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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 32px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">ASHINGTON -- Victims of persecution from around the world often come to Washington seeking justice. So there was nothing unusual in itself about Petr Afanasenko's trip to the U.S. capital in early June. He arrived bearing a grim tale of torture in the prisons of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, where he once worked as a bodyguard for a leader of the would-be opposition.</p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 32px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 33, 36);">On visits to Congress and the State Department, he described abuse at the hands of a particular government official. His alleged abuser was Rakhat Aliev, the then-son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />"I accuse Rakhat Aliev of personally fabricating a criminal case against me and my colleague when he was chairman of the Almaty province of the Committee of National Security," Afanasenko charged. "He personally participated in torture and tortured people."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Human rights activists say that Afanasenko's account of his imprisonment fits a broader pattern of abuse of opposition figures by the Kazakh government. What makes his visit noteworthy, though, is its timing. Afanasenko was arrested by the Kazakh authorities in 2000. He was released in 2001 and left the country several years after that, ultimately settling in Belgium. His imprisonment was criticized at the time by human rights organizations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the State Department's annual human rights report, which last mentioned his case in 2003.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />By contrast, his recent trip to the United States, 10 years after his release from prison, was sponsored by a murky Washington-based organization run by a lobbyist who hails from the former USSR.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The episode raises suspicions that Afanasenko, likely a genuine victim of past government injustice, has become a pawn in a country-sized feud between Kazakhstan's most powerful man and one of his most dogged rivals. In recent years, the two sides have shifted their conflict to an unlikely new theater: Washington.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="contentImage floatLeft" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><div class="watermark" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pix</div>Rakhat Aliev (left) and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in a 2001 photo</div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 33, 36);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />In one corner is the government of 70-year-old President Nazarbaev, which, according to a recent investigation by "<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="wswa" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/world/asia/30kazakhstan.html?scp=2&sq=nazarbayev&st=cse" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(160, 71, 2); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(219, 222, 224);">The New York Times</a></strong>," has spent millions of dollars over the past three years retaining lobbyists and wooing experts to argue its case in the corridors of power in the U.S. capital.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />In the other corner is Aliev, 48, who during his heyday in Kazakhstan -- first as a senior official in the secret police, then as a high-ranking diplomat -- amassed power and wealth second only to that of Nazarbaev himself. Aliev's downfall was correspondingly dramatic. First came divorce from the president's daughter, Dariga, followed by semi-exile as ambassador to Austria. It was in that country that Aliev, now on the run from his homeland, sought political asylum. In 2008, a Kazakh court convicted Aliev in absentia of attempting to topple the president.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">'Hiring' Congress</strong><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Public records show that Aliev, too, has tried to gain official favor in Washington by hiring lobbyists to promote his interests. According to a recent document released through the U.S. Lobbying Disclosure Act, one of the firms with which Aliev has worked is RJI Government Strategies Inc., a small Washington lobbying group whose consultants included Tanya Rahall, sister of Representative Nick J. Rahall II (Democrat, West Virginia).<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Tanya Rahall declined to respond to RFE/RL's repeated requests for an interview.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />In a phone call to RFE/RL's Washington Bureau from an undisclosed location, Aliev said that his lobbying efforts had brought him little benefit.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />"I hired Congress with the aim of telling the truth about myself and what's happening in Central Asia," Aliev said, adding: "I hired one of the smaller lobbying firms. Unfortunately, they were not able to achieve much in the way of results. During my conflict with Nazarbaev, all sorts of white, gray and black lobbyists of different kinds have turned up lately. They even work for two sides at the same time -- some of them even for three."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The lobbyists hired by Aliev, according to public records, have declined to comment on the case.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Last week, in the latest dramatic twist in the two men's bitter feud, Nazarbaev's government announced that it was applying for Aliev's extradition from Austria on murder charges. The Kazakh government accuses Aliev of masterminding the kidnapping and murder in 2007 of two bank managers whose bodies were recently discovered in a pit near Almaty, the country's financial capital. An Austrian court rejected the extradition request, though without specifying the reasons. (Alice Irvin, a spokeswoman at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, responded to a request for information from RFE/RL by saying that, "According to our information Mr. Aliev no longer resides in Austria.")<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Back in Washington, meanwhile, two of Aliev's allies are pressing ahead with a high-stakes lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The two men, Devinci and Issam Hourani, are suing several lobbyists who worked for the Kazakhstan government for $2 billion in damages. The plaintiffs allege that consultants working on Kazakhstan's behalf helped the government to confiscate their property four years ago in retaliation for supporting Aliev. Issam, a British citizen, is married to Aliev's sister.