Edwards, Donna Rep 96%
<p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></span></p><p><span style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/donna-edwards">http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/donna-edwards</a></font></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014 Score 94</font></span></p><div id="scorecard-moc-rating-table-title-row" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; width: 261px; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="scorecard-moc-lifetime-title" class="rating-table-title-cell grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; width: 130px; display: block; float: left; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lifetime Score</font></div></div><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">96%</font></span></span></p><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear440755" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber440755" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">531</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle440755" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-531-undermining-clean-air-protections" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining Clean Air Protections</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues440755" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice440755" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear440320" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber440320" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">528</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle440320" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-528-attack-sound-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Sound Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues440320" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice440320" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear439885" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber439885" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">525</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle439885" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-525-attack-scientific-integrity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Scientific Integrity</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues439885" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice439885" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear439450" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber439450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">519</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle439450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-519-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-kxl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (KXL)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues439450" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice439450" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear439016" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber439016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">515</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle439016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-515-big-polluter-giveaway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Polluter Giveaway</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues439016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice439016" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear438584" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber438584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">489</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle438584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-489-assault-clean-water-rule" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assault on the Clean Water Rule</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues438584" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice438584" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear438152" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber438152" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">470</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle438152" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-470-pesticides-pollution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pesticides Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues438152" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxics/Public Right to Know</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice438152" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear437719" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber437719" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">463</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle437719" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-463-attack-endangered-species-act-esa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues437719" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wildlife</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice437719" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear437286" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber437286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">461</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle437286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-461-using-best-available-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Using Best Available Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues437286" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice437286" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear436853" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber436853" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">402</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle436853" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-402-assault-clean-energy-and-clean-water" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assault on Clean Energy and Clean Water</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues436853" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy, Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice436853" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear436420" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber436420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">397</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle436420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-397-impacts-climate-change" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Impacts of Climate Change</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues436420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice436420" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear435987" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber435987" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">394</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle435987" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-394-attack-clean-water" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attack on Clean water</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues435987" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice435987" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear435554" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber435554" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">393</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle435554" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-393-light-bulb-efficiency-standards" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Light Bulb Efficiency Standards</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues435554" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice435554" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear435121" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber435121" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">389</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle435121" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-389-social-cost-carbon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Social Cost of Carbon</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues435121" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice435121" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear434688" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber434688" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">376</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle434688" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-376-clean-energy-funding" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Clean Energy Funding</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues434688" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clean Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice434688" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear434255" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber434255" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">368</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle434255" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-368-big-oil-giveaway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Oil