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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not sure how important, maybe just a variant on petition, but saw bit of a pattern in Fof F: anti renewables: (both offense and defense as it calls out pols:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">~ mccarthy spkr fight</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 23</font></div><div><div align="left"><table style="width: 960px; margin-bottom: 1.313em; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jenny Beth Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">L. Brent Bozell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jim DeMint</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">David N. Bossie</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens United</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lori Roman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACRU Action Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kelly J.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shackelford,</span>&nbsp;Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First Liberty Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Andrew Roth</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Freedom Caucus Network</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed Corrigan</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cleta&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Mitchell, Esq.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Legal Fellow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Partnership Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />White House Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom Jones</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Accountability Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney General<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Bob McEwen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House of Representatives<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member, Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas E. McClusky</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Principal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Greenlight Strategies, LLC</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Leadership Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Russ&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Vought</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Noah Wall</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FreedomWorks</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William L. Walton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Bill Walton Show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Resolute Protector Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Myron Ebell&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">NO AFFILIATION?!</span></font></span></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bozell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ForAmerica</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Ginni Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Consulting</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Terry Schilling</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Principles Project</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alfred S. Regnery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Republic Book Publishers</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chad Connelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Faith Wins</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Security Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable David McIntosh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Scott T. Parkinson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President for Government Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wesley Denton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Operating Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seton Motley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Less Government</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Khadine Ritter</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chair<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kristen A. Ullman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Virginia Armstrong</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nat’l. Chrm., Law & Worldview Program<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eagle Forum</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Karen England</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Capitol Resource Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Gary L. Bauer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Values</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConservativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mike Davis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Article III Project (A3P) and Internet Accountability Project (IAP)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen J. Hebert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph Rebandt</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former 2022 Gubernatorial candidate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ralph Rebandt for Michigan Governor</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Louis F. Terhar</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ohio State Senator (Ret.)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CNP, Board of Governors</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">C. Preston Noell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melvin Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Noah Webster Educational Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Carol Rebandt</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief of Staff<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2022 Campaign to elect Ralph Rebandt for Michigan Governor</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Floyd Brown</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Western Journal</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Debbie Georgatos</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Host, America Can We Talk?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CWT Publications, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rob Gluskin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gluskin Investment Partners</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard Rounsavelle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trustee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MRC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Hill</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida State House</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert K. Fischer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meeting Coordinator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservatives of Faith</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr.<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">&nbsp;John C. Eastman</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Constitutional Counsel Group</span></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Debbie Wuthnow</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />IVoterGuide</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George Dunlop</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Policy Advisor Trump Transition 2017<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trump Transition 2017</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Graves has declined to say publicly whether the committee would return.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) created a predecessor to the panel when Democrats took the House in 2008, then formed the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in 2019 after they came back to power. It has no legislative authority but has at times caused friction with other committee chairs.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative groups argued the issue would be better served being addressed by the standing committees.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We urge you to disband the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and let the committees with appropriate jurisdiction and legislative ability take up the topic of climate change,” they wrote.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1588610503978668032/photo/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1588610503978668032/photo/1</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 11 22 badash</font></div><div align="left"><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political experts are warning about a group of nearly 60 far-right wing politicos including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ginni+Thomas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Ginni Thomas</strong></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Matt+Schlapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Matt Schlapp</strong></a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cleta+Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Cleta Mitchell</strong></a>&nbsp;who reportedly will issue a letter calling for the House and Senate to delay votes on leadership positions including Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader.</font></span></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Axios’ Jonathan first reported the news, posting at least part of the letter and the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1592132077184782337" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">list of signatories</a>&nbsp;(below).</font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the other more recognizable names on the letter include&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Mark+Meadows" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Mark Meadows</strong></a>, the former Trump White House chief of staff;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cleta+Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Cleta Mitchell</strong></a>, the attorney who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/politics/republican-poll-monitors-election-activists.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The New York Times</a>&nbsp;calls the “architect of Donald J. Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election”; former Trump attorney&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Jenna+Ellis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Jenna Ellis</strong></a>; former U.S. Senator and former Heritage Foundation president&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Jim+DeMint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Jim DeMint</strong></a>&nbsp;(R-SC); former Trump deputy campaign manager&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22David+Bossie%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>David Bossie</strong></a>, the right wing activist and head of the organization responsible for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Citizens+United%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Citizens United</strong></a>&nbsp;Supreme Court lawsuit that made countless billions of dark money in political elections legal.</font></span></p><p style=""><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/heist-ginni-thomas-tells-j6-committee-election-was-stolen-says-she-never-discussed-efforts-to-overturn-with-spouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘Heist’: Ginni Thomas Tells J6 Committee Election Was Stolen, Says She Never Discussed Efforts to Overturn With Spouse</a></font></strong></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, white supremacist and disgraced former U.S. Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Steve+King" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Steve King</strong></a>&nbsp;(R-IA); convicted felon and disgraced former U.S. Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Steve+Stockman%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Steve Stockman</strong></a>&nbsp;(R-TX), right-wing religious extremist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kenneth+Blackwell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Kenneth Blackwell</strong></a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Family+Research+Council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Family Research Council</strong></a>, which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups, and others.</font></span></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Republican Party needs leaders who will confidently and skillfully present a persuasive coherent vision of who we are, what we stand for, and what we will do,” the letter reads. “Many current elections are still undecided. There should be no rushed leadership elections.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Conservative Members of the House and Senate have called for the leadership elections to be delayed,” it adds, not naming which ones. “We strongly urge both Houses of Congress to postpone the formal Leadership elections until after the December 6 runoff in Georgia and all election results are fully decided.”</font></p><p style=""><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/ginni-thomas-intertwined-with-vast-campaign-pressuring-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-report/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas ‘Intertwined’ With ‘Vast’ Campaign Pressuring Supreme Court to Overturn Roe: Report</a></font></strong></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts are weighing in and issuing warnings.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Note at least 3 people on this letter–Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, and Cleta Mitchell–are almost certainly subjects of the Jan6 investigation</b>,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1592167042907447296" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">observed</a>&nbsp;civil rights and national security journalist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Marcy+Wheeler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Marcy Wheeler</strong></a>. “So this is partly a crime-protection racket, signed by Clarence Thomas’ spouse.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HuffPost’s White House correspondent&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22S.V.+D%C3%A1te%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>S.V. Dáte</strong></a>, who once in a press conference asked Donald Trump if he regretted “<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/08/watch-trump-asked-if-he-regrets-all-the-lying-youve-done-to-the-american-people-at-his-news-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">all the lying</a>,” likened the list to “<a href="https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1592145723147321344" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a coup-plotters reunion</a>.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politico Senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, who has done extensive reporting on the January 6 insurrection,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1592136726985818113" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">commented</a>, “some of these people are experts at seeking delays of elections.”</font></p><p style=""><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/11/fraud-legal-expert-stunned-after-trump-appears-to-admit-he-used-doj-to-interfere-in-floridas-2018-election/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘Fraud’: Legal Expert Stunned After Trump Appears to Admit He Used DOJ to Interfere in Florida’s 2018 Election</a></font></strong></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investigative journalist and columnist Dave Troy, who has done extensive reporting on Vladimir Putin,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1592161456187133954" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">noted</a>: “All this makes me ask is what these clowns (Ginni Thomas, Cleta Mitchell, Mark Meadows et al) are planning between now and December 6, and how to stop whatever it is. Are they planning to poison someone? What is it this time?”</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why aren’t these people in jail, anyway?” he also asked.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Independent’s senior political reporter Emily C. Singer simply&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/CahnEmily/status/1592138617811599362" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">called it</a>&nbsp;a “who’s who of insurrection supporting Republicans.”</font></span></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So you’re telling me that Ginni Thomas, Mark Meadows and Matt Schlapp want to interfere in an ANOTHER election,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/axidentaliberal/status/1592162521917669376" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">wrote</a>&nbsp;Attorney Adam Cohen of Lawyers for Good Government. “Folks, even if the Democrats retain the House, we cannot rest. Because these people won’t.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read the letter below or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/11/coup-plotters-reunion-experts-warn-after-group-including-ginni-thomas-calls-for-house-senate-leadership-elections-delay/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at this link</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/11/coup-plotters-reunion-experts-warn-after-group-including-ginni-thomas-calls-for-house-senate-leadership-elections-delay/">https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/11/coup-plotters-reunion-experts-warn-after-group-including-ginni-thomas-calls-for-house-senate-leadership-elections-delay/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We ask that the GOP conference meet immediately to vote on stripping Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger from their membership in the GOP conference. We further inform you that conservative leaders are launching a nationwide movement to add citizens’ voices to this effort.</font></p><hr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 1.313em 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);" /><table style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 960px; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney General<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan</span>&nbsp;(1985-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Honorable</span>&nbsp;Bob McEwen (R-OH)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House Committee on Rules<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Matt <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Schlapp</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union (ACU)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jim DeMint</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed Corrigan</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenny Beth Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Election Transparency Initiative</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David N.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Bossie</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens United</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Honorable&nbsp;</span>Tony Perkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable David McIntosh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Club for Growth</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Scott T. Parkinson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />VP for Government Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rachel A. Bovard</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Director of Policy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Domestic Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">L. Brent Bozell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alfred S. Regnery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Republic Book Publishers</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa B. Nelson&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">odd no affil?</span></font></span></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</font></span></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bozell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ForAmerica</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Noah Wall</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FreedomWorks</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chad Connelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Faith Wins</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Terry Schilling</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Principles Project</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William L. Walton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Bill Walton Show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Resolute Protector Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Brooke Rollins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b>America First Policy Institute (AFPI)</b></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Russ&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Vought</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wesley Denton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Operating Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ginni Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Consulting</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lori Roman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ACRU Action Fund</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Gary L. Bauer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Values</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Briscoe Cain</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Representative<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Texas House of Representatives</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Elaine Donnelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Military Readiness</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Craig Shirley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Reagan Biographer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Presidential Historian</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan M. Gottlieb</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Gary A. Hofmeister</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Businessman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Business Owner</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConservativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seton Motley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Less Government</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">H. Preston Hawkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Association for Community Education, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard Manning</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Cerone</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert K. Fischer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meeting Coordinator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservatives of Faith</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William Shaker</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Washington Marketing Group</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paavo Ensio</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Universal Minerals Group</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard D Hayes</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joan Holt Lindsey</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lindsey Communications</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen J. Hebert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mary Vought</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Conservatives Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Clare Lopez</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder/President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lopez Liberty LLC</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sheryl Kaufman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Board of Directors<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Allen Unruh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Abstinence Clearinghouse</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Amapola Hansberger</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Legal Immigrants for America</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Leadership Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brandon Zehm</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Owner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Zehm & Associates</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Richard Rounsavelle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trustee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MRC</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenna L.