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=pow ca HL richarson mentor=<a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24720316.html">https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24720316.html</a>— Meet John Doolittle, working stiff.Sacramento, Calif.,-area residents once called him Republican state senator, then congressman. Federal prosecutors once called him, ominously, Representative 5. Now, starting over at the age of 61, he unashamedly calls himself a lobbyist."It's funny," Doolittle said. "That's such a negative term, but if people ask, that's what I say I am."He laughed. He laughs easily, which is saying something, given all that's transpired."I know," said his former colleague Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., "that he and his wife went through a great deal."Doolittle was one of several lawmakers caught up the turbulent wake of Jack Abramoff, the Republican uber-lobbyist who was released recently after serving three and a half years in prison on mail fraud and conspiracy charges. More than a dozen other individuals were convicted or pleaded guilty to assorted charges, though no charges were ever brought against Doolittle or his wife, Julie, who did event planning for Abramoff's firm.John and Doolittle estimate that they shelled out more than $400,000 for attorneys' fees during a long-running corruption investigation that left them poorer but in the clear. Doctors' bills have tallied hundreds of thousands of dollars more, covering the exotic medical travails of Julie Doolittle.They suffered the essentially involuntary end of John Doolittle's 28-year career in elective office. They saw his former legislative director sob as he was sentenced to four years in federal prison. They have, whatever one might say about Doolittle's politics, endured."It was painful to leave" Congress, Doolittle acknowledged, but "I'm going forward. Honestly, I don't look back."Doolittle represented portions of the Sacramento area in the state Senate from 1981 through 1990. From 1991 through his 2008 retirement, he represented roughly 650,000 residents in a congressional district based in Roseville, Calif.Now he operates a one-man lobbying shop from his Northern Virginia home. Outside that, his sole title is choir president at the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward. He's a gardener and a grandfather, and a man coping with sciatica and tennis elbow who nonetheless still looks younger than his years.<div class="zone grid combo" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(300px, 1fr)); gap: 30px; max-width: var(--story-width); padding: 0px 15px; margin: 30px auto; clear: both; outline: none;"><div id="zone-el-103" class="zone-el" style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none; display: flex;"><div id="zone-el-104" class="zone-el" style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none; display: flex;">A fat cat, he is not. "I'm his staff," Julie Doolittle said, and she, too, laughed.Doolittle first registered as a lobbyist in August 2010, representing a Folsom, Calif.,-based firm called Resource Capital. Soon, public records show, he added a client called Downhole Pipe & Equipment, based in Sugar Land, Texas. Last May, the Roseville-based North State Building Industry Association joined Doolittle's stable.All told, Doolittle has reported being paid $210,000 by his lobbying clients."I know some people may think it shows just how far I have sunk, but I had no compunction about it," Doolittle said of his new profession.<div id="zone-el-105" class="zone zone-el" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: var(--story-width); padding: 0px 15px; margin: 30px auto; clear: both; outline: none;">He likens lobbying to legislating. They both are about solving problems and helping people, he said. So he makes connections. He knows the key legislative directors and the committee chairmen. He knows how Washington works."In his areas of expertise, he'll do very well," Burton predicted. "I think he's a very honorable man ... (who) understands the process."Doolittle, for instance, knows he need meet with a former House of Representatives colleague only "if it's essential." He need not brave congested Interstate 66 to reach the Capitol, or K Street, every day. He usually works from the two-story, five-bedroom home his family has lived in since 1991.He's still a conservative, but with subtler shadings. A hard-liner while in office, awarded a perfect 100 voting score from the American Conservative Union in 2007, Doolittle has since adjusted his views; at least, with regard to the criminal justice system."It's just outrageous how they treat people," Doolittle said. "It's made me much more keenly aware of the need to give everyone the presumption of innocence."On Friday the 13th of April 2007, he was heading to an appointment in Oroville, Calif., in his congressional district. A little after noon, Julie Doolittle opened the door to discover several FBI agents on the front step. They had a search warrant, and reinforcements.While she tried to figure out a way to reroute her daughter, due home from middle school, the agents spent several hours combing through the house. They took her journals, her business files and her desktop Dell computer. None of it was returned.A year later, John Doolittle's former-staffer-turned-lobbyist Kevin Ring was indicted on corruption charges. Prosecutors accused Ring, allied with Abramoff, of lavishing favors on those who might help his clients.Doolittle, designated "Representative 5," appeared throughout 12 pages of Ring's original 46-page indictment. Ring was said to have provided "many tickets for entertainment events" to Doolittle's staff. He bought "many meals at various restaurants" for Doolittle himself. He helped arrange consulting work for Julie Doolittle. In an October 2000 e-mail to Abramoff, he called John Doolittle a "good soldier, doing everything we asked of him.""Congressman Doolittle and his staff helped out again and again and again on lots of projects," federal prosecutor Nathaniel Edmonds told a jury, the trial transcript shows.After a mistrial the first time around, Ring was convicted at a second trial. He's now appealing. Doolittle submitted a character endorsement of Ring, urging mercy in sentencing, but he never was called as a trial witness, nor was he interviewed by prosecutors or FBI agents."I've had the pleasure," said Julie Doolittle, whom investigators interviewed several times.Finally, Doolittle's attorney obtained an oral Justice Department declaration last year that the matter was closed. The Doolittles were free and clear, albeit with a reputational and financial hangover. John Doolittle's campaign committee reported still owing $121,381 for his legal fees as of Sept. 30; he said that had since been resolved.But as the legal burden lifted, his wife's health deteriorated. Pursuing the cause of her persistent breathing problems over the past year, doctors finally determined that her trachea was collapsing. George Washington University surgeons inserted three stents in March and untwisted the trachea; for eight days after the operation, she was deeply sedated."When I got out, I couldn't talk, or write, or walk," she said, in a voice that's still hoarse. "It's been a difficult, difficult situation for us."Thankfully, John Doolittle said, his health care coverage as a retired member of Congress handled a lot of the expense. He does, after all, count his blessings."Bad things," he said, "happen to good people all the time ... (but) we're trying to move forward, in a new life."MORE FROM MCCLATCHY<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/11/95759/justice-department-case-against.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;">Justice Department case against him dropped, Doolittle says</a><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/09/29/76198/ex-california-rep-doolittle-wife.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;">Ex-California Rep. Doolittle, wife named in corruption case</a><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/09/14/52413/abramoff-aide-hid-search-for-job.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;">Abramoff aide hid search for job for a congressman's wife</a>Follow <a href="http://bit.ly/oN7r4R" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;">Michael Doyle on Twitter</a>=== mcc& D 2003: 104th congress (1994 gingrich?) House Comm on sci went after green regs: see Kraft 2000) delay and doolittle ~ cfc's, nviro res (esp gw and energy res) rohrbacker and rep robrt walker Penn p 36

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JD also tried to debunk ozone depletion, when d rep objected to singer b/c not peer rev, jd dismissed "mumbo-jumbo". 363
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<div>=</div><div><a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/ozone.html">http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/ozone.html</a></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">During the 1990s several think tanks began casting doubt on the evidence that a build up of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were causing ozone depletion and an ozone hole over the antarctic each year.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/images/ozonehole.jpg" alt="ozone hole" class="leftImage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; clear: left; float: left;" />The <a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/cato.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Cato Institute</a> published <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://store.cato.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=144018" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Eco-scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse</a> by <a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/Bailey.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Ronald Bailey</a>. In it Bailey argues that scientists working for NASA have promoted the ozone depletion theory in order to bolster its budget. Like the critics of the global warming theory, and usually these are the same people, Bailey and others emphasise the uncertainties surrounding the theory and the natural fluctuations in ozone levels that occur over time:<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 20px; border: none; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">the impact of man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on the ozone layer is a complex question that turns on murky evidence, tentative conclusions, conflicting interpretations, and changing predictions....it turns out that ozone depletion, like the other environmental dooms analyzed here, is less a crisis than a nuisance....</blockquote><a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The think tanks also exaggerated the cost of dealing with the problem. The <a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/CEI.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)</a>, argued that the phasing out of CFCs would cost “$44.4 to $99.4 billion over the next decade”.<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The British <a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/IEA.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Institute of Economic Affairs</a> published A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems by Matt Ridley which argued that “global temperatures may actually be falling” and “the ozone layer is getting thicker, not thinner, over temperate latitudes.” This argument was meaningless since ozone depletion is occurring close to the Earth’s poles.<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A related criticism was that there had been no measured increase in UV radiation detected in cities in the US as a result of ozone depletion. These critics ignored the evidence of increases in UV radiation at ground level in Australia.<div class="topofpage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/tanks/ozone.html#" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/backtotop.gif" alt="back to top" width="102" height="19" border="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(185, 61, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a name="scientists" id="scientists" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Scientists</a></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Since about 1993 a series of publications came out suggesting that ozone depletion was a scam or a hoax or at least grossly exaggerated. Most of these were based on the claims of a handful of scientists based at corporate-funded think tanks. Perhaps the most quoted of these is Fred Singer, executive director of the think tank, the <a href="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/environment/warming/SEPP.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)</a>. SEPP has argued that global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain are not real but rather are scare tactics used by environmentalists.<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> He is an associate editor of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">21st Century Science and Technology which, according to the journal <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Science, is published “by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche”.Maduro wrote a book entitled <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holes in the Ozone Scare: The Scientific Evidence That the Sky Isn’t Falling with writer Ralf Schauerhammer, published by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">21st Century. In it they argued that most chlorine in the stratosphere comes from natural sources such seawater and volcanoes. Atmospheric scientists, however, pointed out that the chlorine from these sources is washed out of the air by rain long before it reaches the stratosphere whereas CFCs are not soluble in water.<div class="topofpage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; text-align: right;">
</div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(185, 61, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a name="media" id="media" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Media</a></h3><a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Drawing on these few scientific ‘experts’, who prefer to publish their dissent in think tank and right wing publications rather than peer reviewed scientific journals, conservative and business magazines and radio talk back hosts, such as Rush Limbaugh, spread the idea that ozone depletion was not really a problem and that no action needs to be taken. For example <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Business Week quoted Fred Singer and Ronald Bailey it its article entitled <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s Flying out the Ozone Hole? Billions of dollars in which it argued that “the propaganda of the Chicken Littles has prevailed over science—and the cost of needlessly replacing cooling equipment will be staggering.” Another <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Business Week article a year later quoted Fred Singer as saying that the CFC phaseout was “based mainly on panicky reactions to press releases... “ The articles were written by Paul Craig Roberts, the chairman of a Washington think tank  and a Distinguished Fellow of the Cato Institute.<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The surge of backlash publications also reached the mainstream press. The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post reported that “the problem appears to be heading toward solution before [researchers] can find any solid evidence that serious  harm was or is being done.”<div class="topofpage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; text-align: right;">
</div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(185, 61, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a name="regulation" id="regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;">Delaying Regulation</a></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">isn’t the first time that the media has serviced those seeking to discredit ozone depletion theories. In the 1970s when the connection between fluorocarbons from aerosol spray cans and ozone depletion were first made:<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 20px; border: none; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;">the aerosol industry launched a PR campaign that emphasized ‘knowledge gaps’ instead of gaps in the Earth’s atmospheric shield. Industry press releases formed the basis for articles in numerous newspapers and magazines that questioned the ozone depletion ‘theory’, enabling aerosol spray manufacturers to buy additional time before their product was banned. In this case, industry profits were deemed more important than the prevention of skin cancer.</blockquote><a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">This time, think tanks and their scholars have provided the Republicans in Congress with the rhetoric to oppose a more general CFC phaseout. The Republicans have sought to retract US agreement to the terms of the Montreal Protocol, the international convention aimed at phasing out CFCs worldwide. And a bill was introduced to repeal the provisions of the Clean Air Act relating to production and use of CFCs. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New Scientist reported in September 1995:<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 20px; border: none; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">America’s Republicans thumbed their noses at the vast majority of the world’s scientists last week by claiming there is no proof that CFCs are destroying the ozone layer. Without proof, they argued, there is no good reason why the US should rush to ban the manufacture of CFCs by the end of the year.</blockquote><a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 20px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The appropriately named Republican, John Doolittle, told the House of Representatives Science Committee that ozone depletion was debatable, based on pseudo science and that “we’re not giving Mother Nature enough credit for being able to replenish the ozone layer.” He dismissed peer-review as “mumbo jumbo.” Also writing in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New Scientist, Jeff Hecht argued that:<a class="popup" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; direction: ltr;"><img src="http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/images/ref.jpg" alt="reference" width="45" height="17" border="0" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px 20px; border: none; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none;">What the Republicans are doing is playing lawyers’ games with science. They demand that theories that they consider inconvenient be proved beyond any doubt—something that is impossible in science... The theory is so widely accepted that is originators received a Nobel prize for chemistry. Yet the Republicans don’t like this because it implies the need to regulate industrial production of the harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer.... If they could find a few scientists who weren’t 100 per cent convinced that CFCs depleted ozone, they seemed ready to abandon the Montreal Protocol.</blockquote></div><div>]]</div>

