Perlmutter Rep

<div>Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado has signed on to be the 44th cosponsor of HJR 48, the <a href="https://movetoamend.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4831&qid=10337960" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://movetoamend.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D4831%26qid%3D10337960&source=gmail&ust=1498373411873000&usg=AFQjCNGGvpeW9iKLP6asKEvr_qHvnNHhAg" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We the People Amendment</a>! We are barely halfway through the year and we are crushing our <a href="https://movetoamend.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4832&qid=10337960" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://movetoamend.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D4832%26qid%3D10337960&source=gmail&ust=1498373411873000&usg=AFQjCNFdrpZzX1F6GXhBl7tD_rtuhrEfKQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Strategic Plan</a> goal of 35 co-sponsors for 2017. </div><div>
<div>http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/ed-perlmutter</div><div>
</div><div>82%/82</div><div>
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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-604-ban-federal-fracking-safeguards" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Ban on Federal Fracking Safeguards</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues400798" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Dirty Energy, Lands/Forests, Drilling<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice400798" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear409101" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber409101" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">601<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle409101" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-601-methane-emissions" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Methane Emissions</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues409101" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice409101" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear400366" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber400366" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">600<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle400366" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-600-big-oil-giveaway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Big Oil Giveaway</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues400366" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Drilling<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice400366" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear399502" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber399502" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">557<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle399502" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-557-national-ocean-policy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">National Ocean Policy</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues399502" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Oceans<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice399502" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear399933" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber399933" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">556<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle399933" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-556-protecting-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; line-height: inherit;">Protecting Public Input & Environmental Review</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues399933" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice399933" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear399068" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber399068" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">483<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle399068" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-483-decimating-americas-forests" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Decimating America's Forests</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues399068" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice399068" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear408668" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber408668" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">479<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle408668" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-479-attack-judicial-review" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Attack on Judicial Review</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues408668" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice408668" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear408234" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber408234" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">471<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle408234" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-471-hardrock-mining" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Hardrock Mining</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues408234" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Dirty Energy<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice408234" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear398633" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber398633" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">445<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle398633" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-445-safeguards-shutdown" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Safeguards Shutdown</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues398633" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice398633" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear407800" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber407800" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">440<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle407800" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-440-nuclear-safety" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Nuclear Safety</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues407800" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice407800" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear398198" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber398198" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">432<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle398198" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-432-blocking-public-health-protections" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Blocking Public Health Protections</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues398198" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Air, Water<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice398198" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear397763" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber397763" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">430<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle397763" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-430-social-cost-carbon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Social Cost of