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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/palin-joins-with-trump-to-endorse-perdue-for-georgia-governor/ar-AAXr5f5">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/palin-joins-with-trump-to-endorse-perdue-for-georgia-governor/ar-AAXr5f5</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">actually WE?!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has joined with former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/every-kingmaker-has-limits-trump-backed-primary-candidates-could-lose-tuesday" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">President Donald Trump to endorse</a>&nbsp;former Sen. David Perdue in his Georgia gubernatorial campaign against Gov. Brian Kemp.</b></font></p><div class="article-image-slot" data-image-href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/palin-joins-with-trump-to-endorse-perdue-for-georgia-governor/ar-AAXr5f5?fullscreen=true#image=1" data-doc-id="cms/api/amp/image/AAXrfYB" data-rendered="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><msn-article-image style="background-color: var(--fill-color);"><div class="article-image-container" data-t="{"n":"OpenModal","t":13}" style="position: relative; margin: 20px 0px 36px; width: 768px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font><div class="image-caption-container" style="display: flex; line-height: 16px; padding: 8px 16px; background: rgb(242, 242, 242); margin-top: -8px; flex-flow: column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="image-attribution" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding-bottom: 4px; opacity: 0.65;"><b>Provided by Washington Examiner</b></span><span class="image-caption">Palin joins with Trump to endorse Perdue for Georgia governor</span></font></div></div></msn-article-image></div><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The 2008 vice presidential nominee, who is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/elise-stefanik-endorses-sarah-palin-for-alaska-house-seat" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">running for Alaska's open House seat</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">will campaign with Perdue in Savannah, Georgia, on Friday. Trump is also backing Palin in her race and is hoping to oust Kemp for, in Trump's view, not doing enough to investigate alleged&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/perdue-election-fraud-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge-as-conjecture-and-paranoia" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">voter fraud</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;during the 2020 presidential election.</span></font></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b style=""><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgias-david-perdue-set-to-be-biggest-trump-endorsement-face-plant-to-date" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GEORGIA'S DAVID PERDUE SET TO BE TRUMP'S BIGGEST ENDORSEMENT FACE-PLANT TO DATE</font></a></b></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"I believe David is the only candidate who can win the fight against [Stacey] Abrams</b>, and that's why I'm proud to endorse him," Palin said in a statement Wednesday. "David is an America First fighter with a proven record of results, and he will be an outstanding governor of Georgia."</font></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's backing of Perdue has revealed fissures in the Republican Party that stem from fraud claims in the 2020 election. A judge&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/perdue-election-fraud-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge-as-conjecture-and-paranoia" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">threw out</a>&nbsp;a lawsuit last week that Perdue filed, which claimed fraudulent ballots were counted in Fulton County. Former Vice President Mike Pence has thrown his weight behind incumbent Kemp and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pence-to-rally-with-georgia-gov-brian-kemp-in-rebuke-of-trump-pick-david-perdue" target="blank" data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" tabindex="0" hasenterkeydown="1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">will rally with him</a>&nbsp;before the primary next week.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/joe-biden/candidate?id=N00001669" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;signed executive actions last week prioritizing solutions to the “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/01/27/remarks-by-president-biden-before-signing-executive-actions-on-tackling-climate-change-creating-jobs-and-restoring-scientific-integrity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">existential threat</a>” of climate change,</b>&nbsp;drawing the ire of many key players in the politically powerful&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=e01&cycle=All" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">oil and gas industry</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Biden’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/27/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-executive-actions-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad-create-jobs-and-restore-scientific-integrity-across-federal-government/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">actions</a>&nbsp;pressed pause on the leasing of federal lands and waters for oil drilling,</span>&nbsp;<b>set a goal of keeping 30 percent of federal lands for conservation purposes and announced the electrification of the federal government’s fleet of vehicles.&nbsp;</b>The move comes a week after Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-public-health-and-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-climate-crisis/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">revoked the permits</a>&nbsp;for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline just hours after his inauguration, following through on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-keystone/biden-may-cancel-keystone-xl-pipeline-permit-as-soon-as-his-first-day-in-office-source-idUSKBN29N00A" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">campaign-trail promise</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Leading up to the 2020 election, the oil and gas industry&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2020&ind=e01" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">contributed</a>&nbsp;around $1.6 million more to former President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate?id=N00023864" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;than to Biden.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump painted himself as an&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-climate-26908b855045d5ce7342fd01be8bcc10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">ally to the industry</a>&nbsp;on the stump and throughout his presidency — though&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/trump-oil-gas-industry-432722" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">industry insiders told Politico</a>&nbsp;in 2020 that the Trump administration was “a mixed bag” and “more like ‘meh’” than the windfall they had hoped for in 2016.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The oil industry spent millions in 2020 to try to keep a GOP majority in the Senate.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/valero-energy/summary?id=D000022303" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Valero</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/chevron/summary?id=D000000015" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Chevron</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/conocophillips/summary?id=D000000303" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">ConocoPhillips</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/corporate-contributions" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">among the few corporations</a>&nbsp;that give to super PACs, gave at least $1 million each this election cycle to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00571703" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Senate Leadership Fund</a>, a conservative super PAC that spent $271 million to campaign against Democrats vying for the Senate.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pausing land and water leases ‘to the extent possible’</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Biden’s decision to halt future leases of federal land, pending a comprehensive review of the climate impact, caused an uproar among oil and gas companies and trade associations.</span>&nbsp;<b>Just hours after Biden formalized the order, the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/western-energy-alliance/summary?id=D000026603" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Western Energy Alliance</a>&nbsp;announced it would&nbsp;<a href="https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/pressreleases/bidens-leasing-ban-on-public-lands-challenged-by-western-energy-alliance-in-federal-court" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">sue the Biden administration</a>,&nbsp;</span>alleging the move violates existing law.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Most drilling occurs on private land, rather than federal property</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2017, approximately&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R42432" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">24 percent of oil and 13 percent of natural gas</a>&nbsp;extracted in the United States came from federal lands. According to analysis by the&nbsp;<a href="https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5131/sir20185131.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">U.S. Geological Survey</a>, around a quarter of U.S. emissions come from the combustion and extraction of resources from federal lands.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Oil and gas companies rushed to stockpile drilling permits during Trump’s lameduck period — doubling the number of permit requests over the same period in 2019, according to an&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-climate-wyoming-coronavirus-pandemic-a917f51126fa2641e0713573424b2b11" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">AP report</a>.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Under Biden’s order, oil and gas companies can continue to obtain new permits to drill on land that has already been leased.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/biden-halts-oil-and-gas-leasing-slew-new-climate-actions" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Experts say</a>&nbsp;the executive action likely won’t immediately impact rates of oil extraction in the U.S. As of 2019, there were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/docs/2021-01/Table1_NumberOfLeases_2019_4.xlsx" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">38,294 leases active</a>&nbsp;across the country, concentrated mostly in the American West. Once a lease has been issued, companies have 10 years to begin production on the land before the lease terminates.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The oil and gas industry’s leading trade association, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-petroleum-institute/summary?id=D000031493" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">American Petroleum Institute</a>, came out against the order.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;API President Mike Sommers criticized Biden’s suspension of federal agencies’ authority to issue leases of federal land to drilling companies in a Jan. 21&nbsp;<a href="https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2021/01/21/doi-natural-gas-and-oil-leasing-suspension" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">statement</a>.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Restricting development on federal lands and waters is nothing more than an ‘import more oil’ policy. Energy demand will continue to rise—especially as the economy recovers—and we can choose to produce that energy here in the United States or rely on foreign countries hostile to American interests,” Sommers said.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2020,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/american-petroleum-institute/C00483677/summary/2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">API’s PAC</a>&nbsp;spent $88,200 to support Republican candidates, giving $5,000 to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/great-america-pac/C00608489/summary/2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Great America PAC</a>, a T</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">rump</b><b>-aligned&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/learn/glossary.php#Carey+Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Carey committee</a>.