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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NBC</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump-backed Rep. Mooney wins W.Va. Republican House primary</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NBC News</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allan Smith</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tue, May 10, 2022,&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Alex Mooney defeated Rep. David McKinley in the GOP primary for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, a victory for former President Donald&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Trump, who endorsed Moone</span>y.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a rare matchup of incumbents, McKinley and Mooney faced off after the state lost one of its congressional seats amid declining population and their districts were combined.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump backed Mooney after McKinley voted for the bipartisan infrastructure package and the effort to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Serving the people of West Virginia has been the honor of my life. I’m proud that I have always stood up for what’s right for West Virginia — even when it hurt me politically," McKinley said in a statement. "The groundwork we have laid over the last twelve years has paved the way for a more prosperous and diverse West Virginia economy."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>At Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania last week, Mooney called McKinley “a total RINO,”</b>&nbsp;an acronym for "Republican in name only" frequently used as an insult to mean someone is insufficiently conservative or loyal to the party.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“He voted for the January 6th commission to investigate Donald Trump and his allies,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” Mooney said. “He was one of 13 so-called Republicans to vote for the Joe Biden-Pelosi<b> non-infrastructure $1.2 trillion spending package.[BBB]</b> … He’s a liberal, RINO Republican. To be successful, we need to kick out these RINOs in primaries.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the same rally, Trump said McKinley is someone Mooney “should beat easily.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“You better beat them easily,” Trump said. “Or I’m gonna look very bad. They’re gonna say, ‘Trump has lost it!</span>’”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>McKinley has called Mooney a "carpetbagger,"</b>&nbsp;citing his move to West Virginia in 2014 to run for Congress after having served in the Maryland state Senate and chairing the Maryland GOP.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While Trump threw his support behind Mooney,&nbsp;<b>McKinley has the backing of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican who changed his party affiliation after Trump’s presidential victory, and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a 30-second campaign ad released by the McKinley campaign, Manchin praised McKinley for backing the infrastructure deal and said it was an “outright lie” for Mooney to claim McKinley supported Biden’s “Build Back Better” social welfare proposals.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Alex Mooney has proven he’s all about Alex Mooney,” Manchin said in the ad. “But West Virginians know David McKinley is all about us.”</div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="markup--strong markup--blockquote-strong" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">d<b style="">avid Bennett McKinley</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born March 28, 1947) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. representative</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span data-sort-value="West Virginia01&nbsp;!" style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="West Virginia's 1st congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">West Virginia's 1st congressional district</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">since 2011. A member of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, McKinley was a member of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">West Virginia House of Delegates</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from 1980 to 1994, and chaired the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Republican_Party" title="West Virginia Republican Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">West Virginia Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from 1990 to 1994. He is the dean of West Virginia's House delegation.</span></font></div><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2012</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2014" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2014</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2016</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2018" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2018</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2020</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#2022" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2022</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Political_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political positions</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Jobs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Jobs</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Gun_control" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gun control</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Abortion</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Climate_change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Climate change</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#January_6_commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">January 6 commission</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Vaccination" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Vaccination</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#LGBT_rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">LGBT rights</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Caucus memberships</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley was born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling,West_Virginia" title="Wheeling, West Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wheeling, West Virginia</a>. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Purdue University</a>&nbsp;in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_career">Early career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley worked as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineer" title="Civil engineer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">civil engineer</a>&nbsp;for 12 years until founding his own firm, McKinley and Associates, based in Wheeling. The 40-member firm has been involved in $1 billion in construction projects over the past 30 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Past_Projects_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-Past_Projects-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley has renovated structures of historic significance in West Virginia communities, such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Theatre(Wheeling,West_Virginia)" title="Capitol Theatre (Wheeling, West Virginia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Capitol Theatre</a>&nbsp;in Wheeling.<sup id="cite_ref-mckinley.house.gov_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-mckinley.house.gov-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley was a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">West Virginia House of Delegates</a>&nbsp;from 1980 to 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;From 1990 to 1994, he chaired the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Republican_Party" title="West Virginia Republican Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">West Virginia Republican Party</a>. As chair, he was very critical of West Virginia's two&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (US)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a>&nbsp;U.S. senators. In 1991, he criticized Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller" title="Jay Rockefeller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jay Rockefeller</a>&nbsp;for exploring a run for president against President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George H. W. Bush</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 1994, he criticized Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd" title="Robert Byrd" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Byrd</a>&nbsp;for opposing a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Budget_Amendment" class="mw-redirect" title="Balanced Budget Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Balanced Budget Amendment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1996, McKinley ran in the Republican primary for governor against astronaut&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_McBride" title="Jon McBride" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jon McBride</a>&nbsp;and former governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Underwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Cecil Underwood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cecil Underwood</a>. He came in third place; Underwood won the general election.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elections</font></span></h3><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2022">2022</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></font></font></h4><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_West_Virginia#District_2" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2022 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia §&nbsp;District 2</a></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a result of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 United States Census</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_redistricting_cycle" title="2020 United States redistricting cycle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020 redistricting cycle</a>, the West Virginia legislature divided the state into northern and southern districts, and abandoned its longtime practice of starting the numbering in the north, assigning the southern counties to the new 1st district. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">This resulted in McKinley and 2nd district Representative&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mooney" title="Alex Mooney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Mooney</a>&nbsp;being together in the new 2nd district, and both incumbents declared their intention to run in the district.</span><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-27" style="background: none rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none;">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-27" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">27]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In a race that received nationwide attention, Mooney defeated McKinley in the Republican primary on May 10.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;endorsed Mooney before the election, and McKinley, who has been ranked as one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, was criticized for holding moderate views</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley has broken ranks with the Republican majority a few times in his tenure in Congress. In April 2011, he was one of only four Republican members of Congress to vote against the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_Prosperity" title="The Path to Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican budget proposal</a>&nbsp;of 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;He said, "As it relates to the Medicare, I applaud what Paul Ryan was trying to do, because we need to have an adult conversation about it. The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Budget Office</a>&nbsp;determined that some of the out-of-pocket costs could double for seniors and that sent up a red flag for me that we need to look at it."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">McKinley was ranked the 22nd most bipartisan member of the House during the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress" title="114th United States Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">114th United States Congress</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(and the most bipartisan House member from West Virginia) by the Bipartisan Index created by&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lugar#The_Lugar_Center" title="Richard Lugar" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">The Lugar Center</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCourt_School_of_Public_Policy" title="McCourt School of Public Policy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">McCourt School of Public Policy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which ranks members of Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring how often each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member co-sponsors bills by members of the opposite party).</span><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_positions">Political positions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h3><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Jobs">Jobs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley is an active supporter of the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act. Also known as the Stop the War on Coal Act, it aims to protect American jobs and prevent legislation that would reduce mining jobs. McKinley has said, "The constant attacks on coal have to stop."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley was one of 233 representatives in favor of the act, which passed in September 2012. He said, "Our job creators need a consistent and predictable regulatory program that will protect jobs we have and create new one."