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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Job of Thomas's Wife Raises Conflict-of-Interest
Questions</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wASHINGTON, <b>Dec. 11 — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas said today that she was working at a conservative researchgroup gathering résumés for appointments in a possible Bush administration
but that she saw no conflict between her job and her husband's deliberations
on a case that could decide the presidency. </b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
The comments from the justice's wife, Virginia Lamp Thomas, a former
Republican Congressional aide, came as a federal judge in Nashville said
Justice Thomas faced a serious conflict of interest as a result of his wife's
work for the Heritage Foundation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
The foundation has close ties to the Republican Party and would probably
have a say in the hiring of key government officials if Gov. George W. Bush
assumed the presidency. In e-mail distributed on Capitol Hill earlier this
month, Mrs. Thomas solicited résumés "for transition purposes" from the
government oversight committees of Congress.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
A decision by Justice Thomas to recuse himself could alter the outcome of the
case now before the court, which is weighing whether to allow a manual
recount of votes in Florida. On Saturday, by a vote of 5 to 4, the court blocked
the recount for now. Justice Thomas, who was appointed to the court by
President George Bush, Governor Bush's father, was in the majority.
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If Justice Thomas were to recuse himself, it could result in a 4-to-4 tie in the
case now before it, which would allow the ruling by the Florida Supreme
Court to stand.
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"There is no conflict here," Mrs. Thomas said in an interview. She insisted that
she rarely discussed matters before the Supreme Court with her husband and
that Justice Thomas therefore should not consider recusing himself from the
landmark case.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
A spokesman for Vice President Al Gore said he had no comment on
accusations of a conflict of interest. "The Vice President has the highest
regard for the independent judiciary, so we're not going to comment on the
various questions that have been raised," said Mark Fabiani, a Gore campaign
spokesman.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the Bush transition team, said he was aware
that the<b> Heritage Foundation regularly collected job résumés during
presidential transitions,</b> but he said he did not know if the organization was
coordinating its efforts with the Bush camp.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
"Like many professional women, Mrs. Thomas should not be judged by her
spouse," Mr. Fleischer said, denying any conflict of interest. "She should be
judged on her own merits and qualifications."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
He suggested that the accusations were the work of the Gore campaign.
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
A federal appellate judge, Gilbert S. Merritt of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, said he saw a serious conflict of interest for
Justice Thomas in deciding a case that could throw the election to Governor
Bush</b>.
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"The spouse has obviously got a substantial interest that could be affected by
the outcome," he said in an interview from his home in Nashville. "You should
disqualify yourself. I think he'd be subject to some kind of investigation in the
Senate."
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Judge Merritt, who has long association with the Gore family and was
considered a leading contender for the Supreme Court early in the Clinton
Administration, said he would not launch a formal complaint against Justice
Thomas.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
But he urged Justice Thomas to remove himself from the case in order to
prevent any violation of a federal law — he cited Section 455 of Title 28 of
the United States Code, "Disqualification of Justices, Judges or Magistrates" —
that requires court officers to excuse themselves if a spouse has "an interest
that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Judge Merritt offered his views about Justice Thomas after someone in the
Gore campaign provided The New York Times with his name and telephone
number. Judge Merritt said he had had no direct contact with the Gore
campaign.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Kathy Arberg, a spokesman for the Supreme Court, said she had no comment
on the accusations of a conflict of interest. The Court has also been unwilling
to comment on a suggestion from Gore campaign aides that <b>Justice Antonin
Scalia should consider recusing himself because his son works for a firm that
represents Mr. Bush.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
The son, Eugene Scalia, is a partner in the Washington office of Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher. Another partner, Theodore B. Olson, argued Mr. Bush's case
before the Supreme Court today.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
Referring to her husband, one of the court's most conservative and taciturn
members, Mrs. Thomas said, "We don't talk about Supreme Court business.