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">'Slush Fund' Alleged</strong><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawsuit has generated attention because evidence introduced by the Houranis includes a letter that purportedly shows Kazakhstan's ambassador to the U.S. describing payments from the Kazakh government to members of congress.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The letter, dated November 2010, describes the activities of a congressional group called Friends of Kazakhstan, which, it says, was "created" by the Kazakh Embassy. According to the text of the letter, "The embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan is financing them through contributions to their funds from a special hard-currency fund set up by you."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Kazakhstan has denounced the letter as a forgery and cites expert testimony to bolster its case. But the government has not denied seeking out the services of lobbyists. "Kazakhstan has indeed hired consultants, including in the United States," Kazakhstan's ambassador to the U.S., Erlan Idrissov, wrote in <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="wswa" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/lweb08kazakh.html?ref=nursultannazarbayev" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(160, 71, 2); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(219, 222, 224);">a letter</a></strong>published in "The New York Times" in response to the newspaper's article. "This is to explain its position, as is accepted practice, and to respond to critics of the President who continue to perpetuate the fiction that Kazakhstan is a dictatorship."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On June 2, the Washington-based watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POGO) <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="wswa" href="http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/letters/government-corruption/gc-ii-20110602-1.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(160, 71, 2); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(219, 222, 224);">called on</a></strong> the U.S. Justice Department to start an investigation, expressing concern that "the government of Kazakhstan may have set up a slush fund to influence members of Congress." Jake Weins, an investigator for the group, says that the alleged <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="wswa" href="http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/gc/k/attachment-1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(160, 71, 2); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(219, 222, 224);">Kazakhstan Embassy letter</a></strong> detailing payments to Congress, if real, provides grounds for concern.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />"If the document is authentic, it essentially shows that the government is unlawfully funding members of Congress, which is a pretty serious deal, because money in politics really matters," Weins said. "What we were able to do is to see that they have, in fact, established caucuses through lawmakers, and the lobbying firm that they had hired was feeding, not a ton of money, but a fair amount of money, to the leadership of that caucus."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />At the same time, there is little to prevent foreign governments or individuals from influencing policy in the U.S. capital by directing funds to think tanks and academic institutes. Such organizations can set the terms of public debate and define the popular image of particular countries.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">War Of Attrition</strong><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this year, when Nazarbaev was said to have won 95.5 percent of the vote in Kazakhstan's presidential election, those on hand to applaud the outcome included members of a task force organized by two Washington think tanks -- the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Institute for New Democracy -- which received $290,000 from the Kazakh government two years ago to write a series of reports assessing the country's progress toward democracy, according to Central Asian affairs website <strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="wsw__a" href="http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav121009a.shtml" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(160, 71, 2); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(219, 222, 224);">eurasianet.org</a></strong>.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Margarita Assenova, executive director of the Institute for New Democracies, was quoted in the wake of this year's election as saying that "the people credit the wise leadership of Nazarbaev for peace, stability, economic development, and ethnic harmony in Kazakhstan. They want this to continue."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The OSCE, for its part, criticized the results, saying that "reforms necessary for holding genuine democratic elections have yet to materialize."<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />As for Afanasenko, he has vowed to pursue his allegations against Aliev in an Austrian court. Aliev calls his accusations "a crude lie," and dismisses them as part of the Kazakhstan government's campaign to malign him. He says that he has evidence that Afanasenko is employed by the Kazakh security service.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, the group that helped set Afanasenko's U.S. agenda, a one-man think tank called the <b>International Eurasian Institute for Economic and Political Research, seems determined to maintain a lower profile than its more illustrious counterparts. The organization is run by Rinat Akhmetshin,</b> an ex-Soviet citizen who has been linked in the past with Kazhegeldin, the Kazakh opposition leader who once employed Afanasenko as a bodyguard. Akhmetshin, who sponsored Afanasenko's visit, declined to comment on the case when contacted by e-mail, saying only that Afanasenko "is an old friend -- he is a Belgian citizen and has nothing to do with [Kazakhstan]."</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Akhmetshin could not be contacted at the phone number shown on his institute's letterhead. There is no office at the Washington address it lists, and its website is moribund. "Institute relocated 5-6 years ago to a different address," said Akhmetshin in his e-mail message.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The feud between Kazakhstan's president and his errant son-in-law, by contrast, shows no sign of subsiding anytime soon.</span></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><p>==</p>
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allons of chemicals into the water supply of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians last month was a no-show at a congressional hearing on the spill Monday.