<h3>Environmental record</h3>

For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style="">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a>

As late as April 2006, Doolittle also served on the advisory board of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Wilderness_Institute" title="National Wilderness Institute">National Wilderness Institute</a>, an organization that claims to be the "voice of reason on the enviornment." NWI is dedicated to weakening the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act" title="Endangered Species Act">Endangered Species Act</a> and other environmental protections.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Doolittle#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>

<h4>Project Evergreen</h4>

In early 2000, Doolittle wrote a letter announcing "Project Evergreen," seeking suggestions from conservative supporters on administrative measures that could be advanced following the election of Texas Gov. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> as president. He stated, "When I speak before or meet with Americans concerned by the extremism of the so-called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmentalist_movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Environmentalist movement (page does not exist)">environmentalist movement</a>, I often find myself counseling only defensive action. But rather than complaining and beating back <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration">Clinton administration</a> proposals, we may soon have the chance to take the initiative with a new Republican president. I would like to assemble a list of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Executive_Order" title="Executive Order" class="mw-redirect">Executive Orders</a> and rule changes that a new president can enact immediately upon taking office to go on the offensive against the extreme environmentalists. The real changes enacted by a new administration occur in the first year or so. By putting together a master plan now, we can ensure that this tremendous opportunity is not wasted." <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030401163004/http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol3/ge3.3_Doolittle.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20030401163004/http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol3/ge3.3_Doolittle.html" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> (Note: Doolittle's Project Evergreen is not to be confused with a group with the same name announced in 2005 as being formed by "US pesticide makers, applicators, garden centres and mower manufacturers.")

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John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30, 1950), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> politician, was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> from 1991 to 2009, representing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="California's 4th congressional district">California's 4th congressional district</a>. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_United_States_Congress" title="109th United States Congress">109th Congress</a>, he held a leadership role as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_Whip" title="Majority Whip" class="mw-redirect">Deputy Whip</a> for the Republican party in the House.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-0">[1]</a> He was succeeded in the House of Representatives by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McClintock" title="Tom McClintock">Tom McClintock</a>.

new?! 820: In the approach to the 2008 election, Doolittle lost support from previous allies and had difficulty in fundraising. He announced that he would not run again. He had been criticized by opponents for improprieties, including using his wife's one-person firm for his political fundraising, as she based her compensation on a percentage of all funds raised, including from his PAC. She made nearly $180,000 in such commissions from 2001 to 2006.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Union-Tribune-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> His office did not stop using her firm for fundraising until January 2007.He was under investigation from 2006 to 2010 related to alleged financial improprieties. These included his and his wife's business relations with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Abramoff</a>, a prominent lobbyist in Washington, DC, who was found to have defrauded numerous clients, including Indian tribes. During this period, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> (CREW) listed Doolittle as among the 20 most corrupt congressmen in reports from 2006-2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-ethics-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> The US Attorney closed its investigation of Doolittle in 2010 without bringing any charges against him.
[On April 19, 2007, Doolittle resigned from the Committee on Appropriations in response to a raid by the FBI at his Northern Virginia home. The raid stemmed from possible involvement by his wife in the investigation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jack Abramoff</a> for defrauding clients as a lobbyist and inappropriate influence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-werner-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a>]

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Early_life_and_education">1 Early life and education</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Career_prior_to_the_U.S._House">2 Career prior to the U.S. House</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Initial_election_and_re-elections">2.1 Initial election and re-elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Political_positions_and_actions">2.2 Political positions and actions</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Auburn_Dam_Project">2.3 Auburn Dam Project</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Recent_re-election_campaigns">2.4 Recent re-election campaigns</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Legislative_Record">3 Legislative Record</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#State_Children.27s_Health_Insurance_Program_.28SCHIP.29">3.1 State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Campaign_Finances">4 Campaign Finances</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Controversies">5 Controversies</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Abramoff_connections">5.1 Abramoff connections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Small_towns_pressured_to_hire_lobbyists">5.2 Small towns pressured to hire lobbyists</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Activities_of_Julie_Doolittle">5.3 Activities of Julie Doolittle</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Work_for_lobbying_firm">5.3.1 Work for lobbying firm</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Fundraising_commissions_from_Doolittle_campaign_revenues">5.3.2 Fundraising commissions from Doolittle campaign revenues</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Connections_to_Brent_Wilkes">5.5 Connections to Brent Wilkes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#Investigation_of_Charles_Hurwitz">5.6 Investigation of Charles Hurwitz</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#2008_re-election_campaign">6 2008 re-election campaign</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#References">7 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#External_links">8 External links</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>] Early life and education</h2>

Doolittle was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,California" title="Glendale, California">Glendale, California</a>. He grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,California" title="Cupertino, California">Cupertino, California</a>, graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_High_School" title="Cupertino High School">Cupertino High School</a> in 1968. He graduated with honors with a B.A. in History from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Santa_Cruz" title="University of California, Santa Cruz">University of California, Santa Cruz</a>. He also has a law degree from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_School_of_Law" title="McGeorge School of Law">McGeorge School of Law</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Pacific%28United_States%29" title="University of the Pacific (United States)">University of the Pacific</a>, in Sacramento, in 1978.

Doolittle spent two years as a missionary in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> before going to law school.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-1">[2]</a> Doolittle is married to the former Julia (Julie) Harlow. They have a son and daughter.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career prior to the U.S. House">edit</a>] Career prior to the U.S. House</h2>

In 1979, Doolittle worked as an aide to State Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.L.Richardson" title="H. L. Richardson">H. L. Richardson</a>, the conservative founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America" title="Gun Owners of America">Gun Owners of America</a> and the Law and Order Campaign Committee.

In a 1980 race for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate">California State Senate</a>, Doolittle, then 29, stunned everyone by narrowly defeating Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_S._Rodda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Albert S. Rodda (page does not exist)">Albert S. Rodda</a>, dean of the state Senate and chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

In 1981, the Democratic state legislature's redistricting plan, which used creatively drawn districts to squeeze out Republican lawmakers, dumped Doolittle into a Democratic district, where he lost to then-Assemblyman Leroy Greene in 1982. But by a quirk of redistricting, Doolittle was able to keep his original seat until 1984, when he won another term by beating Ray Johnson, a Republican turned independent from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico,_California" title="Chico, California">Chico</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-SN.26R-3">[4]</a> An administrative law judge later found him guilty of violating campaign finance laws when his campaign helped his Democratic opponent, to pull votes away from Johnson.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-4">[5]</a> Doolittle easily won re-election in 1988. From 1987 to 1990, he was chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus.

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Initial election and re-elections">edit</a>] Initial election and re-elections</h3>

In 1990, Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_D.Shumway" title="Norman D. Shumway">Norman D. Shumway</a>, also a Mormon, retired from Congress. In the November general election, Doolittle defeated Patty Malberg, a Democrat from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,California" title="Lincoln, California">Lincoln</a>, getting 51% of the vote, in what was then the 14th Congressional District.

Doolittle's district was renumbered as the 4th in 1992, and he was reelected with 50 percent of the vote, again defeating Malberg. However, he was reelected with 61 percent of the vote in 1994 and didn't face another close race until 2006.

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political positions and actions">edit</a>] Political positions and actions</h3>

In his first years in Congress, Doolittle was a member of the group known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Seven" title="Gang of Seven">Gang of Seven</a>, which had a role in exposing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_banking_scandal" title="House banking scandal">House banking scandal</a>.

Doolittle is a staunch conservative. According to the Associated Press, "Doolittle is a generally loyal supporter of the Bush administration — though like many House Republicans he opposes Bush's support for an immigration guest worker program." He is in favor of partial privatization of Social Security, saying he would like to see people "gain ownership over their own funds". He opposes gun control and abortion rights.