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ellis, Esq.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chair<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Election Integrity Alliance</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wendy Borcherdt</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Retired Political Volunteer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Board Member, Hoover Institution</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jessie Jane Duff</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gunnery Sergeant, US Marine Corps (ret)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ambassador, America First Policy Institute (AFPI)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph A. Rebandt II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gubernatorial Candidate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ralph Rebandt for Governor</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Peter J. Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Caucus</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melvin Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Noah Webster Educational Foundation</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sandy Rios</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Governmental Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Family Association</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Terrence Scanlon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Chairman and Commissioner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. Consumer Product Safety Comn.</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Hill</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida State Representative</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" /></font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All organizations listed for IDENTIFICATION purposes only.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Signatures updated: 12/21/21.</font></span></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">december 13, 2018</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, DC<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Signatures updated 1/17/2019</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative movement stands with President Trump in his demand that <b>Congress provide $5 billion in unrestricted funding for a wall at the southern border.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American sovereignty and national security are at risk the longer Congress delays in addressing the crisis at the border. President Trump has used all of his authorities to mitigate illegal entry, but only Congress has the authority to fund the border wall. After two years of inaction on Capitol Hill, we support the urgency of President Trump’s request.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative movement is unanimous in its support for President Trump’s border wall. Congress should not adjourn for the year until they have fully funded President Trump’s request.</font></p><hr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 1.313em 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><table style="width: 960px; margin-bottom: 1.313em; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney General<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alfred S. Regnery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Tony Perkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Family Research Council<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bozell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ForAmerica</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Myron Ebell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Center for Energy and Environment<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Conservatives Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jim DeMint</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, South Carolina<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />United States Senate (2005-2013)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed Corrigan</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director, Senate Steering Committee (2003-2012)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wesley Denton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Communications Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senator Jim DeMint (SC) (2005-2013)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rachel Bovard</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Policy Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Steering Committee (2014-2015)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Domestic Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tim Chapman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heritage Action for America</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jessica Anderson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heritage Action for America</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />White House Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Colin A. Hanna</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Let Freedom Ring, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Matt Schlapp</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union (ACU)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Daniel Schneider</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union (ACU)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bob McEwen</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House of Representatives<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member, Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William L. Walton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CNP Action, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Foley & Lardner LLP</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenny Beth Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">L. Brent Bozell, III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kenneth A. Klukowski, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />General Counsel<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Civil Rights Union</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Constitutional Congress, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Craig Shirley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Reagan Biographer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Presidential Historian</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenna Ellis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Public Policy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />James Dobson Family Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chad Connelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Faith Wins</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Susan A. Carleson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman/CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Civil Rights Union</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seton Motley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Less Government</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bob Carlstrom</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Carlstrom Group, LLC</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen Hebert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Christopher Malagisi</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Host<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Book Club Podcast</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Floyd Brown</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America Fighting Back PAC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lisa Calvert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Christian Speaker and Bible Teacher<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rabon-Calvert Int</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ron Robinson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Young America’s Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James L. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder/Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Saulius “Saul” Anuzis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jake Hoffman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rally Forge</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Donald Hodel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Secretary of Interior, President Reagan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Secretary of Energy, President Reagan</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rebecca Hagelin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Secretary<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Amapola Hansberger</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Legal Immigrants for America</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mario Navarro da Costa</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Washington Bureau<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Darrel Johnson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attic Corp</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Frank J. Gaffney</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Security Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan Gottlieb</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Phyllis Schlafly Eagles</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rebekah Gantner</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Belden Bell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Chair, Legacy Society<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Heritage Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lew Uhler</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Tax Limitation Committee</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Honorable Tom DeLay</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Majority Leader<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House of Representatives</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ambassador Henry F. Cooper</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Reagan’s Chief Defense and Space Negotiator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former SDI Director</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Somers H. White</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Somers White Company<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Arizona State Senator</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joan Holt Lindsey</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lindsey Communications</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas Donelson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americas PAC</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Penna Dexter</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-host<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Point of View Radio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William W. Pascoe, III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Board Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Action</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Michael R. Long</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NYS Conservative Party</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard A. Viguerie</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConservativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Richard K. Rounsavelle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trustee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Anne<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Schlafly</span> Cori</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Matthew Tyrmand</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Principal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Matthew Tyrmand, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ginni Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Consulting</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Clare M. Lopez</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President for Research & Analysis<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Security Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Deborah Weiss, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Fellow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Security Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Diana Banister</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shirley & Banister Public Affairs</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Barbara VanAndel-Gaby</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman of Board<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Heritage Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James V. Lacy</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Publisher<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />California Political Review</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joseph A. Morris</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner / Attorney<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Morris & De La Rosa</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William Saracino</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Glendale Burbank Republican Assembly</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eunie Smith</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ethan Rush</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Missouri Eagle Forum</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lu Rivera</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ellen Campbell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Government Employee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. Government</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Judy Zabel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chapter Leader<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Janine Hansen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nevada Families for Freedom</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cathie Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1st VP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Patricia Ellis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />VP – Issues<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Alabama</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Anne P. Perry</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Past State President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Georgia</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Patricia W Daugherty</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Georgia</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bonnie O’Neil</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of California</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen Roth</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Secure America Now</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Philip B. Haney</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Venatus Group, Inc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founding Member, DHS & CBP Officer (Ret.)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Stella Morabito</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Author</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ellen F. Grigsby</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Institutional Partnerships<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Open Doors USA</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rod D. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Organization, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sherri R. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Organization, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Haley E. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Nicholas Stehle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Campaign for the American Future</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Shawn A. Mitchell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former National Chaplain<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jerry Melvin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Dean<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida House of Representatives</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">J. Christian Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Public Interest Legal Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Tim Daughtry</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Author<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Daughtry & Company</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chris Chmielenski</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NumbersUSA</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George K. Rasley, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConserativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Shirley Spellerberg</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Mayor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />City of Corinth, TX</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brian Glicklich</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO, Digital Strategies LLC<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO, How Handy Is That</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Marcia G. Taylor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Bennett Int. Group, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mica Mosbacher</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mosbacher Interests<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Principal</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Amy Kremer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Women for Trump</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mark Fitzgibbons</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President of Corporate Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Target Advertising, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Austin Ruse</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CorsiNation.com</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bob Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Revive America PAC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jeff Hunt</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Centennial Institute</span></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Tim G. Echols</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice-Chair<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Georgia Public Service Commission</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rick Manning</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Roy S. Moore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Emeritus<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Morallaw.org</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert Fischer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meeting Coordinator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservatives of Faith</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kayla Moore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Foundation for Moral Law</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. William Ames</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gathering of the Eagles</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Carolee Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum New Jersey</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Spence</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founding President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Republicans of California</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brigitte Gabriel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACT for America</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Donna Rice Hughes</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b>DRH</b> Enterprises</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Janet Salomon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Wife, Mother, Homemaker<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, Eagle Forum</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Father Frank Pavone</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Priests for Life</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kay R. Daly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Coalition for a Fair Judiciary</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Penny Pullen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former State Representative<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Illinois General Assembly</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sal Russo</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Founder and Chief Strategist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Express</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Benjamin R. Case</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Focused On Fundraising, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Willes K. Lee</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Federation of Republican Assemblies</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kevin Freeman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NSIC Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Michelle Easton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom Ballantyne</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Political Writer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Trump Author</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Patricia Stewart</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Leader<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sheryl Kaufman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Private Citizen</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Nancy Schulze</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Repbulican Congressional Wives Speakers & Women Impacting America</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Speechwriter<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Bush 41</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tim LeFever</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Capitol Resource Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Elaine Donnelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Center for Military Readiness</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Steve Berger</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pastor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Grace Chapel</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert D. Thompson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Administrator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lee Beaman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beaman Automotive Group</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Charlie Copeland</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Intercollegiate Studies Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Pat Carlson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Environmental Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rob Chambers</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AFA Action</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dan Weber</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder/President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Roxanne Phillips</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, Executive Committee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">C. Preston Noell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Susan Stradling</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Arizona <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Eagle Forum</span></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mat Staver</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder & Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Counsel</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Charles J. Cooper</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cooper & Kirk, PLLC</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard H. Wright</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AAndrews Consulting</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heather R. Higgins<...Independent Women’s Voice</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MerryLynn Gerstenschlager</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Texas Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jack Park</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Activist and Donor</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sandy Rios</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Governmental Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AFA</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Major General John K. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Singlaub</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />USA Ret.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kathleen Patten</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President/CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Target Advertising</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tim Macy</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gun Owners of America</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kent Glesener, P.E.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President/Owner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Paradigm Construction & Engineering, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Christie Glesener</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President/Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shofar International Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ron Pearson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Victory Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Judson Phillips</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Nation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melvin Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Past President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Renewanation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph A. Rebandt, II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pastor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oakland Hills Community Church</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Becky Gerritson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Alabama</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James Simpson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Independent Journalist</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jessie Jane Duff</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (ret)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sr. Fellow London Center for Policy Research</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Stephanie Coleman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Action Network</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas Pyle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Energy Alliance</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lisa B. Nelson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Executive Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Legislative Exchange Council</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Christopher C. Hull, Ph.D.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Distinguished Senior Fellow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Gatestone Institute</span></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rosemary Jenks</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President, Government Relations<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NumbersUSA</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. J. Michael Waller</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President for Government Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b>Center for Security Policy</b></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" /></font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All organizations listed for IDENTIFICATION purposes only.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">open ltr, usual suspects, BS refuted below</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>BS</b></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 28, 2019<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Washington, DC<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Signatures updated 2/4/19</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservatives are united in opposing H.R. 1,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the attempt by House Democrats to fundamentally undermine the American electoral system.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While they cloak the bill in terms of “restoring democracy” and “preventing corruption,” the legislation has one goal: to protect incumbents, at the expense of the First Amendment, federalism, and individual voter integrity.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">H.R. 1 undermines the First Amendment.</span>&nbsp;H.R. 1 undoes key Supreme Court cases that protect elections as fundamental to free speech. It would allow the Federal Election Commission to track and catalogue more of what Americans are saying, register even very small political donations, and make public those who donate to different charitable and nonprofit organizations. The legislation will subject private citizens to intimidation and harassment for their private and political beliefs, far broader than what was done in the IRS targeting scandal in 2013.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">H.R. 1 yanks election authority away from the states.</span>&nbsp;H.R. 1 reasserts the ability of the federal government to micromanage state elections through a process known as “preclearance.” Preclearance, which was previously overturned by the Supreme Court, requires states to get permission from the federal government for changes as small as modifying the hours of an election office, or moving a voting location from a school gym to the library. Critically, none of these practices would undo any fraud or corruption. Rather, these same practices result in incorrect registrations and inaccurate voter data, while failing to address actual corrupt practices like ballot harvesting. Moreover, they are all designed to eliminate the federalism that keeps elections transparent, local, and fair.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">H.R. 1 attacks individual voter integrity.</span>&nbsp;America was founded on the principle of “one person, one vote.” H.R. 1 turns this on its head by weaponizing every aspect of the political regulatory system. The Federal Election Commission, which is currently a neutral body, would be given a 3-2 makeup, guaranteeing a partisan outcome with little accountability toward the actual votes which are cast. H.R. 1 also includes a 600 percent government match for political donations, and authorizes even more public dollars to campaigns. The bill also wants to make Election Day a new paid holiday for government workers, with additional paid vacation given to bureaucrats to oversee the polls. All of these changes are designed to distance the outcome of the election from those casting their votes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1 would also implement the following changes:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Forces states to implement mandatory voter registration, removing civic participation as a voluntary choice, and increasing chances for error.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Mandates that states allow all felons to vote.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Forces states to extend periods of early voting, which has shown to have no effect on turnout.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Mandates same-day voter registration, which encourages voter fraud.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Limits the ability of states to cooperate to see who is registered in multiple states at the same time.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Prohibits election observers from cooperating with election officials to file formal challenges to suspicious voter registrations.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Criminalizes protected political speech by making it a crime to “discourage” someone from voting<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Bars states from making their own laws about voting by mail.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Prohibits chief election officials in each state from participating in federal election campaigns.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Mandates free mailing of absentee ballots.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />• Mandates that states adopt new redistricting commissions.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1 would cause sweeping and irrevocable damage to the free speech, privacy, and integrity that are central components to free and fair elections in America. We oppose H.R. 1 in the strongest terms, and urge all conservatives to do likewise.</font></p><table style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 960px; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney General<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alfred S. Regnery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Adam Brandon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FreedomWorks</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Marjorie Dannenfelser</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Susan B. Anthony List</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Colin A. Hanna</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Let Freedom Ring, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Diana Banister</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shirley & Banister Public Affairs</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Noah Wall</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President of Advocacy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FreedomWorks</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Foley & Lardner LLP</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jessica Anderson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heritage Action for America</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Myron <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ebell</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Center for Energy and Environment<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Competitive Enterprise Institute</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bozell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ForAmerica</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom McClusky</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />March for Life Action</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lisa B.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Nelson</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Executive Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Legislative Exchange Council</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Bob McEwen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House of Representatives<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member, Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable David McIntosh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Matt Schlapp</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union (ACU)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Daniel Schneider</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union (ACU)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenny Beth Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />White House Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William L. Walton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNP Action, Inc.</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jim DeMint</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, South Carolina<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />United States Senate (2005-2013)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rachel Bovard</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Policy Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Steering Committee (2014-2015)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed Corrigan</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director, Senate Steering Committee (2003-2012)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Domestic Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Fitton</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Judicial Watch, Inc.</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Tony Perkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Family Research Council<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Council for National Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Constitutional Congress, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Kenneth T. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cuccinelli,</span> II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Conservatives Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">L. Brent Bozell, III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Hans A. von <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Spakovsky</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Commissioner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Federal Election Commission (2006-2007)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Charles J. Cooper</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cooper & Kirk PLLC</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Tom DeLay</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Majority Leader<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />US House of Representatives</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">J. Christian Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Public Interest Legal Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Grover Norquist</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Tax Reform</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Gary L. Bauer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Values</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Floyd Brown</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America Fighting Back PAC</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tracie Sharp</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Policy Network</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Donald Hodel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Secretary of Energy, President Reagan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Secretary of Interior, President Reagan</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable James C. Miller III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Budget Director, President Ronald Reagan, (1985-1988)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rod D. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Organization, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sherri R. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Organization, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Haley E. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Nicholas Stehle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Campaign for the American Future</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Shawn A. Mitchell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former National Chaplain<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jerry Melvin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Dean<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida House of Representatives</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ellen F. Grigsby</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Institutional Partnerships<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Open Doors USA</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph Benko, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Advisor, Economics<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Principles Project</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melissa Ortiz</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and Principal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Able Americans</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phil Kerpen KOCH?]</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Commitment</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kathleen Patten</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Target Advertising</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenna Ellis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director of Public Policy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />James Dobson Family Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen Hebert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sal Russo</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Founder and Chief Strategist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Express</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Trent England</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Steve Berger</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pastor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Grace Chapel</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George K. Rasley, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConservativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rebekah Gantner</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Martin</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Phyllis Schlafly Eagles</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Christopher Malagisi</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Host<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Book Club Podcast</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Roxanne Phillips</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, Executive Committee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard H. Wright</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />AAndrews Consulting</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seton Motley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Less Government</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Stuart Epperson, Sr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Salem Media Group</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jack Park</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Donor and Activist</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Frank Wright</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />D. James Kennedy Ministries</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ron Robinson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Young America’s Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kelly Kullberg</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America Conservancy</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mark Fitzgibbons</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President of Corporate Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Target Advertising, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jake Hoffman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rally Forge</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">John F. Tate</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America’s Liberty PAC</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Charlie Copeland</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Intercollegiate Studies Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">C. Preston Noell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James L. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder/President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bob<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> Carlstrom</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Carlstrom Group, LLC</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Saul Anuzis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Gary Marx</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Madison Strategies</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lew Uhler</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Tax Limitation Committee</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bailey Amaral</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Windrose Project</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Penny Pullen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former State Legislator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Illinois General Assembly</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Michael R. Long</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />State Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NYS Conservative Party</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jay Mount</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MDS Communications Corporation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Amapola Hansberger</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Legal Immigrants for America</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Belden Bell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Chair Legacy Society<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Heritage Society</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard Manning</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Roy S. Moore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Emeritus<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Foundation for Moral Law</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kayla Moore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Foundation for Moral Law</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Matthew Tyrmand</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Principal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Matthew Tyrmand, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chad Connelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Faith Wins</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Richard Rounsavelle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trustee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert K. Fischer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meeting Coordinator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservatives of Faith</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Randy M. Long</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Long Business Advisors, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Spence</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founding President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Republicans of California</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Benjamin R. Case</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Executive Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Focused On Fundraising, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Hill</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Representative<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida State House, D1</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Carolee Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of New Jersey</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas Pyle</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Energy Alliance</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Elaine Donnelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Military Readiness</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert D. Thompson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Administrator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dan Weber</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tim Macy</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gun Owners of America</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Jameson Taylor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President for Policy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brett Healy</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Donald Bryson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Civitas Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jon Pritchett</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Emily Davenport</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pelican Institute for Public Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heather Lauer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Policy Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />People United for Privacy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paul Gessing</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rio Grande Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Kevin Roberts</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Victor Riches</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Goldwater Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Becky Gerritson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Alabama</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Stella Morabito</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Author</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L. Jean Lewis</font></span></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Barbara Ledeen</font></span></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rabbi Aryeh Spero</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Caucus For America</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brigitte Gabriel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder & Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACT For America</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom McCabe</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Freedom Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Willes K. Lee</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Federation of Republican Assemblies</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Norman Singleton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Campaign for Liberty</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wayne Hoffman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Idaho Freedom Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mike Stenhouse</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rob Chambers</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AFA Action</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Annette Thompson Meeks</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Freedom Foundation of Minnesota</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joseph G. Lehman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ron Pearson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Victory Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Williams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Khadine L. Ritter</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Ohio</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William Shaker</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Washington Marketing Group</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard D. Hayes</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mario Navarro da Costa</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Washington Bureau<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alan P. Dye</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Webster, Chamberlain & Bean</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sean Noble</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Encore</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Diana Denman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Presidential Appointee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Reagan Administration</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Debbie Georgatos</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CWT Publications, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kevin Freeman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NSIC Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Andresen Blom</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hawaiian Values</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joseph A. Morris</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney and Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Morris & De La Rosa</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Charlie Gerow</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Conservative Union</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rebecca Hagelin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Secretary<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James Clymer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lee A. Beaman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beaman Automotive Group</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William W. Pascoe, III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Board Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tea Party Patriots Action</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Peter Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Conservative Caucus</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Melvin Adams</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Past President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Renewanation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Curt&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Levey</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Committee for Justice</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Judson Phillips</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Nation</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Michelle Easton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Col. Francis X. De Luca USMC(Ret)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Emeritus<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Civitas Institute</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Susan A. Carleson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman/CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Civil Right Union</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mario H. Lopez</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hispanic Leadership Fund</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paavo Ensio</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Minerals Group</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ambassador Henry F. Cooper</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Reagan’s Chief Defense and Space Negotiator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former SDI Director</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Terrence Scanlon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Retired Chairman and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Capital Research Center</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brent Mead</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Montana Policy Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bossie</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens United</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James C. Dobson Ph.D.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder & President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />James Dobson Family Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kay R. Daly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Coalition for a Fair Judiciary</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Anne S. Cori</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eunie Smith</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Adam Kincaid</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fair Lines America</span></font></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Michael L. Baller</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Council for National Policy</span></font></td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Scott Magill</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Veterans in Defense of Liberty</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">All organizations listed for IDENTIFICATION purposes only.</font></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>=</b></font></font></p></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>amac ~ impeach:</b></font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><b>It’s time to bring the proceedings to a close</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservatives emphatically urge the Senate to reject additional witness testimony in the impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump. It is time for the Senate to bring the proceedings to a close with a vote to acquit the president and return to the business of the American people.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As part of their impeachment inquiry, House Democrats issued over 40 subpoenas for witnesses. They presented their case as “overwhelming,” “compelling,” and “airtight.” It is nonsensical that they now want to re-open the investigation they have already credited themselves with closing.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regarding former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, House Democrats had every opportunity to pursue a subpoena from Mr. Bolton after the House passed an impeachment resolution but declined. Moreover, House Democrats could have ultimately pursued subpoena enforcement in court. Once again, they did not.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is a bizarre demand from Democrats that Senate Republicans now do the work that House Democrats failed to do. It also has the effect of dragging this impeachment process, already constitutionally deficient, months into the future.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is high time for this sham impeachment to be put to rest. It is imperative that the Senate reject further witness testimony and move to acquit President Trump.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Attorney General</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alfred S. Regnery</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman, Conservative Action Project</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William L. Walton</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Council for National Policy<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>David Bozell</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ForAmerica</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Jenny Beth Martin</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thomas Fitton</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judicial Watch, Inc.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Honorable Jim DeMint</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ed Corrigan</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive Director, Conservative Partnership Institute</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rachel Bovard</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senior Director of Policy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable Tony Perkins</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Family Research Council</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Honorable Bob McEwen</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. House of Representatives</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Member, Ohio<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom McClusky</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">March for Life Action</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Myron Ebell</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Director, Center for Energy and Environment</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Competitive Enterprise Institute<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Adam Brandon</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FreedomWorks</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mary Vought</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Executive Director</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Senate Conservatives Fund</b><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable David McIntosh</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Club for Growth</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scott T. Parkinson</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive Director</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republican Study Committee (2016-2018)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Constitutional Congress, Inc.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Noah Wall</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vice President of Advocacy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FreedomWorks<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chief Domestic Advisor</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive Vice President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Family Research Council<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Marjorie Dannenfelser</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Susan B. Anthony List</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partner</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Foley & Lardner LLP<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President and CEO, First Liberty Institute</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Honorable Matt Schlapp</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Conservative Union (ACU)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">White House Advisor</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lisa B. Nelson<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Leadership Institute</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Honorable Donald Paul Hodel</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Secretary of Energy (1982-1985)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Secretary of Interior (1985-1989)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>David N. Bossie</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citizens United</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">L. Brent Bozell, III</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Founder and President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Research Center<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mat Staver</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Founder and Chairman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liberty Counsel</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Honorable James C. Miller III</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Budget Director for President Reagan<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Honorable Scott Walker</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President-elect</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Young America’s Foundation</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steve Berger</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pastor</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Grace Chapel<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Caroline Wetherington</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>President</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Women for Trump Florida</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charlie Copeland</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Intercollegiate Studies Institute<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Floyd Brown</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America Fighting Back PAC</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. John C. 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Haney</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Customs & Border Protection Officer (CBPO – Ret)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dept. of Homeland Security (Founding Member)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Terry Schilling</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive Director</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Principles Project</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barry Meguiar</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ignite America<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tim Wildmon</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Family Association</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If You Enjoy Articles Like This - Subscribe to the AMAC Daily Newsletter!</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MRC desmog</font></div><div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 23, 2020</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported at <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">DeSmog,18&nbsp;<b>Life:Powered</b>&nbsp;sent a letter to Congress critical of the COVID-19 stimulus package for including “tax incentives and spending for unreliable ‘green’ energy programs</span>.”19</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The letter, to which the Media Research Center is a signatory, concludes:</b>20</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“This is no time for political games. Climate change is not an immediate threat to humanity.</span> Climate-related deaths have declined 98.9% in the last century, and humanity is growing more and more resilient thanks to the availability of affordable, reliable energy. On behalf of all Americans, we urge you to oppose any stimulus proposals that carve out special treatment for or bail out any energy companies and focus instead on stopping COVID-19.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The full list of signatories is below:21</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Name<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Organization</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Isaac<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Senior Manager & Distinguished Fellow<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>Life:Powered/Texas Public Policy Foundation</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Director, Center for Energy and Environment<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bette Grande<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CEO<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Roughrider Policy Center</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ellen Weaver<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President & CEO<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palmetto Promise Institute</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Isaac Orr<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Policy Fellow<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Center of the American Experiment</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bethany Marcum<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Executive Director<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alaska Policy Forum</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David T. Stevenson<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Director, Center for Energy and Environment<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Caesar <b>Rodney Institute</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald van der Vaart<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Senior Fellow<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Locke Foundation</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Hayes<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Director of Environmental Policy<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Droz, Jr.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Founder<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George K. Rasley, Jr.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Managing Editor<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ConservativeHQ.com</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becky Norton Dunlop<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Former Secretary of Natural Resources<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Commonwealth of Virginia</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James L. Martin<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Founder/Chairman<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>60 Plus Association</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saulius “Saul” Anuzis<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>60 Plus </b>Association</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Blackwell<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Senior Fellow<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Family Research Council</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eunie Smith<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eagle Forum</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenny Beth Martin<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Honorary Chairman<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tea Party Patriots Action</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Caldara<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Independence Institute</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L. Brent Bozell, III<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Founder and President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Media Research Center</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jason Pye<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vice President of Legislative Affairs<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FreedomWork</b>s</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jameson Taylor<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vice President for Policy<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carol Platt Liebau<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yankee Institute</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Stenhouse<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CEO<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel Erspamer<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CEO<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pelican Institute for Public Policy</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian N. Braunlich<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Todd Myers<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Environmental Director<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Washington Policy Center</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 23, 2018</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Media Research Center, represented by Saulius “Saul” Anuzius, was among 22 groups signed on to an open letter asking President Trump to ignore recent criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt</b>.22</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a speech to the U.S. Senate, a group of Democratic senators identified the organizations as front groups for the Koch Brothers and other wealthy donors, nicknamed the “Web of Deceit.” The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable “dark money” funneled through groups like Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and pollution.