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John=see Lieberman-Warner 2007-8=<div id="proper-ad-alternet_content_2" style="font-size: small; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><div style="text-align: left;">=</div><div style="text-align: left;">misplaced/context:</div><div style="text-align: left;">819 DN...And then, finally, perhaps most importantly, Koch has built a nationwide activist network called Americans for Prosperity. And what this is is a boots-on-the-ground operation. So, Americans for Prosperity has chapters around the country. They can activate people to go knock on doors, take petitions. They will charter buses from West Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, you name it. They will get buses of angry voters [pseudo-populist trigger anti-gubmint] to come to Washington, D.C., and then go visit congressional offices that have been specifically identified by that big corporate lobbying shop we talked about, where they can pressure lawmakers.And Koch put this political machine into full force in 2009 and 2010, when it looked like the United States was going to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. You know, back then, there really was bipartisan support to do something on climate change. The Republican, John McCain, ran on doing something about climate change. But Koch Industries intervened, and, I think more than even Exxon or other companies, it sort of — it politicized this issue of climate change. And Koch went after any moderate Republicans who acknowledged that climate change was real, who supported any effort to put a price on carbon. And Koch helped to drive those people out of office. So it played a vitally important role in making it clear to Republicans that they could not support any effort on climate change.AMY GOODMAN: The Kochtopus? Elaborate further.CHRISTOPHER LEONARD: The Kochtopus, here’s a great example. In 2009, when we were debating climate change, my book shows that Koch secretly funded a think tank report from this group called the American Council [for] Capital Formation. And this report said that if we regulate climate change, it will be a disaster for the American economy. Then another Koch-funded think tank called the American Energy Alliance took the findings from that report, made political ads and targeted those ads at Republican politicians, like Lindsey Graham, who supported climate change legislation, so now Lindsey Graham has got these horrible campaign spots running back home. And then the corporate lobbyists from Koch will be visiting the offices of Lindsey Graham and explaining why they can’t support climate change bill.So, the Kochtopus is this remarkably effective 360-degree machine that affects the public debate around issues like this, that has lobbyists who work on issues like this, and that can, finally, bring voters in. You know, Americans for Prosperity will — I’ve been at these events where they bus voters into Washington, D.C. They give them glossy printed protest signs. They feed them a boxed lunch. They take them to the congressional offices. And they can stoke what appears to be a real public revolt against legislation like this....=</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">helped kill mccain lieberman:</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Kert Davies, originally published on <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ClimateInvestigations.org</a> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"> </div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a>’  Marianne Lavelle published a long piece this weekend, chronicling Senator John McCain’s rise and fall as a climate leader.  The story highlights a campaign I worked on in 2000, where we asked all the presidential candidates the simple and still pertinent question, “What’s Your Plan?” on global warming.  McCain was one of the only candidates that took it on. He went back to Washington in the middle of 2000, having been defeated by George W. Bush in the primaries, and immediately started holding hearings on climate change science.As always, there is more to the story.  When McCain emerged as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040402004205/http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04spr/mccain1.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">“Captain Climate” </a>in the early 2000s, and introduced the first serious bipartisan legislation to cut emissions, he became the target of a multifaceted attack by anti-regulatory free market organizations.  It turns out, many of these organizations and front groups were quietly being funded by ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers.This pressure may partly explain why McCain <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/11/as-the-world-burns" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">later abandoned climate change</a> when he ran for President in 2008 and <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/11/mccain-slams-horrendous-climate-bill-029747" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">attacked his colleagues’ efforts</a> during the 2009 push for climate legislation.  By that point McCain had succumbed to the now standard Republican talking points on climate.  Oh, and lest we forget, he also picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and starting down the “<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/90075-mccain-palin-revive-drill-baby-drill-slogan-from-08-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Drill, Baby, Drill</a>” path (the opposite of sane climate policy) and the rest is history.  No one has really explained how this turn away from climate leadership really happened. Most commentators attribute it to political choices McCain himself made, without really analyzing the outside pressure that closed in on McCain from 2000 to 2008.  <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a> notes briefly that there was a coordinated effort to oppose McCain’s efforts run by corporate-funded entities.  Climate Investigations Center went back and looked at our records for documentation of the campaign to the kill the <a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2001/8/post-4be0be1b-0295-42bf-a9e8-f0ed44f1a8aa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">McCain-Lieberman climate legislation</a> as it gained momentum. First introduced in 2001 by the two Senators, The Climate Stewardship Act (S.139) was the first national, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. This bill eventually became the ground-zero target for climate deniers and corporate interests.Unfortunately, a month after the first McCain-Lieberman bill was introduced, the attacks on September 11th changed everything. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext_102101.