Carbon</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues397763" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice397763" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear397225" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber397225" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">418<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle397225" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-418-toxic-coal-ash" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Toxic Coal Ash</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues397225" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Dirty Energy<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice397225" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear407365" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber407365" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">394<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle407365" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-394-restriction-dirty-fuels" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Restriction on Dirty Fuels</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues407365" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice407365" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear396353" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber396353" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">345<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle396353" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-345-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; line-height: inherit;">Assault on Clean Energy and Clean Water</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues396353" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Clean Energy<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice396353" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear406930" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber406930" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">329<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle406930" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-329-clean-energy-funding" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Clean Energy Funding</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues406930" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Clean Energy<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice406930" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear406494" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber406494" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">312<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle406494" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-312-water-pollution-mountaintop-removal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues406494" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water, Dirty Energy, Toxics/Public Right to Know<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice406494" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear395916" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber395916" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">311<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle395916" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-311-clean-water-protections" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Clean Water Protections</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues395916" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Water<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice395916" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear406058" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber406058" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">304<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle406058" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-304-offshore-drilling" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Offshore Drilling</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues406058" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Drilling, Dirty Energy, Oceans<span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice406058" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear405622" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber405622" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">299<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle405622" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-299-drilling-bristol-bay" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Drilling in Bristol Bay</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues405622" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Dirty Energy, Oceans, Drilling, Wildlife<span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice405622" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear405187" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber405187" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">286<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle405187" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-286-anti-environmental-farm-bill" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Anti-Environmental Farm Bill</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues405187" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Water, Wildlife, Clean Energy, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice405187" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear404750" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber404750" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">260<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle404750" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-260-agricultural-conservation-practices" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Agricultural Conservation Practices</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues404750" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Water<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice404750" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear404314" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber404314" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">203<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle404314" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-203-flood-insurance-reform" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Flood Insurance Reform</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues404314" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Water, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice404314" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear395481" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber395481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">179<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle395481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-179-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; line-height: inherit;">Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (KXL)</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues395481" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Water<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice395481" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear394946" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber394946" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">88<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle394946" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-88-big-oil-budget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Big