Murphy, Tim Rep
<div>=</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div class="coverage_header_bar coverage_header_bar_news-politics" style="text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; width: 944px; margin-left: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ELECTION '18</font></div><div class="region region-content"><div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system first last odd count-1" style="position: relative;"><div class="content"><div id="node-1086859" class="node node-story view-mode-full clearfix=" about="/election-03918/republicans-fear-they-are-about-lose-another-longtime-gop-seat-after-nominating-wacky" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="headline"><h1 class="node-title" style="line-height: 52px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats Could Flip Another Longtime GOP Seat, As Republicans Nominate a 'Wacky' Candidate in Pennsylvania</font></h1></div><div class="teaser" style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style=""><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Republicans also have doubts about their nominee.</font></div></div></div></div><div class="byline news-politics" style="margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 350px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>By</em> <em><a href="https://www.alternet.org/authors/bob-brigham" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Bob Brigham</a></em> / <span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://rawstory.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Raw Story</a></span></span></span></font></div><div class="story-date" style="float: left; margin-left: 20px; padding-left: 15px; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 23, 2017, </font></em></div><div class="story-date" style="float: left; margin-left: 20px; padding-left: 15px; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></em></div><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix" style="line-height: 25px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fired up after a remarkable victory in the Alabama special election, Democrats are setting their sights on a western Pennsylvania congressional election in March as their next opportunity to capitalize upon the backlash against President Donald Trump, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/23/republicans-brace-for-competitive-pennsylvania-house-race-316206" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Politico reports</a>.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) resigned in October after it was revealed that the “pro-life” politician asked a mistress to get an abortion, resulting in the March 13 special election for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats nominated Conor Lamb, a 33-year-old Marine veteran and former assistant U.S. attorney who hails from a prominent Allegheny County political family. Republicans nominated state Rep. Rick Saccone, who has billed himself as a strong support of President Trump.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Rick, with his age and experience, is more than qualified, but he isn’t the sparkle of everyone’s eye, while Conor is a tall, blonde, blue-eyed stud of a Marine,” said William J. Green, a political analyst on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. “There’s no question that Republicans are worried about the contrast.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans also have doubts about their nominee.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Citing two GOP sources, Politico reports some local Republicans are anticipating Rep. Saccone could lose the special election and are seeking to draft state Senator Guy Reschenthaler to run in the regular primary in May. Senator Reschenthaler lost the nomination to Saccone at the GOP convention in November.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Saccone has “never raised any money and he’s never had any real organization before,” one Republican strategist who works on Pennsylvania races said. “There’s enough out there with Saccone to make him so wacky that Republicans — particularly moderate Republicans in the suburban areas — say this isn’t my cup of tea.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats, meanwhile, are excited about their nominee....</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div></div><div>
</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Critics in the House and elsewhere have said the modeling has been a closed-door process,</b> with insufficient input from the American public, and are trying to prevent the agency from enacting any regulations that account for the social cost of carbon.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 21px;">An amendment introduced by Rep. <b>Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) </b>would bar the EPA from factoring the social cost of carbon into regulations unless a federal law is enacted specifically to authorize such consideration, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/313057-social-cost-of-carbon-battle-hits-house-floor" target="hplink" style="outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">according to The Hill</a>. Another amendment, introduced by <b>Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) as part of the "Energy Consumers Relief Act," would require the agency to promulgate a separate regulation to enable use of the metric.</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who's worked with Culberson on his amendment, is also authoring <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Bill.pdf" target="_hplink" style="outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; text-indent: 0px !important;">a stand-alone bill</a> with Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.</b>) that would scrutinize the process by which the social cost of carbon has been calculated, the role of public and congressional input, and how the social cost of carbon could affect future executive branch actions.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: none; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 21px;">"This is just one way to put the social cost o</p></div><div>===</div>
<p><a href="http://209.190.229.99/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2010&strID=C00108209" class="external text" title="http://209.190.229.99/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2010&strID=C00108209" rel="nofollow">Open Secrets</a> shows that in 2010, Dominion's PAC contributed $1.1 million to mainly Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas candidates running for Congress and Senate. The 2008 election year saw just under $1 million spent on candidates and PACs.</p>
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The biggest recipients of Dominion's PAC were: Senator Don White (R-Pa and Environmental Resources and Energy Committee member), Senator Joseph Scarnati (R-Pa), Governor Tom Corbett (R-Pa), Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pa and member of the Subcommittee on Environment and Economy), Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Senator Dominic Pileggi (R-Pa and Majority Floor Leader).</p>
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