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">McCain and Lieberman</a>, a neo-con Democrat at the time, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/on-morning-of-9-11-attacks-mccain-immediately-began-making-the-case-for-iraq-war-4042b28b5f9b/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">were among the first to lead</a> the charge to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, well ahead of the Bush Administration according to many accounts from that time.By 2003, McCain and Lieberman got back to thinking about climate change together and leveraged the first full Senate vote on their bill by <a href="https://theconversation.com/will-john-mccain-be-the-last-republican-leader-in-the-senate-to-address-climate-change-102221" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">forcing Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hand </a>on an energy bill he was trying to pass.The McCain-Lieberman bill garnered surprising support but lost 43-55, well short of the 60 votes needed to avoid an override under Senate rule.  Corporations saw this as a close call and began a concerted effort to kill the momentum in 2004 (see below). In 2005, the bill was renamed The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act, and in McCain style, stubbornly brought up for another vote where it lost by a bigger margin, 38 Yea to 60 Nay votes.I know for a fact that they got blindsided on this.  They thought they had paved the way for success. In a meeting with a McCain staffer after the second vote, I showed them an ExxonSecrets map (similar to the one below) of the organizations and individuals that worked to kill the bill.  The staffer knew there were various organizations and companies lobbying against the bill, but had no idea the level of coordination, nor the ExxonMobil funding channels.[secrets chart]<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Was the Exxon Denial Machine built to fight Sen. McCain?</h3>It has always been interesting that our database of ExxonMobil climate denial funding shows a dramatic increase in spending after 2000, which coincides with McCain emerging as a climate champion.<img alt="" src="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/exxon%20grants.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 411px; width: 683px;" />The graph above shows the yearly totals of ExxonMobil’s grants to climate denying non-profit organizations and breaks out the total grants specifically earmarked for climate change between the years of 1997-2006.Conventional wisdom would suggest that corporate polluters thought they were off the hook with the Bush-Cheney victory over Gore-Lieberman.  Yet ExxonMobil’s funding of climate denial organizations ballooned to its highest levels between 2000 and 2005 as the McCain-Lieberman legislation gained momentum. Between 2003-2005, Exxon wrote grants totaling more than $3.3 million dollars each year to climate-denying organizations.The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the leader of the <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition </a>(CHC) and recipient of over $2 million dollars total from ExxonMobil between 1997-2005, aggressively fought Sen. McCain’s climate leadership in the early 2000s. A<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4793357-2004-July-CEI-Myron-Ebell-leaked-email-targeting.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> leaked 2003 email from Myron Ebell</a>, Director of Global Warming Policy at CEI, lays out a target list for lobbying against the “McLieberman” bill. <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/cei/cei-white-house-congress-energy-policy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">FOIAed documents</a> show communications in 2003 between Myron Ebell and the Bush White House Council on Environmental Quality, where Ebell details the campaign against McCain.  CEI also put out <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877869-Cei-Email-103003-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press releases</a> against the legislation, held <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877863-Cei-Email-102303-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">events </a>to debate it, and used the CHC network of climate deniers to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">wage their campaign</a>.The Exxon-funded groups were also being funded by the Koch brothers and their foundations.  In January 2003, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031207033457/http://www.cse.org:80/informed/issues_template.php/1238.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">CEI co-authored a letter with the Koch-funded Citizen’s for Sound Economy</a> to the Bush Whitehouse decrying the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p41/a289372" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ExxonMobil gave CEI $465,000 that year</a> according to Exxon documents, the largest Exxon haul by CEI in any year.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450857" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">An unredacted CEI IRS 990</a> for 2003 lists a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450858" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$100,000 donation from David Koch himself</a> and only $180,000 from ExxonMobil (probably an accounting anomaly).<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">United 4 Jobs, DCI Group and Exxon cash</h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">[banner] patriotic hard hat</h3>Following the 2003 vote on McCain Lieberman bill, the corporate forces got their act together.  In 2004, a front group coalition was set up called United4Jobs.org, complete with an American Flag and a hard hat.  Here’s some of what we know:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080826/http://www.united4jobs.org/about/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">The United for Jobs website in 2004 said it was “a project of”</a> the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), which received $50,000 from ExxonMobil in 2004, and the National Association of Neighborhoods, which also received $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2004 (<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p6/a260594" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">including $25,000 earmarked for “Climate Change Issues.”</a>) along with the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council).[bs about]<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><div style="text-align: left;">The United4Jobs project was maintained by DCI Group, a public relations company based in Washington, DC.  DCI Group is a long time ExxonMobil contractor and has a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-alford-national-black-chamber-commerce/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">history</a> of setting up front groups for corporate clients, including the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">fossil fuel industry</a>, even today.  (Bloomberg News’ Zach Mider and Ben Elgin’s recent expose series on DCI Group is worth reading.