Clyburn gets ready for showdown with Hoyer

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Clyburn gets ready for
showdown with Hoyer
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Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) talks with The Hill’s reporters in his Capitol Hill office on Tuesday.
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Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.) is
considering a bid to be Speaker
of the House or majority leader
if the Democrats win the November election.
He would almost certainly not
run against Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) if she decided to stay, but he
hints strongly that he is ready
for a showdown with Rep. Steny
Hoyer (Md.).
Asked whether he will seek a
higher leadership post following
the 2012 election, Clyburn told
The Hill, “I might — sure. I’m not
closing the door on anything.”
The highest-ranking AfricanAmerican in Congress then
detailed what could be his argument for a promotion: He has
paid his dues, both literally and
figuratively.
“The people who hold these
Messina dismisses doubts about
Obama’s chances in North Carolina Bad taste
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By Amie Parnes
CHICAGO — President Obama’s
campaign manager dismissed
suggestions that it was a mistake for Democrats to hold their
national convention in North
Carolina, saying he has “zero”
regrets about the decision. In a wide-ranging interview
with The Hill on Wednesday, Jim
Messina insisted the president
can win North Carolina despite
low approval ratings there and
recent polls that have indicated
his support in the state is waning.
“I believe that we can absolutely win North Carolina,” Messina said, sitting in his office at
Obama campaign headquarters.
“The president’s economic vision and the work he’s done in
at summit
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By Russell Berman
and Alicia M. Cohn
President Obama and House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
clashed during a White House
meeting on Wednesday,
with the Speaker telling
the president that he
was “not going to al-
Radio silence from over-budget police
By Debbie Siegelbaum
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ment’s $100 million modernization program continues to
flounder.
Originally budgeted at $35 million
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Romney’s next big battle is
fight against summer slump
By Josh Lederman
Mitt Romney’s challenge heading into the long summertime
slog before the convention?
How to engage the majority of
voters who aren’t tuned in to
the campaign yet.
For nominees who play it
smart, there’s a long list of boxes to check off to ensure all the
pieces are in place for the fall:
raising money, picking a vice
presidential candidate, prepping for the convention and
building a nimble ground game
in battleground states.
“You campaign particularly
in the key states, and pay attention to the local media,” said
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the
2008 Republican nominee.
Top advisers to previous nominees from both parties said it’s
the incumbent’s game during
the slow summer months, both
because the incumbent can
control the message and because of the head start in building a large-scale operation.
Asked about the best use of the
nominee’s time in the months
before the conventions, Stacie
Spector, a senior adviser to President Clinton’s 1996 reelection
campaign, offered two words:
“Raise money.”
The second-most important
thing a nominee can do? Raise
money, said Spector.
For Romney, there’s a longer list
of key tasks that must be delicately and deftly carried out before he
can focus full-time on making his
case against President Obama.
“The first thing they’ve got
to do is the vice presidential
nominee. Let’s get them vetted
— and vetted thoroughly,” said
Craig Smith, a former speechwriter for President George
H.W. Bush. “That leads to No. 2,
which is how to make the convention interesting.”
In 1988, polls showed Bush 13
to 17 points behind heading into
the Republican National Convention. But his well-received
“thousand points of light” acceptance speech, where Bush
debuted the phrase “Read my
lips: No new taxes,” changed the
game for his campaign.
“We came out 10 points ahead,”
said Smith. “If you hit it right, it
can really change everything.”
Romney and Obama can find
clues for hitting their conven-
getty images
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces a long list of tasks that must be carried out.
tion speeches out of the park in
the torrent of polling that both
campaigns are inevitably conducting. President Nixon used
that strategy in his highly successful convention speech in
1968, Smith said.
“Where they had unanimity in
poll numbers, Nixon articulated very specific solutions,” he
said. “Where there wasn’t unanimity, he focused on the problem and glossed over the details
— like ‘peace with honor’ to talk
about Vietnam.”
Romney also has more work
to do in building the kind of robust, large-scale operation that
Obama, lacking a primary fight,
has had more than a year to put
together. There are aides to be
hired, offices to be opened, voter
lists to be culled and fundraising
operations to be bolstered.
“There’s this moment of pause
after you secure the nomination, then a massive sprint to try
to scale to 10 times what it was
during the primary,” said Chip
Smith, the deputy campaign
manager for then-Vice President
Al Gore’s campaign in 2000.
Obama’s other advantage
comes from his ability to set the
tone of the debate by focusing
on the successes of his first term
while simultaneously conveying
the gravitas of the man currently
running the country, said Spec-
voters are tuning in earlier and
earlier every cycle, said Christian
Ferry, deputy campaign manager
for McCain-Palin in 2008.
“Traditionally we said campaigns really get started after
Labor Day,” he said. “I’m not
sure that’s true anymore.”
“there’s this moment of pause after you secure the
nomination, then a massive sprint to try to scale
it to 10 times what it was during the primary.”
Chip Smith Deputy campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 campaign
tor, who advised Gore’s campaign
in addition to Clinton’s.
“Experience, confidence, a
clear, inspired vision, compassion and connection will win
out,” said Spector. “The summer
before any election is about cementing that perception in the
minds of voters.”
But lest either candidate let
the summer grind lull him into
thinking he can wait until after
the convention to really turn on
the heat, it should be noted that
Frustration with the economy
and the slow pace of recovery
has more Americans questioning what the White House can
do to make a difference in their
lives. And more states are offering early voting than in the past,
with some extending the period
of early voting to 30 or more days
before the election, Ferry said.
“The days of everyone going to
the election booth on the first
Tuesday of November and casting a vote are over,” he said.
BRIEFLY
Senate rejects
Obamas budget
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a resolution based on
President Obama’s 2013 budget in a 99-0 vote.
It’s the second straight year
the Senate has voted down
Obama’s budget. Obama’s 2012
budget failed 97-0 last May after Obama himself last April
said he wanted deeper deficit
cuts.
The White House sought to
provide cover for Democrats to
vote against the Obama budget
resolution before the vote, arguing the resolution offered by
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was
different from Obama’s budget
because it did not include policy report language.
Democrats made the same
point on the floor Wednesday
in explaining their votes.
The Senate also rejected
four GOP budget blueprints.
The GOP believes the series of
votes showcases their ability to
produce plans that eventually
balance the budget with the
lack of a Democratic alternative.
But the GOP push was blunted a bit by the fact that five
Republicans voted against
the House Republican budget
from Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) in a
41-58 vote.
GOP Sens. Susan Collins
(Maine), Olympia Snowe
(Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.),
Rand Paul (Ky.) and Dean
Heller (Nev.) were the “no”
votes. Heller and Brown are in
competitive reelection battles
this fall.
Heller voted for the Ryan
plan twice last year, once as a
senator and earlier as a member of the House.
Democrats have attacked
votes in favor of Ryan’s budget
as votes to “end Medicare as we
know it” since they transform
Medicare into a system where
future seniors have the option
of buying private insurance.
Erik Wasson and Daniel Strauss
CORRECTION
Speaker John Boehner
(R-Ohio) delivered his
speech on Tuesday at a fiscal
summit hosted by the Peter G.
Peterson Foundation. Incorrect information appeared in
Wednesday’s edition.
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in 2007, the program has since tripled
in cost with little to show in the way
of results. Officers must still contend
with poor communications connectivity around the Capitol complex, which
could prove detrimental to security.
There are “several locations, several
times a day where you can’t get a hold of
officers because they are in a dead spot,”
said a department source involved with
the radio modernization program.
The source described an incident within recent years where officers investigating a potential shooting threat near
the Capitol lost radio contact and were
unable to communicate with each other
due to their outdated equipment.
Officers have dealt with such communications dead spots for several decades,
but were promised a solution with the radio modernization program, which was
supposed to take three years to complete.
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plagued by delays and spiraling costs.
Lawmakers have already allocated over
$104 million to the project since fiscal
2007 via supplemental and annual appropriations, according to House Appropriations Committee communications director Jennifer Hing.
Capitol Police have contracted with Naval
Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to determine system requirements for the largescale radio upgrade project. According to
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ing an award and the final procurement
is pending release.” In March, Capitol Police Chief Phillip
Morse testified before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Legislative Branch that the upgraded radios
would now be up and running by “spring
or summer” of next year.
Capitol Police had earlier projected the
upgraded radios would be delivered and
operational by the January 2013 presidential inauguration, a deadline which
has since proven impossible to meet.
“I feel like right now we’re in a very
good place with this project,” Morse assured lawmakers of the new time frame.
But Morse’s projections for the program
might be overly optimistic. According
to the Capitol Police source, “We’re still
looking at least two to three years out before any system is put in place.”
Once system requirements are solidified, companies must bid on the contract
and then go through the procurement
and approval process, according to the
source. Funding for the project must also be re-evaluated.
Though no exact figures were available,
the source estimated that the department
has already spent $60 million of the $104
million allocated for the project. When
asked if the remaining funds would be
enough to complete the ambitious program, the source said, “I don’t think so.”
The department’s attempts to stay
within their allocated funding could ultimately render the entire program ineffective, the source said.
“That’s the reason why I believe they
are trying to cut the system back as to
the capabilities,” the source said. “If they
don’t make the system capable of doing
everything we would like it to do — only
basically what they think it needs to do,
so it’s limited — that means they won’t
have to spend as much money on it.
“It’s defeating the point of the system,”
the source said.
The Capitol Police Labor Committee
has also registered its displeasure with
the ongoing delays in the radio modernization program.
“Due to the radio program’s constant
delays (five-plus years) and the spiraling
cost ($35 million to over $100 million),
there is concern over the entire project,”
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“Out of necessity, Congress appropriated millions of dollars to update our radio system but have yet to see a finished
product,” he added. “Most contracts have
benchmarks for a project’s conclusion and
at what cost; this appears to have neither.”
Congress has not been blind to the program’s ongoing delays and increased
costs. Several months ago, the Committee on House Administration asked
the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) to increase its involvement and attempt to steer the program back on track.
“In concurrence with the Capitol Police,
the committee has encouraged the close involvement of the GAO to assist the department in its effort to meet the technical requirements of the project,” wrote committee spokeswoman Salley Wood in an email. GAO spokesman Chuck Young confirmed his agency’s involvement in the
project, but would not provide specifics
on what they were asked by the committee to achieve.
“We have been offering technical assistance but are not planning to issue any
formal report,” he explained.
The Capitol Police acknowledged GAO’s
ongoing involvement with the radio modernization program, but did not elaborate
on the agency’s increased participation. “As with any large-dollar, complex
project, the GAO has provided oversight and technical guidance to the project since its authorization,” Schneider
wrote. “The department welcomes this
continued involvement of the GAO in
the project until its completion.”