Freedom Industries, which owns the storage facility that leaked chemicals into the Elk River, did not have any representatives at a hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held in the state capital Monday morning. The company's president, Gary Southern, had been invited to testify.
"He chose not to be here today to answer for what his company has done to the people of West Virginia. And I find that extremely telling," said Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). "Freedom Industries' decision not to testify today compounds its gross misconduct, and is an absolute affront to every person impacted by its spill."
"The one empty seat ... belongs to the one entity at the epicenter of all this," said Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), "the one who totally blew it."
"There is an odor coming from Freedom Industries, and it's not licorice," said Rahall, referring to the anise-like smell that residents have reported coming from their tap water following the spill.
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<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear381259" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2012</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber381259" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">241</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle381259" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2012-241-climate-change-education" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Climate Change Education</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues381259" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice381259" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear379527" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2012</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber379527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">170</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle379527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2012-170-environmental-assault-transportation-bill" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Environmental Assault in the Transportation Bill</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues379527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Other, Transportation, Water</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice379527" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear376926" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2012</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber376926" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">71</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle376926" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2012-71-drilling-everywhere-fund-transportation" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Drilling Everywhere to Fund Transportation</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues376926" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests, Water, Wildlife</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice376926" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear36273" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2011</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber36273" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">650</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle36273" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2011-650-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues36273" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Water, Lands/Forests</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice36273" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear32383" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2011</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber32383" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">448</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle32383" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2011-448-climate-change-adaption" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Climate Change Adaption</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues32383" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice32383" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear30221" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2011</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber30221" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">249</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle30221" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2011-249-global-warming-pollution" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Warming Pollution</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues30221" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice30221" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear29355" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2011</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber29355" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">147</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle29355" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2011-147-sweeping-environmental-funding-and-policy-assault" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sweeping Environmental Funding and Policy Assault</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues29355" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Air, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Water, Wildlife</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice29355" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear43838" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2010</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber43838" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">341</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle43838" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2010-341-ocean-acidification-prevention" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ocean Acidification Prevention</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues43838" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Oceans, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice43838" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear45561" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2010</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber45561" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">209</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle45561" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2010-209-estuary-protection" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Estuary Protection</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues45561" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Oceans, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice45561" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear44268" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2010</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber44268" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">109</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle44268" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2010-109-algal-bloom-reduction" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Algal Bloom Reduction</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues44268" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Oceans, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice44268" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear363905" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2010</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber363905" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">--</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle363905" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2010-0-dirty-air-act-cosponsorship" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Dirty Air Act Cosponsorship</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues363905" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Air</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice363905" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear50136" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2009</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber50136" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">558</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle50136" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2009-558-defunding-environmental-and-energy-staff" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Defunding Environmental and Energy Staff</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues50136" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Energy</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice50136" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear47962" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2009</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber47962" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">477</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle47962" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2009-477-climate-change-and-clean-energy-2x-score" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Climate Change and Clean Energy (2x Score)</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues47962" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Energy</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice47962" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear47527" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2009</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber47527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">477</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle47527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2009-477-climate-change-and-clean-energy" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Climate Change and Clean Energy</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues47527" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Clean Energy</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice47527" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear63053" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber63053" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">1140</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle63053" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-1140-energy-legislation-fuel-efficiency-and-clean-renewable-energy-iii" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Energy Legislation: Fuel Efficiency and Clean, Renewable Energy III</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues63053" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Clean Energy, Climate Change, Transportation</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice63053" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear62628" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber62628" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">832</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle62628" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-832-energy-legislation-fuel-efficiency-and-clean-renewable-energy-ii" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Energy Legislation: Fuel Efficiency and Clean, Renewable Energy II</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues62628" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Clean Energy, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice62628" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear62376" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber62376" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">827</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle62376" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-827-energy-legislation-fuel-efficiency-and-clean-renewable-energy-i" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Energy Legislation: Fuel Efficiency and Clean, Renewable Energy I</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues62376" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Clean Energy, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice62376" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear64550" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber64550" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">555</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle64550" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-555-reducing-global-warming" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Reducing Global