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">Proof of the DCI Group’s work on the United4Jobs campaign can be found on the Internet archive WayBack Machine. The contact information of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Andrea Saul</a> and other employees at DCI group at the time, can be found on United4Jobs’ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press releases</a>, webpages, and reports.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tech Central Station</a> (TCS), was another DCI Group project, built as a corporate op-ed page, funded by a number of companies to get third party voices published on issues they cared about. TCS prominently featured climate change denial content. In 2003, the year Tech Central was launched, ExxonMobil gave a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p44/a258254" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$95,000 grant to an organization called “Tech Central Science Foundation</a>” which we presume served as the fiscal agent behind Tech Central Station, though no such Foundation ever registered with the IRS, as far as we know.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">From 2003 to 2005, these two DCI Group’s creations, Tech Central and United4Jobs, were used together to fight the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tech Central Science Foundation</a>, the ExxonMobil funded org, paid Charles River and Associates to produce <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">a report published in October 2003</a> on the theoretical economic impact of the McCain-Lieberman bill. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">United4Jobs pushed that report </a>throughout <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">2004 </a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080619/http://www.united4jobs.org/studies/report.aspx?id=7" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">2005</a> claiming repeatedly that one million jobs would be lost if the McCain-Lieberman climate bill was passed and implemented.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">The Exxon-funded <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition</a> also pushed the TCS report on McCain-Lieberman in its June 2004 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">newsletter</a>. Published by CEI, the newsletter cites United for Jobs and the American Council for Capital Formation (another Exxon funded organization) as co-releasing the report. ACCF received a large ExxonMobil grant ($255,000) that year including <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p1/a258280" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">$180,000 earmarked for “climate change”</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">Tech Central Station served as a hub for climate science and policy misinformation during this period, much of which was aimed at McCain-Lieberman. TCS’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060317152414/http:/www.tcsdaily.com/sections/science_roundtable.aspx" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Daily Science Roundtable</a> included a slew of climate change deniers such as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Tim Ball</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Robert C. Balling, Jr</a>., <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">David Legates</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" color="color" rgb="rgb" outline="outline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> Patrick Michaels</a>, Roy Spencer, and others, according to an archived version of their website.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></li><li style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">As CIC has <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">previously written</a>, Tech Central and DCI Group ran multiple climate change denial campaigns for ExxonMobil during this period, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115457177198425388" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">attacking Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth”</a> and in June 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina, DCI and Tech Central produced and distributed a canned <a href="https://youtu.be/DXBqe7ngp24" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Video News Release (VNR) </a>declaring that there was no scientific evidence <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr40" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">linking dangerous hurricanes with climate change</a>. The VNR listed “TCS Daily Science Roundtable” as the producer.  VNRs are pre-produced segments designed to look like a news story, contracted generally by corporations, sent out to news stations in hopes of getting them aired as if they were news.  This one was aired on at least one TV station along the Gulf Coast.</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Kochtopus Tentacles Ensnare McCain</h3><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; font-size: small;">...</div></div>=go Joe<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-flake-former-gop-congress-biden" 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;">Fox News reports</a> that the list of former GOP lawmakers is headlined by Jeff Flake, the former Arizona senator who frequently clashed with the president before retiring in 2018.The other Republicans endorsing Biden are former Sens. John Warner of Virginia, Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, and former Reps. Steve Bartlett of Texas, Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania, Tom Coleman of Missouri, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Charles Djou of Hawaii, Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, Bob Inglis of South Carolina, Jim Kolbe of Arizona, Steve Kuykendall of California, Ray LaHood of Illinois, Jim Leach of Iowa, Connie Morella of Maryland, Mike Parker of Mississippi, Jack Quinn of New York, Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, Chris Shays of Connecticut, Peter Smith of Vermont, Alan Steelman of Texas, Bill Whitehurst of Virginia, Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, and Jim Walsh of New York.In the wake of Monday night’s first presidential debate, the establishment Republican Party and conservative newspapers continue to distance themselves from Donald Trump amid increasing accusations of racism, sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia. Today, former Virginia Republican Senator John Warner is reportedly slated to endorse Clinton. This comes as Arizona’s largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic, has endorsed Hillary Clinton—marking the paper’s first time ever endorsing a Democratic candidate for president. The editorial board wrote, "Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never. … This year is different." For more, we speak with famed sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. She has spent much of the past five years with some of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, researching her new book, "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right."