Clarence just isn't the kind. He protects me. We have our separate
professional lives."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
On Dec. 4, Mrs. Thomas sent an e- mail message to members of the House
and Senate committees on government oversight seeking résumés for the
presidential transition. She directed would-be applicants to forward their
résumés<b> along with a history of political activities </b>or references to an
associate at the foundation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
Mrs. Thomas said tonight that her recruitment efforts were bipartisan and not
on behalf of the Bush campaign.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
"The Bush campaign would be as surprised as I was by any implication that I
was working with them," she said. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Mrs. Thomas acknowledged, however, that her search was likely to generate
more interest among Republicans, because of the foundation's conservative
orientation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">v voice barrett</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"> <b>Stone, the dirty-tricks hobgoblin of Republican politics, has exploited his Bush connections to become an influence-peddling force in the $13 billion Indian gaming industry</b>. Stone's booming business in such a federally regulated enterprise makes his recent pro bono orchestration of Al Sharpton's double-edged presidential campaign an even stranger covert caper.</font></p><div class="ads middle" data-vmg-ad="Middle" data-vmg-format="normal" id="oas_Middle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; min-height: 250px; float: right; clear: right; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" /></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The longtime GOP consultant's reward for fomenting the "Brooks Brothers mob" that shut down the Miami-Dade recount in 2000 was an invitation within days of Bush's election to serve on the Department of Interior transition working group—helping, in his own words, to staff its Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).</font><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Stone has since used this unannounced perch to market himself to tribes and developers from Louisiana to California, earning fat fees and contingent percentages of future casino revenue. Just two of the five deals examined by the <i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Voice</i> are projected to pay him at least $8 million, and perhaps as much as $13 million.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Time</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Washington Post</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The New York Times</i> have published exposés about Bush's BIA, with a February story highlighting $45 million in payments to two GOP lobbyists from four tribes since 2001. But no one has focused on Stone's profiteering, which, unlike the payments to registered lobbyists, is not reported on any public filings. He is routinely brought into casino deals in part because of his perceived ability to win Bush and/or Republican congressional support, a role ostensibly inconsistent with his financing and staffing of the Bush-bashing reverend's campaign.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman">But it was Sharpton himself who focused the <i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Voice</i>'s attention on Stone's bonanza, indicating that business motives pushed Stone to take over the campaign. "It's all about Indian gaming," he said. When pressed recently to explain, Sharpton said, "I will not spell it out." In fact, Stone has a history of bizarre political operations, beginning with his Watergate-era infiltration of the McGovern campaign. And Sharpton has his own bunko background—beating up on Democrats to benefit behind-the-scenes GOP allies like Al D'Amato, George Pataki, and Mike Bloomberg.....</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman">====</font></font></font></font></p></div><h1 class="parseasinTitle " style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="btAsinTitle" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becoming President: The Bush Transition, 2000-2003<span style="text-transform: capitalize;">[Hardcover]</span></font></span></font></font></font></h1><div><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><br /></span></font></span></font></font></font></div><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="contributorNameTrigger"><a asin="B001HCWNOG1588262928" id="contributorNameTriggerB001HCWNOG1588262928" href="http://www.amazon.com/John-P.-Burke/e/B001HCWNOG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1">John P. 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He also talked with former leaders of past transitions about details such as understanding the FBI clearance process.</span></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By June 2000, Johnson had developed a list of tasks and priorities for managing the transition. <b> </b></font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Once Richard Cheney was selected to be Bush’s vice presidential candidate, Johnson sat down with him and honed the list based on Cheney’s prior White House experience</b>. Johnson had developed a list of about 200 names for potential cabinet posts</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> before Election Day and in mid-October Andrew Card was quietly asked to be the White House chief of staff. Johnson knew from the history of past transitions that putting a White House staff in place early was a key to success.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">====</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">... The lecture, presented by Clay Johnson III, will focus on the challenges of implementing a presidential transition from one administration to the next, as well as successfully converting the presidential candidate’s vision into concrete policy once in office.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Johnson is the deputy director for management at the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Office of Management and Budget</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and was the executive director for the 2000 Bush-Cheney transition team. </span></b></span><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the deputy director for management, Johnson provides government-wide leadership to Executive Branch agencies to improve agency and program performance. Previously, Johnson was the assistant to the president for presidential personnel, which identifies and recruits approximately 4,000 senior officials, middle management personnel, and part-time board and commission members. </span><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From</span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> 1995 to 2000, Johnson worked with Gov. George W. Bush in Austin, first as his appointments director, then as hi<b>s chief of staff, </b>and finally as the executive director of the Bush-Cheney transition team. </span><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Johnson has been the chief operating officer for the Dallas Museum of Art and the president of the Horchow and Neiman Marcus Mail Order companies. He has also worked for Citicorp, Wilson Sporting Goods and Frito Lay. </span><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In Austin, he helped create the Texas State History Museum and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Graduate School of Business. In Dallas, Johnson served as president of the board of trustees for St. Marks School of Texas, and as a board member of Equitable Bankshares, Goodwill Industries of Dallas, and the Dallas Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">====</span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">6 - BUSH'S TRANSITION TEAMS </b><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Energy Interests Dominated Bush Transition Energy Advisory Team.