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<p>=</p><p><b>GOP Lawmaker Spent Millions on a Luxury Yacht Just as He Was Voting for the Massive Republican Tax Cut</b></p><p>Maybe he thought nobody would notice.</p><p>By Cody Fenwick / AlterNet July 11, 2018, 4:05 PM GMT</p><p>
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</p><p>In a move straight out of a cartoonish caricature of a Republican Lawmaker, Rep. Vernon Buchanan (R-FL) bought a luxury yacht on the exact same day that he voted for the GOP tax bill in November 2017, a new disclosure first reported by Florida Politics revealed.</p><p>
</p><p><b>Buchanan spent between $1 million and $5 million on the boat, according to the documents. The Hill reports that the company that sells the yacht, Ocean Alexander, doesn't sell anything for less than $3.25 million.</b></p><p>
</p><p>The brazen purchase reveals the stark contrast between the sales pitch Republicans gave for the tax bill and reality.</p><p>
</p><p>"While the tax plan was pitched as helping the middle class, it does so only minimally and temporarily if at all. For the nation’s highest earners and for corporations, however, it was a magnanimous change in policy," wrote Drew Wilson for Florida Politics. "Count Buchanan among those benefitting bigly."</p><p>
</p><p>Maybe he just thought nobody would notice?</p><p>
</p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A spokesman for the lawmaker told Florida Politics that the news of the yacht — which, again, was revealed in a financial disclosure form filed by the candidate himself — was a "coordinated attack."</span></p><p>The spokesman also noted that Buchanan has owed boats for decades. It's not clear if his constituents should find it comforting that the tax bill doesn't seem to have inspired him to buy his first yacht, but just one more of many.</p><p></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Vernon Gale Buchanan</b> (born May 8, 1951) is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">United States House of Representatives</a>. He has represented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_16th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 16th congressional district" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Florida's 16th congressional district</a> since 2007. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is a member of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Rep. Buchanan is the only member from Florida on the House </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" title="United States House Committee on Ways and Means" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Ways and Means Committee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which has jurisdiction over tax policy, international trade, health care, and Social Security. Prior to serving in Congress, Buchanan was in business for over 30 years and was the chairman of both the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Florida Chamber of Commerce" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Florida Chamber of Commerce</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He served as member of the board and the executive committee of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="United States Chamber of Commerce" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">United States Chamber of Commerce</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2><span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none; font-size: 12.502px;"> [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Business_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Business career</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#American_Speedy_Printing" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">American Speedy Printing</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Car_dealerships" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Car dealerships</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Reinsurance_companies" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Reinsurance companies</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Ritz-Carlton" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ritz-Carlton</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Political_campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political campaigns</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2006</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Primary_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Primary election</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#General_election" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">General election</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2008</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2012</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Ethics_ruling" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ethics ruling</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#110th_Congress(2007%E2%80%932009)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">110th Congress (2007–2009)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#111th_Congress(2009%E2%80%932010)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">111th Congress (2009–2010)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#112th_Congress(2011%E2%80%932012)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">112th Congress (2011–2012)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#113th_Congress(2013%E2%80%932015)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">113th Congress (2013–2015)</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Political_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political positions</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Economy" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Economy</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Tax_reform" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tax reform</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Foreign_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Foreign issues</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Immigration_and_refugees" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Immigration and refugees</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Social_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Social issues</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Abortion</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Domestic_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Domestic issues</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Cannabis" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Cannabis</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Gun_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">6.4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gun policy</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan grew up in a small town outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Detroit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michigan</a>, the son of a factory foreman in a family of six children.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-31-06_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-31-06-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> His maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland" title="Finland" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Finland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup> When he graduated from high school in 1969, he joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Air_National_Guard" title="Michigan Air National Guard" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michigan Air National Guard</a>, serving there for six years. Buchanan got a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleary_University" title="Cleary University" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cleary University</a>, in Michigan, and a Masters in Business Administration from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Detroit" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Detroit" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Detroit</a>.</p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Business_career">Business career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Business career" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In June 2007, Buchanan, in his financial disclosure filing, reported having over $100 million in assets, making him among the five wealthiest members of Congress. Most of his wealth is from his automotive empire, which includes several dealerships in Florida. He also reported ownership interests in about fifty other businesses, including offshore reinsurance companies, and a charter-jet business. He reported receiving at least $19.5 million in income from these businesses in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="American_Speedy_Printing">American Speedy Printing</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: American Speedy Printing" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In May 1976, Buchanan convinced the owner of a Michigan printing company that he could help the business grow. The two founded American Speedy Printing, which grew through franchising to more than 730 stores in 44 states. Later, Buchanan and American Speedy were defendants in a string of lawsuits during the late 1980s and early 1990s by franchisees and master franchisees, who said they were not making the money that Buchanan had said they could expect. After the bankruptcy, he was accused by a creditors committee of taking excessive compensation and actions that resulted in overstated earnings for American Speedy. In a 1995 deposition, he said that he had no personal obligation to repay the loan from Merrill Lynch; a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over taxes on the money Buchanan received from Merrill Lynch stretched through the 1990s. Buchanan, his business partner, and Merrill Lynch were sued violating the Michigan Corporation Act. It ended with Buchanan paying $1.5 million.