After the old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee">Republican Study Committee</a> had its funding yanked in 1995, Doolittle helped refound it as the "Conservative Action Team." He alternated the chairmanship with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Burton" title="Dan Burton">Dan Burton</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Johnson" title="Sam Johnson">Sam Johnson</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Istook" title="Ernest Istook">Ernest Istook</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a> until 1999.

In January 2006, The Union newspaper of Grass Valley, California quoted Doolittle as saying that "A liberal front is underway to find God and all things pertaining to him unconstitutional."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

In February 2006, Doolittle was praised by the El Dorado Irrigation District for his assistance in obtaining funds for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectric_power" title="Hydroelectric power" class="mw-redirect">hydroelectric power</a> projects.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Auburn Dam Project">edit</a>] Auburn Dam Project</h3>

Doolittle is known for support of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_State_Recreation_Area" title="Auburn State Recreation Area">Auburn Dam</a> project, despite environmental concerns and uncertainties about the impact that such a dam might have on seismic activity in the area. A mid-1990s preliminary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a> report cited concerns about the potential of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquakes</a> caused by that project.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-7">[8]</a> Doolittle's stated reason for supporting the Auburn Dam is for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control" title="Flood control">flood control</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_County,California" title="Sacramento County, California">Sacramento</a>. After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a> in 2005, he portrayed the flooding in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> as an example of why the project was needed. Critics replied that the Gulf Coast, with its hurricane season and the torrential rainfalls associated with it, is not a valid comparison to a region of the country that historically often has droughts, and said that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Lake" title="Folsom Lake">Folsom</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Dam" title="Nimbus Dam">Nimbus Dams</a> suffice in an intense rainy season. Opponents of the project believe that the proposed Auburn Dam will also accelerate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl" title="Urban sprawl">urban sprawl</a> east of Sacramento and downriver from the proposed dam. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_County,California" title="Placer County, California">Placer County</a> has one of the highest growth rates in the country. Opponents also cite other issues such as destruction of the canyon environment and loss of habitat for wildlife. In 1975, the construction of the dam stopped due to environmental concerns, money issues, and the seismic instability of the proposed dam site, the construction was canceled and the project is abandoned. Much of the preliminary work on the dam can still be seen today. In 2005, Doolittle secured funding for studies on moving the project forward.

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Recent re-election campaigns">edit</a>] Recent re-election campaigns</h3>

In 2002, Doolittle defeated Republican challenger Dr. Bill Kirby of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,_California" title="Auburn, California">Auburn, California</a>, 78%-22%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-8">[9]</a> In the general election, Doolittle defeated Mark Norberg, 65%-35%, while raising $1,024,986 compared to Norberg’s $8,202.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Butler-9">[10]</a>

In 2004, Doolittle's Democratic opponent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Winters_%28Democratic_politician%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Winters (Democratic politician) (page does not exist)">David Winters</a> raised only $2,300 and won 35 percent of the vote. For that race, Doolittle took in more than $1 million in contributions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Butler-9">[10]</a>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_4th_congressional_district_election,_2006" title="California 4th congressional district election, 2006" class="mw-redirect">California 4th congressional district election, 2006</a></div>

In the Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election">primary</a> on June 6, 2006, Doolittle was challenged for his party's nomination by Mike Holmes, the mayor of Auburn. Doolittle raised more than $1.1 million in campaign contributions, more than 14 times that of Holmes. Doolittle won the primary with 67% of the vote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-10">[11]</a>

In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_elections,2006" title="United States House elections, 2006" class="mw-redirect">general election</a>, Doolittle's Democratic opponent was retired Air Force Lt. Colonel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brown%28California%29" title="Charles Brown (California)" class="mw-redirect">Charles Brown</a>. Doolittle agreed to a single debate, on October 11, 2006.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-11">[12]</a> Doolittle defeated Brown, getting 49% of the vote to Brown's 46%. Brown defeated Doolittle in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_County,_California" title="Nevada County, California">Nevada County</a>, but narrowly lost the most populated county in the district, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_County" title="Placer County" class="mw-redirect">Placer County</a>, and lost the rest of the district.

In January 2007, Doolittle announced ten steps he said he would take to re-establish the confidence of the district in his holding office. He announced the planned changes in an op-ed piece he distributed to newspapers in his district.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-AP-1-12-2007-12">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-13">[14]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legislative Record">edit</a>] Legislative Record</h2>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)">edit</a>] State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)</h3>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a></div>

In 2007, Congress took up the reauthorization of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a>, which provides health care for about 6 million children and 670,000 adults from families who earn too much money qualify for Medicare but not enough to afford health insurance. Congressional Democrats and many Republicans tried to use the opportunity to dramatically expand the program but were opposed by President George W. Bush and other Republicans. In 2006, 5.4 million children were eligible but not enrolled in SCHIP or Medicaid and 9.4 million total children were uninsured.

John Doolittle voted against the first House bill, which passed along party lines. It would have added $47 billion over five years to the $25 billion cost of the program and added about 5 million people to the program, including children, some legal immigrants, pregnant women and adults aged 18 and 19. The bill was financed mainly by an increase in cigarette taxes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-14">[15]</a>

House Democrats, with 45 Republicans, later compromised and passed a bill that expanded the plan by $35 billion and would have insured about 3.5 million more children from families generally making between 250% and 300% of the federal poverty line (about $51,000 to $62,000 for a family of four). Most non-pregnant, childless adults were excluded, as were most legal immigrants and all illegal immigrants. Doolittle voted against the bill.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-15">[16]</a>

After President Bush vetoed the bill, Democratic leaders attempted to override the veto with the same bill but failed. Doolittle voted against the bill.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

House Democrats then attempted to override it with another bill, which gave into Republican demands for increased checks for citizenship, the quick phasing-out of adult coverage, a hard limit of 300% of the federal poverty level and funding for families that covered their children through private insurance instead. Republicans, angry that the vote was scheduled during massive fires in California, blocked the veto override. Doolittle voted against the bill.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-17">[18]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Campaign Finances">edit</a>] Campaign Finances</h2>

Between 2005 and 2006 John Doolittle raised a total of $2,354,786 for his political campaign. 65.1% of his finances came from private donors, 34.5% from PACs, and 0.3% from other various sources. 54.3% of the PAC contributions came from business organizations while the other 45.7% came from labor and ideological groups. At the end of his 2005–2006 political campaign 98.4% of his finances were completely disclosed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-18">[19]</a> According to the FEC (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission" title="Federal Election Commission">Federal Election Commission</a>) John Doolittle has raised a total of $278,142 this year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-19">[20]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Controversies">edit</a>] Controversies</h2>

On September 20, 2006, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> (CREW) a group headed by former Democratic Congressional staffer Melanie Sloan,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-20">[21]</a> released its second annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress, titled "Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch)". Doolittle was one of the 20. The organization said "His ethics issues stem from his wife’s relationship to his campaign and political action committees, as well as campaign contributions and personal financial benefits he accepted from those who sought his legislative assistance."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-21">[22]</a> He was also listed in CREW's subsequent 2007 and 2008 reports.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Abramoff connections">edit</a>] Abramoff connections</h3>

<table id="collapsibleTable0" class="nowraplinks collapsible collapsed" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="navbox-title" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Jack Abramoff scandal</th></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Events and scandals</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_Indian_lobbying_scandal" title="Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal">Indian lobbying scandal</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_Guam_investigation" title="Jack Abramoff Guam investigation">Guam investigation</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_CNMI_scandal" title="Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal">Marianas/Saipan scandal</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Gambling_Prohibition_Act" title="Internet Gambling Prohibition Act">Internet gambling</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_influence_of_Jack_Abramoff" title="Monetary influence of Jack Abramoff">Monetary influence</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunCruz_Casinos_sale_%282000%29" title="SunCruz Casinos sale (2000)">SunCruz Casinos</a></div>

</td></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Pled guilty or convicted</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a> (70 months) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Albaugh" title="John Albaugh">John Albaugh</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackann" title="Trevor Blackann">Trevor Blackann</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Boulanger" title="Todd Boulanger">Todd Boulanger</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Carpenter" title="Jared Carpenter">Jared Carpenter</a> (45 days) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Copland" title="Ann Copland">Ann Copland</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E.Coughlin" title="Robert E. Coughlin">Robert Coughlin</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_Federici" title="Italia Federici">Italia Federici</a> (48 months probation) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.Steven_Griles" title="J. Steven Griles">J. Steven Griles</a> (10 months) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heaton" title="William Heaton">William Heaton</a> (24 months probation) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hirni" title="James Hirni">James Hirni</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kidan" title="Adam Kidan">Adam Kidan</a> (70 months) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ney" title="Bob Ney">Bob Ney</a> (30 months) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rudy" title="Tony Rudy">Tony Rudy</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scanlon" title="Michael Scanlon">Michael Scanlon</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stillwell" title="Roger Stillwell">Roger Stillwell</a> (24 months probation) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Volz" title="Neil Volz">Neil Volz</a> (24 months probation) · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zachares" title="Mark Zachares">Mark Zachares</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Safavian" title="David Safavian">David Safavian</a> (convicted, 18 months)</div>

</td></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Indicted/charged</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horace_Cooper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horace Cooper (page does not exist)">Horace Cooper</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_A._Ring" title="Kevin A. Ring">Kevin A. Ring</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Verrusio" title="Fraser Verrusio">Fraser Verrusio</a></div>

</td></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Named but not charged</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Buckham" title="Ed Buckham">Ed Buckham</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julia_H.Doolittle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julia H. Doolittle (page does not exist)">Julia H. Doolittle</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jennifer_Farley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jennifer Farley (page does not exist)">Jennifer Farley</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Feeney" title="Tom Feeney">Tom Feeney</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Istook" title="Ernest Istook">Ernest Istook</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Koonce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin Koonce (page does not exist)">Kevin Koonce</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Padgett%28Pat%29_Wilson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Padgett (Pat) Wilson (page does not exist)">Padgett (Pat) Wilson</a></div>

</td></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Films</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Jack" title="Casino Jack">Casino Jack</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Jack_and_the_United_States_of_Money" title="Casino Jack and the United States of Money">Casino Jack and the United States of Money</a></div>