Oil Budget</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues394946" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice394946" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear391303" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber391303" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">22<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle391303" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 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/2013-22-resiliency-disaster-relief" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Resiliency in Disaster Relief</a><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues391303" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">Lands/Forests, Wildlife, Climate Change, Other<span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice391303" 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; 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;"> </div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 14px; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear403880" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">2013<span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber403880" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">21<span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle403880" style="margin: 0px; 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</div><div>It’s impossible to understand the Democratic rebellion against Nancy Pelosi without understanding the way power works in the House of Representatives. To understand the self-serving men behind this rebellion, heed the words of the late screenwriter William Goldman: Follow the money.</div>There is discontent with Pelosi’s ideology on the left, and that’s understandable. But ideology is not driving this campaign, and this is no populist rebellion. In fact, its leaders have no discernible ideology at all.That’s how corporate money rolls in the Democratic Party. It lays low, hides its true colors, and pretends it only wants to “get things done.”The anti-Pelosi insurgency is not a movement. It’s a cabal, orchestrated by the appropriately hashtagged #FiveWhiteGuys, a group of self-self-interested players with big money behind them. These white males resemble nothing so much as the next-generation terminator played by Robert Patrick in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” They’re cunning, aggressive, shape-shifting, and so reflective that anyone who looks at them sees only a distorted image of themselves.<interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />If you’re looking to change politics, they don’t reflect you.Rebel Without a CauseThis ersatz rebellion’s most visible leader is Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, a custom-crafted biography in a suit who appears to hold no core beliefs. That’s undoubtedly a plus for the political operatives who recruited and promoted him. An early <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/28/seth-moulton-congressman-run-president-2020-profile-215428" style="text-decoration-line: none;">profile</a> has Moulton variously calling himself “a progressive Democrat,” a “pragmatic Democrat,” and a “frustrated Democrat”—and that was just during his first primary.Moulton was reportedly <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/2016/04/04/politics-government/us-rep-seth-moulton-and-his-politics-new-politics" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recruited</a> to run for Congress by “New Politics,” a group that seeks to elect both Democratic and Republican veterans. It describes itself as “<a href="https://www.newpolitics.org/about" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bipartisan</a>,” a word will come up again in the story of the anti-Pelosi rebellion. New Politics’ other success story is Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, who notably <a href="https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/09/16/mike-gallagher-takes-aim-career-politicians/89787538/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">blamed</a> Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, rather than the ill-advised Iraq war, for the rise of ISIS.Moulton, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/28/seth-moulton-congressman-run-president-2020-profile-215428" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> backed that tragic misadventure, enjoyed the early support of two generals who helped lead it, David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal.(Unfortunately, both are now disgraced: McChrystal for disrespecting the civilian chain of command, and Petraeus for revealing secrets to an extramarital lover as he cheated on his wife, a crime that would have likely led to criminal indictment for a less well-connected official.)As the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democratic-rep-moulton-draws-fire-for-campaign-to-deny-pelosi-speakers-job/2018/11/16/5e17ea30-e91e-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?utm_term=.dfbf1b3cc6dc" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Post</a> reports, Moulton “has aligned with Republicans on some policy bills, ranging from a ban on the gun accessories used in last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas to a recent legislation allowing veterans to use medical marijuana.”Moulton had praise for Pelosi when he was asked about her <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/28/seth-moulton-congressman-run-president-2020-profile-215428" style="text-decoration-line: none;">last year,</a> saying she had achieved an “awful lot.” He told Politico’s Michael Kruse that he thought much of the Republican criticism of her was “unfair,” but added, “the reality is that we’re losing.”Well, Pelosi’s winning now. What’s his rationale for opposing Pelosi today? “If that many seats change hands,” Moulton <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/do-democrats-really-want-stop-nancy-pelosi-becoming-speaker-n936386" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> after the election, “that’s just all the more reason the American people are calling out for change.”Heads, he wins. Tails, Pelosi loses.The FIRE BrigadeMoulton’s given to making hazy <a href="https://twitter.com/sethmoulton/status/1062890799552192512" style="text-decoration-line: none;">statements</a> like: “Congress needs a new leader. Period.”The only concrete thing about him appears to be the money he’s raised for like-minded candidates. “Thanks to a network of donors rooted in the financial centers of Boston and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/new-york/?tid=a_inl_auto" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York</a>,” reports the Post, “Moulton’s Serve America PAC and related political committees raised a combined $8 million for the election cycle.”Moulton has been well-rewarded for his ideological plasticity. During his short political career, Moulton has received a total of $1,723,870 from the investor class that comprises the so-called “FIRE” sector—financial, insurance, and real estate. He has also received more than $160,000 from Pharma. (These figures come from <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00035431&cycle=CAREER" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Open Secrets</a>.)Moulton isn’t the only member of the five-man anti-Pelosi band, of course. The rhythm section is composed of Colorado’s Ed Perlmutter, Oregon’s Kurt Schrader, and Bill Foster of Illinois. The three men have received $4,082,803, $987,050, and $2,747,969 respectively from the FIRE sector. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, who mounted a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/29/meet-tim-ryan-the-ohio-democrat-challenging-nancy-pelosi-for-control-of-house-democrats/?utm_term=.85aff03533dd" style="text-decoration-line: none;">longshot challenge</a> to Pelosi in 2016, is the band’s other leader—the Keith Richards, if you will, to Moulton’s would-be Jagger.Ryan isn’t running this time around. Instead, Ryan recently insisted that there are “plenty of really competent females that we can replace her with.”For sheer tone-deafness in gender relations, that phrase belongs with Mitt Romney’s 2012 comment about the “binders full of women” he hoped to appoint as president. It may be worse, in fact, since it suggests females can’t be assumed to be competent. The remark will have an added sting for Democratic women who remember Ryan’s past positions on reproductive rights.Why does Ryan say Pelosi has to go? “We need a brand change,” Ryan told <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nancy-pelosi-speaker-fight-757178/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rolling Stone</a>. For content-free criticism, that’s about as empty—and as cringeworthy—as it gets.No Labels, No PointThe rhetorical style of these Democratic “rebels”—vague on the issues, big on cliches and platitudes, the rhetorical equivalent of cotton candy—comes with a pedigree. It is the hallmark of “centrism,” the billionaire-funded political faction that serves its financial backers by selling themselves as “non-ideological,” “technocratic” architects of “bipartisan” consensus who can “<a href="https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/problem-solvers-caucus-propose-changes-house-rules-break-gridlock/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">break the gridlock</a>” and “solve problems.”For this crowd, “solving problems” always winds up meaning the same thing: cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and an unwarranted obsession with the federal deficit that always—just accidentally, mind you!—winds up helping corporations and the billionaire class.The “centrist” political style claims to be “above parties and partisanship”—which, in the end, is another way of saying it’s free of any principles except the interests of its paymasters. It often comes in the guise of patriotism, as when Seth Moulton says he places “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/30/politics/veterans-running-democrats-midterms/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">country over party</a>”—a comment that, implicitly, is a deep insult to those who believe one party’s proposals would serve the country better than the other’s.The anti-Pelosi campaign is being supported by one of the mainstays of the corporate centrist world—the cynical political ploy known as “No Labels,” which I wrote about in <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/the-slick-no-labels-effor_b_1678389.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2012</a>, and its <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Problem_Solvers_Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none;">creation</a>, the “Problem Solvers Caucus.” If you called “No Labels” a guaranteed-employment plan for Republican and Democratic political hacks, you would not be wrong.Besides, the Problem Solvers Caucus—which, predictably, promised to “break the gridlock” and get things done—<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/05/house-problem-solvers-caucus-has-solved-few-problems-bipartisan-critics-allege/?utm_term=.4671d8c524a4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hasn’t solved any problems</a>. Given their agenda, that’s a good thing—but it’s hardly a mandate to lead.It’s Not About the Speakership—It’s About Blocking Progressive ChangeThe No Labels crowd is throwing its public influence (negligible) and its ability to muster campaign cash (considerable) behind the anti-Pelosi effort for a reason: they see this as an opportunity to weaken the Democrats’ newfound power in the House. That’s especially urgent for the big-money crowd at a time when <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13VFDbv4MfGE1xAvrHzcYrOcI06BtIQJcD7OZdHvEPbI/edit?source=howdemswon2018.com#gid=490594513" style="text-decoration-line: none;">nearly half</a> of successful new candidates ran on Medicare for All and more than <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yc866eqj" style="text-decoration-line: none;">100 House Democrats</a> have joined the Expand Social Security Caucus.The “centrist” campaign may help explain why Pelosi plans to impose a new rule making it harder to raise middle-class taxes. This rule would make it harder to achieve either Medicare for All or expanded Social Security, even though any new taxes would leave the working class much better off financially than it is today.Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, has already <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fight-for-house-speaker-explodes-into-national-political-campaign/2018/11/17/afc17ae8-e9cf-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f3fd44f113ad" style="text-decoration-line: none;">indicated</a> he could back Pelosi if more such changes were put in place. The caucus’ additional proposed changes, roughly outlined <a href="https://gottheimer.house.gov/uploadedfiles/break_the_gridlock_packet.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, would effectively give Republicans veto power over progressive legislation.It is noteworthy that there was no serious attempt to implement these rules when Republicans ran the House.Even more than the speakership, this procedural power grab motivates the anti-Pelosi crowd and its backers. They might even withdraw their opposition to her if they could seize this power for themselves and their “centrist” allies in both parties.No wonder these “rebels” are vague about their goals. Given the massive support for Medicare for All (more than 70 percent of the public, 85 percent of Democrats) and expanding Social Security, they know their agenda is extremely unpopular. If they truly believed in “country over party,” they would support programs that most of the country wants and needs.How Power WorksHere’s how power really works in the House of Representatives. The Speaker holds enormous power, but only serves at the pleasure of her caucus. The representatives in that caucus are not her employees; they are her constituents. Anyone who wants to become Speaker has to win their support.One very effective way to do that is by raising money, as Pelosi has prodigiously done. Another is by managing the House, and the caucus, effectively enough to rack up a list of accomplishments that will help those representatives win reelection.Here’s something else worth knowing about Democratic power in the House: Its party organizations are still deeply hierarchical, and are built on deeply embedded relationships. If the Moulton/Ryan gang succeeds in unseating Pelosi, the speakership will not go to someone the left supports. Sure, it would be great to see Barbara Lee become Speaker, but that simply isn’t going to happen. Besides, she’s not even running. (Lee is running for the House’s number five position.)The Five Guys (not to be confused with the burger chain of the same name) and their backers are almost certainly looking for one of two outcomes: either Pelosi accedes to their demands, which will paralyze the Democratic agenda, or Pelosi is replaced with someone who will. But if Pelosi goes down, that replacement will probably not be Rep. Marcia Fudge, despite her public expressions of interest (as of this writing) and Moulton’s professed support for her.The Five Guys may block Pelosi, but they will not choose her successor. Instead, in the chaos that would follow a Pelosi defeat, the speakership will probably go to the second-highest member of the Democratic hierarchy: Steny Hoyer.End GameThe left is distressed with Pelosi, and that’s understandable. Pelosi’s commitment to “pay as you go” funding is a political and procedural mistake of the first order. The new tax rule is, as <a href="https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1063539971288641538" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MoveOn.org</a> and others have said, “<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/pelosi-mulls-super-majority-rule-for-tax-hikes-on-bottom-80.