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-6-06_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-6-06-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Car_dealerships">Car dealerships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Car dealerships" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1992, Buchanan bought a Honda and Acura dealership in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocala,Florida" title="Ocala, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ocala, Florida</a>. In late 1999, he bought two more dealerships. He continued to acquire dealerships after that, but in 2006 he sold five dealerships and other businesses in order to concentrate on politics.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-31-06_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-31-06-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> His dealerships had $756 million in sales in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-6-06_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-6-06-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup> His Venice Dodge was one of the dealerships informed by Chrysler that it would not get its franchise renewed.<sup id="cite_ref-myref33_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-myref33-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Reinsurance_companies">Reinsurance companies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Reinsurance companies" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan owns two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance" title="Reinsurance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">reinsurance</a> companies — Jamat Reinsurance Co. and Buchanan Reinsurance Co., in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos" class="mw-redirect" title="Turks and Caicos" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Turks and Caicos</a>, and part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bermuda</a> reinsurance company Greater Atlantic Insurance Co. The three companies offer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_warranty" title="Extended warranty" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">extended warranty</a> policies to car buyers. Buchanan invests some of the proceeds from his reinsurance companies in real estate developments in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">the Bahamas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-31b_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-31b-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ritz-Carlton">Ritz-Carlton</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Ritz-Carlton" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1999, Buchanan was approached to help to finance the Ritz-Carlton condo-hotel development in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota,Florida" title="Sarasota, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sarasota</a>. Buchanan was cut out of the project. The developers, Robert Buford and Kevin Daves, said he lied about his financial means. Buchanan sued and the parties settled in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-9-10-06_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-9-10-06-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup> Per a structured settlement, Buchanan bought a condo from a nephew of Buford's for $5 million; the nephew had purchased it the day before for $2.368 million. Buchanan owned the unit a little more than a year and then sold it to another member of Buford's family for $6.35 million. The arrangement resulted in Buchanan paying taxes on his gain at the reduced long-term capital gains rate. Buford benefited from the apartment's increased appraised value and the use of Buchanan's $5 million.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-9-10-06_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-9-10-06-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup> In the year he owned the penthouse, Buchanan used it for charity fundraisers.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-9-10-06_8-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-9-10-06-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_campaigns">Political campaigns</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2006">2006</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Florida,2006" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2006</a></div><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Primary_election">Primary election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Primary election" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan ran in the 13th congressional district in Florida to replace incumbent Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harris" title="Katherine Harris" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Katherine Harris</a>, who was the Republican nominee for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Senate</a>. Buchanan won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote, against four opponents. His closest challengers were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_C.Detert" class="mw-redirect" title="Nancy C. Detert" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nancy C. Detert</a>, with 25% of the vote, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramm_Hudson" title="Tramm Hudson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tramm Hudson</a>, with 24%.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the November general election, Buchanan faced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democrat</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jennings" title="Christine Jennings" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Christine Jennings</a>, a banking executive. There were 216,000 registered Republicans and about 155,000 registered Democrats in the district,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a></sup> but Jennings polled ahead of Buchanan up to election day.<sup id="cite_ref-economist_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-economist-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> Buchanan put more than $5 million of his own money into his campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-HT-10-31-06_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-10-31-06-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October, Vice President Dick Cheney held a fund raising luncheon for Buchanan;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a></sup> later that month, President Bush held a fund raising reception for him.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a></sup> Between the two events, Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jeb Bush</a>, Senator Martinez, and Massachusetts Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mitt Romney</a> came to the district to campaign for Buchanan.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a></sup></p><table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 13.3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><caption style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); margin-bottom: -1px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Republican primary results<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 10.64px; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a></sup></caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; width: 15em;">Party</th><th scope="col" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; width: 17em;">Candidate</th><th scope="col" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; width: 5em;">Votes</th><th scope="col" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; width: 3.5em;">%</th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(232, 27, 35); width: 2px;" /><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 130px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b>Vern Buchanan</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;"><b>20,918</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;"><b>32.33</b></td></tr><tr class="vcard"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(232, 27, 35); width: 2px;" /><td class="org" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 130px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Nancy Detert</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">15,804</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">24.43</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(232, 27, 35); width: 2px;" /><td class="org" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 130px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Tramm Hudson</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">15,535</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">24.01</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(232, 27, 35); width: 2px;" /><td class="org" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 130px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Mark Flanagan</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">6,465</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.99</td></tr><tr class="vcard"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(232, 27, 35); width: 2px;" /><td class="org" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 130px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></td><td class="fn" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Donna Clarke</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">5,972</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.23</td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246);"><th colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: right;">Total votes</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;"><b>64,694</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;"><b>100.00</b></td></tr></tbody></table><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="General_election">General election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: General election" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Initial results of the November election showed Buchanan leading by less than 350 votes. Due to the closeness of the race, and a high undervote of 18,000 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota_County,Florida" title="Sarasota County, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sarasota County</a>, a recount was ordered. Voters in Sarasota County had given more votes to a hospital board than they had to their Congressional representative—with 13% of voters not voting, compared to an average of 2% in neighboring counties.