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TP/koch target ppl who believe in AGW:The race for a congressional seat in southern Indiana underscores the difficulty many people have arguing against the Tea Party or its candidates. This is especially true when it comes to climate change.The New York Times explored a recent debate in Jasper, Ind., to showcase the arguments the Tea Party is using to unseat Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, who voted for the cap-and-trade energy bill in 2009.To his credit — though probably not in his best political interest — Hill, who faces Tea Party-backed Todd Young, explained exactly why he voted in favor of the bill.“It will create jobs in Indiana, reduce foreign oil imports and address global warming,” the Democrat said before committing further political suicide in the largely conservative district. The final blow likely came when he said, “Climate change is real, and man is causing it. That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”According to the story, Hill’s science lingo was received with boos and a few direct comments about the Bible, redistribution of wealth and a conspiracy to create one world government. That kind of backlash is difficult for any candidate to counter — not because it's factual, but because challenging it plays right into the Tea Party’s hands. LOST --> APCO?!full: context: see frontline pwr of big oil on BO blindsided on cap & trade wonky issue, signs commiecampaign event mod rw radio xian asked bob inglis climate, trey gowdy smacked him down 12 yr incumb 29% cap & trade?note no mention of KOCH<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html</a>no lnxJASPER, Ind. — At a candidate forum here last week, Representative Baron P. Hill, a threatened Democratic incumbent in a largely conservative southern Indiana district, was endeavoring to explain his unpopular vote for the House cap-and-trade energy bill.It will create jobs in Indiana, reduce foreign oil imports and address global warming, Mr. Hill said at a debate with Todd Young, a novice Republican candidate who is supported by an array of Indiana Tea Party groups and is a climate change skeptic.“Climate change is real, and man is causing it,” Mr. Hill said, echoing most climate scientists. “That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”A rain of boos showered Mr. Hill, including a hearty growl from Norman Dennison, a 50-year-old electrician and founder of the Corydon Tea Party.“It’s a flat-out lie,” Mr. Dennison said in an interview after the debate, adding that he had based his view on the preaching of Rush Limbaugh and the teaching of Scripture. “I read my Bible,” Mr. Dennison said. “He made this earth for us to utilize.”Skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement, here in Indiana and across the country. For some, it is a matter of religious conviction; for others, it is driven by distrust of those they call the elites. And for others still, efforts to address climate change are seen as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth. But all are wary of the Obama administration’s plans to regulate carbon dioxide, a ubiquitous gas, which will require the expansion of government authority into nearly every corner of the economy.“This so-called climate science is just ridiculous,” said Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots. “I think it’s all cyclical.”“Carbon regulation, cap and trade, it’s all just a money-control avenue,” Ms. Khuri added. “Some people say I’m extreme, but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too.”Whatever the party composition of the next Congress, cap and trade is likely dead for the foreseeable future. If dozens of new Republican climate skeptics are swept into Congress, the prospects for assertive federal action to control global warming gases, including regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency, will grow dimmer than they already are.Those who support the Tea Party movement are considerably more dubious about the existence and effects of global warming than the American public at large, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted this month. The survey found that only 14 percent of Tea Party supporters said that global warming is an environmental problem that is having an effect now, while 49 percent of the rest of the public believes that it is. More than half of Tea Party supporters said that global warming would have no serious effect at any time in the future, while only 15 percent of other Americans share that view, the poll found.And 8 percent of Tea Party adherents volunteered that they did not believe global warming exists at all, while only 1 percent of other respondents agreed.Those views in general align with those of the fossil fuel industries, which have for decades waged a concerted campaign to raise doubts about the science of global warming and to undermine policies devised to address it.They have created and lavishly financed institutes to produce anti-global-warming studies, paid for rallies and Web sites to question the science, and generated scores of economic analyses that purport to show that policies to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases will have a devastating effect on jobs and the overall economy.ImageTheir views are spread by a number of widely followed conservative opinion leaders, including Mr. Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, George Will and Sarah Palin, who oppose government programs to address climate change and who question the credibility and motives of the scientists who have raised alarms about it.Groups that help support Tea Party candidates include climate change skepticism in their core message. Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, has sponsored what it calls a Regulation Reality Tour to stir up opposition to climate change legislation and federal regulation of carbon emissions. Its Tea Party talking points describe a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions as “the largest excise tax in history.”FreedomWorks, another group supported by the oil industry, helps organize Tea Party rallies and distributes fliers urging opposition to federal climate policy, which it calls a “power grab.”“Any effort to make electricity and fuel more expensive or to cap or regulate CO2 will only exacerbate an already critical situation and cause tremendous economic damage,” FreedomWorks says on its Web site.The oil, coal and utility industries have collectively spent $500 million just since the beginning of 2009 to lobby against legislation to address climate change and to defeat candidates, like Mr. Hill, who support it, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group in Washington.Their message appears to have fallen on receptive ears. Of the 20 Republican Senate candidates in contested races, 19 question the science of global warming and oppose any comprehensive legislation to deal with it, according to a National Journal survey.The only exception is Mark Steven Kirk, the Republican Senate nominee in Illinois, who was one of only eight Republicans to vote for the House cap-and-trade bill sponsored by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats. (One of the other Republican “yes” votes was cast by Representative Michael N. Castle of Delaware, who blames that vote in part for his primary election defeat by Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate and a global warming skeptic.)A large majority of Tea Party-supported House candidates also doubt global warming science and oppose energy legislation designed to address it.Mr. Young, the Indiana Republican nominee trying to unseat Mr. Hill for the Ninth Congressional District seat, strongly opposes cap and trade and other unilateral measures to combat global warming. He says he is uncertain what is causing the observed heating of the planet, adding that it could be caused by sunspots or the normal cycles of nature.“The science is not settled,” he said in an interview in his headquarters in Bloomington, Ind. And he said that given the scientific uncertainty, it was not wise to make major changes in the nation’s energy economy to reduce carbon emissions.A third candidate in the Indiana Congressional race, Greg Knott, a libertarian, said he accepted the scientific consensus on climate change but opposed a nationwide cap-and-trade system as the answer.Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party affiliate, is supporting Mr. Young in part because of his stand against climate change legislation.“They’re trying to use global warming against the people,” Ms. Deaton said. “It takes away our liberty.”“Being a strong Christian,” she added, “I cannot help but believe the Lord placed a lot of minerals in our country and it’s not there to destroy us.”
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Hill is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition" title="Blue Dog Coalition">Blue Dog Coalition</a>. He was named communication co-chair in December, 2003 and policy co-chair in December, 2008.