Some senior Republicans who have left the battlefield of electoral politics are starting to go vocal with their worries about their party’s stance on climate change—and to take action to stave off its electoral consequences. They fear, in the words of one GOP operative, “that the party is going to drive itself off a cliff with this.”

Conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior adviser on McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign who now heads the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, is working with the climate-policy advocacy group Clean Air-Cool Planet. The New Hampshire-based group has flown Holtz-Eakin to the state several times over the past few months to talk to voters in small living-room meetings about the economic threats of climate change—and the economic benefits of addressing the problem.

Another prominent Republican, John Warner, the former senator from Virginia and secretary of the Navy, is a senior adviser to the Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate, which focuses on the need to develop alternative energy to combat climate change and lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Warner, who cosponsored a major cap-and-trade bill when he was in the Senate, now travels the country, including stops at military bases, calling attention to the national-security concerns of climate change and fossil-fuel dependence.

Working with Warner on the Pew climate-change project is George Shultz, President Reagan’s secretary of State and an adviser to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. Last year, Shultz, who is a distinguished fellow at Stanford University, cochaired the “No on Prop. 23” campaign in California, which successfully defended the state’s pioneering cap-and-trade law against an oil industry-led effort to overturn it.

“My own opinion is that this problem is very real,” Shultz told National Journal. “I recognize there are a lot of people pooh-poohing it. Whether they like the science or not, there’s a huge problem coming at us. There’s a huge melt coming in the Arctic regions. There’s melting taking place.” Of Perry and other Republicans who deny climate science, Shultz said, “They’re entitled to their opinion, but they’re not entitled to the facts.”

Former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who lost his primary race last year in part because he acknowledged climate change, gives speeches and lectures across the country about the need for conservatives to do likewise and begin working on solutions to the problem. Otherwise, the Republican Party will be labeled antiscience, he warns. Inglis takes his message directly to conservative strongholds such as Federalist clubs and meetings of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“Being branded as antiscience is not a good future for us,” Inglis told National Journal. “How can we say to young people, we’re dismissing science? That’s not a good place for our party to be, and it’s not historically where we’ve been. There are conservative voices that will hopefully show the way back to conservatism and away from a populist rejection of science.”

On November 8, William Reilly, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, blasted his party’s stance on science in a widely reported speech. “For some of the most prominent leaders of the Republican Party, science has left the building,” he said. “Science doesn’t feature prominently in these debates. Republicans once were the party of science where environmental policy was concerned,” Reilly contended. Of House Republicans’ recent unanimous vote to overturn EPA’s scientific finding that climate change poses a public health threat, he said, “There was no explanation justifying a position at odds with the findings of 11 National Academies of Science, including our own.”

Another longtime GOP ally, Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, is also disturbed by the party’s shift toward science denial. Anderson, who is Tim Pawlenty’s pastor and worked with the former Minnesota governor on his state climate-change initiatives, in 2006 joined with other prominent evangelicals in sending a letter to President George W. Bush arguing that no legitimate scientific debate remained on the merits of climate science and that evangelicals had a moral obligation to solve a problem that threatens the world’s most vulnerable people.

“Most evangelicals in other countries believe that there is climate change and that we need to do something. It seems to be an American position to deny that,” Anderson told National Journal. “It’s curious to me that there are people who have taken strong positions and then changed them. Many of the candidates were expressing concern four or five years ago. Whenever there are sea changes on particular issues and many get on board, you wonder what changed the political or cultural climate.”

