy-Western-Skies-nonprofit.html">following</a> from Real Vail:

<blockquote>Several oil and gas companies with extensive interests in Colorado flatly refused to disclose whether they have contributed to Western Skies, and McNulty wouldn’t go there either. The group lists on its executive committee former Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican who used to work as an oil and gas lobbyist and was behind the infamous Trailhead Group 527 that flooded state airwaves with attack ads in 2006.

Another reportedly targeted race — Senate District 8 in northwest Colorado, which includes parts of gas-rich Garfield County — has yet to see substantial injections of outside money.

“I’ve seen a couple of mailers for me that have come from somebody called Coloradans for Integrity, and I don’t know who that is. I haven’t seen anything against me,” said Rep. Al White (R-Hayden), who’s running to replace term-limited Sen. Jack Taylor in SD 8. “It’s certainly not to the extent that some of those targeted Front Range races are being identified for support, and I don’t know frankly how much more I will get, if anything, by way of outside entities.”

Coloradans for Integrity is a Colorado LLC registered in January to Jennie Willis, a receptionist at Denver-based Axiom Strategies, which on its Web site purports to be a bi-partisan political consulting and lobbying firm. It lists among its clients the Colorado Independent Energy Association, which promotes natural gas production but also renewable energy.

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Open Secrets shows that Axiom Strategies is a <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/coffees/politicians/expendetail.php?cid=N00030780&cycle=2010&name=Axiom%20Strategies">recipient</a> of Gardner's campaign funds for microtargeting Nov. 1 and 2 2010. Here's Jeff Roe <a href="http://www.axiomstrategies.com/index-3.html">bragging</a> about his microtargeting capabilities.

<blockquote>First, the campaign collected as much voter data as possible through volunteer work and paid IDs. Second, Axiom Strategies developed a mail plan that separated early voters and messages from Election Day voters. Third, Axiom integrated volunteer and paid voter ID’s into two discrete universes to conserve resources and avoid overlap and waste.

The first step of the strategy is done by the hard work of the campaign. Whether it’s walking neighborhoods, holding phone banks or paying for voter data, the campaign collects as much voter ID data as possible and incorporates it in a master database.

Second, while the voter ID program was ongoing, we spent our time developing mail plans for each district. The districts presented a unique challenge in that each had different rules for absentee/early voting. It was essential to understand the key dates and design a program that would hit the right voter at the right time.

Finally, the volunteer and phone data was integrated into our mail plans for both campaigns. One of the common complaints about direct mail programs is that it doesn’t incorporate volunteer and paid ID data that is collected through the course of a the campaign and, many times, simply ignores it. The result is wasted time and money, both for the ID program and for mail that misses its target.

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People in Missouri should <a href="http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-legal-loophole-allows-etax-opponents-secret-funding-20110321,0,256234.story">pay attention</a> to these people in their back yard.

<blockquote>The groups giving money to defeat the e-tax don't have to tell where the money is coming from. Under Missouri law, certain non-profit groups are allowed to accept donations anonmously, and that's exactly what opponents of the city's earnings tax are doing. They say they have to, to avoid retailation from the mayor's office.

"Our opponents are a secret wrapped in a mystery," said Cheryl Bisbee, Save Kansas City Committee.

Defenders of Kansas City's earnings tax held a press conference to complainm that their opponents are campaiging with secret cash. They used fake money as a prop but the $375,000 spent to fight the earnings tax is real. It's just not real clear where it comes from.

"It's the secrecy that bothers me," said Bisbee. "It's the lack of full disclosure. The Missouri Ethics Commission, those reports are on file for a reason, and to use a legal loophole to hide where the money is coming from, I think that's not the right idea."

"We are abiding by every rule and regulation that there is out there," said Jason Klindt.

Klindt works for Axiom Strategies. They are the political consultants hired by the two main political action committees funding the vote against the e-tax, but it's impossible to know who's funding them. Although Axiom Strategies abides by the law, voters want to know who's funding them and whether the earnings tax hurts Kansas City.

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Second, greenwashing occurs via phony town halls. Remember Teleforum which Mike Ciletti's New West Public Affairs pushes? According to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Teleforum">SourceWatch</a>:

<blockquote>In February, 2009, elected officials in Mesa County, Colorado, with assistance from the public relations firm New West Public Affairs held a Teleforum in the county, the purpose of which appeared to be to direct and shape public opinion about proposed statewide legislation to regulate the oil and gas drilling industries. Using Teleforum software, County elected officials phoned the homes of 30,000 registered voters in the county simultaneously at 9 AM on a Saturday morning and asked them to participate in an ongoing teleconference about the issue of natural gas drilling. The tenor of the discussion favored the point of view of the drilling industry. One commissioner who acted as the moderator of the call stated about halfway through the meeting that a caller (who was not allowed to speak) had asked to know if the commissioners had “given thought to having anyone on the panel with a differing opinion.” The moderator, Commissioner Janet Rowland, responded by saying the meeting "wasn’t intended to serve as a pro-and-con discussion of the industry," but rather "as a forum for people to ask questions." Rowland and another Commissioner,Craig Meis, both have financial ties to the energy industry in the County, according to the local paper.</blockquote>

Finally, one more thing on the June 2010 fundraiser I commented on in Part I. Here's how the <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/press/articles/2010/06/23/6-lobbyists-host-fundraiser-gardner/">Coloradoan</a> described it:

<blockquote>Just days after his campaign criticized Betsy Markey for "taking directions from lobbyists and special interests," Republican congressional candidate Cory Gardner will have a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser hosted by six lobbyists, including one who counts BP America and Goldman Sachs among his clients.</blockquote>

Now there's some companies you see a lot of on the eastern plains! The Colorado Independent <a href="http://coloradoindependent.com/56043/gardner-to-soak-up-funds-at-event-hosted-by-bp-lobbyist">commented</a> on this as follows:

<blockquote>The Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time blog reported Tuesday that Gardner, the Republican candidate for Colorado’s hotly contested 4th Congressional District, will be the beneficiary Thursday of a $1,000-a-plate luncheon in Washington co-hosted by BP lobbyist <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?lname=Meyer,%20Daniel&id=Y00000314780&year=2010">Dan Meyer</a>.

“Amidst the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, a series of public relations foibles, and public outrage against BP, the company’s lobbyists are continuing to work the Washington circuit,” the blog notes, adding that Meyer – now with the Duberstein Group – was assistant to the president for legislative affairs under George W. Bush.he Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time blog reported Tuesday that Gardner, the Republican candidate for Colorado’s hotly contested 4th Congressional District, will be the beneficiary Thursday of a $1,000-a-plate luncheon in Washington co-hosted by BP lobbyist Dan Meyer.

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I'll conclude with their prescient concluding graf from June 2010:

<blockquote>He rarely misses a chance to demonize Democrats for over-regulating the industry and killing high-paying if cyclical jobs in the various gas patches around the state and Western Skies or some other such industry front may yet rear its hydra-like heads in the upcoming mid-term elections. So maybe a BP fundraiser in D.C. makes perfect sense.</blockquote>

Cory Gardner (R-Koch, uh BP, uh Anadarko, uh nevermind)

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<h4 style="">Originally posted to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Colorado%20COmmunity/">Colorado COmmunity</a> on Wed Mar 23, 2011 at 04:45 AM PDT.</h4>

<h4 style="">Also republished by <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/J%20Town/" style="">J Town</a> and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/rescue/" style="">Community Spotlight</a>.</h4>

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