Giveaway</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues434255" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Drilling, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice434255" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear433822" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber433822" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">364</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle433822" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-364-offshore-drilling-subsidies" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Offshore Drilling Subsidies</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues433822" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice433822" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear433389" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber433389" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">361</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle433389" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-361-national-ocean-policy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Ocean Policy</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues433389" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oceans</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice433389" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear432956" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber432956" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">359</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle432956" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-359-liquefied-natural-gas-lng-exports" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues432956" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice432956" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear432523" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber432523" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">354</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle432523" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-354-gutting-pipeline-review" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Gutting Pipeline Review</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues432523" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice432523" style="margin: 6px 9px 0px 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/miss-vote-icon-20.png") no-repeat; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear432091" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber432091" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">334</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle432091" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-334-military-investments-advanced-biofuels" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Military Investments in Advanced Biofuels</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues432091" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Transportation</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice432091" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear431659" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber431659" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">267</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle431659" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-267-blocking-climate-action-trade-agreements" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Blocking Climate Action in Trade Agreements</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues431659" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice431659" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear431227" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber431227" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">177</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle431227" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-177-big-oil-budget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Big Oil Budget</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues431227" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dirty Energy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice431227" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear430794" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber430794" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">147</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle430794" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-147-preventing-new-parks" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Preventing New Parks</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues430794" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice430794" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear430362" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber430362" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">141</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle430362" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-141-toxic-mining-waste" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Toxic Mining Waste</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues430362" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice430362" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear429931" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber429931" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">113</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle429931" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-113-attacking-public-input-environmental-review" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Attacking Public Input & Environmental Review</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues429931" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice429931" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear429070" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber429070" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">106</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle429070" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-106-carbon-pollution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Carbon Pollution</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues429070" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice429070" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear429500" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber429500" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">103</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle429500" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-103-climate-change-science" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Climate Change Science</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues429500" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice429500" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear428638" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber428638" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">91</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle428638" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-91-undermining-flood-insurance-reform" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining Flood Insurance Reform</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues428638" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice428638" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/anti-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear428207" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber428207" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">78</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle428207" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2014-78-assault-public-protections" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Assault on Public Protections</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues428207" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Air, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice428207" 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-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 34px; display: block; height: 26px; float: left; background: url("http://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/all/themes/lcv_scorecard/images/pro-env-icon-20.png") no-repeat; margin-right: 0px !important; padding-left: 21px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></div><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 7 22</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>pro-Israel lobby groups have spent “shocking” amounts of money to change the course of multiple Democratic congressional primaries </b>over the past year alone, reports our guest Peter Beinart. The latest is in Maryland, where former Congressmember Donna Edwards is being outspent sevenfold by corporate attorney Glenn Ivey in her bid to win back her old seat in the state’s 4th Congressional District. Beinart, the editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, says the AIPAC-led PACs disguise their attack ads with local issues but in reality are designed to oust candidates who take stances in support of Palestinian rights and working people.