</td></tr><tr style=" height: 2px; display: none;"><td> </td></tr><tr style=" display: none;"><td class="navbox-group" style=" background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 248, 247);">Others</td><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style=" text-align: left; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 100%; padding: 0px;">

<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Abramoff" title="Team Abramoff">Team Abramoff</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%22Gus%22_Boulis" title="Konstantinos " gus="gus" boulis="boulis">Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist">Grover Norquist</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Ridenour" title="Amy Ridenour">Amy Ridenour</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Ralston" title="Susan Ralston">Susan Ralston</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_E.Reed,Jr." title="Ralph E. Reed, Jr.">Ralph Reed</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_P.Sheldon" title="Louis P. Sheldon">Lou Sheldon</a></div>

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<div style=" padding: 0em 0.25em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jack_Abramoff-related_organizations" title="List of Jack Abramoff-related organizations">Related organizations</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jack_Abramoff%27s_tribal_clients" title="List of Jack Abramoff's tribal clients">Tribal clients</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trips_funded_by_Jack_Abramoff" title="List of trips funded by Jack Abramoff">Trips funded</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_timeline" title="Jack Abramoff timeline">Timeline of events</a> · <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jack_Abramoff_scandals" title="Category:Jack Abramoff scandals">Category</a></div>

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Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_Indian_lobbying_scandal#John_Doolittle" title="Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal">Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal</a>

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John Doolittle has been entangled in the scandal involving <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a>. On September 27, 2007, he indicated that he planned to fight a Justice Department subpoena for 11 years of records as part of that department's investigation into his conduct.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-22">[23]</a>

Doolittle has denied any wrongdoing. In connection with the matter, he has hired David Barger, a criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr">Ken Starr</a>'s office, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Rein_LLP" title="Wiley Rein LLP" class="mw-redirect">Wiley Rein LLP</a>, a law firm that specializes in campaign finance and government ethics.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-23">[24]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-24">[25]</a> Doolittle has estimated that he received about $50,000 from clients of Abramoff, mostly Indian tribes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-25">[26]</a> Abramoff also personally donated $14,000 over the period 1999–2004 to Doolittle's congressional campaigns.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-26">[27]</a> After Doolittle's Chief of Staff <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_A._Ring" title="Kevin A. Ring">Kevin A. Ring</a> left to work for Abramoff, Ring helped arrange for Abramoff to hire a consulting firm owned by Doolittle's wife.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-27">[28]</a> Doolittle also used Abramoff's luxury sports box for a fundraiser without initially reporting it.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-28">[29]</a> Doolittle is currently being investigated by a federal probe into his relationship with Abramoff.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-29">[30]</a> On April 13, 2007, Doolittle's former aide, Kevin Ring, resigned from his lobby firm.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-30">[31]</a> On the same day, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" title="FBI" class="mw-redirect">FBI</a> raided Doolittle's Virginia home.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-31">[32]</a> On September 4, 2007, the House announced that Doolittle's Chief of Staff Ron Rogers and Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Blankenburg were subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-32">[33]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Small towns pressured to hire lobbyists">edit</a>] Small towns pressured to hire lobbyists</h3>

Dan Landon, a Republican and the executive director of the Nevada County Transportation Commission, said that he was told recently by Doolittle's staff that "it also doesn't hurt to have a lobbyist". Sharon Atteberry, city administrator for the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville" title="Oroville">Oroville</a>, said she had also been urged to hire a lobbyist by Doolittle's staff. "They encouraged us that a lobbyist is very important to any city or county government" she said.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Fundingfracas-33">[34]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Activities of Julie Doolittle">edit</a>] Activities of Julie Doolittle</h3>

During the 2001–2005 period, Julie Doolittle had at least three different occupations: she worked for Jack Abramoff doing event planning (see above); she worked as a bookkeeper for a lobbying firm; and she worked on commission as a fundraiser for her husband. Payments to Julie Doolittle during the period were done via a company called Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Union-Tribune-34">[35]</a> It was founded in March 2001, just after Congressman Doolittle gained a seat on the Appropriations Committee. It is based at the couple's home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakton,_Virginia" title="Oakton, Virginia">Oakton, Virginia</a>; Julie is the only employee. The company (that is, Julie) has continued to do fundraising, but no event planning or other work, since the Abramoff scandal first became public in early 2005.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Union-Tribune-34">[35]</a>

<h4>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Work for lobbying firm">edit</a>] Work for lobbying firm</h4>

From 2002 until mid-2005,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-TotallingMrs.Doolittle-35">[36]</a> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Strategy_Group" title="Alexander Strategy Group">Alexander Strategy Group</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> lobbying firm with close ties to Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a>, paid Sierra Dominion for bookkeeping work for a nonprofit group called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korea-U.S.Exchange_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Korea-U.S. Exchange Council (page does not exist)">Korea-U.S. Exchange Council</a> (KORUSEC), created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Buckham" title="Ed Buckham">Ed Buckham</a>, a partner in the firm,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-36">[37]</a> and located at the ASG headquarters. KORUSEC is also connected to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Ring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin Ring (page does not exist)">Kevin Ring</a>, one of Doolittle's former assistants. ASG is now closed due to the scandals surrounding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a>. Julie Doolittle's records regarding her work there were subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.

<h4> Fundraising commissions from Doolittle campaign revenues</h4>

Sierra Dominion charges Doolittle's campaign and his Superior California Political Action Committee a fifteen percent commission on any contribution that Julie Doolittle helps bring in. As of March 2006, federal and state campaign records show that she had received nearly $180,000 in commissions from for such fundraising since late 2001.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Union-Tribune-34">[35]</a> Doolittle aides said even though the PAC had made payments to other fundraisers, Julie Doolittle was entitled to 15 percent of all money the PAC brought in because those donations were raised at events she helped organize.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-PACfees-37">[38]</a>

In December 2005, Richard Robinson, Doolittle's Chief of Staff, defended the commission structure. "Sierra Dominion's compensation is based entirely on performance in that it receives a percentage in what it is directly involved in raising. This arrangement is not only consistent with that of other fund raisers but is designed to avoid the appearance that Sierra Dominion is compensated for anything other than its tireless and effective work. Any suggestion otherwise is completely without merit."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-Scrutiny-38">[39]</a>

In 2006, the 27,000-member Association of Fundraising Professionals released a letter it had sent to Doolittle, declaring that his wife's activities violated the Association's ethics code, in that their code "explicitly prohibits percentage-based compensation".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-AFP-39">[40]</a>

In January 2007, Doolittle announced that he would no longer employ his wife as his campaign fundraiser. Instead, he said, he would hire an outside fundraiser.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-AP-1-12-2007-12">[13]</a> But in July 2007, his campaign reported expenses of $50,000 for fundraising by Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions during the April–June 2007 period. The company was also still owed $76,000 in commissions from the 2006 race.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-autogenerated1-40">[41]</a>

KORUSEC, which employed Doolittle's wife (see above) and the U.S.-Malaysia Exchange Association, another non-profit firm operated by ASG, paid the $29,400 cost of what was described as a "fact finding mission" to South Korea and Malaysia by Doolittle accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter in 2005. This trip included a stop at the Berjaya Beach & Spa Resort on the Malaysian island of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langkawi" title="Langkawi">Langkawi</a>.

KORUSEC and the U.S.-Malaysia Exchange Association, which were operated by a Washington lobbying firm, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Strategy_Group" title="Alexander Strategy Group">Alexander Strategy Group</a>, were, as of November 2006, being investigated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" title="FBI" class="mw-redirect">FBI</a> as possible conduits for illegal influence in U.S. affairs by a foreign corporation (KORUSEC) and a foreign government (USMEA). A spokeswoman for Doolittle said that he believed that his trip was proper and that it had nothing to do with the earmarks.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-41">[42]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Connections to Brent Wilkes">edit</a>] Connections to Brent Wilkes</h3>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PerfectWave" title="PerfectWave" class="mw-redirect">PerfectWave</a> is a company owned by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_R._Wilkes" title="Brent R. Wilkes">Brent R. Wilkes</a>; Doolittle has had significant involvement with both. Wilkes has become controversial because disgraced Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham" title="Duke Cunningham">Duke Cunningham</a> admitted receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and favors from Wilkes for his efforts to help another of Wilkes' companies, ADCS Inc.

In 2002, Wilkes hired the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Strategy_Group" title="Alexander Strategy Group">Alexander Strategy Group</a> (ASG) to do lobbying for the PerfectWave.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-persuasion-42">[43]</a> In November, 2003, Wilkes hosted a fund-raising dinner for Doolittle. Between 2002 to 2005, Doolittle received at least $118,000 in campaign contributions from Wilkes, PerfectWave associates and their wives, and ASG lobbyists <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_A.Buckham" title="Edwin A. Buckham" class="mw-redirect">Edwin A. Buckham</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_C.Rudy" title="Tony C. Rudy" class="mw-redirect">Tony C. Rudy</a> (two former aides of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a>) and their wives.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-43">[44]</a>

Doolittle, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said in January, 2006 that he had helped steer defense funds totaling $37 million to PerfectWave ($1 million in 2002, $18 million in 2003, and then $18 million in 2004.) Doolittle said that his support was based "on the project's merits and the written support of the military."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-44">[45]</a> But the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="San Diego Union-Tribune" class="mw-redirect">San Diego Union-Tribune</a> reported that "The money was not requested by the Navy but was instead inserted by the Appropriations Committee as part of the closed-door congressional earmarking process."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-45">[46]</a> They further reported that "[T]he only evidence Doolittle's office could provide to show military support for the project was a letter of praise from Robert Lusardi, a program manager for light armored vehicles at the Marine Corps dated Feb. 25 — two and a half years after PerfectWave got its first earmark. By the time Lusardi wrote his letter, the company had received at least $37 million in earmarks."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-persuasion-42">[43]</a>

In February 2006, Doolittle said that he was glad he supported PerfectWave, saying "it has unique technology ... that ensures the safety of our armed forces in the war on terror.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-46">[47]</a>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Investigation of Charles Hurwitz">edit</a>] Investigation of Charles Hurwitz</h3>