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">API also dropped&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2020&id=D000031493" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">$5.3 million to employ 40 lobbyists</a>, reporting lobbying 66 individual bills. The institute’s lobbying spending fell during Trump’s administration after trending upward throughout former President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?id=N00009638" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Barack Obama</a>’s two terms in office.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another leading oil and gas industry association, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/independent-petroleum-assn-of-america/summary?id=D000022041" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Independent Petroleum Association of America</a>, has also come out in opposition to the action.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We think it was really misguided,” Senior Vice President for Government Relations Dan Naatz&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kait8.com/2021/01/29/exploring-economic-industrial-effects-keystone-xl-pipeline-reversal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">told an Arkansas TV news team</a>. “It impacts jobs and economies through the inner-Mountain West, all the way through the country.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2020, the organization’s PAC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/independent-petroleum-assn-of-america/recipients?id=D000022041" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">spent</a>&nbsp;$215,300 in campaign contributions, giving $10,000 each to Sens.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/steven-daines/summary?cid=N00033054" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Steve Daines</a>&nbsp;(R-Mont.),&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/thom-tillis/industries?cid=N00035492&cycle=2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Thom Tillis</a>&nbsp;(R-N.C.), and former Sens.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00030780" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Cory Gardner</a>&nbsp;(R-Colo.) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/martha-mcsally/summary?cid=N00033982" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Martha McSally</a>&nbsp;(R-Ariz.).&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Biden framed the executive action as a jobs package,&nbsp;</b><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/01/27/remarks-by-president-biden-before-signing-executive-actions-on-tackling-climate-change-creating-jobs-and-restoring-scientific-integrity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">remarking</a>, “today is climate day in the White House which means today is jobs day at the White House,” just before he signed the executive actions. Labor leaders say they are waiting to hear how exactly Biden will replace jobs lost in energy sectors.</span>&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s too glib and easy to say someone working in the mines can get a solar job. That is too simplistic,” Jason Walsh, executive director of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bluegreen-alliance/summary?id=D000060384" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">BlueGreen Alliance</a>, told the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/kerrys-claim-solar-wind-jobs-misses-mark" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Washington Examiner</a>. “There is a mismatch between where energy jobs are getting lost and where they are created. We have to close that gap, but we also have to be real and help economies diversify their economies in ways based on their own assets.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Oil corporations emphasize that gap.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Global Energy Institute</a>,&nbsp;</span>a subsidiary of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/us-chamber-of-commerce/summary?id=D000019798" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a>, came out against some of Biden’s climate actions, claiming it would lead to widespread unemployment</b>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Without the prospect of future leases, investment and planning will begin to dry up immediately, thwarting job creation and the economic growth at the worst possible time,” the Institute’s President&nbsp;<b>Marty Durbin</b>&nbsp;said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/us-chamber-welcomes-biden-focus-climate-solutions-opposes-federal-lands-and-waters-energy-ban" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">statement</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The Chamber of Commerce</b>&nbsp;perennially favors Republicans and<b>&nbsp;dropped&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=US%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce&cycle=2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">$5.7 million in outside spending</a>&nbsp;in 2020.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keystone canceled, frustrating some oil companies</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The Chamber of Commerce also condemned Biden’s action to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, a project widely&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">opposed</a>&nbsp;by environmental advocates, indigenous communities and scientists.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is a politically motivated decision that is not grounded in science. It will harm consumers and put thousands of Americans in the building trades out of work,” Durbin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/us-chamber-opposes-executive-action-halt-keystone-xl-pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">said</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Keystone XL pipeline was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">proposed</a>&nbsp;in 2008, vetoed by Obama in 2015 and promptly re-initiated by Trump in 2016 along with another controversial project, the Dakota Access Pipeline. Environmental and indigenous rights advocates are now&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/21/dakota-access-pipeline-joe-biden-indigenous-environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">calling on Biden</a>&nbsp;to cancel the latter pipeline, which abuts the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That pipeline is owned by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/C00438754/summary/2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Energy Transfer Partners</a>, an oil and gas conglomerate that gave more in campaign contributions than any other company in the industry. Ninety-nine percent of its donations went to Republican candidates and committees.&nbsp;<b>In 2020, the company’s co-founder and board chair, Kelcy Warren,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=kelcy+warren&order=desc&sort=A" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">donated</a>&nbsp;a whopping $10 million to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00637512&cycle=2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">America First Action</a>, a Trump-affiliated super PAC.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Biden’s climate actions are also drawing criticism from Republican lawmakers from oil-rich states who have benefited from industry contributions. Sens.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jerry-moran/summary?cid=N00005282" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Jerry Moran</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Kan.),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/steven-daines/summary?cid=N00033054" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Steve Daines</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Mont.),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-crapo/summary?cid=N00006267" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Mike Crapo</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Idaho),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/james-e-risch/summary?cid=N00029441" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Jim Risch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Idaho),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-a-barrasso/summary?cid=N00006236" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;"><b>John Barrasso</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>&nbsp;(R-Wyo.</b>),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/james-m-inhofe/summary?cid=N00005582" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Jim Inhofe</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Okla.),&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00037034" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Roger Marshall</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-Kan.) and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-hoeven/summary?cid=N00031688" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">John Hoeven</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(R-N.D.) announced Jan. 22 that they would</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;introduce legislation to overturn Biden’s executive action and re-issue permits to the Keystone XL Pipeline,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;which was slated to pass through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska before connecting to an existing pipeline in Kansas.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We came so far during the last administration – from prioritizing American energy development to ending the f<b>ar-left’s war on fossil fuel</b>s,” said Inhofe in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=BD1FCB43-90B9-4A15-BA9F-880195A3EC25" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">statement</a>&nbsp;announcing the legislation.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Throughout his career, I<b>nhofe has received in excess of $2.2 million</b>&nbsp;in campaign&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=e01&cycle=All&recipdetail=S&mem=Y" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">contributions from oil and gas companies</a>. Daines and Barrasso have each received $1.2 million from the industry.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group’s bill is a symbolic gesture to the industry and its supporters without any real hope of passing the Senate, where Democrats wield a majority, albeit narrowly.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</b><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The oil and gas industry spent heavily to prevent the upper chamber from swinging blue,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=e01&recipdetail=S&sortorder=A&mem=Y&cycle=2020" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">giving around $600,000</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;each to Republican Senate candidates in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Georgia&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kelly-loeffler/summary?cid=N00046125" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Kelly Loeffler</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/david-perdue/summary?cid=N00035516" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">David Perdue</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">who both lost narrowly to Democratic challengers in January runoffs</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The American Petroleum Institute&nbsp;</span><a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00571703/1496917/sa/ALL" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">donated</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;$5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund in late November, after every Senate campaign had concluded save the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/georgia-senate-races-shatter-records/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">two ultra-expensive</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Georgia races.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Faced with pressure from Washington, other corporations look to adapt&nbsp;</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some energy companies are taking a different tact, announcing plans to adapt their business model to thrive in a Biden administration that prioritizes conservation and climate action.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Industry giant&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/exxon-mobil/summary?id=d000000129" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">Exxon Mobil</a>&nbsp;announced Feb. 1, just days after Biden’s executive order, that it would&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/business/energy-environment/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">initiate massive investments</a>&nbsp;in carbon capture technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company, whose employees favored Biden over Trump in 2020 campaign contributions, will spend $3 billion over the next five years to build up a new subsidiary business: ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>General Motors has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/gm-zero-emission-vehicles.