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Whitehouse outlined it as “a web of deceit conceived and bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other self-interested billionaires to advocate for very selfish and unpatriotic policies.” Whitehouse added: “This web of deceit has infiltrated and populated the Trump administration, and it is swamping the interests of everyday Americans.23</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The full list of pro-Pruitt signatories and their respective organizations is as follows:</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saulius “Saul” Anuzius – 60 Plus Association</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fred Birnbaum – Idaho Freedom Foundation</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L. Brent Bozell&nbsp; III – Media Research Center</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amy Oliver Cooke – Independence Institute</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wesley Denton – Conservative Partnership Institute</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Viv Forbes – The Carbon Sense Coalition</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank J Gaffney – Center for Security Policy</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Goreham – Climate Science Coalition of America</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen – American Commitment</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Langer – Institute for Liberty</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa B. Nelson – American Legislative Exchange Council&nbsp;</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Manning – Americans for Limited Government</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenny Beth Martin – Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Perry Pendley – Mountain States Legal Foundation</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Pyle – American Energy Alliance</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Rasley – ConservativeHQ.com</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sandy Rios – American Family Association</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Richardson – Energy & Environment Legal Institute</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Rucker – Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow <b>(CFACT)&nbsp;</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr Jameson Taylor – Missisippi Center for Public Policy</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kyle Wingfield – Georgia Public Policy Foundation</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 28, 2015</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The MRC Business reported that James Hansen’s recent study about rising sea levels had “zero credibility,” citing an unnamed geologist as their source.24</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">MRC Busines salso quotes Climate Depot‘s Marc Morano as saying</span>&nbsp;“The world needs to take a collective yawn at Hansen’s latest claims and ask how in the world was this man ever allowed to be in charge of the NASA temperature datasets.”25</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">thos pyle <b>aea</b> open letter stinktanks:</font></p><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 23,&nbsp;2018</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">AEA</span>, represented by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Thomas Pyle</a>, was among&nbsp;<b>22 groups signed on to an</b>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.heartland.org/template-assets/documents/Pruitt%20Coalition%20Letter.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">open letter</a>&nbsp;asking&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">President Trump</a>&nbsp;to ignore recent criticism of&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>&nbsp;Administrator&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Scott Pruitt</a>.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/#s65" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[65]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180502020041/https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/time-to-wake-up-web-of-deceit" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">speech</a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">U.S.</span>&nbsp;Senate, a group of Democratic senators identified the organizations as front groups for the Koch Brothers and other wealthy donors, nicknamed the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Web of Deceit.”</span>&nbsp;The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable “dark money” funneled through groups like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donors-capital-fund" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/who-donors-trust" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Donors Trust</a>&nbsp;to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and&nbsp;pollution.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Senator Whitehouse outlined it as “a web of deceit</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conceived and bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other self-interested billionaires to advocate for very selfish and unpatriotic policies.” Whitehouse added: “This web of deceit has infiltrated and populated the Trump administration, and it is swamping the interests of everyday Americans.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea/#s66" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">[66]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The full list of pro-Pruitt signatories and their respective organizations is as&nbsp;follows:</b></font></p><ul style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saulius “Saul” Anuzius –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/60-plus-association" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">60 Plus&nbsp;Association</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fred Birnbaum –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Idaho_Freedom_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Idaho Freedom&nbsp;Foundation</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L. Brent&nbsp;<b>Bozell &nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">III</span>&nbsp;</b>–&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/media-research-center" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Media Research&nbsp;Center</a></font></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Amy Oliver Cooke –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independence_Institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Independence&nbsp;Institute</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wesley Denton – Conservative Partnership&nbsp;Institute</font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.desmog.com/viv-forbes" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Viv Forbes</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/carbon-sense-coalition" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">The Carbon Sense&nbsp;Coalition</a></b></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank J&nbsp;<b>Gaffney</b>&nbsp;– Center for Security&nbsp;Policy</font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/steve-goreham" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Steve Goreham</a>&nbsp;–<b>&nbsp;Climate Science Coalition of&nbsp;America</b></font></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Phil Kerpen –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Commitment" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">American&nbsp;Commitment</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Langer –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Liberty" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Institute for&nbsp;Liberty</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa B.&nbsp;<b>Nelson –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">American Legislative Exchange&nbsp;Council&nbsp;</a></b></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Manning –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Limited_Government" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Americans for Limited&nbsp;Government</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jenny Beth Martin – Tea Party Patriots Citizens&nbsp;Fund</b></font></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">William Perry Pendley –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mountain_States_Legal_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Mountain States Legal&nbsp;Foundation</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/thomas-pyle" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Thoma<b>s Pyle</b></a><b>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">American Energy&nbsp;Alliance</a></b></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Rasley –&nbsp;ConservativeHQ.com</font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sandy Rios –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Family_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">American Family&nbsp;Association</a></b></font></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Craig Richardson –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/energy-environment-legal-institute" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: none;">Energy&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&</span>&nbsp;Environment Legal&nbsp;Institute</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/craig-rucker" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Craig Rucker</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (<b><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CFACT</span>)&nbsp;</b></a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr Jameson Taylor –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mississippi_Center_for_Public_Policy" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Missisippi Center for Public&nbsp;Policy</a></font></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kyle Wingfield –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Georgia_Public_Policy_Foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none;">Georgia Public Policy&nbsp;Foundation</a></font></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS] hydroxy dr summit ltr is a kind of pseudo-event?< March 23, 2020 https://www.desmog.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-fossil-fuel-lobbying-trump-influencemap" reported DeSmog, Life:Powered sent a&nbsp; critical of the COVID-19 stimulus package for including “tax incentives and spending for unreliable ‘green’ energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">programs.” [29], [30]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter concludes:&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is no time for political games. Climate change is not an immediate threat to humanity. Climate-related deaths have declined 98.9% in the last century, and humanity is growing more and more resilient thanks to the availability of affordable, reliable energy. On behalf of all Americans, we urge you to oppose any stimulus proposals that carve out special treatment for or bail out any energy companies and focus instead on stopping COVID-19.”&nbsp; [30]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Isaac Senior Manager & Distinguished Fellow Life:Powered/Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bette Grande CEO Roughrider Policy Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ellen Weaver President & CEO Palmetto Promise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Isaac Orr Policy Fellow Center of the American Experiment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bethany Marcum Executive Director Alaska Policy Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David T. Stevenson Director, Center for Energy and Environment Caesar Rodney Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald van der Vaart Senior Fellow John Locke Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Hayes Director of Environmental Policy Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Droz, Jr. Founder Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George K. Rasley, Jr. Managing Editor ConservativeHQ.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becky Norton Dunlop Former Secretary of Natural Resources Commonwealth of Virginia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James L. Martin Founder/Chairman 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saulius “Saul” Anuzis President 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Blackwell Senior Fellow Family Research Council</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eunie Smith President Eagle Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenny Beth Martin Honorary Chairman Tea Party Patriots Action</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Caldara President Independence Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L. Brent Bozell, III Founder and President Media Research Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Pye Vice President of Legislative Affairs FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jameson Taylor Vice President for Policy Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carol Platt Liebau President Yankee Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Stenhouse CEO Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel Erspamer CEO Pelican Institute for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian N. Braunlich President Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Todd Myers Environmental Director Washington Policy Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dear Chairman Neal, Ranking Member Brady, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Members of the Ways and Means Committee:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As your committee begins marking up the $3.5 trillion</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reckless tax-and spend reconciliation proposal, we write</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in opposition to any effort to raise taxes on American</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">families and businesses.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is expected that the reconciliation legislation will include</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">countless tax increases totaling trillions of dollars. Some of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the tax increases that have been publicly floated include:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Raising the corporate tax rate to 25 percent or 28</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">percent, a rate higher than Communist China</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Doubling the capital gains tax to 43.4 percent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Raising the top rate to 39.6 percent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Creating a second death tax by eliminating step-upin basis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• 95 percent excise tax on pharmaceutical</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">manufacturers if they fail to accept government set</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">price controls</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Repealing the deduction for foreign-derived</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">intangible income</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Raising taxes on carried interest capital gains</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Raising the tax rate on GILTI to a top rate of 26.25</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">percent and requiring it to be calculated on a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">country-by-country basis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Imposing a 15 percent minimum tax on book</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">income</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Retroactively capping the conservation easement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">deduction</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Repealing numerous oil and gas tax provisions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">including the deduction for intangible drilling costs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(IDCs)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• A tax on American energy manufacturers based on</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">their methane production</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• A carbon border tax</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Capping Section 1031 like-kind exchanges</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supporters of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, like selfavowed socialist Bernie Sanders claim that the tax ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">increases will be paid by billionaires “who don't pay a nickel in federal income taxes … (and) large corporations that make billions in profit, and in some years do not pay a penny in federal income taxes.” This claim is false. Millions of small businesses will see higher taxes through the increase in the corporate tax and the top marginal income tax rate. In addition, the plan to repeal step-up in basis will raise taxes on family-owned businesses across the country. Democrats have also floated retroactive tax increases on the American people. For instance, the Biden budget calls for retroactively increasing the capital gains tax. This is a terrible idea – retroactive tax policy changes the rules on taxpayers after the fact. It is fundamentally unfair and erodes confidence in the tax system. Many of the tax hikes being pushed by the administration violate President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on any American earning less than $400,000 per year. A recent analysis by the left-of-center Tax Policy Center found that the tax hikes proposed in President Biden’s budget will raise taxes on 74.1 percent of middle income-quintile households in 2022. In addition, a report by the Joint Committee on Taxation found that over the long-term, approximately $100 billion of the corporate tax increase would be borne by taxpayers making less than $100,000. Now is one of the worst times to raise taxes on American families and businesses. We are still over five million jobs short of pre-pandemic levels. In addition, inflation is running rampant and increasing prices for families and businesses across the country. Rather than pushing tax increases on American families and businesses, we urge you to push policies that promote economic growth so that the economy can recover and grow.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sincerely, Grover Norquist President, Americans for Tax Reform</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Ellis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, Center for a Free Economy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David McIntosh</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, The Club for Growth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brandon Arnold</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brent Wm. Gardner</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief Government Affairs Officer, Americans for Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Garrett Bess</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vice President, Heritage Action for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adam Brandon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Moore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Economic Contributor, FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Governor Scott Walker, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Young America’s Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Schatz</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Angela Logomasini</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marlo Lewis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Fellow, Energy & Environmental Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Director, Center for Energy and Environment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Williams</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa B Nelson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CEO, ALEC Action</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel Schneider</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Director, American Conservative Union</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saulius “Saul” Anuzis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Martin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founder/Chairman, 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marty Connors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Co-Chairman, Alabama Center-Right Coalition Meeting</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Sears</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founder, Alliance Defending Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Carlstrom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, AMAC Action</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly Kullberg</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Floyd Brown</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Statistical Assessment Service's Jon Entine (STATS Senior fellow and Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project) is a signatory to Center for Industrial Progress' letter titled, “Don’t Divest, Educate—An Open Letter to American Universities.” [22]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the letter, Alex Epstein and several other notable climate change deniers, including Peter Ferrara, J. Scott Armstrong, Steve Goreham, S. Fred Singer, David Schnare, Richard Lindzen, and Matt Ridley, proclaim that they are “proud to stand in favor of fossil fuels.” [22]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “undersigned scientists, philosophers, energy experts, and economists” of the letter ask for a “more rigorous education on energy and environmental issues,” and “are willing to debate anytime, anywhere to defend what [they] believe is right.” [22]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 1, 2016 Kent Lassman President Competitive Enterprise Institute 1899 L Street, NW 12th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 Dear Kent, On behalf of the undersigned groups, and the millions of Americans we represent, we write to you today to show our support for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Last month, CEI received a subpoena from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General (AG) Claude Walker. AG Walker is part of a group called “AG’s United for Clean Power.” The group is made up of 15 state AGs and the AG of the District of Columbia. The subpoena tried to force CEI to hand over all communications between 1997 and 2007 on climate change. AG Walker eventually withdrew his subpoena, but this type of heavy-handed tactic is an affront to free speech. Throughout the years, CEI has been a leader in many issues, including having the courage to stand up to its adversaries and take on those that want to impose new onerous regulations on businesses and consumers.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, in 2012 CEI sued the EPA when they challenged EPA’s “refusal to disclose information discussing the creation and use of ‘secondary’ email accounts created for top level officials by EPA’s Office of Electronic Information.” CEI also sought emails from former Administrator Lisa Jackson's account. CEI should be applauded for seeking this transparency. This subpoena was an all-out assault on free speech. Forcing CEI to hand over private information to government officials is an affront to the First Amendment rights of all Americans. This is also a clear violation of NAACP v. Alabama in which the Supreme Court asserted that the State couldn’t compel the disclosure of the NAACP’s membership list. Disclosing membership lists could lead to government intimidation and weaken the guaranteed First Amendment rights and freedoms for all Americans. We are also concerned that confidential e-mail exchanges between CEI and other groups would be subject to discovery by the AGs. Free market and taxpayer groups have been under assault by government officials including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This is just another example of how the government is engaging in selective targeting based on a political agenda that is meant to intimidate others from participating and engaging in any debate that may run contrast to the position of the current administration. Even though the subpoena was withdrawn, this is dangerous precedent and the ramifications moving forward should concern organizations from all sides of the political and philosophical spectrum.