<sup id="cite_ref-economist_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-economist-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> The touch-screen voting machines used provided no paper record.<sup id="cite_ref-economist_10-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-economist-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> On November 20, 2006, the Florida Department of State certified the results of the recount, which showed Buchanan winning by 369 votes.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jennings challenged the results of the election in court, citing "pervasive malfunctioning of electronic voting machines."<sup id="cite_ref-economist_10-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-economist-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> In December 2006, a Florida circuit judge ruled that her claim that voting machines in Sarasota County lost up to 18,000 votes was "conjecture" and didn't warrant overriding the trade secrets of the voting machine company. In June 2007, a Florida state appellate court ruled that Jennings did not meet the "extraordinary burden" of proving the lower court judge was wrong.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Another suit, filed by voters represented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voter_Action&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Voter Action (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Voter Action</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_For_the_American_Way_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="People For the American Way Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">People For the American Way Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACLU_of_Florida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ACLU of Florida (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">ACLU of Florida</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a></sup> was also dismissed.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The U.S. House of Representatives had the right to make the final determination as to whether Buchanan will hold the seat for the remainder of the term or be replaced by Jennings. In April, a three-person House task force was created to evaluate the election.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[17]</a></sup> In early May, the task force voted along party lines to refer an investigation into Florida’s 13th district House race to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Government Accountability Office</a> (GAO).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a></sup> On February 25, 2008, the committee and the House accepted the GAO's findings that no machine error was demonstrated as sufficient to have altered the outcome of the election. The House passed HR 989 affirming the findings of the committee, accepting the results of the 2006 race and formally dismissing Jennings' challenge of the election's results. Jennings formally dropped her challenge shortly thereafter to focus on her 2008 rematch against Buchanan.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">{{Election box begin no change| title=Florida's 13th Congressional District Election (2006)</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">|- | style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px" | <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a></b> | | <b>Vern Buchanan</b> | style="text-align:right;" | <b>119,309</b> | style="text-align:right;" | <b>50.08</b> |-</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">|- class="vcard" | style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 2px;" | | class="org" style="width: 130px" | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic</a> | class="fn" | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jennings" title="Christine Jennings" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Christine Jennings</a> | style="text-align:right;" | 118,940 | style="text-align:right;" | 49.92 |- |- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total votes | style="text-align:right;" | <b>238,249</b> | style="text-align:right;" | <b>100.00</b> |-</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
|- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" ! colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Turnout</a> | style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | {{{votes}}} | style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | |- |- style="background-color:#F6F6F6" | style="background-color: #E81B23" | | colspan="4" | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> |-</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
|}</p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2008">2008</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Florida,2008#District_13" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2008 § District 13</a></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan, won narrowly in 2006, but was easily re-elected in a 2008 rematch with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jennings" title="Christine Jennings" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Christine Jennings</a>. He received 55% of the vote to 38% for Jennings.<sup id="cite_ref-USA_Today-11-06-08_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-USA_Today-11-06-08-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a></sup> On election night in 2008 Buchanan said, "What a difference two years makes."<sup id="cite_ref-HT-11-05-08_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HT-11-05-08-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[21]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010">2010</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Florida,2010#District_13" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2010 § District 13</a></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In May 2009, Buchanan announced that he would be a candidate for re-election to Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-Bradenton_Herald-05-12-09_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bradenton_Herald-05-12-09-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[22]</a></sup> He defeated Don Baldauf in the Republican primary, and faced Democratic nominee The Reverend James T. Golden in the General. Buchanan won the 2010 General Election for Florida's 13th Congressional District with 68.9% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="2012">2012</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Florida,2012#District_16" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2012 § District 16</a></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ethics_ruling">Ethics ruling</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Ethics ruling" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On July 2012, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States House Committee on Ethics" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">House Ethics Committee</a> cleared Buchanan of charges that he violated House rules by misleading Congress in his financial disclosure forms.<sup id="cite_ref-Yager_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Yager-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[24]</a></sup> After the issue was raised, Buchanan submitted revised forms.<sup id="cite_ref-Bresnahan_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bresnahan-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a></sup> The committee "found no evidence that the errors were knowing or willful and unanimously determined that the errors were not substantively different from the hundreds or thousands of errors corrected by amendment at the requirement of the Committee every year."<sup id="cite_ref-Yager_24-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Yager-24" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">[24]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2008, the watchdog group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> (CREW) filed an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Elections_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Elections 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Federal Elections Commission</a> (FEC) complaint, alleging "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_donor" title="Straw donor" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">straw donors</a>" to Buchanan's campaign (campaign contributions from Buchanan's employees for which they were then reimbursed); in 2011, CREW requested a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">U.S. Department of Justice</a> investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-Bresnahan_25-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bresnahan-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a></sup> (The group also named Buchanan to its annual <b>"most corrupt members of Congress" list for 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012</b>).