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">committed to only manufacturing zero-emissions vehicles</a>&nbsp;by the year 2035,</b>&nbsp;inline with Biden’s commitment to electrifying the government’s fleet. Ford’s new CEO has also pledged to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/ford-ceo-promises-year-of-action-for-restructuring-and-evs.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">restructure production plans</a>, prioritizing the addition of electric vehicles to its portfolio, which currently features only one fully-electric model.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-fuel-petrochem-manufacturers/summary?id=D000027874" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: lighter; outline: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out 0s, border 150ms ease-in-out 0s, color 150ms ease-in-out 0s; display: inline; max-height: 1e+06px;">American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers</a>, an oil-refining trade association that spent $3.2 to lobby the government in 2019, responded to that provision by reaching out to an unlikely ally: biofuel manufacturers</span>. 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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As Donald Trump has consolidated power in the Republican Party this year, his slow-but-steady takeover has sometimes masked the overwhelming creep of extremism into every corner of the Republican Party.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's embrace of Herschel Walker this week as the establishment pick to win back Georgia's Senate seat is a perfect example.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the one hand,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/27/2060551/-McConnell-100-caves-to-Trump-backing-violence-prone-abuser-Herschel-Walker-for-Georgia-Senate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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;">McConnell's cowardly cave</a>&nbsp;to Trump's chosen candidate is such a laughable outcome for a guy who's hailed as a "master tactician" and repeatedly told reporters that his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcconnell-atop-a-fractious-party-is-open-to-jumping-into-primary-races-11613423935" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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;">only red line for candidates was electability</a>. While Walker is potentially electable in today's Republican Party, his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/25/2060158/-Senate-Republicans-bow-to-Trump-embracing-violence-prone-abuser-Herschel-Walker-for-Georgia-Senate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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;">open struggle with mental illness</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2060939/-Field-of-violent-abusive-candidates-made-in-Trump-s-image-fill-GOP-midterm-roster" 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;">alleged history of abusing women</a>&nbsp;makes him a wounded candidate right out the gate. Whatever Walker's upsides might be, he isn't who you pick if ensuring electoral success is truly your North Star.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lurking just one layer beneath McConnell's acquiescence to Trump's demands is the unmistakable surrender of the establishment wing of the GOP to&nbsp;<b>Trump. He is 100% calling the shots</b>&nbsp;now about the Grand Old Party's future, and there's no pretending otherwise.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And as the Republican establishment bows to Trump, his manifest dominance of the party has also convinced candidates running for critical seats that no amount of personal baggage is prohibitive. In fact,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2060939/-Field-of-violent-abusive-candidates-made-in-Trump-s-image-fill-GOP-midterm-roster" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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;">men with violent histories</a>&nbsp;are flocking to Republican primaries, often earning Trump's endorsement.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;That is the case not only for Walker, but also&nbsp;<b>Sean Parnell,</b>&nbsp;an Army veteran running for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat. Parnell, who won Trump's early backing partly by pushing a fraudit of the Keystone State's 2020 election results, is in the middle of a contentious divorce and custody battle over his three children. Parnell's estranged wife once called 911 during a domestic dispute, and also secured two temporary protective orders against him as their marriage crumbled. According&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2021/09/08/Sean-Parnell-wife-pittsburgh-for-senate-Jeff-Bartos-Pennsylvania-US-Senate-race-2022-Republican-primary-candidates-protection-from-abuse-orders/stories/202109080097" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">to the&nbsp;<b>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, temporary orders only require a hearing with the accuser; making them permanent would have required a judge to hear from both parties, which never happened.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But now Senate Republicans are in the position of potentially fielding two Trump acolytes, each with a mountain of personal baggage that hasn't even been fully mined, in two seats that will surely play a role in deciding the fate of the upper chamber.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Trump also might play an outsized role in mucking up the reelection of a man he despises: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. This week, we learned that former GOP Sen. David Perdue, who Trump campaigned for in the run up to the state's January runoffs,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1453464203541504003" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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;">might mount a primary challenge</a>&nbsp;to Kemp. Trump would love nothing more than to knock off Kemp, who he blames for not overturning the state's 2020 election results.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perdue's potential entrance is already radicalizing the race on the Republican side and will surely continue to do so.<b>&nbsp;On Friday,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1454176951367782406" 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;">Kemp announced</a>&nbsp;that Georgia was suing President Joe Biden over his vaccine mandate for federal contractors</b>. It's a clear bid to cater to Trump's fringe anti-mitigation, pro-pandemic base—setting up a telling trajectory for a Kemp-Purdue primary that could hamstring Republicans in the general election. On top of that, if Perdue does enter the gubernatorial race, he will lean heavily on the support of Trump, who will spend his every waking breath grousing about 2020 and the supposedly stolen election in Georgia. The net effect would be months of Trump constantly reminding his voters that Georgia elections aren't secure, and that their vote may not even matter in the end. That's on top of the fact that Trump voters already decided to stay home the last time Perdue was on the ballot.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond Trump's impact at the federal and state level, his toxicity is also permeating local elections. Buzzfeed News reports that&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" 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 least a dozen Republicans</a>&nbsp;who attended Trump's Jan. 6 festivities at the Capitol are on the ballot for next week's elections.</b>&nbsp;They include incumbent state lawmakers, first-time candidates for statehouses, and local officials—mostly running in New Jersey and Virginia, which have off-year elections. But that also suggests that the number of Jan. 6 participants running for office this year might just be the tip of the iceberg.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All of this information is just more evidence pointing to the fact that, whether or not Republicans take over congressional majorities next year, the party itself will be uniquely radicalized with an even more profound Trump bent following the midterms.</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></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=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html</font></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">Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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 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">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 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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 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">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 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">As the Guardian explains:</font></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">"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 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">"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 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">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 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">"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 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">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></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">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 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">"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 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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 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">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></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">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></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">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></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">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">John Cornyn, Texas</font></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">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></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">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></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">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></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">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></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">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></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">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></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">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></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">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></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">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></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">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></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">Total: NA</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></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">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Mike Lee, Utah</font></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">Oil & gas: $231,520 + Coal: $21,895 = $253,415</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Ted Cruz, Texas</font></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">Oil & gas: $2,465,910 + Coal: $103,900 = $2,569,810</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=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">David Perdue, Georgia</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Oil & gas: $184,250 + Coal: $0 = $184,250</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Thom Tillis, North Carolina</font></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">Oil & gas: $263,400 + Coal: $0 = $263,400</font></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">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></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">Oil & gas: $490,076 + Coal: $58,200 = $548,276</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="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></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">Pat Roberts, Kansas</font></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">Oil & gas: $388,950 + Coal: $28,825 = $417,775</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.salon.com/topic/david_perdue" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Perdue</a>, one of two&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/21/kelly-loeffler-marketed-derivatives-during-great-recession-at-worlds-most-notorious-tax-haven/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">multimillionaire Georgia Republican senators</a>&nbsp;facing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/exclusive-watchdog-files-complaint-with-sec-accusing-gop-sen-david-perdue-of-insider-trading/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">insider-trading scrutiny&nbsp;</a>ahead of runoff elections in January, traded hundreds of thousands of dollars&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/07/23/gops_humiliating_primary_finally_ends_amnesty_mannequins_and_french_banks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">in bank stock</a>&nbsp;while passing pro-bank legislation on the Senate Banking Committee, financial disclosures show.