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low a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt,”
Boehner’s office said.
The president convened the meeting of
the bipartisan congressional leadership
to discuss his “to-do list” for Congress, but
an aide to the Speaker said the bulk of the
meeting was spent on other issues, including a pile-up of expiring tax provisions and
the next increase in the federal debt limit.
Boehner asked Obama if he was proposing that Congress increase the debt
limit without corresponding spending cuts, according to a readout of the
meeting from the Speaker’s office. The
president replied, “Yes.” At that point,
Boehner told Obama, “As long as I’m
around here, I’m not going to allow a
debt-ceiling increase without doing
something serious about the debt.”
Shortly after the meeting, White House
press secretary Jay Carney told reporters
that the president warned the leadership
that he would not allow a repeat of last August’s debt-ceiling “debacle,” which led to a
downgrade in the U.S. credit rating.
“You have to ask the Speaker of the
House whether or not he intends or he believes that it is the right thing to do for the
American people or the American economy to play chicken with the full faith and
credit of the United States of America,”
Carney said at his daily press briefing.
The meeting came one day after Boehner
delivered a speech to a fiscal summit in
Washington in which he said he would
once again demand spending cuts and
reforms that exceed any increase in the
nation’s borrowing limit that Congress
approves. Boehner also called out Obama
in that address for showing a lack of “courage” in last summer’s debt talks.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (DNev.), Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also attended
the meeting.
The White House lunch, which was described by officials on all sides as “cordial,” resembled the early moves in a
chess match and involved a web of major
items that will likely await congressional
action in a lame-duck session in December. The outcome could rest on whom
voters elect in the November elections,
but leaders in both parties have begun
jockeying for leverage already.
In making his demand for more spending
cuts, Boehner staked out a clear position
that House Republicans can run on this
fall, and delivered a warning to Democrats
who believe they have more leverage in
the debate over the Bush tax rates and the
looming sequester cuts to the military,
which Republicans in particular abhor.
But Reid had his own message for the
Speaker. The Senate leader, according
to a Democratic aide, “conveyed his view
that any discussion of the debt ceiling
is premature until after the sequester
takes effect or is replaced with a balanced agreement, and after Congress
deals with the expiring Bush tax cuts.”
Boehner’s office has described the
Speaker’s position as simply an effort to
begin negotiations early, well before the
“fiscal cliff” at the end of the year. But
there is virtually no hope of reaching an
agreement in the middle of the heated
campaign, and Reid signaled that he
feels little urgency to act in advance.
McConnell, who offered only tepid support for Boehner’s approach on Tuesday,
notably did not mention the debt ceiling in
the comments that were provided by his office after the meeting. Instead, he referred
only to his push for an agreement on a student loan bill that can pass the Senate.
If nothing else, there was bipartisan
agreement on the lunch menu, which featured hoagies from a D.C. sandwich shop
that Obama bought for the leadership.
“My sense was the tone was congenial,
the discussion was productive, the sandwiches were delicious,” Carney said.
He downplayed that the back-and-forth
centered on Boehner’s agenda, saying numerous items were raised in what was a
“healthy and positive discussion” between
the president and congressional leaders.
The readout from Boehner’s office suggested a more confrontational meeting.
It said the Speaker also pressed the president to approve the complete Keystone
oil sands pipeline and to encourage Attorney General Eric Holder to provide
information congressional investigators
have sought on the “Fast and Furious”
gun-running operation.
It concluded with the note that the
Speaker “was very pleased with the
sandwiches served.”
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leadership positions in the palms of their
hands — that’s our caucus — they hold these
positions,” he said. “I think the extent to
which I demonstrate that I’m deserving will
determine whether or not I continue.”
Clyburn was quick to tout his credentials as a veteran dealmaker with a history of both getting things done and sacrificing for the party when need be. He related an episode early in his Capitol Hill
tenure, for instance, when he stepped off
the powerful Appropriations Committee to make room for a Republican who
was promised a seat on the panel if he
switched parties.
“I believe that every member will tell
you that I paid significant dues, and I
never, ever stepped on anybody along
the way,” he said. “People may say they’ll
put the interest of the caucus before
them. But I have demonstrated it.”
He also noted that he paid his full cycle
dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. As the No. 3
Democrat, Clyburn’s dues level is set at
$600,000, which he met in January.
Hoyer, for his part, is not ceding any
ground.
“Mr. Hoyer is focused on taking back
the House and being the majority leader,” spokeswoman Katie Grant said
Wednesday in an email.
Clyburn is not expected to challenge
Pelosi, who has a firm grip on her caucus.
Yet there is widespread speculation
that this Congress will be Pelosi’s last.
Alexandra Pelosi, the lawmaker’s daughter, said in December 2011 that her
mother wants to retire. Pelosi’s office
has since downplayed those remarks.
As in every election cycle, the fate of
the leaders hinges largely on what happens at the polls. Pelosi, who controlled
the Speaker’s gavel from 2007 to 2011,
has not yet played her hand, saying she’s
focused only on returning the Democrats to the majority.
“Let me just be clear: I’ve never pushed
to become Speaker. I push for the Democrats to win,” she said last week. “Whatever happens after that is incidental.”
Clyburn said Democrats have “a fighting chance” of taking back the majority
this fall.
Pressed on whether he will look to move
up the leadership hierarchy should the
GOP retain the House, Clyburn hedged
a bit. He said it would depend on the elec-
“People may say they’ll put
the interest of the caucus
before them. But I have
demonstrated it.”
Rep. James Clyburn D-S.C.
tion outcome and whether members of
the Democratic Caucus believe leadership
lawmakers did a good job in attempting to
win back the lower chamber.
Rank-and-file Democrats, meanwhile,
are insisting that they are focused on
November, not potential leadership
match-ups in the lame-duck session.
“It’s not a distraction now. We’re in the
minority, and people are head-down, focused on their elections,” said one House
Democrat, who requested anonymity
because of the sensitivity of the subject.
“But obviously, all of this is going to
erupt after the election.
“There will be a lot of ferment [after the
elections],” the Democrat added. “Do we
win? Do we just barely lose? Do we lose
seats? All of those will play into members’ assessment of what to do [with
leadership], if anything.”
In Clyburn’s Capitol Hill office, there
is a framed quotation of James Bryant
Conant’s phrase: “Behold the turtle. He
makes progress only when he sticks his
neck out.”
Clyburn has long been a team player for
House Democrats, but he isn’t afraid to
stick his neck out.
He said this week that President
Obama should have gone further on
same-sex marriage, calling for a “nation-
al policy” on the controversial issue.
Following the 2006 elections, he was
poised to take on then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) for the House majority-whip
post. Emanuel subsequently opted not to
challenge the 10-term lawmaker.
Clyburn and Hoyer temporarily locked
horns for the minority-whip slot in the
wake of the 2010 elections. Pelosi ultimately defused the situation by carving
out a new leadership slot for Clyburn, al-
lowing him to retain his No. 3 position in
the caucus.
Some younger Democrats in the House
have privately grumbled about their lack
of opportunity to join the leadership
team. Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn are all
over 70 years of age.
With a laugh, Clyburn noted he is the
youngest of the leadership trio, adding
that he doesn’t feel pressure from younger members of the caucus to step aside.
President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina maintains that Obama will have the numbers to pull off a win in N.C.
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Messina dismisses doubts about
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North Carolina will carry the day for us
there.”
Messina’s comments come as a new
Rasmussen poll on Wednesday indicated Romney has an 8-point lead over
Obama in the Tar Heel State, 51 percent
to 43.
It was a dramatic change from results
from the Republican-leaning poll last
month, which showed that Romney and
Obama almost tied. A daily tracking poll
shows Romney with a narrow lead over
Obama nationally on the heels of a jobs
report that shows a slight improvement
for the economy.
Another problem for Obama in North
Carolina could be his embrace last
week of same-sex marriage. Obama announced his position just a day after
North Carolina adopted an amendment
to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman in an overwhelming vote.
Messina said the poll numbers don’t
bother him.
“All those numbers on the ground look
very, very good for us,” he said. “What I
trust is what we see on the ground. “We feel good about our ability to turn
out voters,” he continued. “We registered
more voters in North Carolina than any
state in the country, and that’s a big deal.”
Obama won North Carolina four years
ago — becoming the first Democratic
president since Jimmy Carter to do so —
partly because of the strong turnout by
African-Americans, who largely do not
embrace same-sex marriage. Most Afri-
can-Americans are expected to vote for
Obama again but depressing the turnout, even slightly, could hurt Obama.
North Carolina’s economy is hurting. At
9.7 percent in March, it had the fifth highest
unemployment rate in the nation. About 11
percent of North Carolina voters said the
economy was in “good or excellent” shape,
according to the Rasmussen poll.
But Messina — sitting at a small conference table in his campaign office, which
overlooks downtown Chicago — maintained that Obama will have the numbers to pull off a win.
“It’s important to step back and look at
states for what they are: metrics-based,”
he said. “How many people there, how
many Democrats, how many unregistered
people, how many people we can go persuade. And when you look at that and close
your eyes, N.C. is a state that’s going to be
competitive for the rest of our lifetimes.”
Democrats decided to place their convention in Charlotte to build on Obama’s dramatic victory there in 2008. Some Democrats now believe that is a mistake and
that they would be better off holding their
convention in another swing state where
Obama has a better chance of repeating.
But Messina thinks otherwise.
“The amount of regret that the convention being there is zero,” he said. “We are
excited about the convention. It’s the
right decision for us, we are going to have
a great convention. We look forward to
North Carolina and we believe that North
Carolina is a swing state [where] we are
building the best grass roots effort. That said, if Obama doesn’t win the Tar
Heel state, Messina — who created “five
pathways” to win 270 electoral votes late
last year — said they have other options.
“If we don’t win North Carolina, we
can do it with other paths,” he said. “But
the paths are all still there and have
increased because now Arizona’s on
it. And a year ago, we were wondering
about Arizona but [now] we believe Arizona is a credible pathway.”
Messina spoke with The Hill on the
heels of the campaign’s release of its latest fundraising figures, totaling $43.6
million, a drop from last month’s haul.
At Obama’s headquarters, he said “everyone here knows” the election is going
to be close but offered a warning to donors on complacency.
“We have to make sure everyone understands how close this election is going to be,” he said.
Though Obama’s fundraising totals
outpace presumptive GOP presidential
nominee Mitt Romney, Messina said
GOP super-PACs remain a “an absolute, serious concern for all of us.” While
Obama has embraced super-PACs himself, Democratic super-PACs badly trail
their GOP counterparts.