</font></p><h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Transcript</font></h5><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</font></span><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> This is <em>Democracy Now!</em>, democracynow.org, <em>The War and Peace Report</em>. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today is Primary Day in Maryland. In one closely watched race, former Congressmember Donna Edwards is seeking to win back her old seat in Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, outside Washington, D.C. She is facing the corporate attorney Glenn Ivey, who has raised seven times as much money. </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/us/politics/aipac-israel-democrats.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reports</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a new super PAC run by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has spent nearly $6 million on the primary race in an attempt to defeat Edwards, who served in Congress for four terms ending in 2017. In 2008, Donna Edwards made history becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress from Maryland. Another group with ties to AIPAC, the Democratic Majority for Israel, has spent over $425,000 to help defeat Edwards. The two groups also poured money into efforts to defeat other progressive Democrats, including Nina Turner in Ohio and Jessica Cisneros in Texas.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We’re joined now by Peter Beinart, editor-at-large with <em>Jewish Currents</em>. He recently wrote an <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-israel-lobbys-new-campaign-playbook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">article</a> headlined “<b>The Israel Lobby’s New Campaign Playbook.” Peter Beinart is a professor at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks so much for joining us, Peter. Can you talk about what Donna Edwards is confronting right now in Maryland, the level of money that’s being poured in to defeat her?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PETER BEINART:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> It’s really extraordinary for a House race to see one organization, one super PAC, spending almost $6 million. What we’re seeing across the country is that AIPAC’s super PAC is often spending as much as the campaigns themselves are spending. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Partly this is the result of <em>Citizens United</em>, t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he Supreme Court decision in 2010 that created super PACs, which are these entities that can accept unlimited amounts of money and spend unlimited money as long as they are theoretically not coordinated with the campaign. And it’s also the result of the fact that AIPAC and allied establishment pro-Israel organizations saw a threat starting in 2019, when people like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were elected to Congress, and have decided to spend virtually unlimited amounts of money to ensure that their brand of politics, which is more pro-Palestinian rights, but which is also more progressive on economic issues, does not become the future of the Democratic Party.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>JUAN GONZÁLEZ:</strong> And, Peter, could you talk about what you discovered in terms of connections or ties between groups like Mainstream Democrats and other pro-Israel lobbyists, like the Democratic Majority for Israel?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>PETER BEINART:</strong> Yes. One of the things that I found is that very often when these establishment pro-Israel organizations target a progressive candidate, those candidates are also targeted by groups that are not focused on Israel-Palestine but simply want to defeat that person because that person may be to progressive on questions of healthcare, or they may support the Green New Deal.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, there’s a group called Mainstream Democrats. If you look at their website, it says nothing about Israel-Palestine whatsoever. It just says it doesn’t want the Democratic Party to be taken over by far-left groups. But Mainstream Democrats is actually run by Democratic Majority for Israel. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So what you see is this very, very close alliance. They work out of the same offices with the same staff, so, essentially, this </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">extremely close relationship between groups that want to defeat progressives because they support Palestinian rights, and groups that just want to defeat progressives because they essentially want the Democratic Party to be dominated by people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who will do the bidding of the fossil fuel industry, the healthcare industry, the financial services industry.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JUAN GONZÁLEZ:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And how successful have these efforts been in the past? Amy mentioned the races of Nina Turner in Ohio and Jessica Cisneros in Texas, both of whom were targeted by AIPAC and both of whom lost their races</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. What’s been the track record of these efforts?</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PETER BEINART:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">These efforts, sadly, have been very successful.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> There have been a couple of races — one in Pennsylvania, one in Illinois — where the progressive candidates were able to win. But in most cases, the candidates targeted have lost. And even when the targeted candidates don’t lose, it has a chilling effect. Politicians out there see this and think, “I do not want millions and millions of dollars dumped into a House race against me,” and so what it tends to do is lead candidates who might be more inclined to take progressive positions on Palestinian rights or on other issues to instead keep their heads down and not take those positions in order to try to avoid the kind of attacks that other progressives have faced.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> So, let me ask you, back on Donna Edwards’ race, Peter — you have the speaker of the House, right, Nancy Pelosi, who actually comes from Maryland, though she represents San Francisco, coming out in full support of Donna Edwards. Now, while most of the big money spent in the race has come from AIPAC-aligned super PAC, the ads funded by the so-called United Democracy Project don’t mention the Middle East. And I wanted then to talk about Nancy Pelosi, who really came out and attacked the kind of money, the attack ads by the AIPAC-aligned groups, like United Democracy Project, prompting this response in June from House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. This is what she said.</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.542px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI:</strong> When Donna Edwards first represented Maryland’s 4th Congressional District — and that was for nearly a decade — she was one of the most effective members in Congress. Donna fought hard for Prince George’s County, for jobs and investments in her community, to help constituents in need and to deliver results. As speaker and then as leader, I knew I could always count on Donna Edwards as a valued member of our leadership team.