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Between 2017 and 2020, while on the committee, Perdue co-sponsored 14 bills that benefited the financial industry, including through deregulation and extended liability protection. In that time he also accepted more than $1 million in political contributions from financial interests, federal filings show...[db]...most active traders&nbsp;in Congress, pushed back against allegations of insider trading in advance of the coronavirus, claiming that outside advisers made the calls without his input.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A bombshell New York Times report on Wednesday has made clear that was a lie: This summer, Justice Department investigators found that Perdue had instructed one of his brokers to offload more than $1 million in a company after the CEO tipped off the senator in a personal email.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This news comes as Perdue faces a Jan. 5 runoff against Democratic rival Jon Ossoff, who battered Perdue on the insider-trading allegations throughout the year. The runoff, along with Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's runoff election held on the same day — Loeffler faces the Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat — will determine which party controls the Senate.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest stock news also creates a new context for assessing Perdue's personal involvement in prior trades, such as millions of dollars in transactions while he served on the Banking Committee.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perdue, one of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">wealthiest</a>&nbsp;members of Congress, built his fortune in the style of Mitt Romney — "a turnaround specialist who helps revive brands and reap rewards for investors," as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution put it in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/david-perdue-business-record-mixed/OqSkOGrbF33n6MmOCWqKZM/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">review</a>&nbsp;of his business record.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The AJC ruled that his record was "mixed," in part because of a buyout Perdue helped structure as the CEO of Dollar General, which landed him a $42 million windfall when he stepped down in 2008. The next year, the company had to pay that same amount to settle shareholder claims that Perdue and other execs had shortchanged them in the deal....Perdue, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, has invested millions. A portion of it rests in a Wells Fargo brokerage account and a Georgia holding company called DBP Enterprises, where Perdue has held an ownership stake since 2011.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That DBP stake comprises 130 assets valued anywhere between $12 million and $29 million, according to 2018 Senate financial&nbsp;<a href="http://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/annual/fe0071a6-142b-4e26-8543-17d02813c9b8/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">disclosures</a>. His Wells Fargo account lists 60 assets valued at up to $1.2 million.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disclosures only provide ranges of value, so we cannot know precisely how much money Perdue has moved in stock trades, or the extent of his profits. But the forms do show that between 2017 and 2020, while he sat on the Banking Committee, Perdue traded at a minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars, possibly millions... The shares earned him up to $204,000 in capital gains and dividends payouts.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Perdue does not let his stocks sit idle. Between 2017 and 2018, disclosures show, the senator not only sold as much as $135,000 in bank stock, but scooped up as much as $600,000. Over the next two years he cranked up the volume, unloading as much as $1,110,000 in banking shares and buying as much as $480,000.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April of this year, Perdue was swept up in the same insider trading scandal that has also damaged Loeffler, when it was revealed that earlier in the year he had bought and sold shares in several companies that were eventually directly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The scandal, which included Senate veterans Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., shook public confidence, raising concerns that elected officials had abused their access to privileged information in order to capitalize personally on the spread of the disease.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The next month, under scrutiny from the public and government investigators, and with the election on the horizon, Perdue pledged to stop trading individual stocks....In September he announced that the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee had all cleared him of wrongdoing. He marked the occasion with a new campaign ad, which accused Ossoff of lying to voters about Perdue's involvement.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Times gave the lie to that defense on Wednesday, indicating that Perdue had acted on a personal tip. The report recalls a moment from an October 2017 hearing, where senators on the Banking Committee grilled Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan about the account fraud scandal that had wracked the bank the year before.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The scandal earned the bank a $150 million fine from the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, an agency Perdue had...sought to defang&nbsp;earlier that same year with a bill that the American Bankers Association called "an effective check and balance on the Bureau's authority."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perdue, whose Wells Fargo account at the time held up to $1.2 million,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/03/wells-fargo-ceo-tim-sloan-were-being-responsive-to-our-regulators.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">teed Sloan up</a>&nbsp;to defend his company, but Sloan, contrite in the face of multiple bareknuckled government investigations, repeatedly declined the exit ramp. Perdue then let slip a reference to a private conversation, before reluctantly admitting that the decade-long scandal — which resulted in..."I think you would agree, we in a private conversation — there is no way to sugarcoat this as a serious issue, and I appreciate your handling it the way that you are," Perdue said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Over the next three years, Perdue continued to throw softballs to big banks.</b> As he was slinging stock, he cosponsored 14 bills that benefited the financial industry, the majority earning the blessing of the ABA. Five of them were lobbied on by financial institutions where Perdue held hundreds of thousands in stock, including Regions Financial, US Bancorp and JP Morgan.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For instance, in 2017, Perdue cosponsored a bill called the Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act, which was geared to loosen Dodd-Frank regulations on mid-sized banks</b>. The bill never made it out of committee, but Regional Financial and US Bancorp, where Perdue had stashed $300,000, both lobbied heavily on it.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Perdue went after Dodd-Frank again that year, cosponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which the New York Times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/dealbook/trump-china-deal.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reported</a>&nbsp;"frees banks from a variety of regulations that were imposed after the financial crisis of 2008," including "innovative measures" that targeted large institutions. That bill never made it out of committee, but was lobbied on by banks where Perdue held up to $465,000 of stock at the time, including Wells Fargo....In two instances, Perdue received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from financial institutions on the same day he introduced legislation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On May 21, 2019, Perdue&nbsp;<a href="http://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1564?r=6&s=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">signed on</a>&nbsp;as an original co-sponsor of a bill that postponed compliance with a new accounting standard that some in the financial industry believed would&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/51952791" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">impede lending</a>&nbsp;during an economic downturn.</b> FEC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00547570&committee_id=C00571208&contributor_employer=capital+group&two_year_transaction_period=2020" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">records</a>&nbsp;show that in the days before Perdue co-sponsored the bill and the two weeks immediately afterward, he received nearly $50,000 from employees at the Capital Group, a financial services company, including $5,400 from the CEO.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In October 2017, a few weeks after Sloan's testimony, Perdue co-sponsored&nbsp;<a href="http://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1753" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">legislation</a>&nbsp;that eased regulations on mortgage transfers that cross state lines. That bill was first introduced in August, and in the month before Perdue added his name on Oct. 25, his campaign received $24,000 from employees of the wealth management company SEI Investments, according to FEC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00547570&committee_id=C00571208&contributor_employer=SEI+Investments&contributor_employer=sei" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">filings</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fourteen of those SEI employees gave $1,000 on Oct. 19, but only one employee donated the same day that Perdue committed to the bill: a maximum donation of $5,400, from CEO Alfred West.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This September, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was hit with FEC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/crew-files-fec-complaint-against-louis-dejoy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">criminal</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://campaignlegal.org/document/fec-complaint-against-louis-dejoy-and-xpo-logistics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">complaints</a>&nbsp;for an alleged "straw donor" scheme, in which he reimbursed employees for political donations to his favored candidates.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Over the course of his career, Perdue has accepted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00035516&cycle=2020&type=C" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">more than $2 million</a>&nbsp;in donations from the investment and securities industry, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00035516&cycle=CAREER&type=C" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">half a million</a>&nbsp;from commercial banks. But considering that so few of those bills made it past the committee, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/david-perdue/P000612?q=%7B%22bill-status%22%3A%22floor%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22all%22%2C%22subject%22%3A%22Finance+and+Financial+Sector%22%7D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">only two</a>&nbsp;became law, it is not clear who got the most out of their investment.