“You’ve been hearing me scream to the
universe for the last three months that
super-PACs are real, they’re out there, we
have to deal with them,” Messina said. Messina said he believed Democrats
could close the gap as more donors see
the size of the hauls by groups affiliated with GOP operative Karl Rove and
billionaires David and Charles Koch.
“I think you will see more and more
Democrats understand that we have to
fight these super-PACs,” Messina said. The hill
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Ex-Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), center, said he told prospective employers right from the start that he wouldn’t lobby his former colleagues.
Ex-lawmakers at lobby
firms avoid ‘Scarlet L’
By Kevin Bogardus and Rachel Leven
Several former lawmakers are shying
away from registering as lobbyists despite the end of a cooling-off period in the
House that had barred them from soliciting their ex-colleagues.
The Hill found roughly 30 lawmakers
from the 111th Congress who are employed at law firms, lobby shops, trade
groups and think tanks that are registered to lobby. Yet only 10 of those individuals are themselves registered to
lobby.
Former lawmakers at the registered
firms say they want to stay involved in
public policy debates but find trooping
up to Capitol Hill to advocate for clients
unappealing. Corporate headhunters say ex-lawmakers are wary of the
“Scarlet L” — the taint of being a registered lobbyist — because it could hinder
future political ambitions.
Chris Jones, managing partner of
CapitolWorks, said former lawmakers
are avoiding the lobbyist tag by working as “senior advisers” at law firms and
lobby shops.
“According to their job definition,
they are not really meeting the lobbying
threshold. … They are probably managing
the effort rather than physically lobbying
for the client. This is the 30,000-foot view
of the project,” said Jones, who recruits
lawyers and lobbyists for firms. “That
seems to be the scarlet letter. People like
to throw it around with disgust.”
The 10 ex-members from the 111th Congress registered to lobby in the past year
are former Reps. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.),
Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), Mike Castle (RDel.), Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), Stephanie
Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), Walt Minnick
(D-Idaho), Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), John
Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)
and John Tanner (D-Tenn.).
Ex-members of the House are subject
to a cooling-off period that bans them
from lobbying either chamber of Congress for a year, though they are permitted to lobby the executive branch. For
the 111th Congress, the cooling-off period ended in January.
Senators are subject to a two-year
cooling-off period for lobbying Congress that will end next January. Several
ex-senators from the 111th Congress,
including Chris Dodd (D -Conn.) and
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), took jobs at
law firms and trade groups but have not
registered to lobby.
Jones said ex-members of Congress
often enter into negotiations with firms
with the unspoken understanding that
they do not want to be asked to register
to lobby. Often, firms arrange job duties for the ex-lawmaker that would not
require them to register, according to
headhunters.
“Being a senior government-relations
adviser is sort of like the expression ‘the
love that dares not speak its name,’ ”
Jones said. “They don’t like to say what
it is, but they know exactly what you are
doing.”
Former Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.)
said he told prospective employers right
from the start that he wouldn’t lobby.
“I made it clear to the various groups
that sought me out after the election
to consult with, I said, ‘Fine, I will consult with you, share ideas, but I will not
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Republicans hint at willingness to part with
Keystone provision in deal on highway bill
By Ben Geman
Republicans are pressing for approval of the Keystone XL oil
pipeline in a final House-Senate
transportation bill but appear
unlikely to draw a line in the sand
that jeopardizes the legislation.
While the proposed Alberta-toTexas pipeline is a top GOP and
oil-industry priority, Republicans might have incentive to keep
the matter unresolved, enabling
them to continue using Keystone
as a political weapon during the
campaign season.
The House version of the sweeping transportation funding measure grants a permit to TransCanada’s pipeline to bring oil
sands to Gulf Coast refineries, but
the Senate package omits the provision. Bicameral negotiations
are under way to resolve differences between the bills.
“The overall Republican Conference position is not to sink the
conference report over [Keystone
XL], however, as keeping that is-
sue alive through the elections is
also acceptable,” an oil industry
source told The Hill.
Some other Capitol Hill sources
similarly suggested that Republicans won’t allow the Keystone
provision — which fell short of
the 60 Senate backers needed in a
recent vote — to derail talks over
the bill, which extends popular
transportation and infrastructure programs.
GOP lawmakers are nonetheless calling the pipeline a top
priority and express confidence
that there is growing support for
including it in a final transportation bill.
But asked if they would insist
on Keystone as a condition for an
agreement, several GOP lawmakers said they didn’t want to discuss “hypotheticals,” while others
hinted that they they’re flexible
on the matter.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (RTexas), one of six Senate GOP
negotiators, told The Hill in an
interview that going forward with
Keystone is “essential” and criti-
cized the White House for failing
to grant a cross-border permit.
The White House argues that
more review is needed.
But Hutchison also emphasized the importance of the wider highway bill.
“So many states are dependent on it, so I do think that the
paramount view is that we need
a transportation bill, but there
is a strong feeling that the president is being very unrealistic in
his rejection [of Keystone] since
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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
GOP lawmaker says
Obama is ‘tone-deaf’
on gas, energy policy
By Andrew Restuccia
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) alleged
Wednesday that President
Obama is “tone-deaf ” on energy policy, the latest signal that
falling gasoline prices won’t
stop Republican attacks on the
White House.
“Gas prices, I believe, are one
of the poster-children, if you
will, for the tone-deaf policy of
the current administration,”
Price said during a policy breakfast hosted by The Hill and
sponsored by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council on Wednesday morning.
“I say tone-deaf because it’s
clear that the administration
either doesn’t understand the
connection between gas prices
and small business and job creation or doesn’t want to understand it,” he said.
Price said high gasoline prices
are taking a major toll on smallbusiness owners.
“There is a significant connection between prices at the pump
and the ability of the economy to
thrive,” he said. “If you’re spending more of your hard-earned
money to fill up your gas tank,
then you’ve got less of your hardearned money to invest in your
small business.”
Price and other Republicans
have spent months pummeling
Obama over high gasoline prices,
blaming the president’s energy
policies for the spike. But the
Obama administration has rejected those allegations, noting that
federal policymakers have limited options to lower prices in the
short term, as they are tethered to
oil prices set on world markets.
“There is a significant
connection between
prices at the pump
and the ability of the
economy to thrive.”
Rep. Tom Price R-Ga.
Obama, keenly aware of polls
that show high gasoline prices
could hurt him going into the
election, launched an aggressive
campaign to counter GOP criticism. The president often touts
an “all-of-the-above” energy
plan that focuses on expanded
domestic oil and natural-gas
production, improved vehicle
fuel efficiency and increased investment in renewable energy.
Gasoline prices have dropped
in recent weeks, weakening Republican attacks on Obama on
the issue.
Gasoline prices surged to a national average of nearly $3.94
per gallon in early April, after
months of steady increases. But
prices have begun decreasing
in recent weeks, dropping to a
national average of about $3.73
Wednesday, according to AAA.
Price’s comments Wednesday
offered the latest indication that
Republicans continue to see gasoline prices and energy policy
generally as winning political issues going into the election.
Price accused Obama of
copying Republicans’ “allof-the-above” energy slogan
and failing to follow through
on his promise to pursue all
forms of energy. Republicans
have used the “all -of-theabove” slogan for years, while
the administration began using it in recent months.
“In politics, when you get
something that works, it gets
copied. Imitation is the most
sincere form of flattery, and so
we’re very, very honored to have
the president adopt our ‘all-ofthe-above’ energy statement,”
Price said. “The problem is that
his policies don’t match the
statement.”
Price added: “How can you
have an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy
policy and say no to the Keystone
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Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) said the Obama administration “doesn’t
understand the connection between gas prices and small business.”
pipeline? How can you have an
‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy
and say no to greater exploration? How can you say that you
have an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy
policy and say no to expanded
clean-coal technology?”
The president has touted federal data that show oil production at its highest level since
2003, an effort to counter GOP
claims that the Obama administration is standing in the way of
expanded drilling.
Total production from U.S.
lands and waters, which the federal government controls, has
increased during Obama’s time
in office. But offshore production dipped in 2011, according to
Energy Information Administration data.
Oxfam sues SEC to force completion of oil
transparency rules under Dodd-Frank law
Commission more than
a year past deadline set
for issuing regulations
By Ben Geman
Oxfam America is suing the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) to
force completion of delayed regulations that will require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to
foreign governments.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday marks
an escalation of human-rights
groups’ efforts to ensure completion
of the rules, which are required under
the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law but face opposition from the
oil industry.
The litigation, filed by Oxfam in the
U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts, asks the court to
compel the SEC to issue final rules
within 30 days. The SEC is over a
year past the deadline set by the
Dodd-Frank law.
The law requires the SEC to issue regulations that force SEClisted oil, gas and mining companies to reveal payments to
governments related to projects
in their countries, such as money
for production licenses, taxes, royalties and other aspects of energy and
mineral projects.
The provision is aimed
at increasing transparency to help
undo the “resource curse,”
in which
some countries in Africa and elsewhere
are plagued by high levels of corruption, conflict and poverty despite their energy
and mineral wealth.
“[T]he SEC’s pattern
of delay gives no assurance that it will
ever promulgate a final rule without the
involvement of this
court,” the lawsuit
states.
The lawsuit alleges
that the SEC’s failure
to finish the
rules
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“denies investors an important tool for
assessing investment risk and impedes
Congress’s plan to use transparency to
tackle the resource curse.”
Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Dick
Lugar (R-Ind.) authored the transparency provision of the Dodd-Frank law.
“We have been patient, but the commission’s continued failure to issue a
final rule implementing Cardin-Lugar
frustrates Congress’s intent to increase
transparency in resource-rich countries,” said Ian Gary, senior policy manager of Oxfam America’s oil, gas and
mining program, in a statement. “For
those living in poverty in resource-rich
countries, there’s no time left to wait.”
Oil companies say the rules could create a competitive disadvantage, while
human-rights groups accuse the industry of seeking provisions that would gut
the intent of the law.
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FINANCE AND ECONOMY
Fed: Standoff poses risk to recovery
By Peter Schroeder
Federal Reserve officials see the political standoff over the nation’s fiscal
course as a “sizable risk” to the economic recovery.
When Fed members last met to set the
policy of the nation’s central bank, officials noted that the uncertain trajectory
of the nation’s finances could be keeping
businesses on the sideline. As both parties spar over major policy changes set to
take effect at the beginning of next year,
central bank officials warned that if that
“sharp fiscal tightening” were to take effect, it would weigh down the economy.
The minutes of the April meeting of
the Federal Open Market Committee
(FOMC), released Wednesday, reveal
that Fed officials still believe the economy is expanding moderately as labor
market conditions gradually improve.
Following that meeting, the Fed opted
to hold steady on its existing policies of
near-zero interest rates held through
the end of 2014.