On January 8, 2006, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> reported that "Reps. John T. Doolittle and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._Pombo" title="Richard W. Pombo" class="mw-redirect">Richard W. Pombo</a> joined forces with former House Majority Leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay">Tom DeLay</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> to oppose an investigation by federal banking regulators into the affairs of Houston millionaire <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Hurwitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Hurwitz (page does not exist)">Charles Hurwitz</a>, documents recently obtained by The Times show." Furthermore, "When the FDIC persisted, Doolittle and Pombo — both considered proteges of DeLay — used their power as members of the House Resources Committee to subpoena the agency's confidential records on the case, including details of the evidence FDIC investigators had compiled on Hurwitz." The FDIC investigation was ultimately dropped.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-LATimes-47">[48]</a>

The Times reported that "Although Washington politicians frequently try to help important constituents and contributors, it is unusual for members of Congress to take direct steps to stymie an ongoing investigation by an agency such as the FDIC." The article concluded, "in the Hurwitz case, Doolittle and Pombo were in a position to pressure the FDIC and did so."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-LATimes-47">[48]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-48">[49]</a>

On April 19, 2007, Doolittle resigned from the Committee on Appropriations in response to a raid by the FBI at his Northern Virginia home. The raid stemmed from possible involvement by his wife in the Abramoff investigation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-werner-49">[50]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 2008 re-election campaign">edit</a>] 2008 re-election campaign</h2>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_4th_congressional_district_election,_2008" title="California's 4th congressional district election, 2008" class="mw-redirect">California's 4th congressional district election, 2008</a></div>

Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brown_%28California%29" title="Charles Brown (California)" class="mw-redirect">Charlie Brown</a>, who lost to Doolittle in 2006 by only 3 percent of the vote, announced in February 2007 that he would run again in 2008. Brown outraised Doolittle in the first and second quarters of 2007; as of June 30, he had a net cash balance of $251,000; Doolittle had a negative balance of $32,000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-autogenerated1-40">[41]</a>

In August 2007, former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_County,_California" title="Placer County, California">Placer County</a> Republican Party chairman Ken Campbell, a longtime financial backer of Doolittle, said he was withdrawing his support. Campbell cited a recent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth">Club for Growth</a> report on votes in 2007 on spending bills, where Doolittle scored 2 percent, compared to the Republican average of 43 percent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-50">[51]</a>

In July 2007, Eric Egland, a 37-year-old Air Force reservist and security consultant, announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for the seat held by Doolittle. In August 2007, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,_California" title="Auburn, California">Auburn</a> City Councilman Mike Holmes announced that he also was entering the 2008 race. Holmes ran unsuccessfully against Doolittle for the Republican nomination in 2006, getting 33 percent of the primary vote to 67 percent for Doolittle.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-51">[52]</a>

On August 30, 2007, State Assemblyman Ted Gaines announced the establishment of an exploratory committee to begin raising money to run for Congress against Doolittle, stating "I think voters have lost faith in his leadership ability...when you lose the moral ability to lead, you kind of have to re-evaluate."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-sacbee.com-52">[53]</a>

Doolittle lashed back at Gaines, saying, "After spending the last month talking to local voters, I have seen strong support for my candidacy and a strong desire to focus on solving problems instead of plotting for political advantage...I will gladly place before the voters my record of over 30 years of service to the Republican Party to Ted Gaines' less than one year."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-sacbee.com-52">[53]</a>

After much speculation, on January 10, 2008, John Doolittle announced he would finish his current term, and not run for re-election.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_note-53">[54]</a>

After Doolittle's retirement announcement, Councilman Holmes quit the race and instead endorsed former Republican Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ose" title="Doug Ose">Doug Ose</a>, who announced on February 1, 2008 that he is running for Doolittle's seat. Ose faced opposition from former California State Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Oller" title="Rico Oller">Rico Oller</a> (R-San Andreas), who announced his candidacy on January 10, 2008. When California State Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McClintock" title="Tom McClintock">Tom McClintock</a> (R-Thousand Oaks) announced that he too was running for Doolittle's seat on March 4, 2008, Oller dropped out of the race, and decided to give his endorsement to McClintock.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doolittle&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060729113835/http://www.house.gov/doolittle/committees.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Committees"</a>. Representative John T. Doolittle. Archived from <a href="http://www.house.gov/doolittle/committees.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">the original</a> on 2006-07-29. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060729113835/http://www.house.gov/doolittle/committees.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20060729113835/http://www.house.gov/doolittle/committees.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Committees&rft.atitle=Representative+John+T.+Doolittle&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20060729113835%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.house.gov%2Fdoolittle%2Fcommittees.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-1">^</a> <a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20060926/OPINION/109260117" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Nevada County Local Opinion: Perhaps it's time for a fresh face in D.C. - TheUnion.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-2">^</a> <a href="http://doolittle.house.gov/biography/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">John T. Doolittle</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-SN.26R-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-SN.26R_3-0">^</a> Jeff Kearns, <a href="http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A30225" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Boss Doolittle: In the foothills, Representative John Doolittle hovers over local government and party politics with a presence that shapes government at all levels"</a>, Sacramento News and Review, July 22, 2004</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-4">^</a> California Political Fair Practices Commission, <a href="http://www.fppc.ca.gov/index.html?id=253" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Enforcement cases</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-5">^</a> <a href="http://theunion.com/article/20060120/OPINION/101200104" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle and God"</a>. The Union. 2006-01-20. <a href="http://theunion.com/article/20060120/OPINION/101200104" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://theunion.com/article/20060120/OPINION/101200104</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+and+God&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-01-20&rft.pub=The+Union&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftheunion.com%2Farticle%2F20060120%2FOPINION%2F101200104&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060524124405/http://www.eid.org/doc_library/PDF_Files/pub_info/news/eid_news_20060224.pdf" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"EID Board thanks Congressman John Doolittle"</a> (PDF). El Dorado Irrigation District. 2006-02-24. Archived from <a href="http://www.eid.org/doc_library/PDF_Files/pub_info/news/eid_news_20060224.pdf" class="external text" rel="nofollow">the original</a> on 2006-05-24. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060524124405/http://www.eid.org/doc_library/PDF_Files/pub_info/news/eid_news_20060224.pdf" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20060524124405/http://www.eid.org/doc_library/PDF_Files/pub_info/news/eid_news_20060224.pdf</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=EID+Board+thanks+Congressman+John+Doolittle&rft.atitle=El+Dorado+Irrigation+District&rft.date=2006-02-24&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20060524124405%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.eid.org%2Fdoc_library%2FPDF_Files%2Fpub_info%2Fnews%2Feid_news_20060224.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060621045323/http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/reports/auburn/induced.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Review of seismic-hazard issues associated with the Auburn Dam project, Sierra Nevada foothills, California"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a>. Archived from <a href="http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/reports/auburn/induced.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">the original</a> on 2006-06-21. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060621045323/http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/reports/auburn/induced.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20060621045323/http://ca.water.usgs.gov/archive/reports/auburn/induced.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Review+of+seismic-hazard+issues+associated+with+the+Auburn+Dam+project%2C+Sierra+Nevada+foothills%2C+California&rft.atitle=%5B%5BUnited+States+Geological+Survey%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20060621045323%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fca.water.usgs.gov%2Farchive%2Freports%2Fauburn%2Finduced.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-8">^</a> Miller, Michelle (2006-06-07). <a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/06/07/news/top_stories/01doolittle_wins.txt" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle wins easily"</a>. Auburn Journal. <a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/06/07/news/top_stories/01doolittle_wins.txt" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/06/07/news/top_stories/01doolittle_wins.txt</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+wins+easily&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=Michelle&rft.au=Miller%2C%26%2332%3BMichelle&rft.date=2006-06-07&rft.pub=Auburn+Journal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.auburnjournal.com%2Farticles%2F2006%2F06%2F07%2Fnews%2Ftop_stories%2F01doolittle_wins.txt&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Butler-9">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Butler_9-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Butler_9-1">b</a> Butler, Pat (2006-02-04). <a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20060204/OPINION/60203007" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Is a competitive House race possible?"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Union" title="The Union">The Union</a>. <a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20060204/OPINION/60203007" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.theunion.com/article/20060204/OPINION/60203007</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Is+a+competitive+House+race+possible%3F&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Butler&rft.aufirst=Pat&rft.au=Butler%2C%26%2332%3BPat&rft.date=2006-02-04&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+Union%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theunion.com%2Farticle%2F20060204%2FOPINION%2F60203007&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-10">^</a> <a href="http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/0400.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"U.S. Congress District 4 election results"</a>. 2006-07-14. <a href="http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/0400.htm" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/0400.htm</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=U.S.+Congress+District+4+election+results&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-07-14&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvote.ss.ca.gov%2FReturns%2Fusrep%2F0400.htm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/SS/20061013/NEWS/61012011/-1/REGION" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Terrorism, Iraq and Abramoff dominate Doolittle debate"</a>, Nevada Appeal, October 13, 2006</li>