Warming</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues64550" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice64550" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear64105" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber64105" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">337</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle64105" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-337-global-warming-and-national-security" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Warming and National Security</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues64105" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice64105" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear63468" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2007</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber63468" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">91</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle63468" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2007-91-liquid-coal" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Liquid Coal</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues63468" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Dirty Energy, Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice63468" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear120236" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2000</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber120236" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">323</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle120236" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2000-323-global-climate-change" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Climate Change</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues120236" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice120236" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear132901" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">1998</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber132901" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">334</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle132901" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/1998-334-removing-anti-environment-epa-riders" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Removing Anti-Environment EPA Riders</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues132901" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other, Air, Water, Climate Change, Toxics/Public Right to Know</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice132901" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear132276" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">1998</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber132276" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">332</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle132276" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/1998-332-global-warming-gag-rule" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Warming Gag Rule</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues132276" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice132276" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear144996" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">1996</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber144996" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">207</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle144996" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/1996-207-climate-change-research" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Climate Change Research</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues144996" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice144996" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear356063" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">1992</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber356063" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">--</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle356063" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/1992-0-global-climate-protection-act" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Climate Protection Act</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues356063" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change</span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice356063" style=" margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); background-image: url(http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> </span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden;"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear174035" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1991</span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber174035" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">141</span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle174035" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/1991-141-global-research" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Global Research</a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues174035" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate Change</span>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Nick Joe Rahall II</b> has been a <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a> member of the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_West_Virginia" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from West Virginia" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">West Virginia</a>'s 3rd Congressional District, since 1977 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/wv03_109.gif" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">map</a>). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.</p>
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<span class="toctoggle" style=" font-size: 11.199999809265137px;"> [<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Record_and_controversies" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Record and controversies</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Iraq_War" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Iraq War</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Environmental_record" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Environmental record</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#CLEAN_Energy_Act_of_2007" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">CLEAN Energy Act of 2007</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Animal_rights_legislation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Animal rights legislation</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Bill_to_restore_a_prohibition_on_the_commercial_sale_and_slaughter_of_wild_free-roaming_horses_and_burros" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Bill to restore a prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Bio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Bio</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Background" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Congressional_Career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Congressional Career</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#2006_election" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">2006 election</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Money_in_politics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Money in politics</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Coal_Contributions" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Coal Contributions</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Committees_and_Affiliations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees and Affiliations</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Committees" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committees</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J.Rahall#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress.282005-2006.29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Coalitions_and_Caucuses" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Coalitions and Caucuses</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Boards_and_other_Affiliations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Boards and other Affiliations</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#More_Background_Data" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">More Background Data</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Contact" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#2008_Campaign_Contact_Information" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">2008 Campaign Contact Information</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Articles_and_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Local blogs and discussion sites</span></a></li>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rahall voted against the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002</a> that started the Iraq War.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_(U.S.)" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a></i></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January 2007, Rahall sponsored the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 which was the comprehensive energy bill that addressed royalties and tax breaks previously afforded to oil and gas companies. It passed the house on January 18, 2007 in a vote of 264-163. The Senate version of the bill included many amendments to further change energy laws.</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On April 26, 2007, the House considered a bill sponsored by Rep Rahall which would reverse an amendment to a 2005 appropriations bill that allowed for the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. The 2005 law also provided, and this bill would prohibit, that animals over ten years old or that have been unsuccessfully offered for adoption three times must be sold with no limitations. It allowed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to round up horses and burros for adoption when necessary. Following passage of the bill, the BLM followed the practice of rounding up more animals than it could get adopted or afford to care for and feed. As of 2007, the BLM had approximately 31,000 horses and burros in holding facilities (their care and feeding reportedly half the BLM budget). As of 2007, 50 horses had been slaughtered since the 2005 bill passed.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup>
The 2005 bill had cited overpopulation as justification for allowing the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a roundup of the horses and burros. This bill noted that there are “significantly fewer of those animals than 25 years back. In 1980 there were 62,638 and by February 2007 there were 28,500.”<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup>
The bill passed 277-137.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup></p>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00249:" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">To prohibit the slaughter of horses and burros</a></span></div>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">April 26, 2007
Passed, 277-137, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/269/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">view details</a>
Dem: 194-25 in favor, GOP: 82-113 opposed, Ind: 0-0</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nick Rahall was born May 20, 1949 in Beckley, West Virginia. His father was the owner of many businesses, including many radio stations throughout the state. Rahall attended Duke University. Following his graduation, he attended graduate school at the George Washington University, but dropped out when the Viet Nam draft ended. He then went to work for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:United States Senate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Senator</a> <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Byrd" title="Robert Byrd" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b>Robert Byrd</b></a> (who is from nearby Sparta, West Virginia) as a staff member.</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After 4th District Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hechler" class="extiw" title="w:Ken Hechler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ken Hechler</a> stepped down to run for governor in 1976, Rahall narrowly won a 10-way Democratic primary, which was tantamount to election in the heavily Democratic district. He has been reelected 14 times with virtually no Republican opposition aside from 1988 and 1990. Rahall holds one of the safest Democratic districts in the country (Democrats frequently win by margins of 90-10). The district was renumbered the 3rd after the 1990 census, when West Virginia's declining population cost it a congressional seat.