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>&nbsp;On November 5, 2021, McKinley was one of 13 House Republicans to break with their party and vote with a majority of Democrats in favor of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act" title="Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2011, McKinley was the only Republican freshman to vote against all three of the trade deals passed by Congress:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93United_States_Trade_Promotion_Agreement" title="Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Panama</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colombia</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Korea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;He said, "Free trade deals like&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="NAFTA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NAFTA</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="CAFTA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CAFTA</a>&nbsp;have been nothing more than broken promises that shipped our jobs overseas, and I won’t vote for any free trade agreements unless they’re fair to my constituents."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley has expressed concern about the United States' "unchecked spending", which he says results in being "beholden to countries like China and Japan who own a significant amount of our debt".<sup id="cite_ref-Election_Profile_37-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-Election_Profile-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_control">Gun control</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley is a strong supporter of the notion that people should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon. He has been consistent in his voting patterns on gun control and continued this trend when voting yes on Requiring State Reciprocity for Carrying Concealed Firearms. He received an “A” rating from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>. In 2012 the NRA was one of McKinley’s main endorsers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[]</sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Abortion">Abortion</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley opposes&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_rights_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Abortion rights in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abortion rights</a>. He believes "[t]he use of federal funds to pay for ending the life of an unborn child is appalling", even though federal funds are not used to pay for abortions, per the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment" title="Hyde Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hyde Amendment</a>. He voted for the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in July 2012, which did not pass. This act would have prohibited abortion in the District of Columbia. The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Right_to_Life_Committee" title="National Right to Life Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Right to Life Committee</a>&nbsp;gave McKinley an 100% rating on abortion issues from 2011 to the present.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Climate_change">Climate change</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 23, 2013, McKinley introduced the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Buildings_Act_of_2014" title="Better Buildings Act of 2014" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Better Buildings Act of 2014</a>. The bill would amend federal law aimed at improving the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_energy_use" title="Efficient energy use" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">energy efficiency</a>&nbsp;of commercial office buildings</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-cbo2126_39-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-cbo2126-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;It would create a program called "Tenant Star" similar to the existing&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Star" title="Energy Star" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy Star</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;program.</span><sup id="cite_ref-usgbc1_40-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-usgbc1-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;He argued in favor of the bill, saying, "finding ways to use energy efficiently is common sense. We ought to be promoting efficiency as a way to save energy, money and create jobs."</span><sup id="cite_ref-AmChem1_41-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-AmChem1-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May 2014, McKinley offered an<b style=""> amendment t</b>o the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_P.%22Buck%22_McKeon_National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2015(H.R.4435;113th_Congress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Howard P. " buck="Buck" mckeon="McKeon" national="National" defense="Defense" authorization="Authorization" act="Act" for="for" fiscal="Fiscal" year="Year" h.r="H.R" th="th" congress="Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015</a>&nbsp;that bars the Department of Defense from using funds to assess climate change and its implications for national security</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In January 2020, McKinley and Representative&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schrader" title="Kurt Schrader" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kurt Schrader</a>&nbsp;co-authored an opinion piece for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">USA Today</a>&nbsp;on climate change. </b>It read in part, "climate change is the greatest environmental and energy challenge of our time, and our government is failing to meet it. Instead of energy policy that lurches in a different direction after every election cycle, we need a new approach to develop realistic solutions that will enjoy support from both parties in Congress. Setting a steady course would be far better for both industry and the environment." The piece also called for "policies that will make clean energy technologies for all fuels affordable—solar, wind, hydro and other renewables, as well as nuclear, carbon capture for fossil fuels, energy efficiency, storage, and other technologies that will make the grid more secure, resilient, and affordable.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="January_6_commission">January 6 commission</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 19, 2021, McKinley was one of 35 Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting to approve legislation to establish the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_commission" title="January 6 commission" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">January 6 commission</a>&nbsp;meant to investigate the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 storming of the United States Capitol" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">storming of the U.S. Capitol</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Vaccination">Vaccination</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On November 30, McKinley was the only West Virginia representative to vote for of H.R. 550: Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021. The bill helps create confidential, population-based databases that maintain a record of vaccine administrations.</span><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="LGBT_rights">LGBT rights</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2015, McKinley was one of 60 Republicans voting to uphold President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive order banning federal contractors from making hiring decisions that discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[]</sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" title="United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Committee on Energy and Commerce</a><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Energy_and_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Power" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Subcommittee on Energy and Power</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Environment_and_Climate_Change" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Energy_Subcommittee_on_Oversight_and_Investigations" title="United States House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>Republican Study Committe</b>e</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus" title="United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Formation" title="Marcellus Formation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marcellus Shale</a>&nbsp;Caucus (Founder)</b></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus" title="Tea Party Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>Tea Party Caucus</b></a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus" title="Congressional Arts Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Arts Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Congressional <b>Cement Caucus</b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Main Street Partnership</a><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[49]</a></sup></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Governance_Group" title="Republican Governance Group" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican Governance Group</a><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McKinley is a seventh-generation resident of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling,West_Virginia" title="Wheeling, West Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wheeling, West Virginia</a>. He has four children and six grandchildren. His wife, Mary, has been a critical care nurse for 39 years. She holds a master's degree in nursing.<sup id="cite_ref-mckinley.house.gov_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley#cite_note-mckinley.house.gov-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2><div><span class="mw-headline">...</span></div></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">E&C Republicans&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Urge Biden to&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Flip the Switch&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">for More ...https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov › news</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 21, 2022 — Rep. John Joyce, M.D. (R-PA): “It's time to return not only to American energy independence, but American energy dominance. It's time ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/ec-republicans-urge-biden-to-flip-the-switch-for-more-american-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/ec-republicans-urge-biden-to-flip-the-switch-for-more-american-energy/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">no twt vid</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">BLOG</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">E&C Republicans Urge Biden to Flip the Switch for More American Energy</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>03.21.22</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Energy and Commerce Republicans continue to lead and urge President Joe Biden to<b>&nbsp;flip the switch and boost American energy production to lower costs, create jobs, and strengthen America’s geopolitical power.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA): “Energy is foundational to everything we do.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">[…]</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“With an all-the-above strategy, we can again say ‘yes’ to America’s global leadership and lower energy prices. I continue to urge my colleagues across the aisle to work with us.<b>&nbsp;Let’s flip the switch&nbsp;</b>on American energy to ensure a better life and more secure future for all.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA):&nbsp;</b>“President Biden wants to ‘build back better.’ What he doesn’t realize is that, first, we must be able to build. Many otherwise ‘shovel-ready’ infrastructure projects get trapped in bureaucratic gridlock for years.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Developers routinely find themselves navigating environmental reviews that require up to over 60 authorizations from as many as 13 different federal agencies.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN):</b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“This administration is asking countries like</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Iran and Venezuela&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">to compensate for the&nbsp;<b>ban on Russian imports&nbsp;</b>and ignoring American energy producers.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“I urge the administration to<b>&nbsp;flip the switch</b>&nbsp;and reduce our&nbsp;<b>dependence on foreign energy&nbsp;</b>by increasing production of oil and gas at home. We can do this!”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. John Joyce,&nbsp;<b>M.D</b>. (R-PA):</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;“It’s time to return not only to American&nbsp;<b>energy independence, but American energy dominance.</b>&nbsp;It’s time to get to work for the American people.”[~ gridlock aka GOP obstructionism/ polarization]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Check out these highlights of Energy and Commerce Republicans exposing what’s behind the pain at the pump in our joint forum with the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Select Climate Committee:</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Michael Burgess,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;M.D. (R-TX</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">)</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">: “By the stroke of a pen on his first day in office, President Biden weakened America’s energy independence by rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, killing the Keystone XL pipeline, and unlawfully blocking new energy development on federal lands.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV):&nbsp;</b>“The Biden Administration admits the quickest way to lower the price of gas is increasing production. Yet they still prioritize ending the use of fossil fuels over providing relief at the pump for Americans.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL):&nbsp;</b>“We cannot deflect the blame to Russia’s inhumane invasion purely. Gas prices were already skyrocketing thanks to President Biden completely ending fossil fuel projects on day one.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. John Joyce, M.D. (R-PA):&nbsp;</b>“This energy crisis is one of the most important issues we need to be addressing right now in the House of Representatives. Inflation is surging, gas prices are skyrocketing, and the Biden administration refuses act.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s time for Biden to take the responsibility for what his policies are doing to hardworking American citizens</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;It’s time for&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Biden to care more about families in Pennsylvania than he does the Green New Deal.