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> </b>Big energy and oil firms dominated the Bush transition's Energy Advisory Team, having</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> contributed $857,232 to the Republican Party and Bush during the campaign. (Center for Responsive Politics, www.crp.org) </span></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Almost Two-Thirds of Bush's Energy Transition Team Worked for Energy Industry. Out of the 48 members of the Bush Energy Department transition team, 31, or almost two-thirds, worked for the energy industry: </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">NAME EMPLOYER </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Brian+Bennett" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Brian Bennett</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Southern California Edison </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Robert </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Card </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Kaiser Hill </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Steve Chancellor</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Black Beauty Coal Company </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Joe Colvin </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Nuclear Energy Institute </b></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Don </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Duncan+Phillips" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Duncan </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Duncan+Phillips" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Phillips</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Petroleum </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Company </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Tom+Farrell" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Tom Farrell</a><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Dominion Energy </span></b><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Gay Friedman Interstate </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Natural Gas Association of America </b></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Jack Gerrard</b> National Mining Association </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">J. Roger Hirl</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Occidental Chemical </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Corporation </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Hunter Hunt</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Hunt Power, L.P. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Jerry Jordan<b> </b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Independent Petroleum Association</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b> </b>of America </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Buddy Kleemeier Kaiser Francis Oil Company </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Tom Kuhn </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Edison+Electric+Institute" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">E</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Edison+Electric+Institute" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">dison Electric Institute</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> </span></span></b><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Ken Lay Enron</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></b></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Albee Modiano U.S. Oil and Gas Association </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">David N. Parker American </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Gas </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Association </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">C.J. "Pete" Silas </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Phillips+Petroleum+Company" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Phillips Petroleum</a><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Phillips+Petroleum+Company" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Company</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Gary Ellsworth USEC, Inc. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Buck Harless</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> International Industries </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Stephanie Kroger Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(lobbies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> for companies in oil </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">and gas industries; www.mdck.com) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Joe Farley Balch & Bingham <b>(lobbying</b> firm </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">which focuses on managing and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">operating utilities of all kind; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.balch.com) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Bill Martin Washington Policy and Analysis </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">lobbying</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> firm which represents </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>American Gas Association; </b></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.influenceonline.net) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">The Honorable </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Howard Baker</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> <b>Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell </b></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(lobbying firm dealing with </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">energy industry; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.bakerdonelson.com) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Erle Nye </span><a class="tip" href="http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/TXU" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">TXU</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Electric and Gas Corporation </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Gregg Renkes The Renkes Group </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(lobbies for members of industry, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">including Edison Electric Institute; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.influenceonline.net) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Dick Silverman S.R.P. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Matt Simmons Simmons & Co. International </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">John Tuck</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> <b>Baker, </b>Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(lobbying firm dealing with </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">energy industry; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.bakerdonelson.com) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Daniel+Yergin" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Daniel Yergin</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Cambridge+Energy+Research+Associates" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Cambridge Energy Research Associates</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">The Honorable Thomas C. Merritt Merritt Tool Company, Inc. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(Oilfield Service Business; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Inside F.E.R.C.'s Gas Market Report, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">5/5/95) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">John Wootten <b>Peabody </b>Group </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Coal Executive, Irl Engelhardt was an Energy Advisor to the Bush-Cheney Transition,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> gave $100,000 to Inaugural Fund</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">. Irl Engelhardt of Peabody Group, Inc. served as an energy advisor on the Bush-Cheney transition. During 1999- 2000 the Peabody Group gave </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">$250,000 to the Republican National Committee,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> and Irl Englehardt personally gave $</span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">fund. (Washington Post, 3/25/01; www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><br />7 - APPOINTMENTS </b><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Bush has filled the top levels of his Administration with numerous representatives from the energy industry, including: </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">NAME NEW POSITION FORMER OCCUPATION MONEY </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Condoleeza Rice</b> National Served on the Board In 1999-2000, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Security of Directors of Chevron Chevron gave </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Adviser from 1991-2000. Chevron $758,588 to GOP </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">also named an oil candidates and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">tanker after her. committees. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(Hart's Africa Oil and (www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Gas, 1/29/01) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Gale Norton </b>Secretary Prominent member of In her 1996 bid </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mountain+states" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Mountain States</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Legal</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> for US Senate, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Interior Foundation, which Norton received </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">received donations from $28,570 from </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">175 corporations, oil and gas </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">including<b> Exxon, </b>Amoco, companies, the </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Phillips 66</span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Marathon second largest </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Oil, Ford Motor Company total from any </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">and Chevron. (Friends industry. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">of the Earth Press (www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Release, 1/2/01) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Dick Cheney </b>Vice Former CEO of Halliburton </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">President Halliburton, the gave $425,188 </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">world's largest oil to GOP </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">field service company. candidates in </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(Los Angeles Times, the 2000 </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">4/3/01) election cycle. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/John+Graham" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">John Graham</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Administrator </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">A Harvard professor </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">of the who received funding </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Office of for his research on </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Information regulatory issues from </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">and companies such as Dow, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Regulatory DuPont, Monsanto </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Affairs and Exxon. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">in </span><a class="tip" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/OMB" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">OMB</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> (Boston Globe, 3/13/01) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Kathleen Cooper</b> Under </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Chief+economist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Chief economist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> and Cooper gave </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Secretary manager of economics $11,750 to GOP </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">of Commerce at Exxon Mobile Corp. committees and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">for Economic (Houston Chronicle, $1,000 to the </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Affairs 3/17/01) Bush campaign. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">(www.tray.com; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Jessie Hill </b>Assistant Member of the Defense </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Roberson Secretary Nuclear Facilities Safety </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">of Energy Board and the DOE's </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">for Manager of the Rocky Flats </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Environmental Field Office. 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(</span><a class="tip" href="http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FDCH" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">FDCH</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> Federal </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Department and Agency </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Documents, 3/22/01) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b>Francis Blake</b> Deputy Served as GE's Senior GE gave $5000 </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Energy Vice President for to Bush's </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Secretary Business Development presidential </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">and also as Vice campaign and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">President and General $100,000 to </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Counsel for GE Power Bush's </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Systems. (FT Asia Inaugural </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Intelligence Wire, Fund. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">6/28/00; (www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">www.gepower.com; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">White House Press </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Release, 3/21/01) </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Samuel Bodman </b>Deputy CEO of </span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cabot Corp, </span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bodman gave </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Commerce a chemical producer $1000 to Bush's </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Secretary that was grandfathered presidential </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">under then-Gov. Bush's campaign and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">voluntary emissions $20,000 to GOP </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">plan and was the 4th committees. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">highest source of (www.tray.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">grandfathered emissions </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;">in Texas. </span></span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(www.cabot-corp.com; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Austin American-Statesman, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4/27/99; Business Week, </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3/10/01) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Vicki Bailey</b> Assistant President of PSI Cinergy/PSI </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Secretary Energy, a subsidiary gave $292,415 </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of Energy of </span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cinergy.</span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to GOP </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for (Gas Daily, 3/28/01) committees and </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">International candidates in </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Affairs and 1999-2000. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Domestic (www.tray.com) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Policy </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">J Stephen Griles</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Deputy Deputy director of the In 1998, </span></span><a class="tip" href="http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NES" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NES</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Interior Office of Surface grossed </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Secretary Mining under James Watt </span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$1 million </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and currently serves from </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as Vice President of representing </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Environmental oil, chemical </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Strategies, a</span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> lobbying and mining </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">firm representing the industries. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oil, chemical and (www.crp.org) </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mining industries. </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><a class="tip" href="http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ENN" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ENN</a><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 3/9/01; </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">www.lcv.org) </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Deborah Daniels</b> Assistant Registered in Indiana </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Attorney as a lobbyist for </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General businesses including </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cinergy</span><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Corp. (Indiana </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">State Lobbying </span><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><br style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;" /><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Registrations, 1997-2000) </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/chrntran.html"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.gwu.edu/~action/chrntran.html</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.8px; text-align: justify;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></p><table border="0" cols="3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 680px;"><tbody><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senate confirmation hearings began in relevant committees starting on January 4 and will be continuing through the month. <b> The nominations of John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gail Norton for Interior Secretary drew fire from liberal groups</b>. Each nominee has a team to guide him or her through the confirmation process, consisting of a coordinator and individuals focused on policy, legal, press and congressional affairs aspects. Traditionally the Senate will not block a nominee unless he or she has ethical problems or is not qualified. </font><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" cols="2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cabinet secretaries are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to presidential appointments. Myriad sub-Cabinet posts must be filled, including deputy secretaries and agency heads. The White House staff is also taking shape. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is no shortage of aspirants for positions in the Bush-Cheney administration;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> by January 2, 2001 the transition office had received 42,041 resumes.</span></td><td width="85"><center><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.opm.gov/plumbook/index.htm"><img src="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/plumbook.jpg" border="0" height="102" width="79" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.opm.gov/plumbook/index.htm">The Plum Book</a></font></center></td></tr></tbody></table><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The transition is not only the beginning of a new administration, but the end of an old one. Handing over the reins of power requires considerable preparation on the side of the outgoing administration. The new team must be briefed; records must be boxed and filed. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta is in charge of the overall Clinton transition effort; Bush transition spokesman Ari Fleischer has lauded the administration for its cooperation. During its waning days, the outgoing administration will also endeavor to get as much done as possible. Thus President Clinton launched a final push for peace in the Middle East, and his administration has been busy with appointments, executive orders, regulations, and pardons.</font></td><td style="width: 34px; vertical-align: top;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/chrntran.html#0">Links</a><br /><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/first180.html">180</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cols="3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 680px;"><tbody><tr><td><table cols="3" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="70"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr></tbody></table><center><table cols="4" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); width: 647.2000122070313px;"><caption><b><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bush-Cheney Transition Team</font></b></caption><caption><b><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></b></caption><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="13"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/26</font></td><td valign="top" width="18%"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman</font></td><td valign="top" width="15%"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Richard B. Cheney</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Named as Bush's running mate on July 25, 2000 after heading his vice presidential search. CEO of Halliburton Co. from 1995. Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/27</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Transition Executive Director</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clay Johnson, III</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gov. Bush's chief of staff in Austin from June 1999; appointments director for Bush from 1995-99. CEO of the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-94. President of the Horchow Collection, a mail order catalogue division of Neiman Marcus, from 1983-91; marketing director from 1981-82. Has also worked for Frito-Lay and Wilson Sporting Goods. Classmate of Bush's at Yale and Andover.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/27</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Transition Spokeperson</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">L. Ari Fleischer</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spokesman for the Bush campaign from Nov. 1999; previously served as communications director for Elizabeth Dole's exploratory effort from March-Sept. 1999. Worked for five years as spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee; press secretary for Sen. Pete Domenici from 1989-94.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deputy Spokesperson</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Juleanna Glover Weiss</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Press secretary for Cheney during the campaign. Press secretary for Steve Forbes' 2000 presidential campaign; previously worked for Sen. John </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ashcroft.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/29</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Transition Legal Counsel</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michael Toner</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General counsel for the Bush campaign since March 1999; deputy counsel to the RNC from 1997-99; counsel to the Dole/Kemp campaign in 1996.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11/29</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dir. of Congressional Relations</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>David Gribben</b></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vice president for corporate affairs at Halliburton</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Co. Served at the Defense Department.</font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">12/15</font></td><td colspan="2" valign="top" width="40%"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Policy Coordination Groups <br />Bush-Cheney campaign policy staffers, congressional staffers and other experts assist nominees to the Cabinet in preparing to govern. There are 24 groups, comprising from one to eight persons (three is typical), covering the 14 Cabinet departments as well as a number of agencies. The transition office released a listing of the team members on Dec. 22. </font></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Joshua Bolten </b><br />Policy director for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Spent five years as executive director of legal and governmental affairs at </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Goldman Sachs</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in London. Three years as General Counsel to the USTR and one year as dep. assistant for legislative affairs during the Bush administration. <br />Gary Edson, John Bridgeland</font></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">12/15</font></td><td colspan="2" width="47%"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Advisory Teams <br />Individuals from the private and public sector provide input to the Policy Coordination Groups. The fifteen teams have a total of 474 members from trade associations, corporations, law firms, think tanks interest groups, elective offices and academia. The members were announced on Dec. 29.</font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chair - Former Rep. Bill Paxon <br />Executive Director - Maria Cino</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clearance Counsel <br />Interviews potential nominees.</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred F. Fielding <br />[not formally announced; reported in the <i>Washington Post</i>] Senior partner at </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wiley, Rein & Fielding;</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> served as Counsel to President Reagan 1981-86.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Confirmation Teams<br />Guide Cabinet nominees through the confirmation process.