Speculation on his political future centers on a possible run for the Senate whenever Byrd's seat opens up, and on the continued population loss of his district, which will likely result in some degree of redistricting in the state.</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2006, the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republicans</a> nominated <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kim_Wolfe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kim Wolfe (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kim Wolfe</a> to challenge Rahall in his bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) Rahall retained his seat.</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00002198&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata></p>
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from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Fundraising profile:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by industry:</td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style=" border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00002198" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late October 2010, during the lead up to the Congressional midterm elections, <i>The New York Times</i> reported:</p>
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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Coal industry spending on campaigns and lobbying is substantial and growing, although it is dwarfed by the far better-financed oil and gas, electric utility, financial services and health care lobbies.</dd>
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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Among the largest recipients of coal money are Republican and Democratic members who have sponsored or voted for measures to block new E.P.A. regulations on climate cahnge pollution from the burning of coal and oil and who are most likely to support efforts to block other new rules.</dd>
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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">These members include Representatives <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Blunt" title="Roy Blunt" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Roy Blunt</a> of Missouri and <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joe_Barton" title="Joe Barton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Joe L. Barton</a> of Texas, both Republicans, and <strong class="selflink">Nick J. Rahall II</strong> of West Virginia and Rick Boucher of Virginia, both Democrats. Each had received more than $25,000 in contributions as of early October, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign spending.</dd>
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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Two Senate candidates, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rob_Portman" title="Rob Portman" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rob Portman</a>, Republican of Ohio, and Gov. <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Joe Manchin</a>, Democrat of West Virginia, have also received sizable industry donations.</dd>
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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The political action committee of Representative <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Boehner</a> of Ohio, who is in line to become speaker if Republicans capture the House, has received more than $300,000 from mining interests, most of it from coal companies. The industry is counting on Mr. Boehner to reverse the current Democratic leadership's refusal to allow a vote on the measure blocking E.P.A. carbon regulation.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></dd>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Aviation</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Highways, Transit & Pipelines</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Natural_Resources" title="House Committee on Natural Resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Natural Resources</a> -<b>Chair</b></li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" title="House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</a>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Aviation</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Highways Transit and Pipelines</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Railroads</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Arts Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Black Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chair/Founder, Congressional Coalition Group</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Congressional Fire Services Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Congressional Sportsman's Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Congressional Wine Caucus</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Democratic Study Group</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Energy & Environment Study Conference</b></li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Minor League Baseball Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rural Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steel Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Textile Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Travel & Tourism Caucus</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Truck Caucus</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Guard & Reserve Components Congressional Members Organization</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Rifle Association</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Advisory Board, <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arab_American_National_Museum" title="Arab American National Museum" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arab American National Museum</a> <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nick_J._Rahall#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup></li>
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<b>CoalBlue Project,</b> which <a href="http://coalblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CoalBlue-Launch-Press-Release-7.24.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">began operating at the end of July</a>, promotes itself as "Democrats committed to securing coal's place in America's sustainable energy future." The group includes Reps.<b> Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and Bill Enyart (D-Ill.), and former Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Tim Holden (D-Pa.).</b> The group also includes current and former state elected officials.
CoalBlue's secretary, Stefan Bailey, said the group formed out of a desire to elevate Democratic pro-coal voices. "We knew there were a lot of Democrats out there that support coal and wanted to provide a forum for them to make their support known," said Bailey. The group's objective is to "identify, organize, educate, and mobilize Americans" in support of coal, Bailey said. The group plans to work with congressional, state, and local elected officials, he said. Bailey said he could not say the exact measures the group would push for, but it would generally work to advance coal technologies and find ways to keep coal in the energy mix.
The announcement of the group came weeks after the Obama administration <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/obama-climate-speech-georgetown" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">rolled out a far-reaching climate plan</a> that included a directive to the EPA to set emission limits for existing power plants and finalize limits for new power plants that would<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/03/end-coal-we-know-it" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">end the construction of coal plants</a> unless they capture greenhouse gas pollutants.