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a staggeringly bad idea</a>”—although that may have been forced on her by the Five Guys crowd. (Progressives should note, however, that this rule could be waived at any time to pass progressive programs.)A Hoyer speakership would be a catastrophe for the left, for reasons Politico’s Bill Scher lays out <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/12/nancy-pelosi-steny-hoyer-democrats-222411" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. Hoyer represents the worst of the corporate-backed, “centrist,” economically neoliberal party elite. His faction’s disastrous policies and muddled messaging led it into the political wilderness. With this election, the party has only begun to make up some of the ground lost under its rule.Progressives should mobilize to defeat Hoyer and replace him, preferably someone who can serve as an heir apparent. And if the left wants a more progressive House Speaker, it needs to run candidates in more primaries. When House Democrats are more progressive, Pelosi or her successor will either change accordingly or be replaced.Yes, Pelosi’s a big fundraiser. She reportedly raised <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nancy-pelosi-presides-over-democratic-victory-in-house-1541586602" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$135.6 million</a> for this election cycle. A cynic might say that this figure, when compared to Moulton’s $8 million, makes her about 17 times more likely to win this speakership fight.Pelosi raises that money, from a variety of sources, because she plays to win in the current system. Nancy Pelosi can’t, and won’t, lead the fight to get money out of politics. But then, the Democratic left needs to stop waiting for politicians to fight their battles. That’s what movements are for.This country needs a mass movement that will demand fundamental political change. But nobody needs the Five Guys’ corporate-backed chaos, or the reactionary regime it seeks to impose on the House of Representatives.If some leftists don’t want Pelosi to win, that’s understandable. But they should hope with all their hearts that her opponents lose.This article was produced by the <a href="https://independentmediainstitute.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Independent Media Institute</a>.<div>
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<div>Ed Perlmutter, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrat</a>, has represented the Seventh Congressional District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_Colorado" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Colorado</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> since 2007. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/co07_109.gif" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">map</a>)<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Record_and_controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Record and controversies</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Iraq_War" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1 Iraq War</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Environmental_record" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2 Environmental record</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Biography" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Biography</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#2006_congressional_elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 2006 congressional elections</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#2008_elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1.1 2008 elections</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Money_in_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Money in politics</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Committees_and_Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Committees and Affiliations</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Committees" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Committees</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#More_Background_Data" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 More Background Data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.1 Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.2 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ed_Perlmutter#Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.3 Articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Record and controversies</h2><div style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background: rgb(220, 232, 248);">General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:U.S.legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Ed Perlmutter voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Help:References" title="Help:References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cite your sources</a>!</div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Iraq War</h3><div style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background: rgb(220, 232, 248);">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmental record</h3>For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy(U.S.)" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Biography</h2>Perlmutter was born in 1953 in Denver, CO. He graduated from Jefferson High School in Edgewater, Colorado and went on to study political science, history and economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating in 1975. He received his Juris Doctorate from CU in 1978, where he was twice elected president of his class while working part-time as a laborer on construction projects. Perlmutter and his wife Deana have three children: Alexis, Abby, and Zoey.Perlmuter is a director of the law firm of Berenbaum, Weinshienk and Eason, and has specialized in business reorganizations and commercial litigation. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association and served on the Board of Trustees and Judicial Performance Commission for the First Judicial District. He is a Trustee for the Midwest Research Institute (primary operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), and a Board Member for the National Jewish Medical & Research Center.Perlmutter was elected to two four-year terms to represent central Jefferson County as a state senator from 1995 to 2003, the first Democrat elected in the district in 30 years.In 2000, he helped lead a team which succeeded in a Democratic takeover of the Colorado State Senate for the first time since <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John F. Kennedy</a> was President. He has assisted numerous campaigns and most recently was co-chair of the 2004 John Kerry Campaign in Colorado.In the Colorado Senate, he served on numerous committees including: Water, Finance, Judiciary, Child Welfare, Telecommunication, Transportation, Legal Services, and Oil and Gas. He was Chair of the Public Policy and Planning Committee, Chair of the Bi-Partisan Renewable Energy Caucus, and President Pro Tem of the Senate during the 2001 and 2002 session.Among the awards he received while in the Senate were the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry “Business Legislator of the Year”; Legal Aid Award for Equal Justice Under the Law; American Institute of Architecture award for “Colorado Legislator of the Year”; DARE Man of the Year; Jeffco Education Association Friend of Education; United Veterans Committee “Legislator of the Year”; Colorado Humane Society Distinguished Service Award;The AARP Outstanding Legislative Service Award; and the University of Colorado School of Law “Distinguished Alumnus Award”.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2006 congressional elections</h3>Perlmutter sought and won the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> nomination for Congress in Colorado's Seventh Congressional District, where Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Beauprez" title="Bob Beauprez" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bob Beauprez</a> (R-Colo.) was the retiring incumbent. He defeated former State Representative Peggy Lamm and college professor Herb Rubenstein, with 53% of the vote in the primary. State education chairman Rick O'Donnell ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.In late September, O'Donnell was put on the defensive when ads appeared noting that he had previously supported abolishing Social Security. A Survey USA poll soon after that showed Perlmutter with a 54 to 37 percent lead, although GOP consultants guessed that the support was "soft". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5024085,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a>. He ultimately won the election 55% to 42%. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/CO/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[2]</a><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2008 elections</h4><table style="line-height: 19.2px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(67, 92, 122); margin: 0.5em 0.75em; background: rgb(192, 215, 240);"><tbody><tr><td style="border-right-width: 0px; padding: 0.5em;"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/File:Sdtp-banner.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><img alt="Sdtp-banner.jpg" src="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/thumb/1/13/Sdtp-banner.jpg/150px-Sdtp-banner.jpg" width="150" height="39" srcset="/images/1/13/Sdtp-banner.jpg 1.5x, /images/1/13/Sdtp-banner.jpg 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></td><td width="100%" style="border-left-width: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0em;">This information was gathered by volunteer researchers as part of the Superdelegate Transparency Project on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Superdelegates" title="Superdelegates" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">superdelegates</a> for the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. For more info see the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Colorado_2008_presidential_primary_and_superdelegates" title="Colorado 2008 presidential primary and superdelegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Colorado superdelegate tracker</a> or visit the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Superdelegate_Transparency_Project" title="Portal:Superdelegate Transparency Project" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">STP homepage</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>
Before <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> conceded the race, Ed Perlmutter, as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Superdelegate" title="Superdelegate" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">superdelegate</a>, had endorsed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> for President.<div style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em; background: rgb(220, 232, 248);">For more information and sources, see the state page for this superdelegate linked to in the blue box above.</div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Money in politics</h2>This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00027510&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata><table class="prettytable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19.2px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Links to more campaign contribution information for Ed Perlmutter
from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Fundraising profile:</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00027510" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00027510" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00027510" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00027510" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Top contributors by industry:</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00027510" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">2006 election cycle</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); 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</div><div>Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado inserted a provision into the recently passed House climate change bill that would drum up business for “green” banks, such as the one he has invested in and his family and a political donor helped found in San Francisco.The bill calls on bank regulators to promote green banking and says federal dollars should be used to support energy-efficient home improvements at government-funded housing projects.Mr. Perlmutter, a two-term Democrat, has two investments in the 3-year-old New Resource Bank, which calls itself the nation’s first green bank. Among other environmentally conscious banking products, the bank offers home equity loans for consumers to make their homes more energy efficient, in addition to construction loans for green builders.A Perlmutter spokeswoman stressed that the bill provisions benefit any bank that offers qualifying products.“Any bank can use this or take advantage of this, period. So it’s equal opportunity,” Leslie Oliver said.“New Resource Bank was not even on the radar screen” when the congressman first introduced his ideas in a bill called the Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods (GREEN) Act last session, she said, adding that four hearings have been held on the bill, which passed the House last year.New Resource also lists Deana Perlmutter, the congressman’s former spouse, and his father, Leonard Perlmutter, among those who have invested “seed capital and effort” to get the venture off the ground, according to the bank’s Web site.Mr. Perlmutter’s sponsorship of the GREEN Act given his financial stake in the bank raises ethical questions.Elliot S. Berke, a lawyer specializing in government ethics, said lawmakers should be cognizant when it comes to even the mere appearance of an ethical problem.