</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coordinator <br /> Policy <br /> Legal <br /> Press <br /> Cong. Relations</font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></td></tr></tbody></table></center><hr noshade="noshade" width="100%" /><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a name="0"><br /></a><font><a href="http://www.bushcheneytransition.com/">2000 Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition Foundation, Inc.</a></font></font><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a name="0" /><a href="http://www.aei.org/governing">The Transition to Governing Project (AEI, Brookings and Hoover)</a> <br /><a href="http://www.whitehouse2001.org/">The White House 2001 Project</a> <br /><a href="http://www.appointee.brookings.org/">The Presidential Appointee Initiative (Brookings)</a> <br /><a href="http://www.opm.gov/transition/trans20r-ch1.htm">Office of Personnel Management--Transition to a New Presidential Administration</a> <br /><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/textonly/library/hot_releases/November_27_2000_4.html">Executive Order: Facilitation of a Presidential Transition (Nov. 27, 2000)</a> <br /><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.04931:">H.R. 4931 The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (signed by Pres. Clinton on Oct. 13, 2000)</a> <br /><a href="http://www.heritage.org/mandate/">The Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership 2000"</a></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.conservative.org/abc/">Americans for the Bush Cabinet</a> <br /><a href="http://www.opposeashcroft.com/">www.OpposeAshcroft.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.saynotonorton.org/">www.saynotonorton.org</a></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">======</font></p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Howard Leach</b> served as President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George W. Bush</a>'s U.S. Ambassador to France until he vacated his post in April 2005 and was replaced with a relative, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Craig_Roberts_Stapleton" title="Craig Roberts Stapleton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Craig Roberts Stapleton</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Leach is one of several prominent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">conservatives</a> funding</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom%27s_Watch" title="Freedom's Watch" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Freedom's Watch</a>, a new White House <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">front group</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[2]</a></sup> which began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Congress</a> who may be wavering in their support for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">war in Iraq</a> not to 'cut and run'."<sup id="cite_ref-name_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-name-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; display: inline; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Profiles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Profiles</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"President Bush stuck with tradition in his nomination for ambassador to France, naming a very wealthy -- and extremely generous -- contributor to serve in Paris, considered one of the most prestigious foreign posts," the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Center for Responsive Politics</a> reports.<sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Howard Leach, a successful investor involved in numerous business interests, has a net worth reported to be in the billions. He is the CEO of Leach Capital Corp. and president of Foley Timber and Land Co., which is based in Florida.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"He is also a big-time <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican</a> donor. Leach contributed $225,559 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">GOP</a> candidates and party committees in the 1999-2000 election cycle, including $190,300 in soft money. His wife, Gretchen, gave $63,800 to Republican candidates and party committees -- $32,800 of which in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Soft_money" title="Soft money" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">soft money</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Leach was one of the Bush campaign's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush%27s_Rangers" title="Bush's Rangers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">'Pioneers'</a>, who raised at least $100,000 for the campaign. He contributed $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Committee and $5,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, a contribution matched by his wife.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"All told, Howard and Gretchen Leach gave $289,359 to GOP candidates and party committees in 1999-2000, $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, and $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney inaugural committee."</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resources and articles</span></h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</span></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-OS-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">↑ <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.0</a></sup> <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1</a></sup> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/ambassadors/leach.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Presidential Profile: Howard Leach, U.S. Ambassador to France,</a> Center for Responsive Politics, accessed August 22, 2007.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Adelson runs attack ads against Porter,"</a> <i>Las Vegas Gleaner</i>, August 22, 2007.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-name-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-name_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Group to Urge War Support,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, August 22, 2007.</span></font></li></ol><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">External articles</span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mike Allen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5479.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Pro-Bush group spends $15M defending war,"</a> <i>The Politico</i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884793/posts" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">posted</a> by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style="text-decoration: none; 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Bush and Vice President-elect Dick Cheney are expected to visit: $25,000.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">* Maximum contribution that the Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee is accepting from private donors: $100,000.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">* Number of donors who gave a total of $100,000 or more to parties and candidates in the 2000 elections awarded positions on George W. Bush's Transition Advisory Teams: 14.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Amount that Bush's Energy Department Secretary nominee, <b>Sen. Spencer Abraham (</b>R-Michigan), received from energy industry donors in his failed 2000 Senate race: $366,298.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* <b>Rank of Abraham among all current senators in contributions accepted from energy industry donors in the 2000 elections: 1</b>.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* The number of industries that Bush's nominee for Attorney General, Sen. John </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ashcroft </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(R-Missouri), ranks in the Senate top ten for contributions in the 2000 elections: 42, </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">many of which have anti-trust and other matters pending before the Justice Department.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Rank of health industry professionals among donors to Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Republican Wisconsin Governor </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tommy Thompson </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in his last race: 1.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Rank of transportation industry among donors to </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Democrat Norm Mineta,</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Bush's pick for Transportation Department Secretary, in his last House race: 1.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">====</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>