BlueCoal will <a href="http://coalblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CoalBlue-Brochure_FINAL.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">advocate the position</a> that "a clean, low-carbon economy cannot be achieved without clean, low-carbon coal."
<span style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">CoalBlue is registered as a non-profit in the District of Columbia. Baily said the group is seeking IRS recognition as a</span><font color="#ff0000"> 501(c)4</font><font color="#333333"> nonprofit. Bailey declined to name the group's funding sources.</font>
<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font color="#333333">Bailey was a congressional staffer for nine years, working for</font><b><font color="#ff0000"> Rahall </font></b><font color="#333333">and former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). He is now </font><a href="http://www.prime-policy.com/talent/bailey" style=" color: rgb(57, 152, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">a director</a><font color="#333333"> at the government relations firm Prime Policy Group, whose </font><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000045879&year=" style=" color: rgb(57, 152, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">lobbying clients</a><font color="#333333"> include energy companies such as Duke Energy, the </font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/business/energy-environment/duke-energy-merger-creates-largest-us-utility.html" style=" color: rgb(57, 152, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">largest electric utility</a><font color="#333333"> in the U.S. Bailey said that he's working with CoalBlue as a volunteer, and that the group is not affiliated with his firm.</font></span>
CoalBlue Project resident Jon Wood is the former vice president of government and external affairs for Alpha Natural Resources, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=F26836&year=2013" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Wood is still a registered lobbyist</a> for Alpha. He <a href="http://www.sseb.org/images/woodbio.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">worked previously</a> for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).
Senators representing coal states,<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)</span> co-authored a statement of support for the group, posted on the front page of <a href="http://coalblue.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">its website</a>. "We are proud to support the important and worthy mission of CoalBlue Project, and welcome CoalBlue as a valuable and necessary voice in the national conversation regarding our nation’s energy future," the senators wrote.
Manchin spokesman Jonathan Kott said that the senator has "no official role" in the group, while he is "supportive of their agenda." (As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/senate-obama-ferc-coal-binz_n_3796736.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer;">HuffPost reported last week</a>, Manchin is expected to go head-to-head with President Barack Obama over the president's nominee to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency, coal foe Ron Binz.)
Heitkamp spokeswoman Abigail McDonough said the senator is not affiliated with CoalBlue, but is "supportive of efforts to find real solutions for coal."
Rahall's office confirmed the congressman's involvement with the group. "Congressman Rahall has worked throughout his entire tenure in Congress to promote the use of coal as a major component of the nation’s domestic energy portfolio and as a means to lessen dependence on foreign fuels," said Rahall spokesman John Noble in an email to The Huffington Post. "He has been proud to lend his strong support to CoalBlue, which is working with individuals from all levels of government to achieve a broad commitment to the use of coal as a sustainable fuel, while advancing the technologies that will allow for coal to be burned more efficiently and cleanly."
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/democrats-coal-congress_n_3839660.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/democrats-coal-congress_n_3839660.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar</a></p>
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<div>Congressman Nick Rahall jumped out of an airplane to affirm the importance of coal. Seriously.</div>
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<div>The Democrat from West Virginia jumped out of a perfectly good airplane last summer with the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team and used the occasion to show his support for coal. His jump followed up his vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act which he faulted for not doing enough to protect coal mining jobs. Coal and energy producers are major contributors to Congressman Rahall's campaign.</div>
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<b>Critics in the House and elsewhere have said the modeling has been a closed-door process,</b> with insufficient input from the American public, and are trying to prevent the agency from enacting any regulations that account for the social cost of carbon.
An amendment introduced by Rep. <b>Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) </b>would bar the EPA from factoring the social cost of carbon into regulations unless a federal law is enacted specifically to authorize such consideration, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/313057-social-cost-of-carbon-battle-hits-house-floor" target="_hplink" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; text-indent: 0px !important;">according to The Hill</a>. Another amendment, introduced by <b>Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) as part of the "Energy Consumers Relief Act," would require the agency to promulgate a separate regulation to enable use of the metric.</b>
<b>Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who's worked with Culberson on his amendment, is also authoring <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Bill.pdf" target="_hplink" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 136, 195) !important; outline: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; text-indent: 0px !important;">a stand-alone bill</a> with Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.</b>) that would scrutinize the process by which the social cost of carbon has been calculated, the role of public and congressional input, and how the social cost of carbon could affect future executive branch actions.</p>