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;It’s time to drill American oil.”</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN): “We have the example in Europe (Germany) of what happens to a country when they get so far ahead and so much more worried about where they’re going on clean energy and they fail to look at the timeline of what’s doable and how that impacts their economy.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA): “I asked my constituents…how are high gas prices impacting you? Here are some are the responses I got.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Mark can’t visit his grandkids…Amanda is worried she will have to quit her job in home health because the commute is too expensive.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): “Two days ago, Secretary Granholm was celebrating that she issued two permits…but apparently that wasn’t good enough because yesterday she started talking about gouging.”</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL):</b>&nbsp;“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The House Progressive Caucus this week offered ideas to the Biden administration calling on the President to declare a ‘national climate emergency’ and to ban fossil fuel leases. We’ve got the administration bragging about 9,000 permits but you’ve got the progressive caucus calling for a complete ban on fossil fuels.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">SUBCOMMITTEES Energy (117th Congress)</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">ISSUES Energy Infrastructure</div></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The real way to support Ukraine is to flip the switch ... - The Hill&nbsp; https://thehill.com › congress-blog › energy-environmen</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">t</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 3, 2022 — One of the best ways for the U.S. to apply pressure while promoting peace is to unleash American energy production.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">It's Time To Unleash American Energy Independence - The ...https://www.theintelligencer.net › opinion › 2022/04 › i...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Apr 2, 2022 — At peak capacity, the pipeline would deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day to American refineries. The president also put a moratorium on new ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Missing: #fliptheswitch</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">The Time Is Now for US<b>&nbsp;Energy Independence</b>&nbsp;- Citizens ...https://www.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">cagw</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.org › thewastewatcher › time-now-us...</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 23, 2022 — U.S. energy independence will stabilize and lower fuel prices for ... XL pipeline would not have resulted in the release of oil right now, ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Members of Alabama's GOP congressional delegation</b>&nbsp;urge ...https://yellowhammernews.com › Politics</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Mar 8, 2022 — President Trump knew the importance of energy independence and made ... It's time to #FlipTheSwitch and unleash American energy production.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Rob Wittman column: We must unleash American energy ...https://<b>richmond.com › opinion</b>&nbsp;› columnists › rob-wittma...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">3 days ago — Russia's barbaric and unprovoked attack on Ukraine highlighted and elevated the need for American energy independence — but it did not create ...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">Missing: #fliptheswitch</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">President Biden's continued assault...&nbsp;<b>- Rep. Larry Bucshon&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;https://www.facebook.com › RepLarryBucshon › videos</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">PREVIEW</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">1:20</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>President Biden's continued assault on American-made energy has killed jobs, ... Biden to #FlipTheSwitch and unleash American energy ⬇️.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Facebook · Rep. Larry Bucshon</b>&nbsp;· Mar 17, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">The HEAT Report - Republican Whip - Steve Scalise&nbsp; https://www.republicanwhip.gov › news › the-heat-repo...</div><div style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">introduced the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;American Energy Independence From Russia Act,</span>&nbsp;which would immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline, unleash U.S. LNG exports to boost natural ...</div></span></font></div><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KINDA ODD MINORITY HAS OWN WEBSITE?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PRESS RELEASES</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PRESS RELEASE</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Leader Rodgers: The 1970s are Calling. Socialist Price Controls will Make Energy Crisis Worse.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">05.16.22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke out at the House Rules Committee today on&nbsp;<b>H.R. 7688, the Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act would give President Biden power to declare an energy emergency, arming the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with tools to&nbsp;<b>impose de-facto, arbitrary caps on the price of gas[NOT TRUE BAD FAITH?]</b>. These socialist price controls are not the answer and will lead to even less oil and gas production at a time where we desperately need to increase both</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CRISIS AND DISTRACTION</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“America is in crisis. Store shelves are empty. New mothers can’t find formula for their babies. Overdose deaths continue to rise as deadly fentanyl pours across our southern border. Inflation is out of control and gas prices continue to reach record levels.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Yet here we are again in the Rules Committee, rushing through the Democrats’ latest attempt to impose socialist price controls on our economy instead of<b>&nbsp;taking responsibility for their actions.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“We should be doing the hard work of legislating to fix these issues</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;and to reverse the damage of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;reckless spending and President Biden’s actions to shut down domestic energy production.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Time and again, the Democrats’ answer to President Biden’s inflation crisis is&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">more</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;government control</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">, more government spending, and les</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">s freedom.”</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SOCIALIST PRICE CONTROLS</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The disastrous consequences these socialist price controls will have are not hypothetical, because we have seen them before.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Similar policies were used by</span><b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;Soviet Russia, Venezuela, North Korea and other&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Communist dictatorships</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;They led to massive shortages in goods, which resulted in economic and humanitarian devastation.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The United States even tried to control high gas prices and inflation through price controls in the 1970s. This led to the shortages, rationing, and mile long gas lines many of us remember from the Carter years and made us dangerously reliant on OPEC.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The 1970s appear to be here again. The Democrats are following the lead of Soviet Russia and Venezuela and failing to learn from our own history.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“It’s a deliberate, irresponsible attempt to distract the American people from their</span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;tax and spend agenda</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;and the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Biden administration’s war on American energy</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;that has put us in this position without regard for the devastating consequences their policies will have for the American people.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“Meanwhile, President Biden is continuing full steam ahead with his</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;radical anti-American energy agenda.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In March 2020, Candidate Joe Biden said quote ‘<b>No more subsidies for fossil fuel industry</b>. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period.’</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“President Biden put in place a moratorium on new drilling.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“In May 2020, Candidate Joe Biden pledged to stop the<b>&nbsp;Keystone XL pipeline CANADIAN TAR SAND KOCH]</b>, and he did so on Day 1.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Just last week, he canceled lease sales for millions of acres for oil and gas production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Republicans have been sounding the alarm for over a year about the disastrous affect these policies would have on energy and gas prices and we are seeing the direct result of them today.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“Gas prices have gone up every day of this administration.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">FLIP THE SWITCH</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“I am co-leading the American Energy Independence from Russia Act [SPEARHEADED BY BIDEN, GOT THE GERMANS TO KILL NORSTREAM] with Natural Resources Republican Leader Bruce Westerman.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">“To lower prices and&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">protect our national security</b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">, it</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;flips the switch&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">on American energy and unleashes production.&nbsp;<b>It removes all barriers to U.S. LNG exports</b>&nbsp;and it unlocks America’s energy potential by requiring leasing and permitting of energy and minerals development on Federal lands and waters. It also would immediately approve the Keystone XL pipeline; and&nbsp;<b>force the DOE Secretary to have a plan to increase domestic production before allowing any more non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Democrats have now blocked this five times. That’s five times they’ve denied increasing our domestic production to lower costs and&nbsp;<b>boost energy exports to help our allies counter Russian aggression.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>”</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SHIFTING BLAME</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Instead of doing what is necessary to meet energy demands, President Biden and Congressional<b>&nbsp;Democrats are trying to shift blame to ‘price gouging’&nbsp;</b>for these record high prices.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“First, the administration tried blaming Putin – they called it the ‘Putin Price Hike.’ But anyone who has been filling up their tanks since last January knows this is not true.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The average gas price when President Biden took office was $2.38 and it climbed over a dollar more a gallon well before the invasion.[COVID, OIL WENT NEGATIVE]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The American people are too smart and have not fallen for this. So, the President is now shifting blame to the industry alleging price gouging.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Unless you ask his Energy Secretary who said in an Energy and Commerce hearing quote,&nbsp;<b>‘I’m not sure anyone is saying there is wholesale gouging.’</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“That was just hours after Democrats announced their plans to introduce this legislation before us today.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Regardless of Democrats not keeping their talking points straight, this price gouging conspiracy is nothing new.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The Federal Trade Commission has investigated price gouging in oil and gas markets on and off for over a hundred years. It has never found systemic price gouging. Instead, they found higher prices are attributable to supply and demand.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Americans are experiencing higher prices for virtually every single good and service, including gasoline.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is not because of some grand conspiracy that companies have suddenly decided to charge unaffordable prices. It is because of the Democrats’ out-of-control spending [GOP TAKE CREDIT FOR CARES BILLS THEY OPPOSED?] and regulations that have created an inflation crisis and devastated our supply chains.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“And the Democrats are not stopping with gas prices. Senator Warren and several House Members have just introduced legislation that would impose these price controls over our entire economy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Under the Democrats’&nbsp;<b>radical socialist agenda</b>, the gas lines of the 1970s and the bread lines of Communist Russia and Venezuela will become reality in the United States of America.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This is unacceptable and should be unthinkable.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PROMISE OF AMERICA</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We’ve done more to<b>&nbsp;lift people out of poverty [SORTA // API TALK PT], raise the standard of living</b>&nbsp;than any nation in the history of the world.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“That is the promise of America.