In 2001, Hill voted for a version of the "No Child Left Behind Act", which passed the House 384-45.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-1">[2]</a> In 2006, he said he was in favor of scrapping the version that passed,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-2">[3]</a> calling it a "more or less of a federal takeover of our system".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

Hill has a minor part in Michael Moore's film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism:_A_Love_Story" title="Capitalism: A Love Story">Capitalism: A Love Story</a>. In the film he talks about his choice to vote against the Wall Street bank bailout in late 2008. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

Hill authored the Hill-Terry Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Bill in 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

On March 21, 2010, Hill voted in favor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‎</a>, and made his case for supporting it in a press release.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments">edit</a>] Committee assignments</h3>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce">Committee on Energy and Commerce</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Communications,_Technology_and_the_Internet" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet" class="mw-redirect">Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Energy_and_Environment" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment" class="mw-redirect">Subcommittee on Energy and Environment</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science and Technology" class="mw-redirect">Committee on Science and Technology</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Space_and_Aeronautics" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics">Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Economic_Committee" title="United States Congress Joint Economic Committee">Joint Economic Committee</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political campaigns">edit</a>] Political campaigns</h2>

n 2002, Hill defeated Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sodrel" title="Mike Sodrel">Mike Sodrel</a> with 51 percent of the vote. Sodrel, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Albany,_Indiana" title="New Albany, Indiana">New Albany</a> trucking company owner, had 46 percent.

In November 2004, in a rematch, Hill lost to Sodrel by a margin of about 1,500 votes. There was a recount, but the scope was limited because of the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRE_voting_machine" title="DRE voting machine">DRE voting machines</a> in Indiana.