Officials discussed a range of economic
factors, from gas prices to the European
debt crisis, and what they might mean
for the Fed’s mission of maximizing employment while keeping prices stable.
Washington’s handling of fiscal policy
was also a cause for concern.
Business contacts told the Fed that
while the overall economic outlook was
improving, there remains substantial
concern about the viability of the economic recovery. Businesses are investing primarily to improve existing operations, rather than expanding their
ventures. Uncertainty about government policies was cited as one reason
for that reticence.
The minutes mark the latest example
of the central bank fretting about what
impact Congress and the White House
might have on an economic recovery
that still appears unstable. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has repeatedly called
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has repeatedly called on Congress to avoid a “fiscal cliff.”
on Congress to adjust its pending fiscal
policy, noting that the “fiscal cliff” set to
be arrived at in the beginning of the year
would be so extreme that it could throw
the recovery off kilter. He has warned
that if policymakers do not replace the
automatic spending cuts and tax hikes
currently set to take effect with more
gradual fiscal tightening, the Fed lacks
the tools to make up for the resulting
economic contraction.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
addressed the “fiscal cliff” in a Tuesday
speech, saying the combination of expiring
policies is a “cause for concern.” He also
noted that the government will have to
raise the debt limit sometime shortly after
the beginning of 2013, while reiterating his
demand from the last time the ceiling was
approached that any boost to the borrowing limit be accompanied by spending cuts
of at least equal magnitude.
FBI opens investigation
into JPMorgan trade
By Peter Schroeder
The FBI has opened a “preliminary
investigation” into JPMorgan’s massive trading loss, the agency’s director confirmed Wednesday.
Media reports Tuesday indicated
that the Department of Justice had
joined other regulators in probing
the botched trade, which has caused
$2 billion in losses, and counting, for
the nation’s largest bank.
When asked about the reported
investigation by Sen. Mike Lee (RUtah), FBI Director Robert Mueller
confirmed that a probe was under
way.
“All I can say is we’ve opened a preliminary investigation,” he told the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
However, Mueller would not provide any specifics of the investigation, including what potential
crimes are being investigated.
The high-profile loss by JPMorgan
has driven a fresh round of chatter
about Wall Street on Capitol Hill.
Proponents of tough financial regulations used the bad trade to bolster
their case for further restrictions on
the financial sector.
Committees in both the House and
Senate have said they plan to hold
hearings in which the trade will be
discussed, and lawmakers will probe
regulators on how it could have happened and whether policy needs to
be changed in response to the development.
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At a White House meeting with congressional leaders, President Obama
told House Speaker John Boehner (ROhio) that he wanted to increase the
limit without the accompanying cuts,
according to Boehner’s office. White
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House press secretary Jay Carney said
the president warned congressional
leaders he would not allow a repeat of
August’s debt-ceiling “debacle,” which
shook markets and led to the first-ever
downgrade of the nation’s credit rating.
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TECHNOLOGY
House Republicans question $126M
stimulus grant for W.Va. broadband
By Andrew Feinberg
Republicans on the House Energy
and Commerce Communications
subcommittee want answers on
how West Virginia was allowed
to spend millions of dollars on
high-end network equipment for
libraries the GOP says had little
need for it.
The matter was raised during an
oversight hearing for the Broadband Technology Opportunities
Program (BTOP) created
by the 2009 stimulus bill.
The stimulus
included $4.7 billion in funding
to the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
for grants to
be distributed to com-
munities that were unserved or
underserved by broadband Internet service.
The grants were to be used to
build out physical infrastructure
and for network equipment at socalled “anchor institutions” like
schools, libraries, hospitals and
university networks.
Subcommittee Chairman Greg
Walden (R- Ore.) questioned
NTIA Administrator Lawrence
Strickling on the issue.
Walden pointed to an article
from The Charleston Gazette
about the state’s use of its BTOP
grant. He called it “pretty disturbing” that the state used $24 million of a $126 million grant to buy
high-end Cisco routers, designed
for networks with upwards of
500 computers, at libraries with
only two or three computers installed.
“What is NTIA doing about it?” he
asked.
“Don’t believe
everything you read in the newspaper,” Strickling responded.
Each router cost $12,000, he
said, and some are going to institutions with heavy needs, such as
hospitals and universities. Determining capacity for every institution needing a router would cost
more than purchasing “scalable,
expandable gear,” he said.
“Many of those anchor institutions may benefit” from the
routers, Strickling said.
“The state made an economical
decision that is well-justified by
the facts,” he said.
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) later told him, “I would like to see
the bids.”
He said he wants to analyze
whether the bidding was cavalier.
“As much as you try, you just
can’t defend what is going on in
West Virginia,” he said.
Patent backlog trimmed to 640K
By Brendon Sasso
David Kappos, director of the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, told lawmakers on Wednesday
that his office has reduced its backlog of applications for utility patents to 640,491 — the “lowest
level in years.”
He said it now takes the agency about 34 months
to finish reviewing a patent application. Kappos
agreed with lawmakers that the wait time is still too
long but said the agency is working to reduce it.
Last year, Congress passed the America Invents
Act to streamline the nation’s patent and trademark laws. The changes were designed to speed
up the government’s review of patent applications
and discourage predatory lawsuits.
In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Kappos said innovators are
“already seeing the benefits of this legislation.”
He said his office has launched an accelerated examination program authorized under the law that
allows patent applications to be processed in 12
months. He said the agency has received 3,500 applications under the program and has taken a first
step toward evaluating about 1,900 of them.
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HEALTHCARE
NARAL vows fight on DC abortion bill
By Elise Viebeck
The head of a leading abortion-rights group promised
to “flood” the offices of some
House members with messages of opposition to a bill that
would criminalize abortions
after 20 weeks of a pregnancy
in the District of Columbia.
The message came ahead of a
hearing on the bill, sponsored
by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.),
scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
“The politicians behind this
bill, who claim to support
smaller government, are obsessed with attacking choice
and willing to override locally
elected officials to undermine
the doctor-patient relationship,” NARAL Pro-Choice
America President Nancy
Keenan said in a statement.
“ We believe that women
should be able to make personal, private decisions with their
doctors, and without political
interference.”
Franks’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The bill (H.R. 3803) takes
cues from laws passed in six
states that ban abortions after
20 weeks because research has
suggested that fetuses can feel
pain at that point, Republicans
say. It contains new reporting
requirements and, under certain circumstances, civil remedies for partners and parents
of women who have abortions.
D.C. physicians who disobey
the terms would be fined or imprisoned for up to two years.
D.C. officials have denounced
the measure and criticized Republicans for trying to circumvent local officials on abortion.
According to NARAL, Franks
is barring D.C. Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton (D) from pro-
Daschle, Frist to advise embattled
billing company on new standards
Firm under fire
after reports of
pressing patients
By Elise Viebeck
A hospital billing company
under scrutiny from lawmakers for allegedly pressuring
patients announced that several big political names will
join a new national effort to
create voluntary standards
for the industry.
Two former Senate majority leaders — Tom Daschle
(D - S.D.) and Bill Frist (RTenn.) — as well as former
Health and Human Services
(HHS) Secretaries Michael
Leavitt and Donna Shalala
will participate, according to
a news release.
The effort will also involve
former Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services chief
Mark McClellan, who also
ran the Food and Drug Administration.
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The panel will be funded
by Accretive Health, which
was targeted in a recent and
highly critical investigation
by Minnesota’s attorney general alleging that Accretive
employees interfered with
patients’ care in their push to
settle debts.
Several U.S. lawmakers —
including Sen. Al Franken
(D-Minn.) and House Energy
and Commerce Committee
ranking member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) — have voiced
concerns over Accretive’s al-
viding testimony Thursday.
The bill was introduced in
January and had 185 co-sponsors as of Wednesday. A companion bill from Sen. Mike Lee
(R-Utah) was introduced in
the Senate in February.
leged practices.
Franken has been among the
most insistent, demanding answers from the Chicago-based
company and scheduling a
field hearing on the issue in his
home state later this month.
Fo r m e r H H S S e c r et a r y
Leavitt, who also served as
governor of Utah for three
terms and will lead the new
panel on standards, said that
medical providers face a “dilemma” as they try to balance
their financial well-being
with patient care.
“In order to [ensure that]
hospitals remain financially
viable and available to patients, they must assist these
same patients in making financial arrangements for payment,” he said in a statement.
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the states where the pipeline goes have
approved it, the environmental concerns
have been, I think, alleviated, there is a
strong feeling that the president is not being reasonable on this,” Hutchison said in
the Capitol.
But Hutchison also said there are other
factors and competing priorities, noting
that the Senate measure includes bus safety legislation that she sponsored.
“There are many other parts of it, so I am
not going to take a Sherman-esque stand
one way or the other,” Hutchison said.
The make-up of the formal House-Senate conference committee creates a hurdle for Keystone backers. Senate Democrats outnumber Republicans eight to
six, and among the Democrats only Sen.
Max Baucus (D-Mont.) voted in March
for a failed GOP plan to attach Keystone
to the Senate bill.
Even Baucus’s support would create a
7-7 vote deadlock. An aide to the Montana Democrat said recently that while
he wants Keystone in the highway bill, he
wouldn’t put the whole legislation in jeopardy over it. The aide noted that the highway provisions would provide more jobs
for Montana than Keystone.
“[I]f there aren’t enough votes from other
conferees to get a highway bill done with
Keystone included, we end up with zero
jobs, and Sen. Baucus won’t sacrifice 14,000
Montana highway jobs over a couple thousand that can’t pass into law,” the aide said.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who is a member of the Senate GOP leadership team,
told reporters Tuesday that Republicans
want a highway bill with Keystone included but stopped short of predicting victory.
Thune said Republicans have a political
advantage on the issue no matter how the
talks turn out.
“It is certainly going to be an important
point of debate either way, because if [Keystone] gets done, and I hope that it does,
it is good for the country and everybody
is going to be able to get out there and talk
about it, what we are doing to decrease
our dependence on foreign energy,” said
Thune, the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.
“If it doesn’t, obviously it is going to be an
opportunity for Republicans to make the
argument that the Democrats are not serious about, and the president is not serious
about, an all-of-the-above energy strategy,”
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said President Obama was being “unrealistic” in delaying the Keystone project.
he added.
The White House, which argues the pipeline needs further evaluation, has threatened to veto the House version of the highway bill over the provision that approves its
construction.
Republicans could face their own political
risks if insistence on Keystone jeopardizes
the transportation funding bill, opening
them up to charges that they’re costing the
country jobs by blocking funding for bridges, highways and other projects.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), also a member of the House-Senate panel trying to
hammer out a final bill, declined to speculate when asked whether Republicans
would jettison Keystone if that was the
only way to get a final highway bill. The current funding authorization expires at the
end of June.