2/07 boxer had uscap ceos testify; warner

VA interested, which sent chill thru K st and hill

164. warmer cd have taken inhofe spot as minority after boxer took over, but took spot on lieberman GW subcom to link up 165 pooley

ex senate, now at Pew

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John William Warner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBE" title="KBE" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">KBE</a> (born February 18, 1927) is an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican</a> politician who served as<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Secretary of the Navy</a> from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States Senator</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Virginia</a> from January 2, 1979, to January 3, 2009. He did not seek <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2008" title="United States Senate elections, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">reelection in 2008</a> and has rejoined the law firm of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan_Lovells" title="Hogan Lovells" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Hogan Lovells</a>, where he worked before joining the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States Department of Defense</a>. Warner was also the sixth husband to actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Elizabeth Taylor</a>, whom he married before being elected to the Senate. He is a veteran of World War II, and one of only five serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-gulftimes-09-17-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">dead link</a>]

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John William Warner was born on February 18, 1927, to John W. and Martha Budd Warner and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended the elite <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Albans_School(Washington,D.C.)" title="St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">St. Albans School</a> before graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_High_School(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, D.C.)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Woodrow Wilson High School</a> in February 1945.

He enlisted in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States Navy</a> during World War II in January 1945, shortly before his 18th birthday. He served until the following year, leaving as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_Officer_Third_Class" title="Petty Officer Third Class" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Petty Officer 3rd Class</a>. He went to college at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Lee_University" title="Washington and Lee University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Washington and Lee University</a>, where he was a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Theta_Pi" title="Beta Theta Pi" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Beta Theta Pi</a>, graduating in 1949; he then entered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">University of Virginia Law School</a>.

He joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Marine Corps</a> in October 1950, after the outbreak of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Korean War</a>, and served in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea" title="Korea" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Korea</a> as a ground aircraft maintenance officer with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Marine_Aircraft_Wing" title="1st Marine Aircraft Wing" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1st Marine Aircraft Wing</a>. He continued in the Marine Corps<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_reserves" title="Military reserves" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Reserves</a> after the war, eventually reaching the rank of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain(United_States)" title="Captain (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">captain</a>. He then resumed his studies, taking courses at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George Washington University</a>, and then receiving his law degree in 1953. That year, he became a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">law clerk</a> to Chief Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Barrett_Prettyman" title="E. Barrett Prettyman" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">E. Barrett Prettyman</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals" title="United States Court of Appeals" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States Court of Appeals</a>. In 1956, he became an assistant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_attorney" title="US attorney" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">US attorney</a>; in 1960 he entered private law practice and joined Kirkland and Ellis.

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In 1957, Warner married banking heiress Catherine Conover Mellon, the daughter of art collector <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mellon" title="Paul Mellon" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Paul Mellon</a> and his first wife, Mary Conover, and the granddaughter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon" title="Andrew Mellon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Andrew Mellon</a>. By his marriage, Warner accrued substantial capital for investing and expanding his political contacts. The Warners, who divorced in 1973, have three children: Virginia, John Jr, and Mary. His former wife now uses the name Catherine Conover.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a>

John Warner married actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Elizabeth Taylor</a> on December 4, 1976. They divorced on November 7, 1982. Although Warner again obtained society limelight and capital for his advancement, the divorce did not leave him with the same amount of wealth as with Mary Conover. Warner and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fortensky" title="Larry Fortensky" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Larry Fortensky</a> were the only living former spouses of Elizabeth Taylor at the time of her death in 2011.

On December 15, 2003, Warner married Jeanne Vander Myde, a real estate agent with a substantial land portfolio and background in buying small farms and estates in Virginia and developing them into housing tracts. She is also the widow of White House official Paul Vander Myde.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a>

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Warner was quite moderate, especially in comparison to most Republican Senators from the South. He was among the minority of Republicans to support <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">gun control</a> laws. He voted for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Bill" title="Brady Bill" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Brady Bill</a> and, in 1999, was one of only five Republicans to vote to close the so-called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_shows_in_the_United_States" title="Gun shows in the United States" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">gun show loophole</a>. In 2004 Warner was one of three Republicans to sponsor an amendment by Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dianne Feinstein</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">D</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">CA</a>) that sought to provide for a 10-year extension of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_Weapons_Ban" title="Assault Weapons Ban" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Assault Weapons Ban</a>.

His committee memberships included the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Environment_and_Public_Works" title="United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Environment and Public Works Committee</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Health,Education,Labor,_and_Pensions" title="United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="Senate Select Committee on Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Select Committee on Intelligence</a>. As the chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Armed_Services_Committee" title="Senate Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Armed Services Committee</a>, he protected and increased the flow of billions of dollars into the Virginia economy each year via the state's military installations and shipbuilding firms which served his reelection efforts in every cycle.