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Free enterprise — not socialism — is the proven and best way to restore prosperity and optimism for the hardworking people of this country again.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I urge my colleagues to stop this madness, abandon this socialist agenda, and work with us to unleash American energy.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">W</span><b style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); box-sizing: border-box;">ashington, D.C. —</b><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;Energy and Commerce Committee Republican</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Leader</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;[?] Cathy McMorris Rodgers</span></b><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);">&nbsp;(R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan.</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE EPA’S CRITICAL ROLE</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Welcome back to the Energy and Commerce Committee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, Administrator Regan.</span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Your annual testimony on the President’s proposed EPA budget is an important chance to examine your priorities and your agency’s performance.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA serves a critical role in our nation’s efforts to protect the environment and public health.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This role includes standard setting, regulatory science and risk assessments, and large amounts of technical and financial assistance for states, tribal communities, and localities.”</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CELEBRATING SUCCESS FOR A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As you well know, although you do not acknowledge it in your written testimony, EPA today is operating against a backdrop of a tremendous record of environmental improvements.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“A review released last month by the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies noted that for the past twenty years the public has perceived the nation’s environment as getting worse.</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Yet across the board, the opposite is the case.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Air quality, for example, has been steadily improving – ozone, NOx, particulate matter concentrations are fractions of the levels 40 years</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;ago.</span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And the trend has continued over the past decade – including in states with heavy industrial and economic activity.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These positive results extend to land, water, and air toxics.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You should celebrate and promote these results, Mr. Administrator, and do your part to explain how and why this has happened.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And you should talk about the challenges ahead, as tighter requirements run up against technological and economic limits.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Continuous tightening of the screws, especially when standards are not technologically feasible risks broader economic harms to the very people you are seeking to h</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">elp.”</span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S REGULATORY&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OVERREACH</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;AND BUDGET</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“I worry that this administration’s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;radical climate agenda, will distract EPA from the hard work to ensure existing standards are implemented</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">, and existing programs can succeed.</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve seen what can happen.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Obama administration issued controversial, damaging rules that threatened to cut opportunity for people in struggling communities as jobs left regions.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Look at the Clean Power Plan rule which sought to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“EPA overreached with that regulation, which threatened American jobs and the economy. A legal challenge to that regulation is pending before the Supreme Court right now.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Senator Capito and I led a<b>&nbsp;bicameral amicus brief&nbsp;</b>in that case, focused on the&nbsp;<b>need to stop federal agencies from going beyond their statutory authorities&nbsp;</b>and ignoring Congressional intent.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Because of President Biden’s inflation crisis, families and retirees today are paying more for less, from the gas pump to the grocery store.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This calls for&nbsp;<b>responsible federal budgets [TRUMP VOODOO TAX CUT CORP OLIG GIVEAWAY]</b>&nbsp;that focus on core missions, and effective management—the ingredients for accountability and success.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The EPA fiscal year 2023 budget request is nearly $12 billion. This amount is $681 million more than the request from last fiscal year [TRUMP CUTS?] , and that was a more than 20 percent increase.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“States are tasked with enforcing most of EPA’s regulatory requirements;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;but, this budget request calls for growing EPA’s workforce by 10 percent compared to current levels.</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You testified to the House Appropriations Committee recently that EPA is not ‘inflating itself’ because ‘a majority’ of EPA’s budget goes to the States.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But not even 50 percent of your requested budget would go to the States.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WINNING THE FUTURE</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I hope you will agree with me that we need to return to building – not dismantling –&nbsp;the American economy [RECORD REBOUND FROM TRUMP COVID FAIL RECESSION, LOWEST UNEMPL IN 40 YRS?].</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I’m concerned about actions at the EPA to destroy next-generation technologie</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">s by having&nbsp;<b>premarket chemical reviews [VS PRECAUT WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE? TRUMP SAB]&nbsp;</b>collect dust on the desks of Federal bureaucrats. I’m concerned how EPA is&nbsp;<b>creating uncertainty,</b>&nbsp;including delays or cancellations, in our permitting processes; and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;expanding regulations further, like the coal ash rule, WOTUS, and the cross-state air pollution rule.</span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“These are actions that ultimately</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;drive projects out of America and make us more reliant on countries like China&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">with the lowest environmental and labor standards.</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Projects taking years to develop, and money lost due to abrupt policy changes have a chilling impact on peoples’ willingness and ability to make things in America.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“To succeed, EPA must not be an obstacle to development and p</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rosperity for American families, especially as they struggle to afford everyday life because of the administration’s energy and inflation crisis.”</span></font></b></p><div class="misc-relationship-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; line-height: 1.28;"><hr style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin: 25px 0px 15px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(203, 186, 151); width: 749.99px; max-width: 100%;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><div class="h5 inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.11em; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">SUBCOMMITTEES</font></font></font></font></font></font></div>&nbsp;<a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittee/environment-and-climate-change-117th-congress/" style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: all 225ms ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: none !important;">Environment and Climate Change </a></span><a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/subcommittee/environment-and-climate-change-117th-congress/" style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: all 225ms ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: none !important;">(117th Congress)</a></font></div><div class="misc-relationship-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; line-height: 1.28;"><div class="subcommittee-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 60px; margin-bottom: 100px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.9; margin: 0px 0px 27px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.168em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JURISDICTION</font></h2><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 62, 35); width: 200px; max-width: 200px;" /><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All matters related to soil, air, noise and water contamination; emergency environmental response, both&nbsp;physical and cybersecurity. In particular, the subcommittee has jurisdiction over The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, The Clean Air Act, The Safe Drinking Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act – including Superfund and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, The Solid Waste Disposal Act, The Toxic Substance Control Act and The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program. Under the Clean Air Act, this subcommittee deals with National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for criteria pollutants; National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Standards; New Source Performance Standards (NSPS); Mobile Source Standards for vehicles, aircraft, fuels and fuel additives, including the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The subcommittee focuses on the regulation of solid, hazardous, and nuclear wastes, including mining, nuclear, oil, gas, and coal combustion waste.</font></div></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 1170px;"><div class="membership" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="header" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.9; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.166em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE</font></h4><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.9; margin: 0px 0px 27px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.168em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MEMBERSHIP</font></h2></div><div class="main-peeps" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box;">Washington, D.C. —</b><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;In the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing today, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Subcommittee Republican&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b style="">Leader</b>&nbsp;<b style="">David B. McKinley</b> (R-WV) </span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">delivered the following opening remarks during a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan.</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Excerpts and highlights from his prepared remarks:</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WORST FEARS NEW BEING REALIZED</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Our worst fears are now being realized. Pursuing an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;ideologically driven goal of 100% renewables i</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">n such a condensed time frame</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;will cause the grid to collapse. [PERRY AEA IER BS]</span></font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Last summer, the head of global research at General Electric in New York told Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko and me unequivocally that this would happen.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And now, according to the Wall Street Journal, warnings of electricity shortages are growing across the United States.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the Midwest, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator is working to prepare for ‘worst case scenarios’ and expect a 5 gigawatt&nbsp;shortfall this summer.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And just last Friday, Texas had to take steps to reduce strain on the grid. Nearly 3 gigawatt&nbsp;of capacity have gone offline because of high temperatures.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Even California had to&nbsp;<b>extend</b>&nbsp;[? ]the operation of its gas-fired power plants last year.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RENEWABLES AREN’T RELIABLE TO POWER OUR GRID</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So, what is the EPA doing to preserve and protect our grid?</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It seems like President Biden and the EPA are increasing regulations, rather than addressing the pending crisis we’re facing.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Rather than ensure a reliable and resilient grid and keep the lights on across the country<b>, the EPA is requesting almost $12 billion to pursue its climate change and environmental justice initiatives.[BI-PART INFRA bbb?]</b></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Look, with today’s science, renewables simply aren’t ready to fully power our grid.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to the Energy Information Administration, wind only works 35% of the time and solar only 25% of the time.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And the Lawrence Livermore Lab found 81% of wind projects and 84% of solar projects do not reach commercial operations.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So why does this EPA continue to pursue an agenda that will only take more fossil fuel capacity offline?”