“I am all for the Keystone provision, and
hopefully that will be included. You are getting into hypotheticals I am not willing to
respond to,” said Inhofe, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works
Committee.
The Senate, when debating its highway
package in March, turned back a GOP
amendment that would authorize construction of the pipeline. Sen. John Hoeven’s (R-N.D.) plan received 56 votes, four
shy of the 60 needed, a tally that included
11 Democrats.
Republicans see a floor of 58 votes, however, because Thune and Sen. Mark Kirk
(R-Ill.) were absent from the March vote.
Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.) reminded reporters Tuesday
that Keystone fell shy of the needed Senate votes.
“We already had a vote on Keystone and
we didn’t get 60 votes, so we’d have to figure out a way to get through that hurdle,”
Boxer said.
“I’m in a conference representing the
Senate, and what I’ve said from the start is
if you load this up with controversy and it
can’t get through either house, it’s a problem. So we have to work together to find the
sweet spots so we can get 60 votes, because
if somebody doesn’t like it, as you know,
they’ll filibuster it,” she said.
Keystone has been at the heart of election-year energy battles. Republicans,
industry groups and a number of unions —
and some Democrats — call TransCanada
Corp.’s project a way to boost energy security and create jobs.
But environmental groups — which like
unions are a large part of Obama’s political base — bitterly oppose Keystone over
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the projects and other factors.
The White House, facing competing political pressures, has delayed a final permit
decision on the project until well after the
elections.
The administration rejected a permit in
January, claiming that Republicans had demanded an “arbitrary” decision timeline in
a late 2011 payroll tax cut bill. TransCanada
recently reapplied.
Over in the House, a top Republican
maintained that they’re making progress
on pushing Keystone in the transportation
bill talks.
“I think in the end it will be part of the
bill,” said House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John
Mica (R-Fla.).
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.),
a prominent advocate of the pipeline,
didn’t go as far when asked about the
prospects, and noted that discussions are
at an early stage.
“Keystone is a priority for the House. Period. We are going to do all that we can to
get it included as part of the package. But
it is difficult to say how things are going to
work out until you really start talking, and
that is what we have begun to do,” he said
Keith Laing contributed to this report.
Many ex-lawmakers prefer ‘senior adviser’ over ‘lobbyist’
scarlet L from Page 8
lobby,’ ” said Oberstar, now a senior adviser to National Strategies. “I have no problem with it.
But for me, it just doesn’t fit. … I
just don’t like the idea of going
up to members’ offices to talk
with them and plead on behalf of
clients.”
Some of Oberstar’s former colleagues moved quickly into the
lobbying business.
Minnick said that his family
had planned to move to Washington if he won his 2010 reelection bid. After he lost, he asked
his wife what she wanted to do.
“I said, ‘If you still want to
move to D.C., I think I can find
things to do here,’ ” Minnick
said. “ ‘I haven’t been much of a
dad or a spouse for the past few
years, between the campaign
and being in Congress. Your
call.’ ”
She chose Washington, and
Minnick co-founded his own
lobby shop, the Majority Group.
The firm lobbied for several clients last quarter, including the
National Potato Council and Miami University.
The ex-congressman said the
stigma attached to lobbying
doesn’t bother him.
“Lobbyists, much like lawyers,
perform very needed functions
for people who need to deal with
the government on an issue and
really have no idea how to do it,”
Minnick said.
Boyd works for the Twenty
First Century Group and chose
to register to lobby because he
thought he “was way too young
to stop working.”
“I loved my service in the U.S.
House. It was very rewarding
in a lot of ways,” Boyd said. “I do
find [lobbying] quite rewarding.
You work hard every day, and
you hopefully accomplish some
good things.”
Boyd was registered to lobby
last quarter for several clients,
including Time Warner Cable
and Verizon.
Others registered to lobby
out of caution, in an effort to be
sure they were complying with
the rules.
“I registered to make sure
there was no way in the world
that I would run afoul of any requirement,” said Pomeroy, now
senior counsel for Alston + Bird.
“I’m not holding myself out as
a lobbyist per se. It’s really more
a matter of practicing law. … But
when it comes to those things,
sometimes you do have to register, and I will when the occasion
rises,” said Castle, now a partner
at DLA Piper who lobbied for
Cape Wind Associates last quarter.
Some ex-lawmakers have
made it clear that they never intend to be lobbyists.
On its website, Kanjorski &
Associates — the consulting
firm founded by former Rep.
Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) — says
that they “are strategic consultants and not registered lobbyists. We are not currently
planning to engage in any lobbying activity; that is, we do
not intend to contact current
members of Congress in an attempt to influence their votes
on pending legislation.”
Larry Latourette, executive
director of the partner practice
at Lateral Link and another
headhunter, said being a registered lobbyist can be a liability
for ex-lawmakers who want to
return to politics.
“While providing an indispensable public function, being a registered lobbyist makes
running for any future office
or obtaining any future government position exceedingly
difficult and currently has one
of the lowest rankings in the
social hierarchy of legal and
many illegal professions,” Latourette said.
Other former members from
the 111th Congress have kept
their distance from K Street.
Former Rep. George Radanovich (R-Calif.) told The Hill he
was “just not interested in lobbying.” The former lawmaker
previously worked for the DEH
Group, a government-relations
firm that had a registered lobbyist, but Radanovich never
registered to lobby.
Former Rep. Zach Wamp
(R-Tenn.) said he chose not to
become a lobbyist because he
wanted distance from Washington. He started Zach Wamp
Consulting, which offers business development services,
consulting and economic development from its home base in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
“The air is fresher outside of
Washington. That is a proverbial
statement, but it’s really true,”
Wamp said. “After 16 years of
being there all of the time, I was
just looking forward to not being
there.”
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Spring surge
on the campaign trail
President Obama raised $43.6 million
for the Democratic Party and his
reelection campaign in April.
Mitt Romney is campaigning in
Florida on Thursday; Vice President
Biden is campaigning in Ohio.
Campaign
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Rivalry between Mike Huckabee
and the Club for Growth heats up
By Cameron Joseph
The often heated conflict between former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee (R) and the
fiscally conservative Club for
Growth is coming to a boil this
month, with the two on opposite sides in a number of Republican congressional primaries.
Three of the four races where
they’re at loggerheads take
place in May: A hard-fought
Texas Senate primary on May
29; a House primary in Huckabee’s old Arkansas district featuring one of his former staffers
on May 22; and Nebraska’s Senate primary this past Tuesday.
Wisconsin’s Senate primary
will take place in August.
Back in 2008, Huckabee was
the lead target of the Club for
Growth, which ran ads calling
him a “liberal” and slamming
his fiscal record as governor.
Huckabee hasn’t forgotten
those criticisms — he called the
group “disgusting” during his
endorsement of former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson
(R), whom the Club opposes,
late last year.
The two also hail from different parts of the Republican
Party. Huckabee is known first
and foremost as a social conservative, while the Club focuses
exclusively on economic issues.
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The conflict between the Club for Growth and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is coming to a head
in four races.
“Mike Huckabee’s view of
the role of government is contrary to ours,” Club for Growth
spokesman Barney Keller told
The Hill. “He believes that government should play a role in
the lives of everyday people and
he adopted a sort of populist,
anti-capitalism stance when he
ran for president.”
Ke l l e r p o i n t e d o u t t h a t
Huckabee was the first can-
Biden hammers Romney’s BRIEFLY
private-sector experience
By Josh Lederman
Vice President Biden on Wednesday hammered Mitt Romney on his economic philosophy and private-sector record, accusing Republicans of fundamentally misunderstanding what Democrats stand for.
“I resent the fact that they think we’re
talking about envy. ‘It’s job envy, it’s wealth
envy,’ ” Biden said. “They don’t get us. They
don’t get who we are.”
Speaking at a factory in Youngstown,
Ohio, Biden called Romney to task for offering a glum assessment of where the economy is heading, and for opposing the bailout
of the auto industry — a major issue in Ohio.
“It’s not just that manufacturing is coming back. The middle class is coming back,”
said Biden, almost shouting as he spoke.
“America is coming back. Workers are coming back.”
At Romney’s side was former Gov. Ted
Strickland (D-Ohio), who recalled how
Bain Capital — the private-equity firm
Romney co-founded — dealt with a struggling paper company that it took over in the
1990s.
“They laid off workers, cut wages of those
who remained, sliced the healthcare benefits and eliminated the retirement plan for
the retirees,” he said.
Eventually, said Strickland, Bain shuttered the plant, and employees were out of
their jobs.
One of those employees, Randy Johnson, teared up as he recalled hearing Romney speak a few months back about how
he dreamed of being president, and how
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Kucinich won’t run
in Washington state
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich won’t
run for the House in Washington state, he
said Wednesday, ruling out his last feasible option to stay in Congress after being
ousted from his Ohio seat in a primary.
“After careful consideration and discussions with Elizabeth and my closest
friends, I have decided that, at this time,
I can best serve from outside the Congress,” Kucinich said in an email to supporters.
Kucinich had been publicly flirting with
a run in Washington, where liberal supporters had started a movement to draft
him, since losing a primary in March to
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio). Kucinich’s
district was merged with Kaptur’s by Republican map-makers, who had to elimi-
didate to attack presumptive
GOP nominee Mitt Romney
on his work for Bain Capital,
long before Newt Gingrich,
Rick Perry and President
Obama followed suit. He also
said Huckabee “raised many
taxes, he spent every dollar
he could get his hands on and
he supports nanny-state programs like smoking bans and
obesity legislation.”
Huckabee did not respond to
multiple requests for comment.
He blasted the Club while endorsing Thompson in December, questioning its motives.
“The way Club for Growth
works is … you write them a
big check and say, ‘I want you
to attack Tommy Thompson’;
they’ll be happy to do it,” he
said. “That’s pay-for-play, and I
find it disgusting.”
Texas’s Senate primary is
the next big fight. Huckabee
is backing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R); the Club has spent
nearly $1.5 million on ads blasting Dewhurst as a “moderate.”
Huckabee cut an ad for Dewhurst last week, calling him
the only “proven conservative”
in the race and praising him
for fighting for anti-abortionrights legislation as well as for
his fiscal record.
The Club, meanwhile, has
bundled a good amount of monsee huckabee Page 17
nate two congressional districts in Ohio
after the 2010 U.S. Census.
The eight-term congressman said his
commitment to workers’ rights, peace
and economic and social justice didn’t depend on holding office, but rather on his
continuing to speak out and organize others to fulfill the nation’s deeper potential.
“This I promise I will do with great energy and heart,” Kucinich said.
Kucinich also ruled out running in any
other state — although filing deadlines
and residency requirements would have
made a last-minute bid implausible anyway.