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sincerely, David Williams, President Taxpayers Protection Alliance Matthew Kandrach, Executive Vice President 60 Plus Association Dan Greenberg, President Advance Arkansas Institute Phil Kerpen, President American Commitment Dan Schneider, Executive Director American Conservative Union Lisa B. Nelson, CEO American Legislative Exchange Council Brent Wm. Gardner, Vice President of Government Affairs Americans for Prosperity Grover Norquist, President Americans for Tax Reform Justin Owen, President & CEO Beacon Center of Tennessee&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Bucher, CEO California Policy Center Garrett Ballengee, Executive Director Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy John Hinderaker, President Center of the American Experiment Norm Singleton, President Campaign for Liberty Andrew F. Quinlan, President Center for Freedom and Prosperity Jeffrey Mazzella, President Center for Individual Freedom Alvin Quiñones, President Center for Integrity and Public Policy Tom Schatz, President Citizens Against Government Waste Col Francis X. De Luca USMCR (Ret.), President Civitas Institute&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Roper, President Ethan Allen Institute Tarren Bragdon, CEO Foundation for Government Accountability Tom McCabe, CEO Freedom Foundation Annette Meeks, CEO Freedom Foundation of Minnesota Adam Brandon, CEO and President FreedomWorks George Landrith, President Frontiers of Freedom Randy Hicks, Chief Executive Officer & President Georgia Center for Opportunity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Kelly McCutchen, President and CEO Georgia Public Policy Foundation Andresen Blom, Executive Director Grassroot Hawaii Action, Inc. Joseph Bast, President Heartland Institute Mario Lopez, President Hispanic Leadership Fund Sabrina Schaeffer, Executive Director Independent Women's Forum Heather Higgins, President & CEO Independent Women's Voice Andrew Langer, President Institute for Liberty Bob McClure, President and CEO The James Madison Institute Brett Healy, President The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy Kory Swanson, President & CEO John Locke Foundation Seton Motley, President Less Government Trent England, Vice President Liberty Foundation of America Forest Thigpen, President Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Brent Mead, CEO Montana Policy Institute Brandon Arnold, Vice President National Taxpayers Union Sharon J. Rossie, President Nevada Policy Research Institute Jonathan Small, President Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Kevin P. Kane, President Pelican Institute for Public Policy Andrew Moylan, Executive Director and Senior Fellow R Street Institute Mike Stenhouse, CEO Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity Paul J. Gessing, President Rio Grande Foundation Berin Szoka, President TechFreedom Rick Esenberg, President and General Counsel Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Milloy was a signatory to a full page color advertisement in The New York Times titled “Abuse of Power” (PDF) sponsored by The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The ad serves as an open letter from 43 signatories including organizations and individuals in response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and the coalition of Attorneys General investigating groups denying man-made climate change. [38], [39]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Attempts to intimidate CEI and our allies and silence our policy research are unconstitutional,” said CEI president Kent Lassman. “The First Amendment protects us and everyone has a duty to respect it – even state attorneys general. CEI will continue to fight for all Americans to support the causes in which they believe.” [38]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Competitive Enterprise Institute received a subpoena from AG Walker on April 7, 2016. On April 20, CEI filed an objection to the subpoena calling it “offensive,” “un-American,” and “unlawful,” and are contending that AG Walker is “violating CEI’s First Amendment rights.” [38]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “freedom of speech” argument was echoed by ExxonMobil's legal team, as well as numerous other conservative groups including the Pacific Legal Foundation, and Heritage Foundation and the recently-formed Free Speech in Science Project, a group created by the same lawyers who defended the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the past. [40]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CEI letter lists the following signatories:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kent Lassman — President & CEO, Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C. Boyden Gray — Former White House Counsel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew C. McCarthy — Former Chief Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael B. Mukasey — U.S. Attorney General, 2007-2009; U.S. District Judge, 1988-2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ross McKitrick — Professor of Economics, University of Guelph</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ronald D. Rotunda — Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard S. Lindzen — Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Happer — Emeritus Professor of Physics, Princeton University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim DeMint — President, The Heritage Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James H. Amos, Jr. — President & CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John A. Baden — Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa B. Nelson — CEO, American Legislative Exchange Council</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Driessen — Author & Energy Policy Analyst</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas J. Pyle — President, Institute for Energy Research</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven J. Allen — Vice President & Chief Investigative Officer, Capital Research Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Ridenour — President, National Center for Public Policy Research</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven J. Milloy — Publisher, JunkScience.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooke Rollins — President & CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Gessing — President, Rio Grande Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold — Researcher & Author</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Perry Pendley — President, Mountain States Legal Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adam Brandon — President & CEO, FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hank Campbell — President, American Council on Science and Health</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Rucker — Executive Director, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom McCabe — CEO, Freedom Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard B. Belzer — Economist</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather R. Higgins — President & CEO, Independent Women's Voice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph G. Lehman — President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sabrina Schaeffer — Executive Director, Independent Women's Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph Bast — President, The Heartland Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John C. Eastman — Founding Director, The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Alt — President & CEO, The Buckeye Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Pack — President & CEO, The Claremont Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Josh Blackman — Assistant Professor, South Texas College of Law</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lynn Taylor — President, Tertium Quids</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Rothbard — President, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tracie Sharp — President & CEO, State Policy Network</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kenneth Haapala — President, Science and Environmental Policy Project</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Phillips — President, Americans for Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell — Director of the Center for Energy & Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Landrith — President, Frontiers of Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Tillman — CEO, Illinois Policy Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig D. Idso — Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 1, 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Open letter from 500 academics likens fossil-energy funding of climate solutions to tobacco industry disinformation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, speaks to media before a Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, said fossil-fuel funding ‘has been used to compromise leading academic institutions’. Photo]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Universities must stop accepting funding from fossil fuel companies to conduct climate research, even if the research is aimed at developing green and low-carbon technology, an influential group of distinguished academics has said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, the Nasa data scientist Peter Kalmus, and prominent US climate scientist Michael Mann are among close to 500 academics from the US and the UK who have written an open letter addressed to all university leaders in the two countries, calling on them to reject all funding from fossil fuel companies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accepting money from fossil fuel companies represented “an inherent conflict of interest” and could “taint” essential research and “compromise” academic freedom, they wrote. For the companies, it was a chance to “greenwash” their reputations and skew the findings of research in a way favourable to them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter draws a comparison to the tobacco industry and its disinformation campaigns, noting that numerous public heath and research institutions reject tobacco funding for these reasons and calling on fossil fuel cash to be treated similarly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Universities and the research they produce are vital to delivering a rapid, just transition away from fossil fuels. However, such efforts are undermined by fossil fuel industry funding. Academics should not be forced to choose between researching climate solutions and inadvertently aiding corporate greenwashing,” the signatories wrote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian: “This sort of funding has been used to compromise leading academic institutions. It’s a two-for for polluters: they purchase the imprimatur of these institutions and their presumed authority and objectivity, while funding research that often translates into advocacy for false solutions and ‘kick the can down the road’ prescriptions like massive carbon capture, which is unproven at scale, and geoengineering, which is downright dangerous. That is entirely the wrong path forward.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Genevieve Guenther, founder and director of the End Climate Silence campaign, and an affiliate at the New School university in New York, said: “Funding research enables oil and gas companies to ground their promotional statements in enough truth to give substance to the green shadows in which they hide their most polluting and deadly activities. We must remove fossil-energy interests from our institutions so that our children can have a chance at a liveable future.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Universities have been under pressure from their students and some academics for several years to divest their investments, such as pension funds and endowments, away from fossil fuels, and many have done so. However, this is the first major call from senior academics for them to go further and cut all research ties with fossil fuel companies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no clear estimate for how much money universities accept from fossil fuel companies, as most do not publish their sources. An investigation for the Observer last year found UK universities alone had taken at least £89m from oil companies in the previous four years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some scientists disagree with the letter. James Hansen, former chief scientist at Nasa and one of the first scientists to warn governments of the impending climate crisis, told the Guardian: “It’s the wrong focus, causing young people to waste their energy on unproductive activities, while they actually have the potential to lead a solution.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said it was reasonable for universities to accept funding from fossil fuel companies if those businesses showed genuine commitment to transforming themselves. “Fossil fuel companies that are genuinely committed to the transition [to a low-carbon economy], including net zero emissions, can and should receive help from university researchers, particularly with the development of technologies for carbon capture and storage, renewables and emissions reductions. However, universities should be careful about accepting funding directly or indirectly from oil, gas and coal companies that are not genuinely committed to the clean energy transition and which are attempting to greenwash their reputations.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesperson for Imperial College London, which the Observer found last year had accepted £54m from oil companies since 2017, said: “Decarbonisation is our top priority when working with energy companies. This goal requires a radical shift in industrial systems, technologies and business models in the energy sector. We are using our influence and expertise to accelerate this transition and actively engage with energy companies to push them to meet the Paris Agreement targets. We will monitor progress and only continue to work with companies who demonstrate commitment and credible action to achieving these targets.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some academics argue that fossil fuel funding is needed to develop the technologies necessary for a low-carbon economy, and that if western universities reject such funding it will be accepted in other countries around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Guenther disagreed: “It’s a myth that fossil-energy companies are spending large sums to aid the green transition. According to the IEA’s 2021 World Energy Investment report, a mere 1% of fossil-energy companies’ capital expenditure is devoted to research, development or deployment of technologies that either abate or do not produce greenhouse gas emissions.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the end of this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will publish the third part of its comprehensive review of climate science, examining the potential ways of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. This will include technology such as renewable energy and nuclear power, and novel ideas such as sucking carbon dioxide out of the air.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report will throw the spotlight on the potential technological solutions to the climate crisis, which will require tens or hundreds of billions of pounds in funding to be brought to market and deployed widely around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist who is signatory to the letter, said the funding should come from governments. “The US and UK are among the richest countries on Earth, and their governments enjoy total monetary sovereignty. They have the capacity to finance the necessary research many times over, at the touch of a button. Most of the major innovations and public projects that have changed history over the past century have relied on public funding for research,” said Hickel, who is professor of environmental science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a fellow of the LSE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter did not specify whether companies with interests in fossil fuels amid a broader portfolio should be included in the ban. Ilana Cohen, a Harvard student who led the organisation of the letter, said it was directed at the top 200 fossil fuel companies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cohen said the organisers had confined the call to US and UK universities for now as these are where many fossil fuel companies are concentrating their funding, but that it could be widened in future to a global effort.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), I am writing to transmit to you a letter signed by more than 60 climate and health experts in support of our February 2017 petition, and in support of a similar petition filed by the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, asking the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the 2009 Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2009, a number of the basic claims in that document have become increasingly questionable, and there are growing doubts about the computer models on which the finding was based. These seriously undercut the foundation for our government’s climate policies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Endangerment Finding is the basis for a host of incredibly burdensome and wide-ranging regulations, ranging from auto fuel economy standards to the Clean Power Plan. These threaten access to affordable energy, as well as millions of jobs, and countless lives around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The finding has been used by other federal agencies to greatly expand their own regulatory programs, while other nations and international groups have relied on it to justify their own restrictions on affordable energy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Endangerment Finding needs to be reexamined to ensure U.S. energy policy is based on sound science. We would appreciate the opportunity to further discuss these petitions with you.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thank you for your consideration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sam Kazman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute&nbsp; see singer1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bethany Marcum, Alaska Policy Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Nelson, ALEC Action</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen, American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David T. Stevenson, Caesar Rodney Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew F. Quinlan, Center for Freedom and Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Mazzella, Center for Individual Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David McIntosh, Club for Growth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caleb Rossiter, CO2 Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Moore, Committee to Unleash Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Kandrach, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Richardson, E&E Legal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mandy Gunasekara, Energy 45 Fund</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Annette Meeks, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Pye, FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Heulskamp, The Heartland Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Chapman, Heritage Action for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amy Oliver Cooke, Independence Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brett Healy, The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kory Swanson, John Locke Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seton Motley, Less Government</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry C. Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk Uhler, National Tax Limitation Committee</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wayne Winegarden, Pacific Research Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bette Grande, Roughrider Policy Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Tintera, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Roberts, Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coalition of thirty conservative free-market advocacy organizations — the majority of which have clear ties to Charles and David Koch through their funding or leadership — have sent a letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) urging that Congress halt any expansion of the electric vehicle tax credit, or scrap it entirely.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The groups do not mention in the letter that they benefit financially from the Koch brothers' petrochemical refining fortune, nor that electric vehicles pose the largest and most immediate threat to the oil and refining industries.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter arrived as an immediate response to a bill introduced last week that would extend the 2009 tax credit for another ten years. The Electric Cars Act of 2018, introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and others, would also lift the cap of 200,000 vehicles sold by each manufacturer that would qualify for the credit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, the proposed bill directly addresses one of the most common criticisms of the tax credit — that it is predominantly subsidizing purchases of high-income Americans. The bill would allow buyers to spread the tax credit out over a 5-year period, or apply the credit at the point of sale, which would effectively make the full $7,500 credit easier to access for low- and middle-income buyers without large tax liability.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who are the groups fighting the electric vehicle tax credit?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter was organized by the American Energy Alliance, the advocacy wing of the Institute for Energy Research, both of which are led by former Koch Industries lobbyist Tom Pyle. The AEA has been consistently vocal in its opposition to the electric vehicle tax credit, and in June released a deceptive push poll that relied on demonstrably false data and leading questions to allege that Americans don't support the tax credit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “Action” arm of the Koch-funded corporate bill mill the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was another notable signatory. Another is Americans for Prosperity, the massively influential network of state chapters that coordinate the Kochs' political advocacy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other groups that signed the letter to Congress include the following:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Consumer Institute (ACI) is best known for opposing net neutrality efforts while being funded by a major internet service provider (ISP) lobby, as journalist Lee Fang detailed for VICE. More recently, its President and CEO Steve Pociask has turned his attention to attacking electric vehicles, writing on Forbes that “the science on electric vehicles does not support continuing California’s waiver” to set its own vehicle emission standards.