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-26" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">[26]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By 2012, Buchanan was being investigated on the House Ethics Committee, FEC, Justice Department, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Congressional_Ethics" title="Office of Congressional Ethics" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Office of Congressional Ethics</a>, over two separate allegations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance" title="Campaign finance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">campaign finance</a> misconduct: that he had violated federal law and House rules by coercing a former business partner to sign a false affidavit to the FEC, and that he had illegally reimbursed car-dealership employees for campaign contributions.<sup id="cite_ref-Rahman_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Rahman-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BronsteinGriffin_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-BronsteinGriffin-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[28]</a></sup> The latter allegation was also raised in a lengthy and acrimonious legal dispute with Sam Kazran, Buchanan's former business partner, who alleged that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Buchanan engaged in a "cash swap scheme" in which employees were directed to write checks to Buchanan's campaign fund, then reimbursed by the company.<sup id="cite_ref-BronsteinGriffin_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-BronsteinGriffin-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[28]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2012, the Justice Department ended its 11-month investigation with no criminal charges.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[29]</a></sup> The FEC also ended its investigation by 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-Bresnahan_25-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bresnahan-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a></sup> Kazran agreed to pay $5,500 in fines "for improperly funneling money to Buchanan's campaign committee,"<sup id="cite_ref-Bresnahan_25-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bresnahan-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[25]</a></sup> and in May 2013 three men and two Tampa companies were fined a total of $16,000 by the FEC for illegal campaign contributions to Buchanan.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup> In 2016, after a four-year inquiry, the House Ethics Committee ended its investigation, finding "insufficient evidence" of wrongdoing on Buchanan's part.<sup id="cite_ref-Rahman_27-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Rahman-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bresnahan_25-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bresnahan-25" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">[25]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kazran filed a separate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_contract" title="Breach of contract" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">breach of contract</a> lawsuit against Buchanan in Florida state court; Buchanan prevailed in that litigation.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[33]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beginning in 2008, Buchanan faced lawsuits by six former employees, who alleged "conspiracy, fraud, and retaliatory personnel actions" as well as the hiring of undocumented immigrants and consumer fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[34]</a></sup>However, none of those cases made it to trial and by 2011 most had been "dismissed with no judgments against Buchanan."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[35]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>On June 23, 2016, the House Ethics Committee released this statement, concluding its investigation into Congressman Buchanan: "Because the evidence is insufficient to conclude that Representative Buchanan himself was aware of the unlawful reimbursements</b> at the time they occurred, or had any role in directing or approving of them, and the evidence is insufficient to find that Representative Buchanan attempted to improperly influence the testimony of Mr. Kazran before the FEC, the Committee has determined to take no further action in this matter, and upon publication of this Report,considers the matter closed."</p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span id="110th_Congress.282007.E2.80.932009.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="110th_Congress(2007–2009)">110th Congress (2007–2009)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 110th Congress (2007–2009)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan was sworn in as Representative for Florida's 13th Congressional District on January 3, 2007. <i>Congressional Quarterly</i> noted that Buchanan voted in support of President Bush's legislative agenda 66 percent of the time in 2007, the third lowest rate of the 16 members of Florida's Republican congressional delegation.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[36]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan secured federal funding of $2 million for reimbursement for cleanup efforts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Island" title="Anna Maria Island" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anna Maria Island</a> and $4 million for cleaning up Wares Creek in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee_County,Florida" title="Manatee County, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manatee County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[38]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan introduced a constitutional amendment in January 2007 which would require Congress to pass a balanced budget if ratified.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[39]</a></sup> He introduced legislation to create a US Postage stamp honoring and assisting disabled veterans, as well as secured funding for the construction of a national veterans' cemetery in Sarasota County.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[41]</a></sup> Additionally, Buchanan introduced a bill to increase federal assistance for fighting gang crime and secured grant funding for local anti-gang efforts in Manatee County.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[42]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[43]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As of July 2008, Buchanan had voted to override five of President Bush's vetoes of legislation passed by the 110th Congress. These override votes included a vote in support of expanding the coverage range of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHIP" class="mw-redirect" title="SCHIP" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">SCHIP</a> program, the 2008 farm bill, and the Water Resources Development Act</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; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[44]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On September 29, 2008, Buchanan voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008" title="Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Bailout_Roll_Call_45-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bailout_Roll_Call-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[45]</a></sup> but changed his vote to support the bill on the October 3, 2008 second House vote .<sup id="cite_ref-Second_House_Vote_46-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Second_House_Vote-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[46]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span id="111th_Congress.282009.E2.80.932010.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="111th_Congress(2009–2010)">111th Congress (2009–2010)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=17&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 111th Congress (2009–2010)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan sponsored several bills in the 111th Congress, including House Resolution 1839, a Bill to Amend the Small Business Act to Improve SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), which was introduced on April 1, 2009. House Resolution 1839 would require the administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure that SCORE increases the proportion of small business mentors from socially or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, establish benchmarks for evaluating its activities and volunteers, and establish a mentoring program of one-on-one advice to small businesses from qualified counselors.<sup id="cite_ref-Open_Congress_47-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Open_Congress-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[47]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span id="112th_Congress.282011.E2.80.932012.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="112th_Congress(2011–2012)">112th Congress (2011–2012)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 112th Congress (2011–2012)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In the 112th Congress, Buchanan was named to a seat on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" title="United States House Committee on Ways and Means" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ways and Means Committee</a></b>, the only Member from Florida serving on that Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[48]</a></sup> He was also asked by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NRCC</a> Chairman Pete Sessions to serve as Vice Chairman of the Committee, elevating him to an important leadership post.