<li id="cite_note-AP-1-12-2007-12">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-AP-1-12-2007_12-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-AP-1-12-2007_12-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16446417.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Rep. John Doolittle: no longer employ wife for fundraising"</a>, Associated Press, January 12, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-13">^</a> John Doolittle, <a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2007/01/12/columnists/guest_column/01doolittletalks12.txt" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Congressman Doolittle charts a new course for a new term"</a>, Op-ed, Auburn Journal, January 11, 2007 (also published in other local papers)</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-14">^</a> <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1737" class="external text" rel="nofollow">OpenCongress - Roll Call Details</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-15">^</a> <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/1919" class="external text" rel="nofollow">OpenCongress - Roll Call Details</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-16">^</a> <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/2020" class="external text" rel="nofollow">OpenCongress - Roll Call Details</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-17">^</a> <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/2070" class="external text" rel="nofollow">OpenCongress - Roll Call Details</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00007556&cycle=2006" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Representative (R-CA) John T. Doolittle"</a>. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00007556&cycle=2006" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00007556&cycle=2006</a>. Retrieved 2006-10-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Representative+%28R-CA%29+John+T.+Doolittle&rft.atitle=&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opensecrets.org%2Fpoliticians%2Fsummary.asp%3FCID%3DN00007556%26cycle%3D2006&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-19">^</a> <a href="http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?08+H0CA14042" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"John Doolittle Campaign Finance Report"</a>. <a href="http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?08+H0CA14042" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/cancomsrs/?_08+H0CA14042</a>. Retrieved 2006-10-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=John+Doolittle+Campaign+Finance+Report&rft.atitle=&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fherndon1.sdrdc.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fcancomsrs%2F%3F_08%2BH0CA14042&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-20">^</a> <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/about/whoweare.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">About CREW</a>, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/doolittle.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">CREW summary of ethics issues of Doolittle</a>, September 2006</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-22">^</a> Matt Apuzzo, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/27/AR2007092701526.html?hpid=moreheadlines" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Prosecutors Subpoena Calif. Lawmaker"</a>, Associated Press, September 27, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-23">^</a> <a href="http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_108120853.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle Taps Ken Starr To Fight Abramoff Fallout"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>. 2006-04-18. <a href="http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_108120853.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_108120853.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+Taps+Ken+Starr+To+Fight+Abramoff+Fallout&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-04-18&rft.pub=%5B%5BAssociated+Press%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcbs13.com%2Ftopstories%2Flocal_story_108120853.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-24">^</a> <a href="http://www.pssdir.com/pss/document.cfm?iDocumentID=647199&highlight=Contact%20sacbee.com.&cached=1" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle reports legal bill now tops $100,000"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Bee" title="Sacramento Bee" class="mw-redirect">Sacramento Bee</a>. 2006-12-09. <a href="http://www.pssdir.com/pss/document.cfm?iDocumentID=647199&highlight=Contact%20sacbee.com.&cached=1" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.pssdir.com/pss/document.cfm?iDocumentID=647199&highlight=Contact%20sacbee.com.&cached=1</a>. Retrieved 2007-04-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+reports+legal+bill+now+tops+%24100%2C000&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-12-09&rft.pub=%5B%5BSacramento+Bee%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pssdir.com%2Fpss%2Fdocument.cfm%3FiDocumentID%3D647199%26highlight%3DContact%2520sacbee.com.%26cached%3D1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-25">^</a> Johnson, C. (2006-01-23). <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070804063921/http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15514" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle Chooses Talk Show to Discuss Abramoff Connections"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTV" title="KXTV">KXTV</a>. Archived from <a href="http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15514" class="external text" rel="nofollow">the original</a> on 2007-08-04. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070804063921/http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15514" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20070804063921/http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15514</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+Chooses+Talk+Show+to+Discuss+Abramoff+Connections&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.aufirst=C.&rft.au=Johnson%2C%26%2332%3BC.&rft.date=2006-01-23&rft.pub=%5B%5BKXTV%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20070804063921%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.news10.net%2Fstoryfull2.aspx%3Fstoryid%3D15514&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-26">^</a> Willis, Derek and Stanton, Laura (2005-12-12). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2005/12/12/GR2005121200286.html?" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"How Abramoff Spread the Wealth"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2005/12/12/GR2005121200286.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2005/12/12/GR2005121200286.html</a>?. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=How+Abramoff+Spread+the+Wealth&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Willis%2C+Derek+and+Stanton%2C+Laura&rft.au=Willis%2C+Derek+and+Stanton%2C+Laura&rft.date=2005-12-12&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Fgraphic%2F2005%2F12%2F12%2FGR2005121200286.html%3F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-27">^</a> Schmidt, Susan; Grimaldi, James V. (2005-05-26). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501423_2.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Lawmakers Under Scrutiny in Probe of Lobbyist"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501423_2.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501423_2.html</a>. Retrieved 2007-04-17.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Lawmakers+Under+Scrutiny+in+Probe+of+Lobbyist&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Schmidt&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft.au=Schmidt%2C%26%2332%3BSusan&rft.au=Grimaldi%2C%26%2332%3BJames+V.&rft.date=2005-05-26&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2005%2F11%2F25%2FAR2005112501423_2.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-28">^</a> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_us/abramoff_prison" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_us/abramoff_prison</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-29">^</a> Brigham, Roger, <a href="http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1257" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Brown in tough fight against Doolittle</a> 10/19/2006</li>

<li id="cite_note-30"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-30">^</a> <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3532.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Abramoff-Linked Lobbyist Resigns - Politico.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-31">^</a> Mike Soraghan and Susan Crabtree (April 18, 2007). <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/fbi-searches-republican-lawmakers-home-2007-04-18.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"FBI searches Republican lawmaker’s home"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_%28newspaper%29" title="The Hill (newspaper)">The Hill</a>. <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/fbi-searches-republican-lawmakers-home-2007-04-18.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/fbi-searches-republican-lawmakers-home-2007-04-18.html</a>. Retrieved 2007-04-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=FBI+searches+Republican+lawmaker%E2%80%99s+home&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Mike+Soraghan+and+Susan+Crabtree&rft.au=Mike+Soraghan+and+Susan+Crabtree&rft.date=April+18%2C+2007&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+Hill+%28newspaper%29%7CThe+Hill%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fleading-the-news%2Ffbi-searches-republican-lawmakers-home-2007-04-18.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-32">^</a> Erica Werner (September 4, 2007). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401104.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle Aides Subpoenaed in Probe"</a>. Associated Press. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401104.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401104.html</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+Aides+Subpoenaed+in+Probe&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Erica+Werner&rft.au=Erica+Werner&rft.date=September+4%2C+2007&rft.pub=Associated+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2007%2F09%2F04%2FAR2007090401104.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Fundingfracas-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Fundingfracas_33-0">^</a> Brittany Retherford (December 17, 2005). <a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20051217/NEWS/112170096" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"County rebuffs funding fracas - copy of letter to Rep. Doolittle included"</a>. Nevada County Union. <a href="http://www.theunion.com/article/20051217/NEWS/112170096" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.theunion.com/article/20051217/NEWS/112170096</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=County+rebuffs+funding+fracas+-+copy+of+letter+to+Rep.+Doolittle+included&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Brittany+Retherford&rft.au=Brittany+Retherford&rft.date=December+17%2C+2005&rft.pub=Nevada+County+Union&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theunion.com%2Farticle%2F20051217%2FNEWS%2F112170096&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Union-Tribune-34">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Union-Tribune_34-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Union-Tribune_34-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Union-Tribune_34-2">c</a> Calbreath, Dean (2006-03-19). <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060319-9999-1n19dolittle.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Congressman Doolittle, wife profited from Cunningham-linked contractor"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="The San Diego Union-Tribune">The San Diego Union-Tribune</a>. <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060319-9999-1n19dolittle.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060319-9999-1n19dolittle.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Congressman+Doolittle%2C+wife+profited+from+Cunningham-linked+contractor&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Calbreath&rft.aufirst=Dean&rft.au=Calbreath%2C%26%2332%3BDean&rft.date=2006-03-19&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+San+Diego+Union-Tribune%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signonsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F20060319-9999-1n19dolittle.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-TotallingMrs.Doolittle-35"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-TotallingMrs.Doolittle_35-0">^</a> Kiel, Paul (2006-06-23). <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000987.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Totalling Mrs. Doolittle's Take"</a>. TPMmuckraker. <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000987.php" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000987.php</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Totalling+Mrs.+Doolittle%27s+Take&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Kiel%2C+Paul&rft.au=Kiel%2C+Paul&rft.date=2006-06-23&rft.pub=TPMmuckraker&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpmmuckraker.com%2Farchives%2F000987.php&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-36"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-36">^</a> Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. and Grimaldi, James V. (2006-01-10). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901996.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Lobby Giant Is Scandal Casualty"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. p. A01. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901996.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901996.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Lobby+Giant+Is+Scandal+Casualty&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Birnbaum%2C+Jeffrey+H.+and+Grimaldi%2C+James+V.&rft.au=Birnbaum%2C+Jeffrey+H.+and+Grimaldi%2C+James+V.&rft.date=2006-01-10&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BA01&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F01%2F09%2FAR2006010901996.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-PACfees-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-PACfees_37-0">^</a> Weisman, Jonathan and Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. (2006-07-11). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001164.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Lawmaker Criticized for PAC Fees Paid to Wife"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. p. A01. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001164.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001164.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Lawmaker+Criticized+for+PAC+Fees+Paid+to+Wife&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Weisman%2C+Jonathan+and+Birnbaum%2C+Jeffrey+H.&rft.au=Weisman%2C+Jonathan+and+Birnbaum%2C+Jeffrey+H.&rft.date=2006-07-11&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BA01&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F07%2F10%2FAR2006071001164.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-Scrutiny-38"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-Scrutiny_38-0">^</a> Thomson, Gus (2005-12-28). <a href="http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2005/12/28/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle draws increased scrutiny"</a>. Roseville Press Tribune. <a href="http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2005/12/28/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2005/12/28/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+draws+increased+scrutiny&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Thomson&rft.aufirst=Gus&rft.au=Thomson%2C%26%2332%3BGus&rft.date=2005-12-28&rft.pub=Roseville+Press+Tribune&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepresstribune.com%2Farticles%2F2005%2F12%2F28%2Fnews%2Ftop_stories%2F01doolittle.txt&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-AFP-39"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-AFP_39-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/22517" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Fundraising group assails the Doolittles"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>. 2006-04-20. <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/22517" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/22517</a>. Retrieved 2007-04-20.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Fundraising+group+assails+the+Doolittles&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2006-04-20&rft.pub=%5B%5BCitizens+for+Responsibility+and+Ethics+in+Washington%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizensforethics.org%2Fnode%2F22517&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-40">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-autogenerated1_40-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-autogenerated1_40-1">b</a> David Whitney, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/capolitics/story/274799.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle slipping as big-money draw: His campaign is in debt and raising less as rival Brown in gaining steam"</a>, Sacramento Bee, July 16, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-41"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-41">^</a> Grimaldi, James V. and Schmidt, Susan (2006-11-03). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201883.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Foreign Lobbies Took the Guise of Nonprofits"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. p. A01. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201883.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201883.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-11-04.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Foreign+Lobbies+Took+the+Guise+of+Nonprofits&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Grimaldi%2C+James+V.+and+Schmidt%2C+Susan&rft.au=Grimaldi%2C+James+V.+and+Schmidt%2C+Susan&rft.date=2006-11-03&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BA01&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F11%2F02%2FAR2006110201883.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-persuasion-42">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-persuasion_42-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-persuasion_42-1">b</a> Calbreath, Dean (2006-02-05). <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060205-9999-1n5wilkes.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The power of persuasion"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="The San Diego Union-Tribune">The San Diego Union-Tribune</a>. <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060205-9999-1n5wilkes.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060205-9999-1n5wilkes.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+power+of+persuasion&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Calbreath&rft.aufirst=Dean&rft.au=Calbreath%2C%26%2332%3BDean&rft.date=2006-02-05&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+San+Diego+Union-Tribune%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signonsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F20060205-9999-1n5wilkes.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-43"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-43">^</a> <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilkes-doolittle-dinner/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Brent Wilkes Fetes Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo">Talking Points Memo</a>. 2003-11-14. <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilkes-doolittle-dinner/" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilkes-doolittle-dinner/</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Brent+Wilkes+Fetes+Rep.+John+Doolittle+%28R-CA%29&rft.atitle=%5B%5BTalking+Points+Memo%5D%5D&rft.date=2003-11-14&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkingpointsmemo.com%2Fdocs%2Fwilkes-doolittle-dinner%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-44"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-44">^</a> Weisman, Jonathan and Babcock, Charles R. (2006-01-27). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602221.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. p. A01. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602221.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602221.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=K+Street%27s+New+Ways+Spawn+More+Pork&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Weisman%2C+Jonathan+and+Babcock%2C+Charles+R.&rft.au=Weisman%2C+Jonathan+and+Babcock%2C+Charles+R.&rft.date=2006-01-27&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3BA01&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F01%2F26%2FAR2006012602221.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-45"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-45">^</a> Calbreath, Dean (2006-01-25). <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20060125-9999-1n25perfect.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Four linked to area firm subpoenaed"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="The San Diego Union-Tribune">The San Diego Union-Tribune</a>. <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20060125-9999-1n25perfect.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20060125-9999-1n25perfect.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Four+linked+to+area+firm+subpoenaed&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Calbreath&rft.aufirst=Dean&rft.au=Calbreath%2C%26%2332%3BDean&rft.date=2006-01-25&rft.pub=%5B%5BThe+San+Diego+Union-Tribune%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signonsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fcunningham%2F20060125-9999-1n25perfect.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-46"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-46">^</a> Probst, Jason (2006-02-24). <a href="http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2006/03/01/news/top_stories/05jason.prt" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Doolittle offers answers to media questions"</a>. Roseville Press Tribune. <a href="http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2006/03/01/news/top_stories/05jason.prt" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepresstribune.com/articles/2006/03/01/news/top_stories/05jason.prt</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Doolittle+offers+answers+to+media+questions&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Probst&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft.au=Probst%2C%26%2332%3BJason&rft.date=2006-02-24&rft.pub=Roseville+Press+Tribune&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepresstribune.com%2Farticles%2F2006%2F03%2F01%2Fnews%2Ftop_stories%2F05jason.prt&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-LATimes-47">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-LATimes_47-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-LATimes_47-1">b</a> Serrano, Richard A. and Braun, Stephen (2006-01-08). <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-banker8jan08,0,1764103.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=morenews" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"A Donor Who Had Big Allies"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a>. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-banker8jan08,0,1764103.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=morenews" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-banker8jan08,0,1764103.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=morenews</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=A+Donor+Who+Had+Big+Allies&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Serrano%2C+Richard+A.+and+Braun%2C+Stephen&rft.au=Serrano%2C+Richard+A.+and+Braun%2C+Stephen&rft.date=2006-01-08&rft.pub=%5B%5BLos+Angeles+Times%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation%2Fla-na-banker8jan08%2C0%2C1764103.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-home-headlines%26track%3Dmorenews&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-48"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-48">^</a> Grimaldi, James and Stanton, Laura (2005-12-29). <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/12/28/CU2005122801183.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The Abramoff Galaxy"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/12/28/CU2005122801183.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/12/28/CU2005122801183.html</a>. Retrieved 2006-08-18.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Abramoff+Galaxy&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Grimaldi%2C+James+and+Stanton%2C+Laura&rft.au=Grimaldi%2C+James+and+Stanton%2C+Laura&rft.date=2005-12-29&rft.pub=%5B%5BWashington+Post%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Fcustom%2F2005%2F12%2F28%2FCU2005122801183.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Doolittle"> </li>