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Perdue campaign spokesperson did not reply to questions for this article.</font></p><div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.446px; list-style: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="from-your-siteitem"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/david-perdue-2648978845/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">David Perdue made a fortune selling defense contractor stock while ... ›</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/kamala-harris-team-strikes-back-after/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Kamala Harris team strikes back after David Perdue's 'incredibly racist' ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/perdue/" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">GOP Sen. 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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/20/1997224/-Will-Georgia-s-most-corrupt-senator-please-stand-up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ultimate pandemic profiteer</a>. In yet another display of Perdue's cut-throat opportunism, the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/senator-david-perdue-georgia-stocks-198e39c67f90e25bb6b2398bd32c1363" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Associated Press reveals</a>&nbsp;the Republican senator, who is facing a crucial runoff in January, made a series of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/20/1997168/-Swamp-creature-David-Perdue-really-dominating-the-scandal-headlines-in-run-up-to-runoff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">impeccably timed stock trades</a>&nbsp;last spring for a handsome personal profit.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This particular profitable series of trades centered on the Atlanta-based technology firm Cardlytics. In late January, as U.S. senators received briefings about the severity of an impending coronavirus outbreak, "Perdue sold off $1 million to $5 million in Cardlytics stock at $86 a share before it plunged, according to congressional disclosures," writes the AP.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But after Cardlytics' stock price plummeted over news of the pandemic and a simultaneous leadership change, Perdue bought back roughly a quarter to a half million in stock at just $30 a share. By Tuesday of this week, those shares had quadrupled in price to $121 a share.
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The AP writes that Perdue's trades weren't necessarily illegal since there's no direct evidence yet that he acted on nonpublic information. But congressional members undoubtedly had a better grasp of what kind of threat the pandemic posed to both the nation's public health and the economy, and experts are urging a scrutinization of the trades.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This does seem suspicious," said John C. Coffee Jr., a Columbia University law school professor who specializes in corporate and securities issues, adding, "You need more than suspicions to convict."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rather toothless Senate Ethics Committee has cleared Perdue of ethics violations for some of his past trades that also emitted a whiff of corruption.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/20/1997168/-Swamp-creature-David-Perdue-really-dominating-the-scandal-headlines-in-run-up-to-runoff?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=most-shared" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the sheer volume</a>&nbsp;of Perdue's impeccably timed trades, whether illegal or not, have come to epitomize the measure of the man. Perdue, a supposed public servant, clearly spends the vast majority of his time and energy focused on his own bottom line and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/20/1997168/-Swamp-creature-David-Perdue-really-dominating-the-scandal-headlines-in-run-up-to-runoff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">that of his rich buddies</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That is particularly abhorrent when Perdue&nbsp;<a href="https://www.perdue.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-david-perdue-discusses-coronavirus-on-columbus-radio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">adopted a public posture</a>&nbsp;last spring similar to Donald Trump of downplaying a public health emergency that has now claimed more than 250,000 American lives and counting.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As his Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff has pointed out, Perdue urged the listeners of a local Georgia podcast on March 11 not to overreact to the coronavirus threat: "I think we have to realize that the risk of this virus in the United States right now still remains low."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All the while, Perdue was calculating how many ways he could score some big bucks off the near-certain calamity to come.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/25/1998246/-GOP-Sen-David-Perdue-s-mastery-of-pandemic-profiteering-continues#update-1606338157000" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020 · 4:02:37 PM Eastern Standard Time · Kerry Eleveld</a></font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>UPDATE</strong>: NYT is reporting that Perdue's trades of Cardlytic were so eyebrow raising, they prompted a<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/david-perdue-cardlytics.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">&nbsp;Justice Department inquiry</a>&nbsp;into their legality. 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The Virginia-based firm had lucrative contracts with the U.S. Navy to develop high-tech components for its fleet of nuclear submarines — and it was looking to expand that business when lawmakers took on the 2019 version of the sweeping annual legislation that sets funding benchmarks for the U.S. military, called the National Defense Authorization Act."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt bwx]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bWX is among the companies that has a contract with the Pentagon for manufacturing key parts of submarines. 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transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit;">VanDyke confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Other, Justice and Democracy</span></font></font></font><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574976" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-339-undermining-land-and-water-conservation-fund-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining the Land and Water Conservation Fund</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574976" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice574976" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></font></font></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574875" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574875" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">324</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574875" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-324-stopping-rollbacks-carbon-pollution-limits-power-plants" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Stopping Rollbacks of Carbon Pollution Limits for Power Plants</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574875" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574875" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574774" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574774" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">313</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574774" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-313-scalia-confirmation-secretary-labor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Scalia Confirmation (Secretary of Labor)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574774" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574774" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574673" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574673" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">300</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574673" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-300-jorjani-confirmation-doi-solicitor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jorjani Confirmation (DOI Solicitor)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574673" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574673" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">77</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-77-bernhardt-confirmation-interior-secretary-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bernhardt Confirmation (Interior Secretary)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Drilling, Lands/Forests, Wildlife, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-miss" id="voteChoice574572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" miss-vote-icon-20.png="miss-vote-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574471" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574471" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">68</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574471" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-68-wyrick-confirmation-district-court-western-district-oklahoma" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wyrick Confirmation (District Court for Western District of Oklahoma)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574471" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574471" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574370" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574370" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">44</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574370" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-44-rao-confirmation-dc-circuit-court-appeals-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rao Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574370" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574370" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574269" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574269" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">33</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574269" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-33-wheeler-confirmation-epa-administrator-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wheeler Confirmation (EPA Administrator)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574269" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574269" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574168" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574168" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">29</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574168" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-29-miller-confirmation-ninth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Miller Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574168" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other, Justice and Democracy</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice574168" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear574067" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber574067" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">22</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle574067" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-22-public-lands-package-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Public Lands Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues574067" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice574067" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear573966" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber573966" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">20</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle573966" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-20-undermining-antiquities-act-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Undermining the Antiquities Act</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues573966" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice573966" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear573865" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2019</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber573865" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">19</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle573865" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2019-19-blocking-permanent-reauthorization-land-water-conservation-fund" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Blocking Permanent Reauthorization of the Land & Water Conservation