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[49]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January 2011, Buchanan helped secure the construction of Sarasota National Cemetery through the Department of Veterans Affairs. The cemetery plans include 11,500 grave sites, 16,000 cremain sites and other buildings and structures necessary for funerals for veterans and their families.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[50]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In June 2011, the House passed Buchanan's "Military Tribunals for Terrorists Act" as an amendment to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012" title="National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012</a>. The amendment, approved by a largely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-line_vote" title="Party-line vote" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">party-line vote</a>of 246–173, largely along party lines, would "require all foreign terrorism suspects to be tried only in military tribunals and never in civilian courts."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[51]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2011, Buchanan "played a large role" in the passage of <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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">free trade agreements with Colombia</a>, <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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Panama</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Korea_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">South Korea</a>. The treaties were backed by the White House, and a bipartisan majority in Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[52]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In December 2011, the House passed H.R. 527, a Buchanan-backed measure to close "loopholes in current law to ensure regulatory agencies will fully account for the effect of new regulations on small businesses before regulations are adopted."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[53]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In February 2012, Buchanan supported President Obama's proposal to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 28%. In a statement, Buchanan said, "I appreciate the president's willingness to engage on such an important issue."<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[54]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2011, Buchanan, along with Democratic Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Markey" title="Ed Markey" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Ed Markey</a> of Massachusetts, introduced the Pill Mill Crackdown Act of 2011, legislation that would require money seized from so-called pill mills to be directed to drug treatment programs;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "increase fines and sentences for those convicted of running pill mills"; and make </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocodone" title="Hydrocodone" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">hydrocodone</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> drugs such as Vicodin more difficult to obtain.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Derby_55-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Derby-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[55]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The bill received bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate (where introduced companion bill was introduced),</span><sup id="cite_ref-Derby_55-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Derby-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[55]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> but never made it out of committee.</span><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[56]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span id="113th_Congress.282013.E2.80.932015.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="113th_Congress(2013–2015)">113th Congress (2013–2015)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 113th Congress (2013–2015)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" title="United States House Committee on Ways and Means" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on Ways and Means</a></b></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Ways_and_Means_Subcommittee_on_Trade" title="United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Trade</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Ways_and_Means_Subcommittee_on_Health" title="United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Subcommittee on Health</a></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the 113th Congress, Buchanan introduced a resolution denouncing the international practice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_finning" title="Shark finning" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">shark finning</a>. Buchanan’s resolution calls for a ban on importing shark fins from fisheries that engage in shark finning.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[57]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Republican Study Committee</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[58]</a></sup> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus" title="Congressional Arts Caucus" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Congressional Arts Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[59]</a></sup> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_NextGen_9-1-1_Caucus" title="Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[60]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_positions">Political positions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=20&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); 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line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tax_reform">Tax reform</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=22&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tax reform" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Buchanan voted in favor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017" title="Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Almukhtar_61-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Almukhtar-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[61]</a></sup> Buchanan, who has an estimated $55 million in real estate assets, will directly benefit from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole" title="Loophole" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">loophole</a> that lowers the tax rate on pass-through income from real estate.<sup id="cite_ref-Schoen122017_62-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Schoen122017-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[62]</a></sup> After the act had passed, Buchanan said the changes were what "Floridians have needed for a long time." The bill also includes a measure, created by Buchanan, to provide tax relief to citrus growers impacted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Hurricane Irma</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Callihan_63-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Callihan-63" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Callihan-63" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">63]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Foreign_issues">Foreign issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=23&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Foreign issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Immigration_and_refugees">Immigration and refugees</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=24&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Immigration and refugees" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan supported President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s 2017 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769" title="Executive Order 13769" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">executive order</a> to impose bar entry to the U.S. to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and also supported Trump's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13768" title="Executive Order 13768" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">executive order</a> to bar federal funding to so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctuary cities" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">sanctuary cities</a>, saying "“LONG OVERDUE ... Time to protect Americans."<sup id="cite_ref-Blake1_64-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Blake1-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[64]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_issues">Social issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=25&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Social issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=28&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Cannabis" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan has a "C" rating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORML" class="mw-redirect" title="NORML" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NORML</a> for his voting history regarding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" title="Cannabis" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cannabis</a>-related causes. He is against veterans having access to medical marijuana if recommended by their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration" title="Veterans Health Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Veterans Health Administration</a>doctor and if it is legal for medicinal purposes in their state of residence.