<li id="cite_note-werner-49"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-werner_49-0">^</a> Werner, Erica (April 19, 2007). <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/19/national/w135324D70.DTL&type=politics" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lawmaker Resigns From Panel Amid Probe.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-50"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-50">^</a> David Whitney, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/342857.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Longtime Doolittle ally pulls support"</a>, Sacramento Bee, August 24, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-51"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-51">^</a> David Whitney, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/325919.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Second Republican takes on Doolittle"</a>, Sacramento Bee, August 15, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-sacbee.com-52">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-sacbee.com_52-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-sacbee.com_52-1">b</a> Peter Hecht, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/815/story/353252.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"GOP Assemblyman Gaines says he is planning to run for Doolittle's House seat"</a>, Sacramento Bee, August 30, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-53"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doolittle#cite_ref-53">^</a> <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/624368.html" class="external free" rel="nofollow">http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/624368.html</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000429" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Biography</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/John_Doolittle.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Issue positions and quotes</a> at On The Issues</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?CID=N00011971" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Financial information</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics">OpenSecrets.org</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Doolittle" class="external text" rel="nofollow">SourceWatch Congresspedia — John Doolittle</a> — profile</li>

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<li>107th Congress <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d107:FLD003:@1%28Rep+Doolittle+John%29:" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Sponsored</a> <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d107:FLD004:@1%28Rep+Doolittle+John%29:" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Cosponsored</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://alaskareport.com/news907/z46722_john_doolittle.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Suspect Doolittle says he'll fight subpoenas</a> Dennis Zaki, AlaskaReport.com, September 27, 2007</li>

<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501423.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lawmakers Under Scrutiny in Probe of Lobbyist</a> Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi, The Washington Post, November 26, 2005</li>

<li><a href="http://auctionhouse.tpmcafe.com/story/2006/1/24/31452/9934" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Daily Muck</a> Paul Kiel's blog, January 24, 2006, Doolittle's contributions from Abramoff</li>

<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/10/19/cq_1666.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Abramoff Ties Continue to Weigh Down Doolittle in Calif. 4</a> Rachel Kapochunas, The New York Times, October 19, 2006</li>

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</div><div>quite long</div><div>...Not long ago, it would have been ludicrous for the House speaker to approach the Republican Study Committee on bended knee, much less to depend on it to restore harmony to the conference. The committee's philosophy of governance would vex any speaker: Members consider themselves conservatives first and Republicans second. They did not come to Washington to play for the Republican team; they came to fight for conservative principles. If that means voting against party interests, so be it. For core RSC believers, ideological purity trumps legislative accomplishment. Period.</div><div>
</div>For decades, the group was seen as a parasitic anomaly--a fringe organization of hopeless ideologues surviving off the perception of undue moderation among Republican leadership. Several previous speakers had bullied or ignored it, and one even dissolved the RSC in a quest to squelch internal dissent. For decades, the committee's membership rolls were thin, and internal GOP debates didn't matter much anyway, because the party was in the minority.<div>
</div><div>...To fathom the psyche of Congress's most conservative lawmakers, it's useful to study the ferocity with which they protect the RSC's autonomy. Whenever the House leadership has even hinted at meddling with the group--rumors swirled last fall that Boehner would try to oust Executive Director Paul Teller at the start of the next session--the reaction has been swift and sharp. In this case, conservatives successfully lobbied to keep Teller on as a counterbalance to Scalise, whom some RSC members saw as too cozy with leadership. This history of insulating their group from external interference dates back two decades, when someone the committee considered a friend betrayed it.</div><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid; grid-template-areas: " a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px; line-height: 1.4;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">After Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in 1994, ending a four-decade stint as the permanent political underclass, the ambitious new speaker, Newt Gingrich, planned several shake-ups. Among his first priorities was to get rid of the Republican Study Committee, which he viewed as a threat to the harmony of the House Republican Conference. To eliminate the RSC--while avoiding the appearance that he was singling out conservatives--Gingrich devised a plot to abolish all Legislative Service Organizations, the 28 groups that functioned with the "shared staff" model perfected by groups such as the RSC and the Congressional Black Caucus. The new speaker spoke craftily about the need to save taxpayer money and eliminate unnecessary expenses, but the message was clear to every conservative in Washington: Gingrich was determined to eliminate the group that could endanger his speakership.</div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--4" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;" /></div><div data-section="full" data-pos="boxinjector-d" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-native="standard,gift" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid; grid-template-areas: " a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px; line-height: 1.4;">He began immediately after the 1994 election by convening a meeting of the next House Republican Conference--all returning members, plus the incoming freshmen. Numerous newbies, having heard about the RSC, were devastated when Gingrich's staff announced it was going away. Two of them, John Shadegg of Arizona and Steve Largent of Oklahoma, spoke up. "The entire freshman class was there, and we were taking over the majority," Shadegg recalls. "Largent and I got up and argued it ought to be saved."<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">When the meeting adjourned, Majority Leader Dick Armey yanked Shadegg and Largent into an adjacent room. "Nice try, but it's gone," Armey told them. By abolishing the RSC, the new speaker neutralized a potential menace. But in doing so, he also provoked some GOP members who were incredulous that their self-styled conservative leader would attack a bastion of conservative activism. One of them was Ernest Istook, an outspoken sophomore from Oklahoma, who whispered to a colleague during that meeting, "It can't be healthy for all the resources to be concentrated in the hands of party leadership." Istook wanted to know where rank-and-file members would turn for objective analyses on leadership-endorsed legislation.He wasn't alone. Having arrived in Washington together in 1990, GOP Reps. John Doolittle of California and Sam Johnson of Texas shared a friendship and political philosophy. RSC members both, they were stunned by the power play. Almost immediately, they began plotting to revive the organization. To circumvent Gingrich's restrictive language, they needed someone with intricate knowledge of both the old RSC infrastructure and the House itself. No one was better qualified than Dan Burton of Indiana, who was RSC chairman at the time of its dissolution. Burton, too, had been scheming to resurrect the committee.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-native="standard,gift" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">As these three began strategizing around the new House rules, they recruited Istook. He suggested that rather than spend House resources on RSC employees, lawmakers should instead hire part-time staffers who could roam between offices working for different members on RSC projects. "We set up a structure of rotating the payroll for these employees from one office to the next, so that everyone was, in effect, sharing the cost but working within the new rules," Istook explains.Now the four members could reboot the RSC, but they wanted a fresh start and a new name to emphasize aggressive ideology over passive partisanship. Istook suggested CAT, for Conservative Action Team. The others approved, and soon Istook was printing lapel pins featuring a roaring mountain lion and distributing them to conservative members curious about rumors of the RSC's resurrection. The rechristened group had returned--with a new generation of leaders....</div></div></section></div></div><div></div><div>ourcampigns.</div><div>
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</td><td class="Text1" colspan="2" style="">John T. Doolittle is a native of California, born in Glendale on October 30, 1950, and he has lived in Southern California, the Bay Area, and Sacramento. He is married to Julia Harlow and is father to son, J.T. and daughter, Courtney.