“I will complete my service in the U.S.
House on Jan. 2, 2013, with the same passion and devotion to duty with which I
began it on Jan. 3, 1997,” he said.
The filing deadline for candidates in
Washington falls on Friday. To be eligible
to run in Washington, Kucinich would
have had to establish residency there.
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The hill
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Romney’s father sought the same
office.
“All I could think was — and it
hits me — I had people who wanted to retire with dignity. That was
their dream. He stole that,” Johnson said. “His philosophy and the
way he does business, his economics stole that.”
The comments by Biden and
his allies continue along a line of
attack first adopted by some of
Romney’s rivals during the heated
Republican primary — most notably Newt Gingrich — and taken
up by Obama’s campaign, which
earlier this week launched a new
ad accusing Romney of engaging
in “questionable business practices” and of personally profiting
by closing American businesses.
“It was like a vampire. They
came in and sucked the life out of
us,” says one of the steelworkers
featured in the Obama ad.
The Romney campaign has hit
back, releasing its own ad touting
his record creating jobs in the private sector and as former Massachusetts governor.
“Vice President Biden may believe paying higher taxes is patriotic and the world needs a ‘global
minimum tax,’ ” said Romney
spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg. “But with nearly 23 million
Americans currently struggling
for work, the last thing the country needs is more Obama-Biden
liberal policies that hike taxes and
increase spending.”
Huckabee from Page 16
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Vice President Biden attacks Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital.
Biden said the election would
create a stark and fundamental
choice between two different economic philosophies.
“There’s Obama Economics,
which values the role of workers
in the success of a business, and
values the middle class in the success of the economy,” he said. “A
philosophy that believes everyone deserves a fair shot and a fair
shake, and everybody should play
by the same rules.”
Biden contrasted that vision
with that of Romney, which he
said ensures those at the top do
well but leaves workers, small
businesses and communities to
fend for themselves.
He pointed to a steel factory
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in Missouri that was shuttered
under Bain, and said not everyone took the hit. The top 30
executives walked away with
$9 million, he said, and Romney
and his partners took home at
least $12 million.
“Romney made sure the guys on
top got to play by a separate set of
rules, he ran massive debts, and
the middle class lost,” Biden said.
“And folks, he thinks this experience will help our economy?”
The crossfire over Romney’s
work at Bain Capital highlights
the intensifying fight between
both campaigns over who can better manage the economic recovery, which voters peg as the most
important issue this election.
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ey for its preferred candidate,
former Texas Solicitor General
Ted Cruz (R).
Both Cruz’s and Dewhurst’s
campaigns relished the contrast.
“I don’t think anyone is surprised that Mike Huckabee,
who raised taxes multiple
times, is supporting David Dewhurst, who pushed an income
tax disguised as a wage tax and
increased spending $72 billion,” Cruz campaign manager
John Drogin told The Hill.
“Huckabee and Dewhurst are
both strong fiscal and social
conservatives — Dewhurst cut
taxes 51 times, and he’s been
endorsed by the largest pro-life
organizations here in Texas,”
said Dewhurst spokesman Matt
Hirsch. “There’s a difference
there — you’ve got an outside
organization spending money
versus a guy who’s come in to
help with TV … You’re going to
see play out over the next two
weeks how much this in-state
support brings us.”
The two will also face off in an
Arkansas House race, where
Beth Anne Rankin (R), a former Huckabee staffer, is running against Army veteran Tom
Cotton (R). Huckabee has been
Rankin’s most prominent backer and recorded a video heartily
praising her and tweaking Cot-
ton, saying that unlike Cotton,
Rankin was not someone “who
just parachuted into the district
because she was looking for a
way to get to Washington.”
The Club for Growth has
bundled $300,000 in contributions for Cotton, who led
Rankin in a recent nonpartisan
poll by double digits.
Neither side got its preferred candidate in Nebraska’s Senate race. Huckabee
had backed Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning (R),
his 2008 Nebraska campaign
chairman, and recorded a robocall describing him as “a
proven conservative who has
led the constitutional challenge to ObamaCare.”
The Club supported Nebraska state Treasurer Don
Stenberg (R), and spent more
than $700,000 attacking Bruning, which observers say badly
damaged his campaign and
helped Nebraska state Sen.
Deb Fischer (R) win the race.
The Club took credit for Bruning’s defeat in a press release,
but Fischer’s centrist voting record is at odds with the
group’s fiscal purity.
The final fight will be in Wisconsin. Huckabee is backing
Thompson, while the Club
is backing former Rep. Mark
Neumann (R-Wis.) in a crowded primary.
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From the hill’s floor action blog
Sen. Sessions: Democrats just
saying, ‘send more money’
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) compared
Democratic calls to vote down a number of Republican budget resolutions
as equal to saying, “I caught a fish, I
had a party, send more money.”
Sessions came to the Senate floor just
after Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
urged her colleagues early in the day to
vote against a number of budget resolutions the chamber was scheduled to
consider Wednesday.
“My colleague just said just ‘vote no
on all of them and keep us going. Don’t
go back,’ ” Sessions said. “When I hear
that ... it is ‘let’s just keep on the path
that we’re on. This is good enough.
Let’s be happy. We’re in Washington,
here’s the ladder. We’re in Washington,
we’re having fun. I caught a fish, I had a
party, send more money.’ ”
“Isn’t that what we’re hearing from
the other side? ‘Send more money,’ ”
Sessions continued. “ ‘And we’ll take
care of things for you. We don’t have to
cut anything. We don’t have to reduce
spending. We’re not really on an unsustainable path.’ ”
The Senate was to vote on five budget resolutions Wednesday afternoon,
all of which were likely to fail. Democrats say Republicans are simply playing politics with the resolutions, while
Republicans are repeating accusations
that Democrats haven’t brought a budget resolution up for a vote in three
years because they have none.
Democrats have responded to that
criticism by saying the Budget Control
Act passed in 2011 is a sufficient substitute for a budget resolution.
“The Budget Control Act is not close
to what we need to put our country on
a sound path,” Sessions said.
— Daniel Strauss
House passes bill
reauthorizing Violence
Against Women Act
The House late Wednesday approved a
bill reauthorizing the Violence Against
Women Act (VAWA), setting up a possible conference with the Senate in which
Democrats will push hard for a Senatepassed bill they say offers better protection for women.
Throughout the day, Democrats blasted Republicans for bringing up a bill
that does not go as far as a Senate bill to
protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The Senate bill
says explicitly that there can be no discrimination against these people under
the VAWA program.
Democrats also prefer Senate language that would give tribal courts jurisdiction over domestic abuse cases,
even when the abuser is not Native
House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.)
Mixed signals
on gay marriage
zach krahmer
American, and said the House bill
would shut down a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens who are given
certain visas when they are victims of
domestic abuse. The Senate bill would
expand the availability of these visas,
language that is not in the House bill
because Republicans determined this
would increase the deficit.
“House Republicans have brought to
the floor today a bill that is controversial and that will weaken the protections we have given to those who suffer domestic violence, sexual assault
or stalking,” House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. “This legislation on the floor fails vulnerable
people, members of the LGBT community, Native American women and immigrant victims.”
Republicans spent the day dismissing
Democratic claims that the GOP is insensitive to the plight of battered women and has launched a “war on women,”
chalking up Democratic arguments to
election-year propaganda.
“Democrats in Congress and others
have been accusing Republicans for
months for waging a war on women,”
said Rep. Sandy Adams (R-Fla.), the
sponsor of the bill. “We’ve been called
anti-victim, elitist, homophobic and
racist. These ridiculous attacks stop
now. Right here, right now.”
Republicans said the bill, H.R. 4970, is
essentially a straight, five-year extension of the law that includes many elements of the Senate bill. It also aims to
increase accountability for the VAWA
program as it spends money. The GOP
said these changes are meant to ensure
women get all the aid they need under
the program.
House passage could set up a conference with the Senate on its version, S.
1925, which the Senate approved in
April. The Obama administration has
threatened to veto the House bill.
— Pete Kasperowicz
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Nation
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose,
and has no effect, other than to lessen
the status of human dignity of gay men
and lesbians in California.” That sentence logically need not be limited to
California.
In the earlier lower-court trial, U.S.
District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker, originally nominated by conservative Republican President Reagan and
re-nominated by President George
H.W. Bush and confirmed in 1989, in an
evidentiary hearing found no facts or
evidence that same-sex couples cannot have just as successful and enduring marriages, cannot be just as loving
with one another or cannot be just as
good parents as heterosexual couples.
Therefore, Judge Walker held that a
ban on same-sex marriage was flat-out
unconstitutional — not just in California but across the nation.
I can understand and respect Obama
for making the political and pragmatic
decision to take the first, courageous
step to state his own personal position
supporting same-sex marriage, while
allowing states and local communities
some time to decide for themselves.
And many pro-gay marriage strategists were happy that the 9th Circuit
ast week, I believe President
Obama got it right when he told
ABC’s Robin Roberts, “for me
personally … I think same-sex couples
should be able to get married.”
It was also a politically brave decision
for Obama. Just the day before, in the
critical battleground state of North
Carolina, the state voted by 61 percent
to 39 to enact a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Polls released this week show on balance Obama’s position might have hurt
him among independents more than
helped him.
But after he took his stand, a few seconds later during the interview Obama
added: “I continue to believe that this
is an issue that is going to be worked
out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue,
what’s recognized as marriage.”
That position is questionable as a matter of constitutional law. In 1966, the
Virginia Supreme
Court, in Loving v.
Virginia, upheld the Either a ban on same-sex marriage
state’s ban on inter- is a violation of the Constitution
racial marriage — in
or it is not. It can’t be a violation
part because “marof the 14th Amendment in one
riage has traditionally been subject
state but not in another.
to state regulation,
without federal
intervention, and, consequently, the tried to limit the decision to the parregulation of marriage should be left to ticular situation faced by California,
exclusive control by the 10th Amend- fearing a hostile U.S. Supreme Court
ment.”
decision if the 9th Circuit decision had
But in 1967, a unanimous Supreme been as broad as Judge Walker’s, with
Court nullified Virginia’s ban on in- the effect of striking down all state
terracial marriage on the grounds it laws banning same-sex marriage.
violated the Equal Protection and Due
But my visceral reaction on this isProcess clauses of the 14th Amend- sue is: Either a ban on same-sex marment. “Marriage is one of the ‘basic riage is a violation of the Constitution
civil rights of man, fundamental to or it is not. It can’t be a violation of
our very existence and survival,” Chief the 14th Amendment in one state but
Justice Earl Warren (also author of not in another.
the Brown decision) wrote. “The 14th
I certainly respect those whose reAmendment requires that the freedom ligious faith causes them to oppose
of choice to marry not be restricted by same-sex marriage. But our Constituinvidious racial discriminations.”
tion should not allow religious princiSo the question is, can the words ples to trump constitutional ones.