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA ISN’T BEING COOPERATIVE</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Mr. Chairman, the threat of electricity shortages has utilities taking steps to keep aging power plants running longer, but they’re fighting regulations. EPA is not being cooperative.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And Congress has made significant investments over the last two years in carbon capture, like coal first, and carbon dioxide pipelines.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-contrast="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These investments will let us preserve our fossil fuels and protect our grid.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But EPA’s agenda doesn’t recognize that. You seem to want to fund more climate change and environmental justice programs.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“Neither of which will lead to grid</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;liability [SIC HEH] ,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">&nbsp;only blackouts across the nation.”</span></font></b></p><div class="misc-relationship-box" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; line-height: 1.28;"><hr style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin: 25px 0px 15px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; 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</font><div><p name="83f4" id="83f4" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sea level rise&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/25/2666791/slow-moving-disaster/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/25/2666791/slow-moving-disaster/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">impacting</a>&nbsp;naval bases. Climate change altering natural disaster&nbsp;<a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/05/civ-mil-disasters-ferris" data-href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/05/civ-mil-disasters-ferris" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">response</a>. Drought influenced by climate change in the Middle East and Africa leading to conflicts over food and water — as in,&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/22/3191081/dangerous-climate-change-impact/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/22/3191081/dangerous-climate-change-impact/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">for instance</a>, Syria.</font></p><p name="75b9" id="75b9" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The military understands the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/05/debate-goes-military-prepares-climate-change/83968/" data-href="http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/05/debate-goes-military-prepares-climate-change/83968/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">realities</a>&nbsp;of climate change and the negative impacts of heavy dependence on fossil fuels.</font></p><p name="4fcc" id="4fcc" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. House does not.</font></p><p name="eb9d" id="eb9d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>With a mostly party-line&nbsp;<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll231.xml" data-href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll231.xml" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">vote</a>&nbsp;on Thursday, the House of Representatives passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) that seeks to prevent the Department of Defense from using funding to address the national security impacts of climate change.</b></font></p><p name="416a" id="416a" class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You can’t change facts by ignoring them,” said Mike Breen, Executive Director of the Truman National Security Project, and leader of the clean energy campaign, Operation Free. “This is like trying to lose 20 pounds by smashing your bathroom scale.”</font></p><p name="11f0" id="11f0" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The full text of McKinley’s&nbsp;<a href="http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/MCCLIMATE51914080929929.pdf" data-href="http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/MCCLIMATE51914080929929.pdf" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">amendment</a>&nbsp;reads:</font></p><blockquote name="671f" id="671f" class="graf graf--blockquote graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px -23px; border-left: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 2px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order</font></blockquote><p name="ce40" id="ce40" class="graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In other words, the House just tried to write climate denial into the Defense Department’s budget. “The McKinley amendment would require the Defense Department to assume that the cost of carbon pollution is zero,” Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) said in a&nbsp;<a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Dear-Colleague-Oppose-McKinley-Amendment-to-HR-4435-2014-5-21.pdf" data-href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Dear-Colleague-Oppose-McKinley-Amendment-to-HR-4435-2014-5-21.pdf" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">letter</a>&nbsp;to their colleagues before the vote. “That’s science denial at its worst and it fails our moral obligation to our children and grandchildren.”</font></p><p name="824c" id="824c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amendment forces the Defense Department to ignore the findings and recommendations of the&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434108/report-climate-catastrophe/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434108/report-climate-catastrophe/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">National Climate Assessment</a>&nbsp;and the IPCC’s&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/13/3426117/climate-panel-avoiding-catastrophe-cheap/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/13/3426117/climate-panel-avoiding-catastrophe-cheap/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">latest climate assessment</a>, specifically with regard to the national security impacts of climate change. It would also do the same for the&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/05/2103261/the-social-cost-of-carbon-is-almost-double-what-the-government-previously-thought/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/05/2103261/the-social-cost-of-carbon-is-almost-double-what-the-government-previously-thought/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">Social Cost of Carbon</a>, which provides a framework for rulemakers to take into account the societal, security, and economic costs associated with emitting more carbon dioxide.</font></p><p name="fd65" id="fd65" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the Pentagon cannot use its funding to implement the recommendations from the NCA and the IPCC reports, the specific impacts on DoD would be vague — and troublesome — because the reports are crystal clear.</font></p><p name="e9ab" id="e9ab" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this month with the release of the National Climate Assessment, 300 leading climate scientists and experts told Americans&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434108/report-climate-catastrophe/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/06/3434108/report-climate-catastrophe/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">in no uncertain terms</a>that time is running out to confront the dangerous impacts of climate change.</font></p><p name="b59d" id="b59d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This week, 16 military experts agreed, telling Americans in a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/MAB_2014.pdf" data-href="http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/MAB_2014.pdf" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">report</a>&nbsp;that climate change is already threatening national security and the economy. The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board authored the report, titled “National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change.”</b></font></p><p name="7e2d" id="7e2d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The experts that authored the report have well over 500 years of combined military experience (580, according to a Climate Progress tally).</font></p><p name="b74c" id="b74c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Military expertise like this hasn’t stopped gadflies in the Senate from trying to dismiss the report. “There is no one in more pursuit of publicity than a retired military officer,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by-military-researchers.html" data-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by-military-researchers.html" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">said</a>&nbsp;Senator James Inhofe (R-OK). “I look back wistfully at the days of the Cold War. Now you have people who are mentally imbalanced, with the ability to deploy a nuclear weapon. For anyone to say that any type of global warming is anywhere close to the threat that we have with crazy people running around with nuclear weapons, it shows how desperate they are to get the public to buy this.”</font></p><p name="f3cc" id="f3cc" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite criticism like this from the Senator from Oklahoma, many in the military understand the very real security threats posed by climate change, and have been taking action to address it. This isn’t idle talk. The steps the Department of Defense has been taking to cut its reliance on carbon-heavy fuels, however, are not just to lower greenhouse gas emissions.</font></p><p name="bc15" id="bc15" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vice Admiral Lee Gunn (Ret.), and president of CNA Corporation’s Institute for Public Research,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140521/OPINION01/305210002/0/OPINION01/How-climate-change-harms-national-security" data-href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140521/OPINION01/305210002/0/OPINION01/How-climate-change-harms-national-security" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">said</a>&nbsp;“the American military, the single largest user of oil in the U.S., has recently begun transitioning to renewable and more efficient energy to improve its operational effectiveness and flexibility, with the added benefit of beginning to reduce its fossil fuel dependence and mitigate climate change.”</font></p><p name="d218" id="d218" class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Civilian and uniformed leaders of our military know it is increasingly risky to depend on a single fuel source; these leaders are diversifying the military’s sources of power to make our bases more resilient and our forces more effective,” said Vice Admiral Gunn.</font></p><p name="0a0e" id="0a0e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Defense Department is beginning to take action. It recently started work on its&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426876/militarys-largest-ever-solar-project-announced/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426876/militarys-largest-ever-solar-project-announced/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">largest solar project</a>&nbsp;to date, and has been making progress on its “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/04/1749741/why-the-us-military-is-pursuing-energy-efficiency-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-initiatives/" data-href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/04/1749741/why-the-us-military-is-pursuing-energy-efficiency-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-initiatives/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">Net Zero</a>” energy initiative. The goal? For bases to produce as much energy as they consume, and for forward combat operations to not have to rely on oil-heavy supply lines.</font></p><p name="5fd1" id="5fd1" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The McKinley amendment was added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which later passed, 325–98. Only three Republicans (Garrett, Gibson, LoBiondo) voted against the amendment, and four Democrats (Barrow, Cuellar, McIntyre, Rahall) voted for it.</font></p><p name="5492" id="5492" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Senate held first markup of their version of the bill on Wednesday. The NDAA sets out the budget for the Department of Defense, and details the expenditures it can make, though this is different than the budget that actually awards the appropriations. That will happen later this year.</font></p><p name="5d18" id="5d18" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The NDAA is one of the few pieces of legislation that actually work&nbsp;<a href="http://breakingdefense.com/2013/12/last-bill-that-works-end-of-an-era-for-national-defense-authorization-act/" data-href="http://breakingdefense.com/2013/12/last-bill-that-works-end-of-an-era-for-national-defense-authorization-act/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">close to normal</a> — the House passes its version, and the Senate passes its version. It remains to be seen if the Senate will take up and pass a similar amendment, but even if it does not, the final decision will come during conference. The two chambers go to conference to iron out the differences before final passage and the president’s signature.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><div class="GGD0W3FBKT" aria-hidden="false" style="font-weight: bold; float: left; top: 3px; left: 5px; margin-right: 110px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HB 1040</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; position: relative;"><div class="GGD0W3FBKS" aria-hidden="false" style="float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both;"><div class="gwt-HTML" aria-hidden="false" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.congress.gov/amendment/113th-congress/house-amendment/1040</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><h1 class="legDetail" style="line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 1.75em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.Amdt.1040 to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4923" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">H.R.4923</a></font><span style="font-weight: normal; display: block; margin-top: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">113th Congress (2013-2014)</font></span></h1><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...&nbsp;The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the&nbsp;</font></div><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming).