Growing up in California, Doolittle graduated from Cupertino High School in 1968. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in History, and he earned his law degree from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. Doolittle began serving in the United States House of Representatives in 1991, serving the 14th Congressional District of California. Following redistricting in 1992, he began representing the 4th Congressional District and has subsequently been sent back to represent this district in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002.

For the 108th Congress, Doolittle was elected as the Secretary of the House Republican Conference, the sixth highest ranking elected position in the House Leadership. Additionally, he maintains the seats he first gained in the 107th Congress on the Committee on House Administration as well as the powerful Appropriations Committee and its Energy and Water and DC Appropriations Subcommittees.

Doolittle also continues to be one of only seventeen Deputy Whips in the House, a position he first gained at the start of the 104th Congress. The Whip organization, a critical arm of the House Leadership, is in charge of marshaling votes for passage of important legislation that reaches the House floor.

Up until the 107th Congress, Doolittle served as a dedicated member of the Agriculture and Resources Committees. Specifically, he served on the Subcommittees on Resource Conservation, Research and Forestry, and Risk Management and Specialty Crops on the Agriculture Committee; and the Subcommittees on National Parks, Forests and Lands, and Water and Power Resources of the Resources Committee.

With the start of the historic 104th Congress, Doolittle was selected Chairman of the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, which has jurisdiction over the marketing of electric power from federal water projects and federal power marketing authorities, all water resource development programs, and all matters concerning water resources planning. (He had to relinquish his chairmanship, as well as his seat on the Agriculture and Resources Committees, when he received appointment to the Appropriations Committee.)

Some of John Doolittle�s legislative accomplishments:

One of seven freshmen who exposed the House check-bouncing scandal, pressed for full disclosure of all overdrafts, and brought national attention to the issue of congressional reform.

Fighting for an �Agenda of Opportunity� for all Americans, which includes lower personal income taxes, a reduction in the capital gains tax, a balanced budget, protecting Social Security benefits from taxation, and strengthening the economy by promoting policies which create more jobs and increase economic growth.

Co-founder of the Conservative Action Team, now known as the Republican Study Commitee, the largest and most effective organization among House Republicans.

Doolittle has received many awards in recognition of a voting record committed to economic growth, deficit reduction, and government reform, including:

Taxpayers� Superhero Award by the Citizens Against Government Waste

Taxpayers� Friend by the National Taxpayers' Union

Golden Bulldog Award by the Watchdogs of the Treasury

Spirit of Enterprise Award by the United States Chamber of Commerce

Guardian of Small Business Award by the National Federation of Independent Business

Sound Dollar Award by the Free Congress Foundation

Thomas Jefferson Award by the National Wholesalers Grocers Association

Human Rights Leadership Award by Freedom Magazine

Family Service Award by the Women's Federation for World Peace</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>=</div><div>
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Kevin A. RingBorn: c. <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/969/000105654/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration-line: none;">1970</a>
 Gender: Male
Religion: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/758/000094476/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roman Catholic</a>
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/206/000068999/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney</a>
Party Affiliation: RepublicanNationality: United States
Executive summary: Team AbramoffWife: (two children)
     University: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/534/000068330/">BA Political Science, Syracuse University</a>
    Law School: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/613/000082367/">Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC</a>
     <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/297/000124922/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barnes & Thornburg</a> (2005-07)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/247/000124872/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greenberg Traurig</a> (2001-04)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/599/000122233/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Preston Gates & Ellis</a> (2000-01)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/gov/251/000122882/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congressional Staff</a> to Sen. <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/352/000022286/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Ashcroft</a>
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/gov/251/000122882/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congressional Staff</a> to <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000036854/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Doolittle</a> (1993-98)
    University Club in Washington 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/175/000167671/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bush-Cheney '04</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/904/000215259/" style="">The Freedom Project</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/858/000215213/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Hawkeye PAC</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/345/000219685/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JD Hayworth for Congress</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/475/000168968/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep Our Mission PAC</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/183/000117829/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maryland State Bar Association</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/057/000172538/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rich PAC</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/902/000215257/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senate Victory Fund PAC</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/event/437/000123068/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Took the Fifth</a> (22-Jun-2005)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/crime/504/000045369/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conspiracy</a> to corrupt congressional and executive branch officials, guilty (2010)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/crime/306/000049159/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bribery</a> paying gratuity to a public official, guilty (2010)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/crime/759/000047618/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wire Fraud</a> honest services, three counts, guilty (2010)
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/group/483/000138069/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abramoff Scandal</a> 
 Author of books:
Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice (<tt>2004</tt>, nonfiction)
===<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/09/kevin-ring-indicted-in-abramoff-case-013269">https://www.politico.com/story/2008/09/kevin-ring-indicted-in-abramoff-case-013269</a>kevin Ring indicted in Abramoff case<div class=" story-intro format-s" itemscope="" itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-right: 344.859px;"><div class="summary " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.25em;"><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; margin-top: 0.5em;"><div itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By <a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/john-bresnahan" rel="author" class="url fn" target="_top" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700;">JOHN BRESNAHAN</a>

09/08/2008 08:24 PM EDT</footer></div></div>Monday’s indictment of Kevin Ring, former chief of staff to Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), on 10 federal corruption charges was a devastating blow for Doolittle, who is retiring at the end of this year after his political career imploded over his ties to imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.Ring’s indictment alleges that Doolittle, from January 2000 to early 2004, undertook a series of official acts that benefited Abramoff and Ring, including winning millions of dollars in federal funds for their lobbying clients through his seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.<div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined fixed-story-third-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 313.5px; float: left; margin-right: 31.3438px;" />According to a timeline laid out by the Justice Department, Doolittle and his aides — in exchange for official acts — reportedly received numerous free meals, tickets to concerts and sporting events, campaign contributions and a part-time job for Doolittle’s wife Julie, one of his chief fundraisers. Abramoff’s former lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig, eventually paid Julie Doolittle a total of $96,000 over a two-year period for little work, according to the Ring indictment.Doolittle and his wife have denied any wrongdoing in their relationship with Abramoff, although House GOP leaders booted the California Republican off the Appropriations Committee after FBI agents searched his home in April 2007 as part of the Abramoff investigation.The indictment alleges that Ring, Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, Abramoff’s ex-business associate, “offered and provided things of value” to numerous public officials, among them Doolittle, his aides, other congressional staff members and executive branch officials, including employees at the Justice Department. The things of value the three men allegedly handed out included “all-expenses-paid domestic and international travel, fundraising assistance, meals, drinks, golf, tickets to professional sporting events, concerts and other events and employment opportunities to spouses and relatives of congressional members and staff.”Ring pleaded not guilty during an appearance Monday in federal court in Washington following his arrest.“The prosecutors orchestrated the spectacle of arresting Mr. Ring in front of his wife and children this morning,” Richard Hibey, Ring’s lawyer said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.“While Mr. Ring had been cooperating with officials for over two years, he simply could not plead guilty to crimes he did not commit. From that point, he was deemed uncooperative.”The indictment outlined dozens of meetings, contacts, phone calls and e-mails during which Doolittle and his aides were portrayed as undertaking legislative actions that benefited Abramoff and Ring’s lobbying clients. Abramoff and Ring worked together at two lobbying firms, Greenberg Traurig and Preston Gates.Doolittle, who called himself “anti-gambling,” wrote several letters to Bureau of Indian Affairs and Interior Department officials on behalf of Abramoff tribal clients with casino operations that had regulatory or legal problems.The indictment alleges that at one point in 2000, Doolittle even joked with a staffer that he was “a subsidiary” of Abramoff’s lobbying operation, which the staffer quickly told Ring and Abramoff.Doolittle’s attorney, David Barger, issued a statement denying any improper or illegal link among Abramoff, Ring and Doolittle. Barger accused the Justice Department of “attempting to embarrass and pressure the congressman.”“It is clear that portions of the Kevin Ring indictment were designed to make gratuitous references to the congressman and his wife. This appears to have been done to titillate the public, with the foreseeable and therefore intended consequence of attempting to embarrass and pressure the congressman,” Barger said in an e-mail statement.“Not once in this document does the Department of Justice allege any sort of illegal agreement between Congressman Doolittle, on the one hand, and Kevin Ring or Jack Abramoff, on the other. To the extent the indictment can be read to imply such an agreement, the congressman continues to steadfastly maintain there was none and that he is innocent.”Barger added: “It is also unfortunate that, given the manner in which these investigations are conducted, Congressman Doolittle has never been given access to all of the documents and statements the government has presumably gathered in this more than four-year endeavor. If access were given, it is highly likely the government’s own evidence would show the congressman’s, and his wife’s, total lack of culpability.”The indictment alleges that Ring also received tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from Scanlon for political consulting work that Scanlon was doing for the Pueblo of Sandia tribe in New Mexico. The payments were reportedly concealed from Greenberg Traurig officials, who began an internal investigation into Abramoff’s activities after The Washington Post reported in February 2004 that Abramoff and Scanlon were charging astronomical fees, running into the tens of millions of dollars, to several Indian tribes with casino operations. The story spurred congressional and DOJ probes, and Abramoff’s lobbying empire quickly collapsed.Ring’s indictment was bad news for former Rep. Ernest Istook, a GOP lawmaker from Oklahoma. John Albaugh, a former top aide to Istook, has already pleaded guilty recently to helping Abramoff and Ring get federal road funding for their clients in return for meals and event tickets.Istook could not be reached for comment.More than a dozen people, including Abramoff and Scanlon, have pleaded guilty in the ongoing DOJ criminal probe. Abramoff, who has served 22 months on a Florida fraud case, was sentenced last week to an additional four years in prison for his role in the biggest corruption scandal to hit official Washington in decades. Scanlon has not yet been sentenced.==</div>

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