Following Ford's defeat, Warner began to consider political office for himself. He entered politics in the 1978 Virginia election for U.S. Senate. Despite the publicity of being Elizabeth Taylor's husband and the large amounts of money Warner used in his campaign for the nomination, he finished second at the state<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Party</a> (GOP) convention to the far more conservative politician <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D.Obenshain" title="Richard D. Obenshain" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Richard D. Obenshain</a>. Much of this loss was due to his perceived liberal political stances, especially his soft approach to Soviet relations. In contrast Obenshain was a noted anti-Soviet, a hardline anti-communist, and an opponent of other liberal policies including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society" title="Great Society" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Great Society</a> and much of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" title="Civil Rights Movement" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Civil Rights Movement</a>. However, fate intervened when Obenshain died two months later in a plane crash. Consequently, Warner was chosen to replace him and narrowly won the general election over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Democrat</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_P.Miller" title="Andrew P. Miller" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Andrew P. Miller</a>, former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia" title="Attorney General of Virginia" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Attorney General of Virginia</a>. He was in the Senate until January 3, 2009. Despite his less conservative policy stances, Warner managed to be the second-longest serving senator in Virginia's history, behind only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_F.Byrd,Sr." title="Harry F. Byrd, Sr." class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Harry F. Byrd, Sr.</a>, and by far the longest-serving Republican Senator from the state. On August 31, 2007, Warner announced that he would not seek re-election in 2008.After giving substantial campaign funds and time to the Nixon Presidential election, on February 1969, Warner was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_administration" title="Nixon administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Nixon administration</a>. On May 4, 1972, he succeeded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chafee" title="John Chafee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John H. Chafee</a> as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="Secretary of the Navy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Secretary of the Navy</a>. Thereafter Warner, was appointed by President<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gerald Ford</a> to be a participant in the controversial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Sea" title="Law of the Sea" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Law of the Sea</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalist" title="Globalist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Globalist</a> talks, and negotiated the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-Soviet_Incidents_at_Sea_agreement" title="US-Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Incidents at Sea Executive Agreement</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Soviet Union</a> which became a cause celebre of pro-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detente" title="Detente" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Detente</a>doves in Soviet-American relations. He was subsequently appointed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gerald Ford</a> to the post of Director of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.

Warner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supported&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Supported (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">supported</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a> the Roe v. Wade decision establishing abortion rights and supported<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cell" title="Embryonic stem cell" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">embryonic stem cell</a> research,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a> although he received high ratings from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-life" title="Pro-life" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">pro-life</a> groups because he voted in favor of many abortion restrictions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a>On June 15, 2004, Warner was among the minority of his party to vote to expand <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime" title="Hate crime" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">hate crime laws</a> to include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation" title="Sexual orientation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">sexual orientation</a> as a protected category. He supports a constitutional amendment banning<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">same-sex marriage</a>, but he raised concerns about the most recent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Marriage_Amendment" title="Federal Marriage Amendment" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Federal Marriage Amendment</a> as being too restrictive as it would have potentially banned civil unions as well.

In 1987, Warner was one of the few Republicans who voted to reject the nomination of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork" title="Robert Bork" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert Bork</a>by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> and the only Southerner to do so.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a>

According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephanopoulos" title="George Stephanopoulos" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">George Stephanopoulos</a>, a former close aide to President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Bill Clinton</a>, Warner was among top choices to replace <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aspin" title="Les Aspin" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Les Aspin</a> as the Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration. However, President Clinton selected <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry" title="William Perry" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">William Perry</a>. During Clinton second term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cohen" title="William Cohen" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">William Cohen</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Maine</a>, another moderate Republican Senator, held this position.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a>Warner was re-elected easily in 1984 and 1990, and faced his first real challenge for re-election in 1996 from political newcomer Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mark Warner</a> (no relation). Mark Warner was a millionaire who vastly outspent the incumbent and produced an unusually close election, but John Warner prevailed with 52% of the vote.