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> So, that’s Nancy Pelosi endorsing Donna Edwards. Now, the ads often, and the candidates who are supported by these massive — I mean, the massive amount of money, millions, in the case of this campaign, going to her opponent — they’re not raising the issue of Israel and Palestine, right? <b>And also, let’s be clear: There are other pro-Israel groups, like J Street, more progressive, that supports Donna Edwards.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>PETER BEINART:</strong> Yes, but J Street doesn’t have — only has a small fraction of the amount of money that AIPAC and Democratic Majority for Israel have on the other side. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But you’re exactly right. In almost none of these races do the attack ads actually have anything to do with the actual agenda of the organizations that are paying for them. And that’s because AIPAC and DMFI know that not very many voters in these districts actually really care that much about Israel-Palestine. They care about local issues.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, what AIPAC does is it — and DMFI do, they do poll testing. And they attack people on these kind of — whatever they think may gain traction</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. So, in Ohio, in the Nina Turner race, because Nina Turner was a Bernie Sanders supporter who had been critical of Joe Biden, they painted her as not a loyal Democrat. In the case of Donna Edwards, they’re claiming that she didn’t provide good constituent service when she was the congresswoman early on — as if AIPAC or DMFI could care less about the level of constituent service that Donna Edwards provided to her constituents when she was a congresswoman. I mean, it’s transparent nonsense, right? It’s just that this is their vehicle for trying to defeat her, because Donna Edwards in the past has shown some minimal — right? She’s hardly radical on this subject — but just some modest concern for Palestinian human rights. For that reason, they want to defeat her.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> Can you talk about the role of Bakari Sellers in these campaigns?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PETER BEINART:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Yes. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, Bakari Sellers is a former South Carolina politician with close ties to AIPAC who has been — now heads another super PAC that is devoted primarily at this point to defeating Rashida Tlaib in Michigan. And its claim is that it’s an organization that wants to elect Black Democrats. And <b>Rashida Tlaib </b>has a Black opponent, but, again, this is also transparent nonsense — as if AIPAC and its donors are really concerned about increasing Black representation.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">They’re going after Rashida Tlaib for one reason only: because she’s a Palestinian member of Congress </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who is a passionate and eloquent defender of the humanity of Palestinians, and she brings that issue to the fore in Congress like no one else does. But again, because that agenda itself, if laid out nakedly, would not be very popular, you have these transparent claims that it’s really about something else — in this way, about the claim that somehow because she’s not Black, she can’t represent a district in Michigan, even though, in fact, she has strong Black support and has been a very, very tireless defender of the people in her district of all races.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>JUAN GONZÁLEZ:</strong> And, Peter, interestingly, there is also a governor’s race in Maryland, and both competitive primaries in both the Democratic and the Republican parties to elect a successor to the Republican Governor Hogan. But has AIPAC been involved in those races at all, or is it only concentrating on these congressional races?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PETER BEINART:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AIPAC’s focus has overwhelmingly been not just in congressional races, but in Democratic primaries in congressional races.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> AIPAC’s assessment has been that because of partisan polarization, there are fewer swing districts, which means that more often than in the past the member of Congress is chosen in the primary. They also have noticed that there are an unusually large number of open House seats this year because of redistrict and retirement. And they like to do open House races, because once an incumbent has been elected in our system, they can be difficult to dislodge. So what this play is really about is trying to create a whole new generation of younger Democrats in Congress who will toe the AIPAC line on Israel-Palestine, also in many, many cases, also take a kind of more pro-corporate position, and therefore blunt the trend that we were seeing towards the Democratic Party moving in a more progressive direction.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AMY GOODMAN:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> We just have 30 seconds,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> but this is new, right, AIPAC having this kind of super PAC?</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><strong>PETER BEINART:</strong> Yes. <b>AIPAC, despite its name, never had a political action committee, </b>but it saw, essentially, that it needed to roll out the big guns in response to the trends that we saw with the election of the Squad members. And it has extraordinary financial resources at its disposal. Several people, for instance, have given a million — written million-dollar checks already, and the money is still being tabulated.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of <em>Jewish Currents</em>. We’ll link to your new <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-israel-lobbys-new-campaign-playbook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">piece</a>, “Israel Lobby’s New Campaign Playbook: Israel advocacy groups have developed strategies to raise huge sums for their candidates by appealing to corporate interests.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coming up, we turn to the pioneering legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who has launched a counteroffensive against right-wing attacks targeting critical race theory. It is Freedom Summer this week around the country. That’s right, a summer school for CRT. Stay with us.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Edwards</b> (born June 28, 1958) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Maryland's 4th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maryland's 4th congressional district</a>, serving since a special election in 2008. She is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a>. The district includes most of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County" title="Prince George's County" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Prince George's County</a>, as well as part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Arundel_County,Maryland" title="Anne Arundel County, Maryland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anne Arundel County</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A lawyer and longtime community activist, she defeated 15-year incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wynn" title="Albert Wynn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Albert Wynn</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Maryland,2008" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2008 Democratic primary</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-primarywin_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-primarywin-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> and, following his resignation, won a special election on June 17, 2008, to fill the remainder of this term.<sup id="cite_ref-special-election-win_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-special-election-win-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> She was sworn in two days later on June 19, becoming the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" title="African-American" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">African-American</a> woman to represent Maryland in the United States Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-CQ-19June08_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-CQ-19June08-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Edwards ran for a full term in November 2008, defeating Republican candidate Peter James with 85% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-2008win_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-2008win-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">She sponsored an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would repeal the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v.Federal_Election_Commission" title="Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-5" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Early_life.2C_education_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life, education and career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Community_activism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Community activism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Arrest_during_Darfur_protest_in_Washington_D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Arrest during Darfur protest in Washington D.C.