The amendment was agreed to.

                    Amendment Offered by Mr. Walberg

Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.

The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out section 801 of the Energy Independence 
     and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17281).

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/641" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">House Resolution 641</a>, the gentleman

from Michigan and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.

The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan.

Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chair for the good work done

on this piece of legislation, but I offer an amendment that would

prohibit the use of funds to carry out a national media campaign to

promote alternative green technologies.

In 2007, Congress authorized the Department of Energy to create a

national media campaign to convince Americans to buy green technologies

at the tune of $5 million a year. Now, my amendment would simply

prohibit funds from going to this misguided, unnecessary, government-

run campaign.

As constituents in my Michigan district are struggling to deal with

$4 a gallon gas prices and energy costs brought about by this

administration's harmful energy limitation policies, the last thing we

need, Mr. Chairman, is Washington bureaucrats telling them how to live

their lives.

They are smart enough to know, as are the overwhelming majority of

American citizens in all of our districts, Mr. Chairman, to know what

energy sources work for them, work best for their families, for their

businesses, and especially when our country has emerged and is emerging

still further--if we would allow it and encourage it as an energy

superpower--and now leads the world in natural gas and oil production.

Instead of funding unnecessary ad campaigns, let's get to work on

energy policy which takes advantage of our energy abundance and leads

to lower prices, more jobs and greater global security.

Green technologies should be a part of a real all-of-the-above energy

policy, but picking winners and losers is not the role of the Federal

Government, nor is it in the core mission of the Department of Energy.

I was pleased that this amendment was adopted when I offered it last

year, and I encourage my colleagues to once again support it.

Mr. Chairman, having said what I think is necessary, I yield back the

balance of my time.

The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the

gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

The amendment was agreed to.

                  <b> Amendment Offered by Mr. McKinley</b>

Mr. McKINLEY. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.

The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment.

The Clerk read as follows:

       At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sec. 508. None of the funds made available by this Act may

     be used to design, implement, administer, or carry out the 
     <b>United States</b> Global Climate Research Program National 
     Climate Assessment, the<b> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
     Change's Fifth Assessment Report, </b></span></font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the<b> United Nation's Agenda 
     21</b> sustainable development plan, the May 2013 Technical 
     Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact 
     Analysis Under Executive Order 12866, or the July 2014 
     Sustainable Development Solutions Network and <b>Institute for 
     Sustainable Development and International Relations' pathways 
     to deep decarbonization report .</b></span>

<b> Mr. McKINLEY (during the reading). Mr. Chair, I ask unanimous consent

to dispense with the reading of the amendment.</b>

The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman

from West Virginia?