Fund</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues573865" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice573865" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539732" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539732" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">259</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539732" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-259-farm-bill-conference-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Farm Bill Conference Report</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539732" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-pro-env" id="voteChoice539732" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" pro-env-icon-20.png="pro-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539631" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539631" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">254</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539631" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-254-mcnamee-confirmation-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McNamee Confirmation (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539631" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Air</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539631" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539530" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539530" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">232</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539530" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-232-nelson-confirmation-ninth-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Nelson Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539530" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539530" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539429" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539429" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">228</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539429" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-228-clark-confirmation-assistant-attorney-general-doj-environment-and-natural" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Clark Confirmation (Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539429" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water, Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539429" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539328" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539328" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">223</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539328" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-223-kavanaugh-confirmation-supreme-court-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kavanaugh Confirmation (Supreme Court)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539328" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539328" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539227" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539227" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">222</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539227" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-222-kavanaugh-cloture-vote-supreme-court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kavanaugh Cloture Vote (Supreme Court)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539227" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539227" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539126" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539126" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">174</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539126" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-174-grant-confirmation-eleventh-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Grant Confirmation (Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539126" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539126" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear539025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber539025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">160</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle539025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-160-oldham-confirmation-fifth-circuit-court-appeals-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Oldham Confirmation (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues539025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice539025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538924" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538924" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">134</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538924" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-134-anti-environmental-rescission-package-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Anti-Environmental Rescission Package</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538924" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538924" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538823" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538823" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">84</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538823" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-84-pompeo-confirmation-secretary-state-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pompeo Confirmation (Secretary of State)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538823" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538823" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538722" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538722" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">80</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538722" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-80-bridenstine-confirmation-nasa-administrator-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bridenstine Confirmation (NASA Administrator)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538722" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538722" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">77</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-77-exposing-waterways-invasive-species-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Exposing Waterways to Invasive Species</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wildlife, Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538621" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538520" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538520" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">71</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538520" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-71-wheeler-confirmation-epa-deputy-administrator-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wheeler Confirmation (EPA Deputy Administrator)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538520" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538520" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear538419" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber538419" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">36</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle538419" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2018-36-border-wall-funding-anti-immigrant-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Border Wall Funding & Anti-Immigrant Policy</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues538419" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice538419" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear522033" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber522033" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">323</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle522033" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2017-323-anti-environmental-tax-bill-opens-drilling-arctic-refuge" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Anti-Environmental Tax Bill that Opens Drilling in the Arctic Refuge</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues522033" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lands/Forests, Dirty Energy, Drilling</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice522033" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear519572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber519572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">268</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle519572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2017-268-wehrum-confirmation-assistant-administrator-epa" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wehrum Confirmation (Assistant Administrator, EPA)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues519572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change, Clean Air, Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice519572" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div class="tableRow dataItem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 32px; clear: both; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="voteYear" id="voteYear524741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 110px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017</font></span><span class="voteNumber" id="voteNumber524741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 100px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">259</font></span><span class="voteTitle" id="voteTitle524741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 205px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/roll-call-vote/2017-259-eid-confirmation-10th-circuit-court-appeals" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: none transparent; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; overflow: visible; appearance: none; transition-duration: 0.25s; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-delay: initial; transition-property: all; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Eid Confirmation (10th Circuit Court of Appeals)</font></a></span><span class="voteIssues" id="voteIssues524741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 200px; display: block; height: 32px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other</font></span><span class="voteChoice vote-anti-env" id="voteChoice524741" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; background: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" lcv_scorecard="lcv_scorecard" images="images" anti-env-icon-20.png="anti-env-icon-20.png" auto="auto" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" text-overflow="text-overflow" ellipsis="ellipsis" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" width="width" display="display" block="block" height="height" float="float" left="left" margin-right="margin-right" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;=</font></p><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">eg retaliation</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><h1 class="title fancy-font" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senators Demand DOJ Cease Investigation Into Opponents of President Obama’s Energy Policies</font></h1><h1 class="title fancy-font" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">may 26, 2016</font></h1><div id="r1" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="r1c1" class="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="block5" class="block block-press_release" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="record-head" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="record-info" id="record-org" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></h3><h3 class="record-info" id="record-author" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal;">202-228-7561 WASHINGTON –&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas),&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Mike Lee (R-Utah),</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and David Vitter (R-La.) today sent a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20160526_ClimateChangeLetter.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">letter</a>&nbsp;to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) end its use of law enforcement resources against political opponents of President Obama’s energy agenda.&nbsp;</span></font><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">“These actions provide disturbing confirmation that government officials at all levels are threatening to wield the sword of law enforcement to silence debate on climate change,” the letter reads. “As you well know,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;initiating criminal prosecution for a private entity’s opinions on climate change is a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;blatant violation of the First Amendment</span>&nbsp;and an abuse of power that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct.”</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">T</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20160526_ClimateChangeLetter.