Hill won the Democratic nomination in the 9th District in 2006. He was included in the "First Wave" of the Democratic Party's "Red-to-Blue" program.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

Texas millionaire <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_J._Perry" title="Bob J. Perry">Bob J. Perry</a> gave more than $5 million to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fund" title="Economic Freedom Fund">Economic Freedom Fund</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/527_group" title="527 group" class="mw-redirect">527 group</a>, which included Hill as one of its targets for removal. The group paid for automated "push poll" calls attacking Hill. Such calls were stopped after action by the Indiana Attorney General.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-8">[9]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Political_Report" title="Cook Political Report" class="mw-redirect">Cook Political Report</a> rated the race as a toss-up.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Indiana,_2010#District_9" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2010">United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2010#District 9</a>

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Hill ran for reelection, challenged by Republican nominee Bloomington attorney Todd Young. During the campaign, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> ran ads asking "Is Baron Hill running for Congress in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>?”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-Carney-13">[14]</a> He was defeated on November 2, 2010.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Post-congressional career">edit</a>] Post-congressional career</h2>

Following his defeat in 2010, Hill was hired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCO_Worldwide" title="APCO Worldwide">APCO Worldwide</a>.The firm's clients include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO" title="COSCO">COSCO</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America">PhRMA</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Trust_of_America" title="Solar Trust of America">Solar Trust</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning" title="Dow Corning">Dow Corning</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-Carney-13">[14]</a>

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<div>The race for a congressional seat in southern Indiana underscores the difficulty many people have arguing against the Tea Party or its candidates. This is especially true when it comes to climate change.</div>

<div><a class="external" target="blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html?r=1">The New York Times explored</a> a recent debate in Jasper, Ind., to showcase the arguments the Tea Party is using to unseat Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, who voted for the cap-and-trade energy bill in 2009.</div>

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To his credit — though probably not in his best political interest — Hill, who faces Tea Party-backed Todd Young, explained exactly why he voted in favor of the bill.</div>

<div>“It will create jobs in Indiana, reduce foreign oil imports and address <a href="http://www.mnn.com/eco-glossary/global-warming">global warming</a>,” the Democrat said before committing further political suicide in the largely conservative district. The final blow likely came when he said, “Climate change is real, and man is causing it. That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”</div>

<div>According to the story, Hill’s science lingo was received with boos and a few direct comments about the Bible, redistribution of wealth and a conspiracy to create one world government. That kind of backlash is difficult for any candidate to counter — not because it's factual, but because challenging it plays right into the Tea Party’s hands.</div>