<sup id="cite_ref-NORML_66-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-NORML-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[66]</a></sup></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_policy">Gun policy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=29&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gun policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Buchanan characterizes himself as "a strong defender of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Second Amendment</a>,</b> a Life Member of the NRA, and a gun owner and hunter."<sup id="cite_ref-2A_67-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-2A-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[67]</a></sup> As of 2017, Buchanan has an "A-" rating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NRA</a>, indicating a voting record that is generally pro-gun rights.<sup id="cite_ref-ISPY_68-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-ISPY-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[68]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Center_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Florida Center for Investigative Reporting" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Florida Center for Investigative Reporting</a> reports that Buchanan received a total of $25,830 for his campaigns in 2010 and 2012 in the form of direct contributions or independent expenditures from NRA-affiliated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PACs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Aaronson_2018_69-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Aaronson_2018-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[69]</a></sup> As a Congressman, Buchanan has voted in favor of several pieces of legislation to expand gun rights, including a yes vote on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">H. R. 38</a>, which would enable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States#Reciprocity" title="Concealed carry in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">concealed carry reciprocity</a> among all States if and when it is signed into law.<sup id="cite_ref-HR38_70-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HR38-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[70]</a></sup> In March 2017, Buchanan voted in favor of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1181" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act</a>, which, if signed into law, will allow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran" title="Veteran" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">veterans</a>who are considered "mentally incompetent" to purchase ammunition and firearms unless declared a danger by a judge.<sup id="cite_ref-HR_1181_71-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-HR_1181-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[71]</a></sup> Buchanan also voted in favor of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">H.J.Res.40</a>, which successfully used the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act" title="Congressional Review Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Congressional Review Act</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_the_Implementation_of_the_NICS_Improvement_Amendments_Act_of_2007" title="Repeal of the Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">block implementation</a> of an Obama-era Amendment to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICS_Improvement_Amendments_Act_of_2007" title="NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007</a> that was aimed at preventing the mentally-infirm from legally purchasing firearms.<sup id="cite_ref-Clerk_2017_72-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Clerk_2017-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[72]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting" title="2017 Las Vegas shooting" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">2017 Las Vegas shooting</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Buchanan indicated support for regulation of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_fire#Bump_fire_stocks" title="Bump fire" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">bump stocks</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, saying, "Bump stocks generating automatic rates of fire should face the same restrictions as automatic weapons."</span><sup id="cite_ref-Perry_2017_73-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Perry_2017-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[73]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the 2018 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting" title="Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Stoneman Douglas High School shooting</a>, Giffords, an organization helmed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords" title="Gabrielle Giffords" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Gabrielle Giffords</a>, announced that Buchanan was on its "incumbent-defeat priority list" in response to the organization's perception that Republican Congress members are blocking efforts to reduce gun violence.<sup id="cite_ref-Peoples_2018_74-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Peoples_2018-74" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">[74]</a></sup></span></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; font-family: sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vern_Buchanan&action=edit§ion=30&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Buchanan lives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longboat_Key,Florida" title="Longboat Key, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Longboat Key</a>, Florida with his wife of 31 years, Sandy, whom he met while in college. The Buchanans have two sons, James and Matt.<sup id="cite_ref-Rep.Vern_Buchanan_FL13_75-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Rep.Vern_Buchanan_FL13-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[75]</a></sup> James ran unsuccessfully for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_House_of_Representatives" title="Florida House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Florida House of Representatives</a> in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[76]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="United States Chamber of 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> gave Buchanan its "Spirit of Enterprise" award in 2009. Buchanan is a former board member of the chamber, which endorsed him in the 2006 and 2008 races for the 13th Congressional District seat.<sup id="cite_ref-Bradenton_Herald_03-27-09_77-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Bradenton_Herald_03-27-09-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[77]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Also in 2009, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_of_Foreign_Wars" title="Veterans of Foreign Wars" 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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gave Buchanan their Legislative Achievement Award for his work on legislation improving the quality of life of active and reserve service members, military retirees, veterans and their families.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Zimbio-01-21-09_78-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Buchanan#cite_note-Zimbio-01-21-09-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[78]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">Ref</span></h2><p>===</p><p>
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<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2031" sort="Tipton, Scott" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/scott-tipton" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Tipton, Scott</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2031" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2031" sort="Colorado-03" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">CO-03</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2031" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Scott Tipton" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2031" sort="010" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Scott Tipton" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">10%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1715" sort="Gardner, Cory" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/cory-gardner" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Gardner, Cory</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1715" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1715" sort="Colorado-04" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">CO-04</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1715" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Cory Gardner" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1715" sort="009" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Cory Gardner" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">9%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1814" sort="Lamborn, Doug" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/doug-lamborn" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Lamborn, Doug</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1814" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1814" sort="Colorado-05" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">CO-05</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1814" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Doug Lamborn" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1814" sort="005" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Doug Lamborn" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">5%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1639" sort="Coffman, Mike" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mike-coffman" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Coffman, Mike</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1639" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1639" sort="Colorado-06" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">CO-06</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1639" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Mike