“sexual preference” be inserted for the
If there is no fact-based evidence juswords “racial” in this sentence from tifying discriminatory treatment bethe Loving case? If so, then, as in Lov- tween heterosexual and same-sex couing, all state laws discriminating be- ples — and I have not seen any to date
tween heterosexual and same-sex cou- — I cannot understand allowing states
ples would be unconstitutional.
to decide for themselves. State discreOn Feb. 20 the Federal 9th Circuit tion wasn’t allowed for “separate but
Court of Appeals, by 2-1 split court ma- equal” segregated public education.
jority, narrowly ruled that the result And it shouldn’t be allowed for bans on
of California’s statewide vote, Propo- same-sex marriage.
sition 8, banning same-sex marriage,
was unconstitutional under the Equal Davis, the principal in the Washington law
Protection Clause of the 14th Amend- firm of Lanny J. Davis & Associates, which
ment. Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote also specializes in legal crisis management,
that the decision was limited to Cali- served as President Clinton’s special counsel
fornia’s allegedly unique facts — a from 1996-98 and as a member of President
statewide vote withdrawing rights to George W. Bush’s Privacy and Civil Liberties
same-sex marriage that local commu- Oversight Board. He is the author of the book
nities had previously permitted. How- Scandal: How “Gotcha” Politics Is Destroying
ever, the court went on to say:
America.
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comment
Weyant’s world
A.B.
Stoddard
Raising
the stakes
B
ring it on.
This week’s Washington shocker was House
Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) announcement that he would once again only agree to raise
the debt ceiling with a greater sum in spending cuts.
Though this moment isn’t likely to arrive until after
the election in November, and the politics of it will
no doubt be determined by what happens on election
night, it was reason nonetheless for a four-alarm political freak-out.
Democrats responded with skepticism and outrage as
Republicans sought to get out in front of a looming legislative nightmare scheduled for the post-election lame-duck
session, during which reelected and defeated lawmakers,
and possibly a defeated president, will be forced to address
the $8 trillion in expiring tax cuts and spending cuts that
take effect on New Year’s Day of 2013. The debt ceiling is
now estimated to be reached at approximately the same
time. At a debt summit sponsored by Peter G. Peterson on
Tuesday, Boehner said the fiscal cliff could be avoided but
that work would need to begin right away. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner responded by warning Boehner
— once again — not to put at risk the nation’s credit rating
and the entire economy, saying, “We hope they do it this
time without the drama and the pain and the damage they
caused the country last July.” Fat chance.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called it “pretty galling for
Speaker Boehner to be laying down demands for another
debt-ceiling agreement when he won’t even abide by the
last one.” Indeed, Republicans — including Boehner — voted for the debt deal in August of 2011 that included steep
domestic and military cuts to be “triggered” if all the decisions punted to 12 supercommittee members were punted by them as well. The tough decisions were, to no one’s
surprise, never made. To boot, the trigger was phony; everyone who voted on it knew it could be undone before the
cuts kicked in on Jan. 1, 2013. Now Republicans are working to undo the triggered cuts to the military with new domestic program cuts.
Republicans are sure this new push — designed, like presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s similar debt message, to move the conversation off of gay marriage and
back onto an issue that won the GOP a historic majority in
the midterm elections in 2010 — will help them. It might
boomerang, as increased pressure from the party’s more
conservative, Tea Party-backed members could heighten
the chances of a government shutdown before Election
Day (spending bills must be signed by President Obama at
the end of the current fiscal year). It might not lead exactly
where either party expects, but the sooner the next ugly
battle begins, the better — and the political consequences
be damned. It isn’t just the taxpayers who doubt the two
parties can come together to stave off a fiscal apocalypse in
the few weeks between Election Day and Christmas; companies across the country are cutting costs, planning layoffs, holding off on hiring — all due to the unprecedented
uncertainty Congress has created through gridlock.
“I feel like we’re really in uncharted waters,” Robert
Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget Policy Priorities, told The Washington Post this week. “On the one
hand, you say, ‘We’re a functioning country. Somehow,
we’re going to work this out.’ But then you ask, ‘What’s the
scenario for a potential solution?’ And you can’t come up
with anything that you can see actually passing Congress.”
With more than five months on their hands, both parties need to get going. As Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
noted earlier this week, what else is there to do ? “We’re not
exactly consumed by a waiting legislative agenda,” Snowe
told The Hill’s Bernie Becker. “And we haven’t been for
some time.”
Stoddard is an associate editor of The Hill.
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Bob Dole, American vet
s Memorial Day approaches, I think about a time
long ago when three young
wounded warriors came home from
a war that saved our nation from fascism to rebuild our nation from the
ravages of world war and depression.
Their names were Bob, Dan and
Phil, and they became the senators,
statesmen and leaders we know as
Bob Dole, Daniel Inouye and Philip Hart. They embody the best of
America.
Let’s salute them all. Let’s salute
Daniel Inouye, awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for indescribable valor, who has long been
a legislator par excellence. Let’s
salute the late Philip Hart, a hero in
combat later called by Rolling Stone
magazine “The Saint of the Senate”
whose wonderful wife, Jane Hart,
was both an anti-war protester and
candidate to become one of America’s first female astronauts. Let’s salute Robert J. Dole, whose achievements are measured in books, monuments and institutes of learning,
including a special one that bears his
name, which brilliantly passes his
torch to young people.
When Bob, Dan and Phil came
home from combat, they found
themselves together in Michigan
at a hospital that tended to their
wounds then, and is the HartDole-Inouye Center now, which
became the foundation of a friendship that did so much for America
in war and peace. We can only
imagine those three young men
talking about their dreams following the war. Historians write
about and a grateful nation honors
all that they have done since their
days of youthful dreams.
I salute young men named Biden,
Brent
Budowsky
Palin, McCain and Huntsman and
all who wear the uniform today. As
President Obama recently noted,
they are all members of a great generation. As the White House Web
page for Joining Forces, a great
generation-spirit program supporting military families spearheaded
by first lady Michelle Obama and Dr.
Jill Biden, notes: They are all heroes
of a very special 1 percent.
cent, who live most well, to share
the sacrifice and danger of the 1
percent who defend our freedom
as Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable and
Ted Williams did when they joined
Bob Dole, Phil Hart and Daniel Inouye fighting their war.
We can visit YouTube and watch
the great Command Performance
shows of World War II with Bob
Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra,
Judy Garland and hundreds of stars
who mobilized the home front,
which is why:
I think it’s great that the first lady,
Dr. Biden and Joining Forces are
joined by Steven Spielberg, Tom
The great generations of heroic
troops and their loving and patriotic
military families are timeless.
On Memorial Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of biker vets will
come to the capital for the Rolling
Thunder rally. I encourage all to join
them and support the groups that
stand with our troops, military families, wounded warriors, jobless vets,
homeless vets and those battling to
conquer post-traumatic stress.
I would encourage everyone, as
well, to visit the White House page of
Joining Forces and join citizens, families, students, faith-based groups,
business owners, performers and
athletes who are joining forces.
The great generations of heroic
troops and their loving and patriotic military families are timeless.
We honor Kerry and McCain, who
served in Vietnam, and Rangel,
who served in Korea. We honor all
who served, wherever they served.
We honor one of the great patriots
of our age, Pat Tillman, who gave up
the comfort and wealth of the 1 per-
Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Jessica
Simpson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martha
Stewart, NASCAR drivers such as
Jeff Gordon and baseball stars such
as Mark Teixeira, among a list too
long to name here.
I often visit the World War II Memorial and see Bob Dole there, at
the place he did so much to build. It
is astonishing to watch him greet his
brothers from a war long past and
instantly become that young man
again, smiling, beaming, forever
young. It makes me so proud to live
in a nation that produces men like
Bob Dole, American vet.
Budowsky was an aide to former Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then
chief deputy majority whip of the
House. He holds an LL.M. degree in
international financial law from the
London School of Economics. He can
be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and
reached at [email protected].
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with a lunch discussion on foreign policy
Featuring
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Chairman, House Intelligence Committee
Thursday, May 17
12:30 p.m.
Watch it live on thehill.com
Please join the conversation by tweeting
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Pomp and
circumstance
Politicians deliver words of advice to the Class of 2012
By Josh Fatzick and Kris Kitto
Call it the campaign cycle’s rite of
spring: Politicians always seem to
sprout up behind a university commencement lectern this time of year
— but especially during presidential
elections.
It’s no coincidence that President
Obama spoke to Barnard graduates this
week. The all-female college represents
one of this election’s most important
voting blocs — women. On the GOP
side, presumptive presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke Saturday at
Liberty University, an institution emblematic of his party’s right wing.
“All this stuff is very calculated,” said
Cal Jillson, political science professor at Southern Methodist University
(where former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addressed graduates on
Saturday). But it’s not a one-way transaction; colleges get something out of
these speeches, too, he said.
“It is certainly true that, from the
university’s perspective, what you’re
trying to do in your commencement
speaker is to get a model and example
for your students and their parents —
someone who they recognize and who
they immediately respect,” Jillson
said.
Following is a list of the politicians —
and their surrogates — who are making
commencement speeches this year.
Former Secretary of State
Colin Powell
Powell gave the commencement address at Northeastern University in
Boston on May 4.
“Do something that satisfies you every day, make our society a better place
and help your fellow citizens,” he said,
according to a release. “Give your time
and talent in service to others. The need
to serve others has never been greater
in our nation.”
Jill Biden
Biden spoke at the commencement
ceremony for Broward College in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., on May 4. In her
speech, released by the White House,
Biden, a community-college English
professor, shared three lessons she
has learned: Lift others up, go to your
strength and never stop learning.
Biden also spoke Friday at Southwestern Community College in Creston, Iowa.
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President Obama and GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney were just two of many politicians who gave and will give college graduates words of advice and wisdom at institutions across the country.
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.)
you if you let them,” Obama told Virgin- gained here, you leave Liberty with
Clyburn gave the commencement ad- ia Tech graduates, according to a White conviction and confidence as your ardress at Coastal Carolina University on House press release. “In the end, it’s up mor,” Romney told graduates, accordMay 5. Clyburn received an honorary to each of us to define ourselves. It’s up ing to a release. “You know what you
Doctor of Public Service degree from to each of us to invent our own future believe. You know who you are. And you
know whom you will
CCU.
serve. Not all col“I ran for elecleges instill that kind
tive office three
“We must begin in our lives to have the courage to be
times and lost,” who we are created to be, not to play small in this world, of confidence, but
it will be among the
Clyburn told
not to be a carbon copy of the person next to us.”
most prized qualigraduates, acties from your educording to a
Cory Booker Mayor of Newark, N.J.
cation here. Moral
statement.
certainty, clear stan“People tried to
tell me, ‘Three strikes and you’re out,’ with the choices we make and the ac- dards and a commitment to spiritual
ideals will set you apart in a world that
but life isn’t played by baseball rules. tions we take.”