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">letter</a>&nbsp;goes on to demand that Attorney General Lynch confirm that all investigations into any private individual’s views on climate change end within 14 days and promise not to initiate any future such investigations.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">“Freedom of thought and inquiry is at the very heart of liberty,” Sen. Cruz said. “Sadly, the Obama administration and its allies in state attorney general offices across the country are threatening to use the power of government to intimidate and ultimately silence companies and researchers who do not agree with the government’s opinions about the allegedly harmful effects of climate change and what should be done about it. This is an abuse of power and a direct assault on the First Amendment. The Obama Justice Department should immediately cease any further consideration of such action and should instead do everything in its power to protect the freedom of thought of all Americans.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">“</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threatening prosecution of those who dare to challenge the most outlandish scaremongering by climate activists strikes at the very heart of the Free Speech protections on which this nation was founded,” Sen. Lee said.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;“Issuing subpoenas to harass researchers and academics with whom they have communicated, as some state attorneys general offices have done, shows a basic disregard for Americans’ Freedom of Association. The public expects us to prevent such abuses, not perpetrate them. It is our responsibility to contain the inevitable chilling effects by calling for an end to any consideration by the Department of Justice of such harassment at once.</span>”</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“</span>I have serious concerns any time that the Department of Justice uses its power to repress constitutionally protected speech and open dialogue on any public policy issue,” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Sen. Perdue </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">said. “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Given the unprecedented politicization of the Obama Justice Department, [VS BARR?!]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight responsibilities have become more important than ever before. There is no place in our democracy for politically-motivated investigations by the Department of Justice.”</span></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">“Unnecessary government intrusion of private citizens’ lives is an unfortunate characteristic of the reign of the Obama Administration,” Sen. Vitter said. “It is contemptible for the Justice Department to target and threaten individual American citizens and private or non-profit organizations in pursuit of its far-left environmental agenda.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">Read the letter in its entirety here.</font></p></h3></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 820</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/08/gop-senator-bought-stock-in-company-that-makes-medical-gear-after-non-public-briefing-on-coronavirus/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Perdue of Georgia,</a>&nbsp;a Republican up for re-election this fall, recently introduced a bill called the&nbsp;”Safely Creating Healthy Opening Options Locally Act” (the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.perdue.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SCHOOL%20Act%20Final%20Text.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">SCHOOL Act</a>), which would give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos control over $50 billion in federal relief&nbsp;grants to local school districts. In the past, Perdue has&nbsp;repeatedly&nbsp;called&nbsp;for&nbsp;defunding and abolishing the Department of Education.</font></p><p /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perdue, who finds himself in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/25/a-perfect-tsunami-cook-political-report-predicts-democrats-now-favored-to-take-back-the-senate_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a&nbsp;tight&nbsp;race</a>&nbsp;against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/28/gop-sen-david-perdues-campaign-takes-down-anti-semitic-ad-that-enlarged-jewish-opponents-nose/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Democrat Jon Ossoff</a>, a media executive and former congressional candidate, has pitched the&nbsp;bill as way to incentivize&nbsp;schools to&nbsp;reopen amid&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/19/republican-senator-misleadingly-compares-covid-19-to-car-crashes-in-leaked-audio-recording_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the coronavirus outbreak</a>, which he once&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/19/republican-senator-misleadingly-compares-covid-19-to-car-crashes-in-leaked-audio-recording_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">compared to car crashes</a>....</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/code-for-massive-cuts-audio-shows-gops-sen-joni-ernst-telling-donors-she-wants-changes-to-medicare-and-medicaid"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/code-for-massive-cuts-audio-shows-gops-sen-joni-ernst-telling-donors-she-wants-changes-to-medicare-and-medicaid</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>‘Code for massive cuts’: Audio shows GOP’s Sen. Joni Ernst telling donors she wants ‘changes’ to Medicare and Medicaid</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Common Dreams February 15, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Again, Joni Ernst has shown that she is willing to push our families into poverty with a smile. The programs she plans to cut are a lifeline for millions of Americans. She should be ashamed.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa told donors at a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. last March that federal spending on non-discretionary programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is “out of control” and will require “changes” in the future.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s according to a 55-second audio clip published Wednesday by Iowa Starting Line. In the recording, Ernst is asked by an attendee whether she is on board with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen.&nbsp;<b>David Perdue’s (R-Ga.) call for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.</b></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think we all are because we understand that our non-discretionary spending is growing like this,” replied Ernst, who is up for reelection in 2020. “Everyone focuses on discretionary spending because that is what we can control in Congress. The rest is on autopilot and is out of control. We have to figure out ways to honor the commitments that have been made, but make changes for the future. How we do that, I don’t know.”...</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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position: relative; width: 120px; background: url(" https="https" www.alternet.org="www.alternet.org" wp-content="wp-content" uploads="uploads" julian_and_joaquin_castro_at_the_lbj_library-585x390.jpg="Julian_and_Joaquin_Castro_at_the_LBJ_Library-585x390.jpg" center="center" cover="cover" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" display="display" inline-block="inline-block" vertical-align="vertical-align" top="top" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Broth</b></font><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">ers</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">nolink</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Guardian calculated that the 22 senators received a total of $10,694,284 from oil, gas and coal money in just five years.</b>&nbsp;(See the breakdown below.</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the Guardian explains:</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">"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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, shared recently his views on Trump's climate walkout.</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">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.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The 22 Republican signatories' funding from Big Oil, Gas and Coal in the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016):</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Cornyn, Texas</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Total: NA</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mike Lee, Utah</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $231,520 + Coal: $21,895 = $253,415</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ted Cruz, Texas</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $2,465,910 + Coal: $103,900 = $2,569,810</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">David Perdue, Georgia</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $184,250 + Coal: $0 = $184,250</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thom Tillis, North Carolina</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $263,400 + Coal: $0 = $263,400</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $490,076 + Coal: $58,200 = $548,276</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pat Roberts, Kansas</font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oil & gas: $388,950 + Coal: $28,825 = $417,775</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then came the amendment asserting that changing global temperatures were the result of human activity. It&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00011" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: 30px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">drew several Republicans</a><span style="line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, but Sens. Johnny Isakson and David Perdue were not among them. The amendment garnered 59 votes, one short of the number required for passage.</span></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 6, 2007, all shares of Dollar General&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock" title="Stock" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">stock</a>&nbsp;were acquired by private equity investors for $22 per share. An investment group consisting of affiliates of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts" title="Kohlberg Kravis Roberts" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kohlberg Kravis Roberts</a>(KKR),&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS_Capital_Partners" title="GS Capital Partners" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">GS Capital Partners</a>&nbsp;(an affiliate of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Goldman Sachs</a>),&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citigroup</a>&nbsp;Private Equity and other co-investors completed an acquisition of Dollar General Corporation for a total<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_value" title="Enterprise value" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">enterprise value</a>&nbsp;of $7.3 billion.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As a part of the transition to a privately held company, Dollar General assessed each location at the end of its lease against a model known as "EZ Stores". This assessment included evaluating whether the location had a loading dock, garbage dumpsters, adequate parking, and acceptable profitability. Stores that did not pass this evaluation were relocated or closed. Over 400 stores were closed as part of this initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_General#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In August 2009, the company announced it will file for an&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">initial public offering</a>, turning the company, again, into a publicly traded corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_General#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;Although the timing of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) was not announced by Dollar General or KKR, Dollar General filed on August 20, 2009 for an initial offering of up to $750 Million<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_General#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;The return of Dollar General to public ownership has been estimated to deliver up to a 30% increase in value to KKR over the two-year period it will have been private, making it a rare gem in KKR's current portfolio.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Dollar_General_Market">Dollar General Market</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_General&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dollar General Market" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