During the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_Presidential_election" title="1996 United States Presidential election" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1996 United States Presidential election</a> Warner served as a Senate teller (along with Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_H.Ford" title="Wendell H. Ford" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Wendell H. Ford</a>) of electoral votes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a> Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Impeachment of Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Clinton's impeachment</a> (the others were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby" title="Richard Shelby" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Richard Shelby</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alabama</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens" title="Ted Stevens" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ted Stevens</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alaska</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Collins" title="Susan Collins" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Susan Collins</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Maine</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_Snowe" title="Olympia Snowe" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Olympia Snowe</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Maine</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chafee" title="John Chafee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Chafee</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Rhode Island</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" title="Arlen Specter" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arlen Specter</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jeffords" title="Jim Jeffords" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jim Jeffords</a> of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Vermont</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade_Gorton" title="Slade Gorton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Slade Gorton</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington(state)" title="Washington (state)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Washington</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fred Thompson</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Tennessee</a>). Warner and others who voted against the article angered many Republicans by their position. However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted guilty on the second article.

As was the case in 1990, Warner faced no Democratic opposition in 2002, winning re-election to a fifth term in the Senate by a landslide over an independent candidate.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">citation needed</a>]

On May 23, 2005, Warner was one of 14 centrist senators (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_14" title="Gang of 14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gang of 14</a>) to forge a compromise on the Democrats' proposed use of the judicial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster" title="Filibuster" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">filibuster</a>, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option" title="Nuclear option" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">nuclear option</a>. Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance", and three Bush <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_court" title="Appellate court" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">appellate court</a> nominees (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Rogers_Brown" title="Janice Rogers Brown" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Janice Rogers Brown</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Owen" title="Priscilla Owen" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Priscilla Owen</a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.Pryor,Jr." title="William H. Pryor, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">William Pryor</a>) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

In March 2007, after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pace" title="Peter Pace" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peter Pace</a> spoke out about his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_on_homosexuality_and_the_military" title="Views on homosexuality and the military" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">views on homosexuality and the military</a>, Sen. Warner said, "I respectfully, but strongly, disagree with the chairman's view that homosexuality is immoral."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a>On September 17, 2006, Warner said that US military and intelligence personnel in future wars will suffer for abuses committed in 2006 by the US in the name of fighting terrorism. He feared that the administration’s civilian lawyers and a president who never saw combat were putting US service personnel at risk of torture, summary executions and other atrocities by chipping away at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Geneva Conventions</a>’ standards that have protected them since 1949. Following the Supreme Court ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was adverse to the Bush Administration, Warner (with Senators<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lindsey Graham</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John McCain</a>) negotiated with the White House the language of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006" title="Military Commissions Act of 2006" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Military Commissions Act of 2006</a>, suspending <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">habeas corpus</a> provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an "unlawful combatant" and barring them from challenging their detentions in court. Warner's vote gave a retroactive, nine-year immunity to U.S. officials who authorized, ordered, or committed acts of torture and abuse, permitting the use of statements obtained through torture to be used in military tribunals so long as the abuse took place by December 30, 2005.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a> Warner's "compromise" (approved by a Republican majority) authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Convention" title="Geneva Convention" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Geneva Convention</a> standards, so long as the coercion falls short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a> Warner maintains that the new law holds true to "core principles" that the US provide fair trials and not be seen as undermining Geneva Conventions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-gulftimes-09-17-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">dead link</a>] The bill was signed into law on October 17, 2006, in Warner's presence.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a>

On August 23, 2007, he called on President Bush to begin bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by Christmas in order to make it clear to the Iraqi leadership that the U.S. commitment is not indefinite.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a>

On August 31, 2007, he announced that he would not seek a sixth term in the Senate in 2008.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a>

Warner was a cosponsor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Climate_Security_Act_of_2007" title="America's Climate Security Act of 2007" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">America's Climate Security Act of 2007</a>, also more commonly referred to as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_and_trade" title="Cap and trade" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cap and Trade</a> Bill, that proposed to ration (cap) carbon emissions in the U.S., and tax or purchase (trade) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credits" title="Carbon credits" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Carbon credits</a> on the global market for greater U.S. alignment with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_protocol" title="Kyoto protocol" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kyoto protocol</a>standards and goals.

In September 2008, Warner joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_20" title="Gang of 20" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gang of 20</a>, a bipartisan coalition seeking comprehensive energy reform. The group is pushing for a bill that would encourage state-by-state decisions on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_drilling" title="Offshore drilling" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">offshore drilling</a> and authorize billions of dollars for conservation and alternative energy.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a>

In October 2008, Warner voted in favor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008" title="Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-Senate_Vote-212-Amendment-20" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-Senate_Vote-213-HR_1424-21" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[21]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection (Ranking Member)</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations</li>

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On December 12, 2008, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Office of the Director of National Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Office of the Director of National Intelligence</a> awarded Warner the first ever <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Distinguished_Public_Service_Medal" title="National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal</a>.