Coffman" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1639" sort="006" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Mike Coffman" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">6%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1883" sort="Miller, Jeff" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/jeff-miller" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Miller, Jeff</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1883" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1883" sort="Florida-01" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-01</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1883" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Jeff Miller" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1883" sort="008" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Jeff Miller" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">8%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2013" sort="Southerland, Steve" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/steve-southerland-ii" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Southerland, Steve</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2013" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2013" sort="Florida-02" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-02</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2013" sort="000" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Steve Southerland" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">0%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2013" sort="005" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Steve Southerland" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">5%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName176355" sort="Yoho, Ted S." style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/ted-s-yoho" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Yoho, Ted S.</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty176355" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState176355" sort="Florida-03" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-03</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating176355" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ted S. Yoho" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating176355" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ted S. Yoho" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1657" sort="Crenshaw, Ander" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/ander-crenshaw" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Crenshaw, Ander</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1657" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1657" sort="Florida-04" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-04</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1657" sort="000" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ander Crenshaw" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">0%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1657" sort="009" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ander Crenshaw" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">9%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName176354" sort="DeSantis, Ron" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/ron-desantis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">DeSantis, Ron</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty176354" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState176354" sort="Florida-06" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-06</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating176354" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ron DeSantis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating176354" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ron DeSantis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1877" sort="Mica, John L." style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/john-l-mica" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Mica, John L.</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1877" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1877" sort="Florida-07" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-07</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1877" sort="000" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="John L. Mica" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">0%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1877" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="John L. Mica" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1931" sort="Posey, Bill" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/bill-posey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Posey, Bill</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1931" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1931" sort="Florida-08" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-08</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1931" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Bill Posey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1931" sort="008" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Bill Posey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">8%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2055" sort="Webster, Daniel" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/daniel-webster" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Webster, Daniel</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2055" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2055" sort="Florida-10" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-10</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2055" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Daniel Webster" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2055" sort="009" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Daniel Webster" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">9%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1902" sort="Nugent, Rich" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/rich-nugent" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Nugent, Rich</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1902" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1902" sort="Florida-11" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-11</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1902" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Rich Nugent" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1902" sort="006" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Rich Nugent" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">6%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1569" sort="Bilirakis, Gus" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/gus-bilirakis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Bilirakis, Gus</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1569" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1569" sort="Florida-12" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-12</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1569" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Gus Bilirakis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1569" sort="015" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Gus Bilirakis" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">15%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2072" sort="Young, C.W. Bill" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/cw-bill-young" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Young, C.W. Bill</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2072" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2072" sort="Florida-13" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-13</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2072" sort="N/A" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="C.W. Bill Young" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">N/A</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2072" sort="028" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="C.W. Bill Young" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">28%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1964" sort="Ross, Dennis" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/dennis-ross" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Ross, Dennis</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1964" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1964" sort="Florida-15" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-15</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1964" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Dennis Ross" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1964" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Dennis Ross" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1597" sort="Buchanan, Vern" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/vern-buchanan" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Buchanan, Vern</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1597" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1597" sort="Florida-16" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-16</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1597" sort="000" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Vern Buchanan" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">0%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1597" sort="023" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Vern