Dollar General Market</b>&nbsp;is a chain of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermarkets" title="Hypermarkets" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hypermarkets</a>, that sells everything a Dollar General store sells, plus an expanded selection of groceries, as well as fresh produce. It is similar to a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart_Supercenter" title="Walmart Supercenter" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walmart Supercenter</a>,
&nbsp;</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>David Alfred Perdue, Jr.</b>&nbsp;(born December 10, 1949) is an American politician who is the junior&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senator</a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia(U.S.state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgia</a>, having been elected to the seat currently occupied by retiring Senator&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss" title="Saxby Chambliss" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Saxby Chambliss</a>. He won the most votes in the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia,2014#Republican_primary" title="United States Senate election in Georgia, 2014" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican primary election in Georgia</a>&nbsp;on May 20, 2014, and defeated Representative&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kingston" title="Jack Kingston" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jack Kingston</a>&nbsp;in the runoff on July 22, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;Perdue defeated Democratic nominee&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Nunn" title="Michelle Nunn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michelle Nunn</a>&nbsp;on November 4, 2014, and took office on January 3, 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; 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background: none;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Early life and education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#Business_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Business career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#U.S.Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">U.S. Senate</span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#2014_Senate_campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">2014 Senate campaign</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Political positions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue was born in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,Georgia" title="Macon, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Macon</a>, the son of David Alfred Perdue, Sr., and the former Gervaise Wynn, both schoolteachers.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ajc_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ajc-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;He was raised in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Robins,Georgia" title="Warner Robins, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Warner Robins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;He lives with his wife, Bonnie Dunn Perdue, in the resort town of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Island,Georgia" title="Sea Island, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sea Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ReferenceA-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;The couple have two sons, David A. Perdue III and Blake Perdue, and three grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-bigstory.ap.org_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-bigstory.ap.org-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ReferenceA-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;He is the first cousin of former Georgia governor&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Perdue" title="Sonny Perdue" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sonny Perdue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue has a bachelor's degree in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering" title="Industrial engineering" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">industrial engineering</a>&nbsp;(1972) and a master's degree in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research" title="Operations research" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">operations research</a>&nbsp;(1975), both from<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tech" title="Georgia Tech" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgia Tech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bigstory.ap.org_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-bigstory.ap.org-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;At Georgia Tech, Perdue was a brother of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Sigma_Phi" title="Delta Sigma Phi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Delta Sigma Phi</a>&nbsp;Fraternity.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Business_career">Business career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Business career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue began his career at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Salmon" title="Kurt Salmon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kurt Salmon Associates</a>, an international consulting firm, where he worked for twelve years as a management consultant.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;His first major corporate job was as senior vice president of Asia operations for&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Lee_Corporation" title="Sara Lee Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sara Lee Corporation</a>, a position he took in 1992. His time at Sara Lee was followed by a stint at&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggar_Clothing" title="Haggar Clothing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Haggar Clothing</a>, where he became senior vice president of operations in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-ap_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ap-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1998, Perdue joined&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebok" title="Reebok" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Reebok</a>&nbsp;as a senior vice president, eventually rising to president and CEO. Perdue is credited with significantly reducing the company's debt and reviving its sneaker line. Perdue negotiated a contract with the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Football League</a>&nbsp;that a former Reebok executive referred to as "revolutionary" for repositioning the company's shoe brand.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ajc-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2002, Perdue left Reebok for&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillowtex" title="Pillowtex" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pillowtex</a>, a North Carolina textile company. The company had recently emerged from bankruptcy with a heavy debt load and an underfunded pension liability. Perdue was unable to obtain additional funding from the company's investors and later was unsuccessful in finding a buyer for the company. He left the company in 2003 after nine months on the job and $1.7 million in compensation. Pillowtex closed several months later, leaving 7,650 workers out of work nationwide. With more than 4,000 jobs lost state wide, it was the largest single day job loss in North Carolina history at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-charlotte_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-charlotte-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After leaving Pillowtex, Perdue became CEO of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_General" title="Dollar General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dollar General</a>. Prior to his joining the company, it had recently overstated profits by $100 million and paid $162 million to settle shareholder lawsuits. Perdue overhauled the company's inventory line and logistics network and updated its marketing strategy. After initially closing hundreds of stores, the company doubled its stock price and opened 2,600 new stores before being sold in 2007 to private equity investors.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ajc-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From 2007 to 2009, Perdue worked as a senior consultant for Indian chemical textile conglomerate Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;In April 2011, Perdue started an Atlanta-based global trading firm.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ajc-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to the&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Journal-Constitution" title="Atlanta Journal-Constitution" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a></i>, Perdue is "known on Wall Street as a turnaround specialist who helps revive brands and reap rewards for investors."<sup id="cite_ref-ajc_3-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-ajc-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.Senate">U.S. Senate</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2014_Senate_campaign">2014 Senate campaign</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2014 Senate campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia,2014" title="United States Senate election in Georgia, 2014" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senate election in Georgia, 2014</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue touted his business experience, and particularly his experience at Dollar General, in running for office. According to Perdue: "We added about 2,200 stores, created almost 20,000 jobs and doubled the value of that company in a very short period of time. Not because of me, but because we listened to our customers and employees.” He received the endorsement of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Federation of Independent Business</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-proud_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-proud-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue's political opponents targeted his business career during the campaign, specifically for outsourcing work, which Perdue stated he was "proud of", and for the job losses that followed the final closure of Pillowtex.<sup id="cite_ref-charlotte_13-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-charlotte-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-proud_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-proud-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;After being elected, David Perdue stated that he wanted to bring the perspective of a working person to Washington D.C.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The race was considered to be a competitive race. Perdue won the general election, defeating the Democratic nominee&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Nunn" title="Michelle Nunn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michelle Nunn</a>&nbsp;by almost 8 percentage points.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_positions">Political positions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Perdue stated that he entered politics out of concern for the rising&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">national debt</a>. He supports repealing and replacing the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup>&nbsp;He also supports a constitutional&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment" title="Balanced budget amendment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">balanced budget amendment</a>&nbsp;and comprehensive tax reform.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;In addition, he has pledged to limit himself to two terms in the Senate, equivalent to 12 years, if elected.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perdue#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Perdue&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,_Nutrition_and_Forestry" title="United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry</font></a></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Budget" title="United States Senate Committee on the Budget" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on the Budget</font></a></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Foreign Relations</font></a></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on the Judiciary</font></a></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Special_Committee_on_Aging" title="United States Senate Special Committee on Aging" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Committee on Aging</font></a></b></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>