=wiki 7/15Baron Paul Hill (born June 23, 1953) is the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Indiana's 9th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indiana's 9th congressional district</a>, serving from 1999 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic Party</a>.The district is located in the southeastern part of the state and stretched from<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomington,Indiana" title="Bloomington, Indiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bloomington</a> to the Indiana side of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_metropolitan_area" title="Louisville metropolitan area" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Louisville metropolitan area</a>. It has since been redistricted to exclude the Louisville suburbs and now includes exurban<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indianapolis</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Early_life.2C_education_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Early life, education and career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 U.S. House of Representatives</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2.1 Committee assignments</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Political_campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Political campaigns</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.5 2006</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.6 2008</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.7 2010</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Post-congressional_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 Post-congressional career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#2016_Election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4.1 2016 Election</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life, education and career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education and career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Hill was a three-sport athlete at Seymour High School, where he was all-state in football and basketball. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Hill accepted an athletic scholarship to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_University" title="Furman University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Furman University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Greenville, South Carolina</a>; where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1975. After graduation, he moved back to Seymour and joined his family's insurance and real estate business.Hill was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1982 to 1990. He served as chairman of the Caucus Campaign Committee, where he helped elect a Democratic majority in the House.In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Indiana,1990" title="United States Senate special election in Indiana, 1990" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1990</a>, Hill ran against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats" title="Dan Coats" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dan Coats</a> to fill the last two years of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dan Quayle</a>'s term; Quayle had been elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vice President</a>. He lost, 54% to 46%. Hill made a name for himself during that campaign by walking the length of the state, from the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ohio River</a> to Lake Michigan, to meet with voters.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. House of Representatives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Hill is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition" title="Blue Dog Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Blue Dog Coalition</a>. He was named communication co-chair in December, 2003 and policy co-chair in December, 2008.In 2001, Hill voted for a version of the "No Child Left Behind Act", which passed the House 384-45.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> In 2006, he said he was in favor of scrapping the version that passed,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> calling it a "more or less of a federal takeover of our system".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>Hill has a minor part in Michael Moore's film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism:A_Love_Story" title="Capitalism: A Love Story" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Capitalism: A Love Story</a>. In the film he talks about his choice to vote against the Wall Street bank bailout in late 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>Hill authored the Hill-Terry Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Bill in 2007.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>On March 21, 2010, Hill voted in favor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>, and made his case for supporting it in a press release.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Committee assignments<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on Energy and Commerce</a><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Communications,Technology_and_the_Internet" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); 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_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Energy_and_Environment" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Energy and Environment</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science and Technology" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on Science and Technology</a><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Space_and_Aeronautics" title="United States House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Economic_Committee" title="United States Congress Joint Economic Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joint Economic Committee</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Political campaigns[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">1998<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 1998" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hill was elected to the House in November 1998. He defeated Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leising" title="Jean Leising" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jean Leising</a>, 51% to 48% and Libertarian Diane Merriam, 1%, winning the seat vacated by retiring 34-year incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_H.Hamilton" title="Lee H. Hamilton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lee H. Hamilton</a>.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2000<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2000" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hill was reelected in 2000, with 54 percent of the vote.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2002<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2002" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sodrel_Mike.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; -webkit-user-select: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2011%2015%22%20width%3D%2215%22%20height%3D%2211%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Cg%20id%3D%22magnify-clip%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%23000%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cpath%20id%3D%22bigbox%22%20d%3D%22M1.509%201.865h10.99v7.919h-10.99z%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cpath%20id%3D%22smallbox%22%20d%3D%22M-1.499%206.868h5.943v4.904h-5.943z%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3C%2Fg%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);">In 2002, Hill defeated Republican </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sodrel" title="Mike Sodrel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Sodrel</a> with 51 percent of the vote. Sodrel, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Albany,Indiana" title="New Albany, Indiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New Albany</a> trucking company owner, had 46 percent.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2004<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2004" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In November 2004, in a rematch, Hill lost to Sodrel by a margin of about 1,500 votes. There was a recount, but the scope was limited because of the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRE_voting_machine" title="DRE voting machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">DRE voting machines</a> in Indiana.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2006<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Hill won the Democratic nomination in the 9th District in 2006. He was included in the "First Wave" of the Democratic Party's "Red-to-Blue" program.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>Texas millionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_J.Perry" title="Bob J. Perry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bob J. Perry</a> gave more than $5 million to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fund" title="Economic Freedom Fund" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Economic Freedom Fund</a>, a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/527_group" title="527 group" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">527 group</a>, which included Hill as one of its targets for removal. The group paid for automated "push poll" calls attacking Hill. Such calls were stopped after action by the Indiana Attorney General.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Political_Report" title="Cook Political Report" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cook Political Report</a> rated the race as a toss-up.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>Baron Hill won the 2006 election with a preliminary 50% of the vote; Sodrel with 46% and Libertarian Eric Schansberg with roughly 4 percent. As is the custom for returning members of Congress, the Democrats gave Hill back his seniority. He was named to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy and Commerce</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science and Technology" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Science and Technology</a> committees.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2008<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Indiana,2008#District_9" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2008 § District 9</a></div>In 2008 Hill and Sodrel again fought for the 9th District. Last year, the race moved between Likely D to Lean D on the Cook Political Report.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> Fund raising in 2008 had become more one-sided than in 2006, with Hill far ahead in the numbers game, according to reported income.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> Baron Hill voted against the $700 billion bailout bill and the week late $1 trillion bailout bill.Hill defeated Sodrel in the election, 58% to 39%.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-BBC_Programmes_GOOTT-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2010<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Indiana,2010#District_9" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2010 § District 9</a></div>Hill ran for reelection, challenged by Republican nominee Bloomington attorney Todd Young. During the campaign, the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> ran ads asking "Is Baron Hill running for Congress in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Indiana</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">China</a>?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-Carney-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[14]</a> He was defeated on November 2, 2010.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Post-congressional career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Post-congressional career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Following his defeat in 2010, Hill was hired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCO_Worldwide" title="APCO Worldwide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">APCO Worldwide</a>.The firm's clients include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSCO" title="COSCO" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">COSCO</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">PhRMA</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Trust_of_America" title="Solar Trust of America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Solar Trust</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning" title="Dow Corning" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dow Corning</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-Carney-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[14]</a> In 2013, Hill left APCO to start his own lobbying firm, where he represents Cook Industries, a company located in his former district.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2016 Election<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baron_Hill&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2016 Election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2014 Hill announced he was considering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_gubernatorial_election,2016" title="Indiana gubernatorial election, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">run for Governor in 2016</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>Following the retirement announcement by Indiana Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats" title="Dan Coats" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dan Coats</a>, Hill publicly expressed his interest in pursuing the Democratic nomination to fill the Senate seat.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>Hill officially announced on May 15, 2015, that he would seek the open senate seat as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic" title="Democratic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic</a> nominee.=

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