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less Government is an “organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault.” It was founded and is run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a Policy Adviser to the climate science-denying Heartland Institute. Though Motley and his Less Government org have their roots in telecom and media issues, he has in recent years engaged more on climate and energy, signing some anti-wind energy letters organized by the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and writing a bit on electric vehicles.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is part of the network of front groups funded by the Koch brothers and their donor network through the Center to Protect Patient Rights (now called American Encore), and Freedom Partners. As the Energy and Policy Institute has described, “TPA essentially exists as a shell for its advocacy, based on its own IRS form 990s: ‘The Taxpayers Protection Alliance has given control of the management duties and the daily activities of the organization to MLM Consulting, LLC (MLM). MLM will be responsible for managing the organization and work to support the exempt purposes of TPA. The President of TPA, David Williams, is the sole owner of MLM Consulting LLC.'” TPA has fought clean energy policy in the past using the website SolarSecrets.org and has published white papers arguing against solar energy tax credits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consumer Action for a Strong Economy is run by Matthew Kandrach, and has been linked to a number of coalition efforts stemming from the FreedomWorks organization, which was born of a merger between the Koch-founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) and Empower America.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Commitment is run by Phil Kerpen, a former Vice President of Americans for Prosperity. The organization was founded by Sean Noble, a right-wing operative with close ties to the Koch brothers who also runs the Center to Protect Patient Rights (American Encore), a major funnel for Koch donor network money to front groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FreedomWorks was, as mentioned above, born of a merger between the Koch-founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE)and Empower America, though it has no known Koch ties at present. The group was described in a 2012 article in Mother Jones as “one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the tea party.” It pushes free market policies and has questioned the well-established science linking human activity to a warming planet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a conservative advocacy group dedicated to “economic freedom” that has received funding from ExxonMobil, Texaco, and the family foundations of the Koch brothers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is an anti-tax group that has received funding from the oil and gas lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute, along with various groups in the Koch network such as the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation and the Center to Protect Patient Rights, as well as DonorsTrust.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frontiers of Freedom, run by George Landrith, has received significant funding from Exxon, the Koch brothers, and dark money organizations like DonorsTrust. In 2015, Landrith launched the Energy Equality Coalition to battle against the federal electric vehicle tax credit. The coalition also includes David Williams of the Taxpayer Protection Alliance and Horace Cooper, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. Landrith is also a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Freedom and Prosperity was once funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and has actively lobbied for more liberalized tax laws, and for less scrutiny towards offshore tax havens.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Familiar Attacks from Koch-funded Interests</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the free-market, conservative groups that signed the letter also signed an April letter to Scott Pruitt, then-administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, urging the agency to strip California of its right to set stricter greenhouse gas limits for personal vehicles.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The federal electric vehicle tax credit has been in the direct cross-hairs of some Koch-funded groups — including those who signed last week's letter — for at least two years. For instance, the Energy Equality Coaltion, which, as mentioned above, was launched in late 2015 as an offshoot of Frontiers of Freedom with the express purpose of fighting the tax credit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, eleven of the Energy Equality Coalition's 28 total tweets from its long-dormant Twitter account were posted in the three days following the release of the AEA's anti-tax credit letter, suggesting that the group might be ramping up efforts to fight against the $7,500 tax incentive.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The signers of the Open Letter recognize that some radical environmentalists and religious activists oppose Mr. Pruitt because he does not embrace their exaggerated fears of human-induced global warming—fears that go well beyond the empirical evidence crucial to genuine science—or their antipathy to the development of the abundant, reliable, affordable energy indispensable to lifting and keeping whole societies out of poverty and the disease and premature death that invariably accompany it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Signers therefore urge President-Elect Trump to stand firmly behind his nominee, as they commit themselves to supporting him in the confirmation process that lies ahead. Signers include:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. (Meteorology), former Director, National Hurricane Center (1974–1987), Chief Meteorologist, KHOU-TV Houston (1987–2008);</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Legates, Ph.D. (Climatology), Professor of Climatology and Geography, University of Delaware;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Emeritus, MIT;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Willie Soon, Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering), independent scientist, Cambridge, MA;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James A. Wanliss, Ph.D. (Physics), Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anthony Watts, American Meteorological Society-certified television and radio meteorologist (retired), owner of WattsUpwithThat.com, Chico, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Senate Democrats, at the beck and call of environmental activists, are determined to prevent Mr. Pruitt’s confirmation, painting him as a ‘science denier’ or a ‘climate-change denier’, said Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner. “He is neither. He’s a solid, common-sense attorney general who will bring much-needed reform to the EPA.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This bill presents an opportunity to strengthen free speech protections in light of recent cases of intimidation and mishandling of private information by the IRS. It would be a win for organizations across the political spectrum,” the letter claimed. [19]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“CEI Joins Coalition to Support the 'Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act',” Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 13, 2016. Archived July 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mDw4I</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">... organizations that represent the interests of millions of taxpayers across the country, we write in support of H.R. 5053, the “Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act,” sponsored by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.). This legislation would eliminate the Schedule B form for 501(c) organizations, which includes identifiable information of contributors to 501(c) organizations. This information is irrelevant to the routine handling of 501(c) organization tax filings and will help make tax compliance easier, as well as further curb the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to hinder free speech and civic participation among the public.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This bill presents an opportunity to strengthen free speech protections in light of recent cases of intimidation and mishandling of private information by the IRS. It would be a win for organizations across the political spectrum.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Free speech has been under assault in recent years and the IRS has been at the center of the controversy. In several well-documented cases, the agency leaked private and sensitive Schedule B information that should never have been made public. For example, the agency settled a lawsuit with the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) after an IRS official emailed NOM's Form 990, Schedule B to the Human Rights Campaign, which then published it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The revelations of leaked information, as well as evidence proving that the IRS selectively grouped organizations based on their names, policy positions, and perceived ideology to deny or delay requests for non-profit status, show that the fight for free speech is alive and very real.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawmakers must take every opportunity to keep the IRS in check, as the agency has been both derelict in its oversight and abusive with its power. H.R. 5053 will reduce the risks of continued abuse.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some officials at the IRS have even supported ending the Schedule B form requirement for some 501(c) classifications.&nbsp; For example, in December of 2015,it was reported that Tamara Ripperda, IRS Director of Exempt Organizations, discussed the potential for elimination of Schedule B:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The IRS is considering eliminating Schedule B of the Form 990, which asks for the names and addresses of an exempt organization’s contributors and for certain information about contributions received.&nbsp; Tax Analysts reported that, at a program sponsored by the Urban Institute, Tammy Ripperda (Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS) questioned whether the IRS should ask for the names and addresses of contributors, given that this information is not made public, and whether there is a need for the information from a federal tax law enforcement standpoint."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is clear that the Schedule B form requirement is not needed.&nbsp; Therefore, we urge all members of the House of Representatives to support H.R. 5053 and eliminate the Schedule B form requirement for 501(c) groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James L. Martin, Chairman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melissa Ortiz, Founder & Principal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Able Americans&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Greenberg, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advance Arkansas Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caleb Crosby, President and CEO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alabama Policy Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colby May, Director and Senior Counsel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Center for Law and Justice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Schneider, Executive Director</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Conservative Union</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George David Banks, Executive Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Council for Capitol Formation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Backer, Chairman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Dream Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gary L. Bauer President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Values</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark J. Fitzgibbons, President of Corporate Affairs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Target Advertising, Inc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ernest Istook, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Less Regulation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Manning, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Limited Government</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coley Jackson, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Competitive Enterprise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brent Wm. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Lindzen, an outspoken climate contrarian and retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, sent a letter last month to President Donald Trump urging him to pull the United States out of the United Nations' climate change regime because global climate action is "not scientifically justified."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After MIT's climate researchers and faculty found out, they wrote their own open letter to the president, setting the record straight.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As [Lindzen's] colleagues at MIT in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, all of whom are actively involved in understanding climate, we write to make it clear that this is not a view shared by us, or by the overwhelming majority of other scientists who have devoted their professional lives to careful study of climate science," said the March 2 letter, signed by 22 current and retired MIT professors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The MIT staff&nbsp; addressed specific inaccuracies in Lindzen's letter, including his assertion that "carbon dioxide is not a pollutant."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The risks to the Earth system associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide are almost universally agreed by climate scientists to be real ones," they wrote. "These include, but are not limited to, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and increases in extreme flooding and droughts, all with serious consequences for mankind."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lindzen responded to InsideClimate News with a one-page statement that echoed the contrarian points he made in his letter. He also criticized MIT's climate program.Lindzen has spent years downplaying the significance of man-made climate change through his published research, testimony in lawsuits and appearances before Congress. He has compared "global warming believers" to a "cult," and called the most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading climate science body, "a political document." He served as a meteorology professor from 1983 to 2013. He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Since MIT's administration has made the climate issue a major focus for the Institute with the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC) playing a central role, it is not surprising that the department would object to any de-emphasis of this issue," Lindzen wrote. "For far too long, one body of men, establishment climate scientists, has been permitted to be judges and parties on what the 'risks to the Earth system associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide' really are," he said, referencing something James Madison wrote in 1787.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A petition accompanying Lindzen's letter was signed by 300 other people. Lindzen described the signatories as "eminent scientists and other qualified individuals" in his letter. A review of the names by the Guardian, however, revealed few biology, chemistry, climate, earth and physics scientists. Many are well-known climate contrarians and deniers. They include Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Steve Goreham of the Heartland Institute, an industry backed organization that denies climate science; and William Briggs, a statistician at Cornell University who questions climate models.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In stark contrast to Lindzen's letter, ours was signed only by those who know something about the climate system," said Kerry Emanuel, an MIT professor of atmospheric sciences who signed the letter opposing Lindzen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The science advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientist also annotated the letter to point out its errors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The MIT letter noted that professional societies including the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union have all released statements affirming the scientific consensus on man-made climate change and its grave risks. A recent analysis found that 140 of the world's national academies and top scientific geosciences, biological, chemical, physical, agricultural and other organizations have issued statements about human-caused warming.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We owe it to future generations to remain engaged with the international community to seek the widest possible efforts to understand and mitigate [climate change] threats," the letter said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you read my articles regularly, you may have noticed multiple times I have stated that the scientific argument is over; there are no longer any reputable scientists that deny the overwhelming human influence in our climate. An open letter published last week by the anti-environmentalists proves my point.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you read the headlines, it might have seemed impressive: “300 Scientists Tell Trump to Leave UN Climate Agreement.” Wow, 300 scientists. That’s a lot right? Actually, it’s a pitiful list.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First of all, hardly anyone on the list was a climate scientist; many were not even natural scientists. It is almost as though anyone with a college degree (and there are about 21 million enrolled in higher education programs just in the USA) was qualified to sign that letter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Okay but what about the signers of the letter? Surely they are experts in the field? Not so much. It was very difficult to find the list of signers online however I was able to acquire it with some help. See for yourself - Google “300 scientists letter climate change” in the past week. You will see many stories in the press, but try finding the actual letter or the list of names. The version I obtained was dated February 23, 2017 which helps narrow your searching. In an era of Dr. Google, it is unbelievable that the letter itself was not made more available.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Okay but let’s get to the central issue. These 300 scientists must be pretty good at climate science, right? Well let’s just go through the list, alphabetically. Here is a sampling (text copied verbatim from the version of the letter I obtained).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A retired geologist and a public servant? I performed a google scholar search on “AI Adam” to find out what is picked up as any studies written by someone named “AI Adam.” Nothing. If you can find his book on Amazon, you will see his biography states he’s a retired geologist, got a degree from a university in the UK (discipline not specified), he worked in fossil fuel and mineral industries in Australia and other countries. Oh, and currently he has “wide interests”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEXANDER, Ralph B.: (Ph.D., Physics, University of Oxford); Former Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, author “Global Warming False Alarm” (2012)&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Surely it gets better right? I mean this signer was an Associate Professor? Again, not much there. I was able to find this part of a biography on DeSmogBlog:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ralph B. Alexander is a former Associate Professor of Physics at Wayne State University and former President and co-founder of Ion Surface Technology, a small high-tech materials company. He is currently the owner and president of R.B. Alexander & Associates Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in advanced materials and surface engineering.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whoa, what does FRACGP stand for? A quick online search revealed that FRACGP is likely Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. What is the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners you ask? Well if you have more patience than I do, let me know. This may be their website. Once again, no evidence whatsoever of any expertise in climate science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, someone in animal science may have studied climate change. Perhaps the effect (or lack of effect) of climate change on animals, right? Not likely. I performed an academic search using the name “J. Allison” and I found many papers in high-energy physics, certainly not the same person. So I added the word “Climate” to the search and found - you guessed it - nothing.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President of a company and an online writer - not very impresive climate credentials. You can read his posts at websites like this one. The only Google Scholar hit I found using the name “CR Anderson” and the keyword “climate” was School Climate for Transgender Youth: A Mixed Method Investigation of Student Experiences and School Responses. Interesting reading I assure you, but not quite what I was looking for. Probably a different “CR Anderson.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This last cosigner I will discuss is a professor at a business school in the United States. As I understand his expertise, it is in business forecasting. What does that have to do with climate forecasting? Not much. Perhaps there is some crossover though? I recall that JS Armstrong was an author on a polar bear forecasting paper a few years ago. How did that turn out? Not very well. It was strongly rebutted for being incorrect in this paper. The following quote from the abstract tells it all (AGS stands for Armstrong, Green and Soon (the authors of the faulty paper):</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I guess having a first and last name are sufficient to be included in this list of eminent scientists. Sadly, the list also includes William Happer, who is under consideration for the position of President Trump’s science advisor, and also a couple of fellows we know to be quite nutty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, how about the person who appeared to orchestrate this letter, Richard Lindzen? Well, he may be best known for taking contrarian views on climate change that are not substantiated by the research, and being wrong on all of them. In fact, he has put forward multiple studies that were shown to be incorrect or questionable by his colleagues in the field.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A summary that I coauthored of his work is available here with links to all of the relevant studies so people can read for themselves. In fact, one of his studies was rebutted by three separate papers within a year of publication. This is astonishing - most papers are never rebutted. In fact, I would venture that most scientists never have a paper rebutted in their entire career.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is the takeaway message? As I’ve said many times, the science is settled. Human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the Earth’s climate to change. It’s practically impossible to find a reputable climate scientist who disagrees, or a climate scientist who can support an alternative view. It is also very difficult to find a scientist who thinks that the warming isn’t a problem, or isn’t significantly caused by humans. But, this isn’t a lack of trying on their side.