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</div><div>2006</div><div>Ed Perlmutter’s campaign sent out a strange, rambling diatribe today about “Setting the Record Straight.” Click below to take a look…<blockquote style="border: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; border-radius: 5px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 3px inset; max-width: 80%; line-height: 18px; background: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Many of you may have received or heard about emails from Peggy Lamm touting polls showing her ahead and advancing a gossip column from The Hill stating the same.?Let?s set the record straight.?By every measure in this campaign and by public facts not in dispute, Ed Perlmutter is not simply ahead in the race for Congress he is demonstrably ahead!?Lamm and The Hill site two polls for their staggering leap of logic.? Lamm?s own poll conducted by Ridder Braden was reviewed by the Rocky Mountain News and not found to be credible enough to write a story.? Amazingly, Lamm says she is up over Perlmutter by 20 points and up in his home area of Jefferson County.? The first rule of politics is that if your pollster is going to cook the numbers for you, make them somewhat believable.?The second poll they cite was conducted by Celinda Lake for the minimum wage campaign.? It is NOT a Democratic primary poll. According to Lake it is not a valid sample. It is a statewide poll of all general election voters who vote only in Presidential election years!? The Lamm campaign does not have those numbers to release and The Hill has not seen the numbers.? Among these weak voters, apparently Dottie (oops Peggy) Lamm has strong name identification.????So much for the Spin?now for the FACTS:?<ul type="disc" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">PERLMUTTER WINS CAUCUS? & ASSEMBLY? Peggy Lamm continually references Mark Udall and Mike Feeley as successful petition candidates.? What she fails to mention is that they both made a strategic and financial decision immediately upon entering the race.? Peggy Lamm, like Marc Holtzman, competed for caucus delegates for nine months and at the last minute realizing she might not make the 30% or even the10% thresholds backed out and announced her petition effort.? As expected, Ed Perlmutter received the unanimous vote for top-line designation on the August primary ballot ?</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">PERLMUTTER WINS ENDORSEMENTS? Ed and Peggy have also competed for numerous endorsements and recommendations from elected officials, important constituency groups and others who make up the bulk of primary voters.? Peggy Lamm does not have a single endorsement from organized labor or a major elected official in the district.? The Perlmutter endorsement list speaks for itself<a href="http://www.perlmutter2006.com/free_details.asp?id=12" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">(please click here to see a full list)</a>.?</li></ul>??????? Ed has the support of:?Colorado?s Political Leaders (Former Governor Roy Romer, Former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, State Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, State Senator Bob Hagedorn, State Representative Nancy Todd, Federico Pe?a, etc.)??Organized Labor (AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME, etc)?Colorado?s Teachers (Colorado Education Association)?Colorado?s Firefighters (Colorado Professional??
Firefighters)?Senator John Kerry?<a href="http://www.perlmutter2006.com/free_details.asp?id=12" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">To See a Full Endorsement List Please Click Here</a>?<ul type="disc" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">PERLMUTTER RETAINS HUGE 2-1 MONEY ADVNATAGE.? Through the March 31st FEC report Perlmutter had raised $700,000 to Lamm?s $400,000 and had $400,000 cash remaining to Lamm?s $200,000.? Lamm has gone through two different fundraisers with no success and is on her third campaign manager.? Additionally, she lost her prominent Campaign Treasurer Peggy Kerns.? The Lamm campaign is broke, in disarray and left with nothing to do but spin fictitious polls-eerily similar to the Holtzman operation.?</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">LAMM CAMP FORCED TO DEFEND CONSTANT BLUNDERS?</li></ul>-Peggy Lamm endorsed Bill Owens for re-election and then lied about it last year in the <a href="http://www.knowledgemessenger.com/lb/KMTasks/uploads/05_2005_CO_Stsmn___Lamm_1.pdf" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">June 3rd edition of the Colorado Statesman (please click to see a PDF of the full article).</a>?-Lamm violated House ethics rules by failing to file her personal financial disclosure statement with the House Clerk.? She finally filed nine months late after press inquiries. (RMN March 14, 2006)?-Lamm was under criminal investigation for voter fraud by the Jeffco D.A.? The D.A. acknowledged Lamm, while still living in Boulder, did not properly change her residence to vote in Jeffco in November 2005. ?The D.A. decided against criminal prosecution but Lamm has been admonished publicly in the media.? <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/7039737/detail.html" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Please click here to see Channel 7 News Investigative Report entitled ?Jeffco DA Investigates Peggy Lamm?s Residence? (February 13, 2006 and May 18, 2006). </a>?Lamm maintains that she still lives in Boulder while keeping an apartment in Arvada to vote.? (AM 760, March 15, 2006).?As the campaign rolls on we are not taking anything for granted.? We need your help today in setting the record straight.? Visit us at <a href="http://www.perlmutter2006.com/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">perlmutter2006.com</a> to find out more about how you can help our campaign for change.</blockquote>- See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/1238#sthash.IKIrXjaz.dpuf</div><div>==</div></div></div></div></div></div>