Buchanan" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">23%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1961" sort="Rooney, Tom" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/tom-rooney" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Rooney, Tom</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1961" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1961" sort="Florida-17" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-17</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1961" sort="000" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Rooney" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">0%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1961" sort="009" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Rooney" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">9%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName176352" sort="Radel, Trey" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/trey-radel" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Radel, Trey</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty176352" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState176352" sort="Florida-19" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-19</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating176352" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Trey Radel" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating176352" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Trey Radel" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1674" sort="Diaz-Balart, Mario" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/mario-diaz-balart" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Diaz-Balart, Mario</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1674" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1674" sort="Florida-25" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-25</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1674" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Mario Diaz-Balart" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1674" sort="015" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Mario Diaz-Balart" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">15%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1963" sort="Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/ileana-ros-lehtinen" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1963" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1963" sort="Florida-27" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">FL-27</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1963" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ileana Ros-Lehtinen" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1963" sort="037" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Ileana Ros-Lehtinen" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">37%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1804" sort="Kingston, Jack" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/jack-kingston" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Kingston, Jack</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1804" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1804" sort="Georgia-01" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-01</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1804" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Jack Kingston" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1804" sort="009" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Jack Kingston" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">9%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2058" sort="Westmoreland, Lynn A." style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/lynn-westmoreland" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Westmoreland, Lynn A.</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2058" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2058" sort="Georgia-03" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-03</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2058" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Lynn A. Westmoreland" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2058" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Lynn A. Westmoreland" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1933" sort="Price, Tom" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/tom-price" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Price, Tom</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1933" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1933" sort="Georgia-06" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-06</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1933" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Price" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1933" sort="006" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Price" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">6%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName2067" sort="Woodall, Rob" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/rob-woodall" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Woodall, Rob</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty2067" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState2067" sort="Georgia-07" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-07</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating2067" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Rob Woodall" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating2067" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Rob Woodall" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1991" sort="Scott, Austin" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/austin-scott" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Scott, Austin</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1991" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1991" sort="Georgia-08" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-08</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1991" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Austin Scott" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1991" sort="004" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Austin Scott" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">4%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName176349" sort="Collins, Doug" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/doug-collins" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Collins, Doug</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty176349" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState176349" sort="Georgia-09" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-09</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating176349" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Doug Collins" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating176349" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Doug Collins" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1593" sort="Broun, Paul C." style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/paul-c-broun" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Broun, Paul C.</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1593" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1593" sort="Georgia-10" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-10</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1593" sort="011" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Paul C. Broun" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">11%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1593" sort="005" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Paul C. Broun" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">5%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1721" sort="Gingrey, Phil" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/phil-gingrey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Gingrey, Phil</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1721" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1721" sort="Georgia-11" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-11</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1721" sort="011" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Phil Gingrey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">11%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1721" sort="005" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Phil Gingrey" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">5%</span></span></div>
<div class="tableRow dataItem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(34, 51, 68); height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mocName" id="mocName1730" sort="Graves, Tom" style=" margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/tom-graves" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Graves, Tom</a></span><span class="mocParty" id="mocParty1730" sort="R" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">R</span><span class="mocState" id="mocState1730" sort="Georgia-14" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 80px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;">GA-14</span><span class="mocRating" id="mocRating1730" sort="007" style=" margin: 0px 42px 0px 43px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Graves" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">7%</span></span><span class="mocLifetimeRating" id="mocLifetimeRating1730" sort="005" style=" margin: 0px 47px 0px 48px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 60px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left; text-align: left;"><span class="issue-format" data-tooltip="Tom Graves" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(56, 50, 51); overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">5%</span></span></div>
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