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the folks denying human influence on climate can only generate the type of signatures attached to this letter, it shows that while they are good at getting press, they are not good at climate science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-page letter was signed by a number of Republican heavyweights from coal/gas/oil-rich states, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Ted Cruz of Texas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Guardian calculated that the 22 senators received a total of $10,694,284 from oil, gas and coal money in just five years. (See the breakdown below.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that sum does not even come close to the amount of undisclosed funds coming from the deep pockets of Charles and David Koch's coal, oil and gas conglomerate, Koch Industries, and other outside groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Guardian explains:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Visible donations to Republicans from those industries exceeded donations to Democrats in the 2016 election cycle by a ratio of 15-to-1, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that does not include so-called dark money passed from oil interests such as Koch industries to general slush funds to re-elect Republicans such as the Senate leadership fund.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"At least $90m in untraceable money has been funneled to Republican candidates from oil, gas and coal interests in the past three election cycles, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, shared recently his views on Trump's climate walkout.In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance, Sachs referenced the senators' letter and specifically cast blame on the billionaire oil barons for pulling the strings of Republican party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who both supported exiting the Paris accord.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the victory paid and carried out for 20 years by two people, David and Charles Koch," Sachs said. "They have bought and purchased the top of the Republican party. Trump is a tool in this."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts explained why he thinks his Republican colleagues do not believe in the science of climate change.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This Conservative party in the United States is funded by the Koch brothers [and] it's funded by the coal industry," Markey said. "[They] insist that Scott Pruitt—the Attorney General of Oklahoma that actually sued the EPA 19 times on clean air, clean water, soot, mercury issues—becomes the head of the EPA in our country."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican signatories' funding from Big Oil, Gas and Coal in the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016):</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cornyn, Texas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Lee, Utah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $231,520 + Coal: $21,895 = $253,415</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Cruz, Texas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $2,465,910 + Coal: $103,900 = $2,569,810</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Perdue, Georgia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $184,250 + Coal: $0 = $184,250</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thom Tillis, North Carolina</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $263,400 + Coal: $0 = $263,400</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $490,076 + Coal: $58,200 = $548,276</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pat Roberts, Kansas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $388,950 + Coal: $28,825 = $417,775</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twenty-two GOP senators sent a letter Thursday urging Donald Trump to pull out of the Paris agreement. They argued remaining in the deal could "upend" the administration's ability "to fulfill its goal of rescinding the Clean Power Plan."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accounting for fewer than half of Senate Republicans, signers included coal-friendly politicians and prominent climate deniers, such as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and James Inhofe of Oklahoma.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overseas, French president-elect Emmanuel Macron urged Trump not to make a "rushed decision" on the agreement at a Thursday meeting. White House economic adviser Gary Cohn predicts "fairly robust" talks on the Paris agreement at this weekend's G7 leadership summit in Sicily, and European leaders at the summit have indicated they will pressure Trump to remain in the deal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's aides insist he remains in listening mode on climate change, and no decision will be made for a few weeks. The British, eternal optimists, at least sense he is moving on the issue. Results may have to wait for the G20 summit, to be attended by China in Hamburg in June."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Signers therefore urge President-Elect Trump to stand firmly behind his nominee, as they commit themselves to supporting him in the confirmation process that lies ahead. Signers include:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. (Meteorology), former Director, National Hurricane Center (1974–1987), Chief Meteorologist, KHOU-TV Houston (1987–2008);</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Legates, Ph.D. (Climatology), Professor of Climatology and Geography, University of Delaware;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Emeritus, MIT;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Willie Soon, Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering), independent scientist, Cambridge, MA;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and Lead Scientist, NASA Aqua AMSR-3 Satellite Remote Sensing Program;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James A. Wanliss, Ph.D. (Physics), Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anthony Watts, American Meteorological Society-certified television and radio meteorologist (retired), owner of WattsUpwithThat.com, Chico, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Senate Democrats, at the beck and call of environmental activists, are determined to prevent Mr. Pruitt’s confirmation, painting him as a ‘science denier’ or a ‘climate-change denier’, said Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner. “He is neither. He’s a solid, common-sense attorney general who will bring much-needed reform to the EPA.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We, the undersigned, write in enthusiastic support of your campaign commitments to withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs.&nbsp; We were heartened by the comments you made at your 100-day rally in Harrisburg and agree that the treaty is not in the interest of the American people and the U. S. should therefore not be a party to it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty is an integral part of your energy agenda.&nbsp; The Obama administration’s Nationally Determined Contribution (or NDC) to the Paris Climate Treaty commits the United States to take actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025.&nbsp; Paris then requires a more ambitious NDC every five years in perpetuity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The NDC cites specific policies undertaken by the Obama administration as part of the NDC.&nbsp; These include: the greenhouse gas emissions rules for existing (the “Clean Power” Plan) and new power plants; Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for vehicles; methane emissions rules for the oil and gas sector and for landfills; and energy efficiency and conservation standards for buildings and appliances.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental pressure groups and several state attorneys general have begun to prepare lawsuits in federal court to block withdrawal of the “Clean Power” Plan and other greenhouse gas rules.&nbsp; One argument that they have already put forward is that these rules cannot be withdrawn because they are part of our international commitment under the Paris Climate Treaty.&nbsp; Failing to withdraw from Paris thus exposes key parts of your deregulatory energy agenda to unnecessary legal risk.&nbsp; The AGs revealed in a recruiting letter that they also plan other lawsuits “ensuring that the promises made in Paris become reality.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some officials in your administration are relying on recent statements from former Obama administration officials that the U. S. can withdraw its NDC and submit a new NDC that makes far less ambitious commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp; The clear language of Article 4 of the Paris Climate Treaty contradicts that claim.&nbsp; Section 11 states: “A Party may at any time adjust its existing nationally determined contribution with a view to enhancing its level of ambition” (emphasis added).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even if the U. S. were to be cleared by UN officials to submit a less ambitious NDC, this is not the end of the threats posed by the Paris Climate Treaty to your pro-energy agenda and to the economic future of our country.&nbsp; Article 4 requires each party to submit a more ambitious NDC at least every five years in perpetuity.&nbsp; This commitment to reduce fossil fuel use every five years cannot be wished away by those who argue that the U. S. should keep a seat at the negotiating table in order to advocate for fossil fuels.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In urging you to keep your campaign commitment, we recognize that there are several options for you to withdraw the U.S. from Paris.&nbsp; Of the three options listed below, we think the first two are preferable to the third.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First, you could submit the Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate for its advice and consent with a recommendation that the treaty not be ratified.&nbsp; Submitting the treaty to the Senate would return us to and restore the proper constitutional method for treaty-making and require a future administration to go through proper procedures if it were to attempt to rejoin the treaty.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Second, you could withdraw from the underlying UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).&nbsp; This action would also achieve your commitment to “stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to UN global warming programs,” including the Green Climate Fund, which is a part of the UNFCCC.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Third, you could announce your intention to withdraw the U. S. from the Paris Climate Treaty according to the four-year schedule specified in the treaty and continue the process of repealing the regulations that the previous administration submitted as part of its NDC.&nbsp; This option is the least preferable because it runs the risk of legitimizing the Obama administration’s false claim that the treaty is merely an executive agreement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The undersigned organizations believe that withdrawing completely from Paris is a key part of your plan to protect U.S. energy producers and manufacturers from regulatory warfare not just for the next four years but also for decades to come.&nbsp; We will strongly support your decision to keep your campaign commitment to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell, Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas J. Pyle, President, American Energy Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph Bast, President, The Heartland Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chrissy Harbin, Vice President of External Affairs, Americans for Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Needham, CEO, Heritage Action for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Costigan, Senior Advisor, Strategic Outreach, The Heritage Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James L. Martin, Founder and Chairman, 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Rucker, Executive Director, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Ridenour, President, National Center for Public Policy Research</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Richardson, President, Energy and Environment Legal Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom DeWeese, President, American Policy Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Manning, President, Americans for Limited Government</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen, President, American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Williams, President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mario H. Lopez, President, Hispanic Leadership Fund</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Bozell, President, For America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven J. Allen, Vice President and Chief Investigative Officer, Capital Research Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kenneth Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig D. Idso, Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Happer, President, The CO2 Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Droz, Jr., Founder, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, Center for Individual Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peter J. Thomas, Chairman, Americans for Constitutional Liberty</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ed Martin, President, Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amy Oliver Cooke, Executive Vice President, Independence Institute (CO)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David T. Stevenson, Director, Center for Energy Competitiveness, Caesar Rodney Institute (DE)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Gessing, President, Rio Grande Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kory Swanson, President and CEO, John Locke Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Francis De Luca, President, Civitas Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forest Thigpen, President, Mississippi Center for Public Policy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eldon Alexander, President, Faith and Freedom Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lynne Roberts, President, Americans United for Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rich Johns, President, Liberty Tree Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aileen Milton, President, The Villages Tea Party</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debbie Gunnoe, President, Navarre Patriots</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sam Mullins, Co-Founder, Santa Rosa Tea Party Patriots</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Mike Hill, Founder, Northwest Florida Tea Party</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephani Scruggs Bowen, COO, Coalition for a Strong America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Moran, Director, Australian Environment Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eunie Smith, President, Eagle Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norm Singleton, President, Campaign for Liberty</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frontiers of Freedom was a signatory to a letter to House members urging them to support a bill that would kill the wind production tax credit (PTC). [33]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter claimed the proposed legislation “protects Americans from the large costs of an out-of-control subsidy.” Since the PTC was created, the letter asserted that, “taxpayers have sent billions of dollars to large multinational corporations in the wind industry.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill referenced in the letter, “The PTC Elimination Act,” was sponsored by Mike Pompeo of Wichita, Kansas—the top recipient of Koch funding in Congress. As of November 17, the bill had 53 co-sponsors, forty-six of which had received contributions from Koch Industries over the last five years, reports Elliot Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists. [34]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Signatories included:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thomas Pyle — American Energy Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Needham — Heritage Action for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brett Gardner — Americans for Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grover Norquist — Americans for Tax Reform</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adam Brandon — FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myron Ebell — Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen — American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Kendrach — 60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Landrith — Frontiers of Freedom</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Williams — Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sabrina Schaeffer — Independent Women’s Forum</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Higgins — Independent Women’s Voice</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judson Phillips — Tea Party Nation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colin Hanna — Let Freedom Ring</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Moylan — R Street</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marita Noon — Energy Makes America Great</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seton Motley — Less Government</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristin Fecteau — Campaign to Free America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horace Cooper — Project 21</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Brinkman — Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 25, 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frontiers of Freedom was one of a group of organizations to submit a group letter to chairman Michael Boots regarding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review.&nbsp; According to the letter, the NEPA review is “an inappropriate framework for making climate policy.” [18]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other organizations behind the letter include many which have received significant funding from the fossil fuel industry and right-wing foundations:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CO2 Science</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CFACT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Reform</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Institute for Energy Research</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E&E Legal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science and Environmental Policy Project</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SBE Council</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FreedomWorks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Commitment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heartland Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">60 Plus Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Centre for Public Policy Research</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">October, 2013</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frontiers of Freedom was behind a coalition letter urging Congress to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard. The letter was also signed by the Heartland Institute. [30]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We, collectively and individually, believe the only reform to this failed government mandate should be to repeal the RFS. Repealing this mandate would bring certainty to the fuel markets and eliminate the harmful impacts this government program has had on businesses and consumers,” the FoF letter reads. “[…] With the recent scandals at EPA showing its lack of transparency and its willingness to break the law to further its agenda, expanding the RFS would only give the EPA another avenue to exercise power over the lives of Americans and further harm the economy.” [31]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Charles A. Ager, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founder and Chairman, Nanominerals Corp</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Ralph B. Alexander, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Associate Professor, Physics, Wayne State University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Robert A. Ashworth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chemical Engineer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Charles R. Anderson, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President and Principal Scientist, Anderson Materials Evaluation, Inc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. J. Scott Armstrong, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor, Marketing, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. James R. Barrante, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor Emeritus, Physical Chemistry, Southern Connecticut State University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Charles Battig, M.D.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President, Piedmont Chapter, Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Denis Beller, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research Professor, Nuclear Engineering, University of Nevada Las Vegas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. David J. Benard, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Michael A. Berry, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Deputy Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment, USEPA (ret.) and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Charles A. Berst, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Emeritus Professor, English, University of California, Los Angeles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. William M. Briggs, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Statistical Consultant and Adjunct Professor of Statistical Science, Cornell University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Edward Calabrese, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Angelo J. Campanella, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Principal, Campanella Acoustics</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Alan Carlin, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Lawrence M. Cathles, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor, Geological Sciences, Cornell University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Charles R. Christensen, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research Physicist, Retired from Weapon Sciences Directorate, US Army Aviation and Missile</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Dustin Chambers, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Associate Professor, Economics, Salisbury University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Michael S. Coffman, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Roger Cohen, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fellow, American Physical Society</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. William F. Condon, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Emeritus Professor, Chemistry, Southern Connecticut State University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Louis Anthony Cox, Jr., PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief Sciences Officer, Next Health Technologies; Clinical Professor, Biostatistics and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Informatics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and President, Cox Associates</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. James Crosswell, MD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Tim Davis, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Ulrich Decher, PhD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adjunct Faculty, University of Hartford</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Arthur Desrosiers, ScD</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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