</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Caucus memberships</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Political_campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Political campaigns</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">2006</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2008" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">2008</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">2010</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2012" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">2012</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2014" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span> <span class="toctext">2014</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4.6</span> <span class="toctext">2016</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life.2C_education_and_career">Early life, education and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Edwards earned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> degrees in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">English</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Spanish</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Forest_University" title="Wake Forest University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wake Forest University</a>, where she was one of only six <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">black</a> women in her class.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> After working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation" title="Lockheed Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lockheed Corporation</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center" title="Goddard Space Flight Center" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Goddard Space Flight Center</a> with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacelab" title="Spacelab" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Spacelab</a> program<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, she attended and earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce_Law_Center" title="Franklin Pierce Law Center" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Franklin Pierce Law Center</a>). Edwards worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wynn" title="Albert Wynn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Albert Wynn</a> as a clerk in the 1980s, when he served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maryland House of Delegates</a>.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Community_activism">Community activism</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Edwards co-founded and served as the first executive director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Network_to_End_Domestic_Violence" title="National Network to End Domestic Violence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">National Network to End Domestic Violence</a>, an advocacy and legal support group for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">battered women</a>. She worked to pass the 1994 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act" title="Violence Against Women Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Violence Against Women Act</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>She later worked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Public Citizen</a>, and then as the executive director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_for_a_New_Democracy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for a New Democracy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for a New Democracy</a></b>. In 2000 she became the executive director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arca_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arca Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arca Foundation</a>, taking a leave of absence during her political campaign.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,Space_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</font></a></b><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Transportation_Subcommittee_on_Economic_Development,Public_Buildings_and_Emergency_Management" title="United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Transportation_Subcommittee_on_Highways_and_Transit" title="United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Highways and Transit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Highways and Transit</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Transportation_Subcommittee_on_Water_Resources_and_Environment" title="United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment</font></a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Arrest_during_Darfur_protest_in_Washington_D.C.">Arrest during Darfur protest in Washington D.C.</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On April 27, 2009, Rep. Donna Edwards was arrested outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sudan</a> embassy during a protest against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur" title="War in Darfur" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">genocide in Darfur</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The Representative and five other US Congressional Representatives were protesting the blocking of aid to victims. They were arrested after ignoring warnings issued by police maintaining a police line to protect the embassy in Washington D.C.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The other U.S. lawmakers arrested during the protest were Reps. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGovern(American_politician)" title="Jim McGovern (American politician)" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Jim McGovern</a> (D-Massachusetts), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison(politician)" title="Keith Ellison (politician)" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Keith Ellison</a> (D-Minnesota), Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis(American_politician)" title="John Lewis (American politician)" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">John Lewis</a> (D-Georgia), Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Moran" title="Jim Moran" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Jim Moran</a> (D-Virginia), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Woolsey" title="Lynn Woolsey" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Lynn Woolsey</a> (D-California)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); line-height: 22.4px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist_Caucus" title="Populist Caucus" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Populist Caucus</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus" title="Congressional Progressive Caucus" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Edwards#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a></sup></font></span></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_campaigns">Political campaigns</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 172px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.</font></div></div></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2006">2006</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Maryland,2006" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2006</a></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edwards challenged seven-term incumbent </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Wynn" title="Al Wynn" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Al Wynn</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the 2006 Democratic primary - the real contest in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district. Edwards focused primarily on Wynn's voting record. Wynn, considered a conservative by African-American Democratic standards, was one of four Congressional Black Caucus members that voted for the 2002 Iraq War resolution. Edwards condemned the war before it started. Wynn eventually began to say he was misled by the Bush Administration and his vote was a mistake. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Edwards opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Growth_and_Tax_Relief_Reconciliation_Act_of_2001" title="Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">repeal of the estate tax</a>, which Wynn voted for. Similarly, Edwards criticized Wynn's vote for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">bankruptcy bill of 2005</a>, which eliminated some bankruptcy protections for individuals. Wynn supported the energy bill promoted by Vice President and former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney. Wynn opposed the net neutrality bill of 2006, which Edwards supports.</span></font></p><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mike rowe BS</font></span></span></p><p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">There is a new coalition in Congress; a bunch of nut job Democrats calling themselves the<b style=""> Safe Climate Coalition.</b> The group held a press conference last week to call for addressing global warming. Rep. Donna Edwards, D-MD, said if Congress doesn't address climate change it will destroy her state possibly sinking the coast. Rep. Jared Huffman D-CA said that the ancient forests and vineyards in his district would disappear along with ruining the infrastructure of his communities and destroying the health of our oceans and coastal fisheries. Rep. Earl Blumenauer D-OR said there would not be any skiing in Vermont and the maple trees in that state would disappear. - See more at: http://mikerowse.com/?cat=4&paged=18#sthash.41LTEtDB.dpuf</font></span></span></p>