There was no objection.</font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/641" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">House Resolution 641</a>, the gentleman

from West Virginia and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.

The Chair recognizes the gentleman from West Virginia.</font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Mr. McKINLEY. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is similar to ones that

have been offered in previous appropriations bills, and all have passed

with strong bipartisan support.</span></font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

This amendment would prohibit agencies like the Department of Energy

and the Corps of Engineers from being required to spend money on

climate change policies forced upon them by the Obama administration

and which have been based on biased studies.</span></font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

In a time of fiscal austerity and prioritization of spending, how can

we justify taking money away from our country's leading scientists,

physicists, and engineers at the National Energy Technology Lab, but at

the same time ask them to research and <b>develop clean coal technologies,

carbon capture and sequestration, increased efficiencies for our

turbines and power plants, and improving our natural gas extraction

techniques from shale?</b></font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

We should not be reducing funds for rejuvenating our locks and dams

along America's rivers, especially when the American Society for Civil

Engineers have rated our Nation's waterway infrastructure and land

infrastructure a D-plus. Mr. Chairman, a D may be a passing grade for

our President, but it is a failing mark in my book.</font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

Spending precious resources to pursue a dubious climate change agenda

compromises our clean energy research and America's infrastructure.

When similar amendments were adopted previously, some claimed we were

denying agencies the use of science.

That is simply not true, Mr. Chairman. We want them to use science,

but, Mr. Chairman, I want them to use science that doesn't come with a

biased agenda.</font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

<b> For example, the United Nations report says that the Antarctic ice is

shrinking; however, NSA's satellites have confirmed that Antarctic ice

levels have increased--increased by the size of Greenland, an alltime

record.</b></font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

Congress should not be spending money pursuing ideologically-driven

experiments when we face real, serious challenges to our country's

infrastructure and its pursuit for energy efficiency. I urge all of my

colleagues to support this amendment.

I yield back the balance of my time.</font></pre><pre class="styled"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I claim the time in opposition.

The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5

minutes.

Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's

amendment. It flies in the face of 97 percent of the world's scientists

who agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very

likely due to human activities and could impose significant

[[<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-160/house-section/page/H6085" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Page H6085</a>]]</font></pre></div></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">david roberts grist 3/15</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year, the House of Representatives passed two absurd anti-science bills, the<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/science/2014/11/secret_science_reform_act_house_republicans_against_the_epa.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Secret Science Reform Act</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2014/11/environmentalists-scientists-fret-over-republican-bills-targeting-epa-science" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act</a>. It will come as no surprise that both bills, under the guise of “reform,” would have the practical effect of crippling the EPA’s efforts to assess science in a fair and timely way. I don’t have the heart to get into it — follow the links above for the details.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bills are back; the House considered them both again yesterday. Emily Atkin has the&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/03/3628631/secret-science-bills-are-back/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">gory details</a>&nbsp;if you’re interested. They might get a little further this time — the Democratic Senate didn’t take them up last year, obviously, but the GOP-controlled Senate might this year — though&nbsp;it won’t matter in the end, as Obama has&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jwalkenrdc/status/572863758587981826" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">threatened to veto both</a>. So it’s mainly yet another act of reactionary symbolism from the right.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All that is by way of background so I can draw your attention to a hilarious amendment attached to the Science Advisory Board bill. It comes by way of the bill’s sponsor, Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), a far-right, coal-country,&nbsp;<a href="http://polluterwatch.com/category/freetagging/david-mckinley" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">climate-denying</a>&nbsp;conservative of the old school.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s&nbsp;<a href="http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/MCKINL1029333151216141614.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">the amendment</a>. Its sole purpose is to prohibit the EPA’s Science Advisory Board from taking into consideration, for any purpose, the following reports:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the&nbsp;<a href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">U.S. Global Change&nbsp;Research Program’s National Climate Assessment</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">IPCC Fifth Assessment Report</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the May 2013&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/11/26/2013-28242/technical-support-document-technical-update-of-the-social-cost-of-carbon-for-regulatory-impact" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866</a>&nbsp;(which I wrote about&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-obama-climate-move-that-nobody-noticed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">here</a>)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the July 2014&nbsp;<a href="http://unsdsn.org/what-we-do/deep-decarbonization-pathways/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Pathways to Deep Decarbonization Report</a>, from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (which I wrote about&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/yes-we-can-beat-climate-change-but-it-will-take-massive-international-government-coordination/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">here</a>)</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So. When considering what to do about carbon pollution, EPA may not consider what America’s best scientists have concluded about it, what an international panel of scientists has concluded about it, how the federal government has officially recommended calculating its value, or the most comprehensive solutions for it. Oh, and it can’t consider&nbsp;<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&nr=23&type=400" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Agenda 21</a>&nbsp;either.&nbsp;Otherwise the EPA&nbsp;can&nbsp;go nuts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As I’ve said&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/on-climate-how-far-gone-is-the-far-right-spoiler-far/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">many</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/no-you-actually-havent-found-a-way-to-reach-conservatives-on-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">many</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/politics/asymmetrical-polarization-the-lefts-gone-left-but-the-rights-gone-nuts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">times</a>, most Americans have no idea how batshit crazy the House GOP has gone. They serve the base, and only the base (and&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Politico</em>obsessives) pay close attention. But imagine, if you will, a GOP House and Senate paired with President&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/politics/jeb-bush-is-no-moderate-and-he-wont-fight-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Jeb Bush</a>. A bill like this might pass. Politicians might be picking and choosing,&nbsp;based on ideological criteria, which scientific reports administrative agencies are allowed to consider. It’s amusing in its own dark way, but it’s not a sitcom or a satire. It’s real life.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/24/house-votes-to-direct-the-pentagon-to-disregard-climate-change-assessments/</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 24px;"><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. House-passed 2015 Defense Appropriation bill apparently intends to have the Pentagon stop using leading scientific assessments of global climate disruption in national security planning. The Pentagon takes climate change and its impacts seriously and has included these issues in two Quadrennial Defense Reviews. But an amendment by a coal-state Republican would direct DoD to disregard the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the IPCC international assessment.<span id="more-6971" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4870" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015</a>, passed by the House of Representatives on June 20.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environment & Energy Daily reported today (by subscription):</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amendment by Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) -- one of more than 150 amendments offered to the appropriations bill -- would prevent the Defense Department from helping to plan or implement the National Climate Assessment and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The amendment targets two perennial GOP targets: the NCA and the U.S. contribution to the IPCC -- which seek to measure the effects of climate change in the United States and globally.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a radical amendment. Currently, the climate change problem is studied and taken into consideration as a matter of course in national security planning. The Pentagon takes climate change and its impacts seriously and has included these issues in two Quadrennial Defense Reviews. The McKinley amendment apparently intends to have the DoD essentially stop considering climate change as a national security issue. (For a bit more background on McKinley's views, see&nbsp;<a href="http://mckinley.house.gov/in-the-news/" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">here</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">here</a>.)</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley's&nbsp;<a href="https://beta.congress.gov/amendment/113th-congress/house-amendment/915" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">amendment</a>&nbsp;reads:</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or carry out the U.S. Global Climate Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nations' Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same amendment was attached last month to the House version of the 2015 National Defense Authorization bill ("<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/pentagon-climate-change_n_5382067.html" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">House Directs Pentagon To Ignore Climate Change</a>"):</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[McKinley wrote in a memo to House colleagues:] "The climate is obviously changing; it has always been changing. With all the unrest around the [world], why should Congress divert funds from the mission of our military and national security to support a political ideology?"</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research suggests, however, that the Department of Defense has a number of reasons to be worried about climate change. The department said in its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121237" target="hplink" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">own evaluation last year</a>&nbsp;that climate change presents infrastructure challenges at home and abroad. Meanwhile, a&nbsp;<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/pentagon-warns-of-climate-change-threat-multipliers/article/2545075" target="hplink" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">March Pentagon report</a>&nbsp;found that climate change impacts are "threat multipliers," and that the rapid rise of global temperatures and associated extreme weather events could exacerbate issues like "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions -- conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence."</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nor is climate change a threat that the Obama administration dreamed up to distract the DOD. A National Intelligence Assessment&nbsp;<a href="http://grist.org/article/hot-zones/" target="hplink" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">issued during the George W. Bush administration</a>&nbsp;concluded that climate change poses a significant threat to national security. And just this week, Tom Ridge, who served as homeland security secretary under Bush, said that climate change is "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/tom-ridge-climate-change_n_5366457.html" target="hplink" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">a real serious problem</a>," one that "would bring destruction and economic damage" if we ignore it.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McKinley's amendments may be unlikely to survive consideration of the Defense appropriation and budget authorization bills in the Senate.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Wire reported on May 14 (by subscription):</font></p><p class="headline" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former military leaders push for quicker effort to deal with climate change</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven years ago a group of senior retired generals broke new ground when they warned climate change poses a serious security threat. Now, those top military leaders say the U.S. and others have not done enough to prepare for the challenge.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing in a major new report out today, the 16-man military team -- including retired four-star Adm. Frank Lee "Skip" Bowman, former director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program; retired Gen. Charles "Chuck" Wald, former deputy commander of the United States European Command; and retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the 32nd chief of staff of the Army -- concludes that its early fears about climate change were well-founded. The threats are worsening and the political discourse is discouraging, the report says.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are dismayed that discussions of climate change have become so polarizing and have receded from the arena of informed public discourse and debate. Political posturing and budgetary woes cannot be allowed to inhibit discussion and debate over what so many believe to be a salient national security concern for our nation," they wrote. "Time and tide wait for no one."</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report comes on the heels of the White House releasing its National Climate Assessment, which like the United Nations' recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that climate change is happening now and the damage associated with it is widespread, affecting everything from farming to military bases. ...</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sherri Goodman, executive director of the CNA Military Advisory Board who served in the DOD as a deputy undersecretary from 1993 to 2001, called the report a "clarion call." She applauded the fact that addressing climate change has become a mainstream topic within defense and national security circles and said she expected as much.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In two decades working with the military, I'm not surprised. Because when the military identifies a risk ... it really begins to work on it. They get it," Goodman said. But in the political sphere, she said, much more needs to get done.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board report,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change</a></font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Columnist Paul Farrell, commenting on this development in the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch ("<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gop-science-deniers-threaten-us-national-defense-2014-05-28" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">GOP climate-science deniers threaten national defense</a>--Republican House wants to limit Pentagon’s use of climate studies"):</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week 227 of 231 GOP members of the House voted to turn the Pentagon into climate-science deniers, a decision certain to weaken national security. That’s about as absurd as telling Silicon Valley they can’t use technology.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get it? The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/organizations/Republican_Party?lc=int_mb_1001" class="external external_icon" target="blank" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Republican Party</a>&nbsp;is now officially on record as the party of climate-science denialism. These research programs, ongoing and widely used by the Pentagon in strategic national defense planning for many years, could, if the Senate agrees, become illegal to use.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, this Marine veteran is mad as hell. GOP science deniers have “crossed the line,” they’re now messing with national security. ... The military has been using climate-science research for decades. This vote is self-destructive. These research studies are essential in our national defense. ...</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ask the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board, a longtime Pentagon consultant that includes 16 retired generals and admirals. They just updated a report that earlier “described projected climate change as a threat multiplier.”</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get it? The Pentagon has seen climate change as a threat to our national defense for over seven years. Their updated report “drills down on the new vulnerabilities created and tensions amplified due to climate change, which it deems a catalyst for conflict.” No wonder the Dems warned GOP leaders before that radical amendment to the budget vote: “That’s science denial at its worst and it fails our moral obligation to our children and grandchildren.”</font></p><div id="stcpDiv" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; top: -1999px; left: -1988px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/MAB_2014.pdf" target="blank" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Security and the Accelerating Risks of&nbsp; Climate Change</em>&nbsp;<img class="docicon" src="http://www.cna.org/sites/all/themes/cna/images/icon_pdf.gif" alt=" (PDF)" width="14" height="14" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. - See more at: http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks#sthash.4UMiO8Sz.dpuf</font></div><div id="stcpDiv" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; top: -1999px; left: -1988px;"><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/MAB_2014.pdf" target="blank" class="external external_icon" style="background-image: url(" http="http" www.climatesciencewatch.org="www.climatesciencewatch.org" wp-content="wp-content" plugins="plugins" sem-external-links="sem-external-links" external.png="external.png" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Security and the Accelerating Risks of&nbsp; Climate Change</em>&nbsp;<img class="docicon" src="http://www.cna.org/sites/all/themes/cna/images/icon_pdf.gif" alt=" (PDF)" width="14" height="14" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Board’s 2007 report described projected climate change as a “threat multiplier.” In this report the 16 retired Generals and Admirals who make up the board look at new vulnerabilities and tensions posed by climate change, which, when set against the backdrop of increasingly decentralized power structures around the world, they now identify as a “catalyst for conflict.”</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the seven years since the first Military Advisory Board (MAB) report, developments in scientific climate projections, observed climate changes (particularly in the Arctic), the toll of extreme weather events both at home and abroad, and changes in the global security environment have all served to accelerate the national security implications of climate change.&nbsp; While there has been some movement in efforts to plan effective responses to these challenges, the lack of comprehensive action by both the United States and the international community to address the full spectrum of projected climate change issues remains a concern.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The specific questions addressed in this update are:</font></p><ol style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Have new threats or opportunities associated with projected climate change or its effects emerged since our last report? What will be the impacts on our military?</font></li><li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2014 National Climate Assessment indicates that climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. What additional responses should the national security community take to reduce the risks posed to our nation and to the elements of our National Power (Political, Military, Social, Infrastructure, and Information systems (PMESII))?</font></li></ol><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- See more at: http://www.cna.org/reports/accelerating-risks#sthash.4UMiO8Sz.dpuf</font></p></div><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier posts:</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/03/10/commander-of-u-s-forces-pacific-climate-change-is-top-threat/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Commander of U.S. Forces Pacific: Climate Change is Top Threat</font></a></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/06/02/house-science-committee-politics-of-denialism/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">House Science Committee majority plays out the politics of climate science denialism</font></a></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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