On January 8, 2009, the Secretary of the Navy announced it would name the next <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_class_submarine" title="Virginia class submarine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Virginia-class</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">submarine</a> after John Warner. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_Warner_(SSN-785)" title="USS John Warner (SSN-785)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">USS John Warner (SSN-785)</a> will be the twelfth Virginia-class submarine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[22]</a>

On February 19, 2009 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Embassy" title="British Embassy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">British Embassy</a> in Washington, D.C., announced that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" title="Queen Elizabeth II" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Queen Elizabeth II</a> would name John Warner an honorary Knight Commander for his work strengthening the American-British military alliance.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[23]</a> As a person who is not a British citizen (or a citizen of a country which acknowledges the British monarch as their own monarch), the title of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire</a> only allows Warner to put the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-nominal_letters" title="Post-nominal letters" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Post-nominal letters</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBE" title="KBE" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">KBE</a> after his name.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[24]</a>

The annual Senator John W. Warner Award is given to a third year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia who exhibits a serious, convincing ambition to seek future election to public office. This award honors an individual who strives for service in an elected office, whether it is a part-time city council position or a full-time legislative or executive office. Successful candidates demonstrate the required courage to stand up and ask fellow citizens for their valued vote. The award of up to $3,000 funds a research project in an area that will inform the recipient's future career as an elected official. Award recipients include: John Jacob Nay, Casey Enders, James Linville, and Sarah Buckley. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warner#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[25]</a>

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Washington, DC - 07/14/2009 - Today, former Senator John Warner (R-VA) and the Pew Environment Group announced a new project to listen and share with the public viewpoints on the critical links between national security, energy and global warming. The Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate will bring together science and military policy experts to examine new strategies for combating climate change, protecting our national security, increasing our energy independence and preserving our nation’s natural resources.

"I am highly honored to join Pew’s efforts," said Senator John Warner. “I spent thirty years in the U.S. Senate working on behalf of our men and women in uniform serving our country and on the issues related to the impact of climate changes on their future military roles and missions. Leading military and security experts agree that if left unchecked, global warming could increase instability and lead to conflict in already fragile regions of the world. We ignore these facts at the peril of our national security and at great risk to those in uniform who serve this nation.”

Senator Warner served in the U.S. Navy during the final years of World War II, in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, and was the Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974. During his five terms in the U.S. Senate he was a Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and was the longest serving Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee. In 2006 he joined with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), to co-sponsor the Climate Security Act, the only climate change bill passed by a Senate committee.

Numerous expert reports have documented the security challenges that unchecked global climate change could cause. The Central Intelligence Agency’s long-term forecasting arm, the National Intelligence Council, recently reported that global warming could directly impact the U.S. by threatening energy supplies, damaging military bases, increasing food and water shortages, and stressing the economy. In Congressional testimony earlier this year, director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said “[t]he Intelligence Community judges global climate change will have important and extensive implications for U.S. national security interests over the next 20 years.” 

Similarly, a May 2009 CNA Military Advisory Board report identified a series of risks created by America’s energy policies and practices and warned that “business as usual is perilous because of the converging national security risks of energy demand and climate change.” Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of CNA and Executive Director of the CNA Military Advisory Board, said “Climate change is a threat multiplier and has the potential to add significantly to the mission burden of the U.S. military in regions around the world.”

The Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate is dedicated to advancing solutions to combat the threat of global warming, protect our national security, increase our energy independence, and preserve our nation's natural resources. Senator Warner will work exclusively with state and municipal governments, the Obama Administration, local organizations, and military, security and climate experts in select U.S. cities to address the climate-security nexus. Public events are scheduled in July in Missouri and South Carolina, with other events to occur in the fall and winter. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.pewclimatesecurity.org/">www.pewclimatesecurity.org</a>.

"We are honored that Senator Warner will serve as spokesperson for this project.  Few individuals have his depth of knowledge and experience on the energy, national security and environmental challenges facing our country and the world.  Our country needs to engage in an informed conversation on a clean energy future that makes America more secure,” said Josh Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group.

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