When you leave this campus, you may
The first lady is also slated to speak at searches for meaning.”
not always succeed on the first try. But Oregon State University’s commenceI hope, as residents of South Carolina, ment on June 17. Her brother, Craig Former Secretary of State
that you will adopt our state’s motto, Robinson, has been coach of OSU’s bas- Condoleezza Rice
‘While I breathe, I hope,’ and never ketball team since 2008.
Rice spoke Saturday at the graduation
give up.”
for Southern Methodist University in
Dallas. Former President George W.
Mitt Romney, GOP
Bush’s presidential library is currently
presidential front-runner
First lady Michelle Obama
Obama spoke Friday at the commence- Romney addressed graduates of Lib- under construction on SMU’s campus.
ment ceremonies for Virginia Tech, erty University in Lynchburg, Va., on In her speech, released by the university,
along with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Saturday. Ronald Reagan gave the com- Rice told graduates that they have four
On Saturday she spoke at North Caro- mencement speech in 1980, and George responsibilities in life: finding passion,
committing to reason, rejecting false
lina A&T State University.
H.W. Bush spoke in 1990.
“In the end, people can only define
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same time as the official event.
pride and remaining optimistic.
President Obama
Newark, N.J., Mayor
Cory Booker (D)
Booker gave the commencement
speech at Hampton University in
Hampton, Va., Sunday.
“We must begin in our lives to
have the courage to be who we
are created to be, not to play
small in this world, not to be a
carbon copy of the person next
to us,” Booker told graduates,
according to the Daily Press.
“We were born not to fit in. We
were born to stand out. Don’t
die a copy.”
Booker is also scheduled to return to his alma mater, Stanford
University, on June 16 to lead its
commencement ceremony.
New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg (I)
Bloomberg led the commencement ceremony at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill on Sunday. In his
speech, according to a release,
Bloomberg offered graduates
advice from his experiences in
business and public service: Be
confident, out-hustle the competition, follow your heart and
take risks.
Some students were unhappy
with the school’s invitation to
Bloomberg due to his handling
of the Occupy Wall Street protests and had planned to hold
their own ceremony at the
Obama led Barnard College’s
commencement ceremony Monday. He is also scheduled to speak
at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s
graduation exercises in Colorado
Springs, Colo., on May 23.
“Now more than ever, America needs what you, the Class of
2012, has to offer,” he told Barnard graduates, according to a
White House release. “America
needs you to reach high and
hope deeply. And if you fight
for your seat at the table, and
you set a better example, and
you persevere in what you decide to do with your life, I have
every faith not only that you
will succeed, but that, through
you, our nation will continue to
be a beacon of light for men and
women, boys and girls, in every
corner of the globe.”
Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor delivered the commencement speech at New
York University on Wednesday.
Sotomayor is a Bronx native
and also received an honorary
law doctorate from the school.
HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius is scheduled to speak at
Georgetown University’s commencement Friday. The Cardinal
Newman Society, a conservative
Catholic organization, started
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, center, received and honorary law degree from New York
University, in addition to giving the commencement address, on Wednesday.
a petition to get the university
to rescind the invitation, accusing her of threatening religious
freedom and citing her stance as
an abortion-rights supporter. As
of Wednesday the petition had
more than 27,000 signers.
Sen. John Kerry
(D-Mass.)
Kerry is scheduled to deliver
the commencement address at
Mount Ida College in Newton,
Mass., on Friday.
EPA Administrator
Lisa Jackson
Jackson is scheduled to be the
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keynote speaker at the commencement ceremonies for
her alma mater, New Orleans’
Tulane University, on May 19.
She will be the first Tulane
graduate to speak at commencement.
Jackson is also scheduled
to speak at the University of
Washington’s graduation on
June 9.
Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
Blumenthal is scheduled to address graduates at the University of Hartford in West Hartford,
Conn., on May 20.
Former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair
Blair is slated to lead the graduation ceremony at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, on
May 20.
Vice President Biden
Biden is scheduled to deliver
the opening comments at the
U.S. Military Academy in West
Point, N.Y., on May 26.
Biden is also scheduled to
speak at high schools in Florida
and Virginia this spring.
Zach Bergson contributed to this
report.
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Our current tax code occupies about 70,000 pages. No one has ever read the
whole thing. They never will, and if they did, they would promptly die.
— Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in a Monday interview with anchor Gerri Willis on Fox Business Network
Obama beating Romney in
online game popularity
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) says she has
no plans of ever losing her Southern drawl.
Dole was on hand at a kick off event
for the GI Film Festival at the NewsPresident Obama is winning
eum on Monday when ITK noted to the
the popular vote in a gaming
ex-lawmaker that her North
face-off with Republican
Carolina accent remains
presidential candidate
fully intact. When we inMitt Romney.
quired whether she was
A c o m p a ny c a l l e d
worried about her twang
G a m i n g Wo n d e r l a n d
fading away, she exclaimed
recently released a Team
with a smile, “No way!”
Obama and Team Romney
At 75, the wife of 1996
version of its free online
Republican presidential
political game, Running
candidate Bob Dole has
for President.
no plans of slowing down.
In order to win the virWhile she “loved” the Sentual presidential race, the
ate, Dole was excited to talk
cartoon-version politicians
about her new mission
have to snag as many votes
ND
NDERLA
WO
GAMING
helping families of
as possible on the camsoldiers. She says she
paign trail as they (literconnected with them
ally) run toward the White House. They
also must avoid scandal-seeking pa- while her husband, 88, was hospitalized
parazzi, leap over negative campaign ads at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
“I’m immersed in a new area, which
and steer clear of slippery political issues.
Gaming Wonderland tells us that is working with the Wounded Warrior
since launching earlier this month, the military family caregivers ... They’re a
Obama game has been played more lot of families just facing tremendous
than 10,500 times. But far fewer players challenges because it’s virtually unare showing the Romney version some known what they’re dealing with. The
American public is really not aware,
love, with only about 4,500 plays. The gaming gurus say they soon plan to so we’re trying to raise the visibility of
display real-time results for the number of the military and veteran caregivers.”
“votes” won by players for each candidate.
Glen Campbell takes the
fight against Alzheimer’s
to Capitol Hill on tuesday
SPOTTED: Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell, along with his wife,
Kim, and Congressional Alzheimer’s
Caucus Co-Chairman Rep. Edward
Markey (D -Mass.), urging action on
Alzheimer’s disease at the
Rayburn House Office
Building on Tuesday.
The event coincided
with the release of the
O b a m a a d m i n i st r a tion’s first National Alzheimer’s Plan, which
aims to prevent or treat
the disease by 2025.
The 76-year-old
Campbell, whose
hits include “Rhinestone Cowboy” and
“Southern Nights,”
continues to perform despite revealing last year that he’s
battling the disease.
No slowing
down for
Elizabeth
Dole
She’s in Washington a lot these days
for various awards
dinners and charity
functions, but former
Hair supplement maker
wants to help president
make gray go away
President Obama has often noted how
his hair color is becoming more salt
than pepper these days, and now a New
Jersey company is offering him a lifetime supply of a product it promises
will “restore the president’s image to
his former hip, cool and youthful self.”
Rise-N- Shine LLC wants the commander in chief to give its nutritional
supplement, Go Away Gray, a try.
The makers claim its capsules bring
back natural hair color in about six to
eight weeks. Rise-N-Shine President
Cathy Beggan said in a press release, “The effects happen
gradually, and with the campaign trail heating up, now
is the time for change!”
Obama has made multiple mentions of his follicles at fundraisers across
the country. Last year he
told a crowd of supporters, “And some of you
have noted that I’ve now
turned 50. And these are
dog years that presidents
live, so the gray hairs are
accelerating much more
rapidly than I anticipated.”
He later remarked, during the same speech, “I joke
sometimes not only is my
hair gray, but I got little dings
here and there from some of
the battles we’ve been fighting.”
While bottles of Go Away Gray
‘The Office’ star wants Sen. Boxer as a TV boss
On her first trip to Capitol Hill this week, Angela Kinsey
— who plays the feisty Angela Martin on NBC’s “The
Office” — was a little nervous. Despite memorizing lines for a living, Kinsey said she
didn’t want to mess up the facts at a Capitol briefing
with ocean conservation group Oceana where she was
speaking out against seafood fraud.
“I didn’t want to be the one who was putting out
false information,” she said. “If I say something that’s
totally off, maybe [TMZ.com] will run it and a few
people will laugh, but when you’re a politician,
you have that responsibility.”
Kinsey spent Monday and Tuesday making
the rounds on Capitol Hill, speaking to politicians such as Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)
and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (DMd.). But she made sure to do her homework
beforehand.
“Don’t think I won’t be Googling [them],”
she said. “My iPad will be out.”
The petite blonde admitted she has “a little
bit of a crush” on Sen. Barbara Boxer, whom
she planned to meet with this week. She also
declared the California Democrat to be the
best lawmaker to run Dunder Mifflin, the fictional workplace in “The Office” in which Kinsey plays the head of accounting.
“Lady power!” Kinsey said. “I’d like to see a
chick run ‘The Office.’ That would be good.”
Megan McCourt
usually go for about $30, the president
won’t have to shell out a dime for years
and years of gray-less locks. The company says it plans to send Obama a formal letter offering the lifetime supply. No word if it’ll offer its services to
Obama’s 65-year-old opponent, Mitt
Romney, whose light-colored sideburns are in stark contrast to his otherwise jet-black hair.
Senator Nelson prefers
to choose his own ties
Call Sen. Ben Nelson a master of his
tie domain.
The Nebraska Democrat, who turns 71
on Thursday, says he chooses all of his
own neckwear — which means his family members know what not to get him
each time his birthday rolls around.
And while a tie can pack plenty of
punch when paired with a striking
suit, the gifts his loved ones opt for
tend to be a bit more powerful: “It’s
usually tools because I do my own
ties. So they can’t get me a tie.”
Nelson, who announced in December
that he’s not running for reelection,
was sporting a pink tie with a creamand blue-colored pattern when ITK
chatted with him on Tuesday.
The senator must be doing something
right when it comes to his neck accessories, because he wasn’t called out last
month by a necktie company for having
the worst taste in ties among lawmakers
on Capitol Hill. That dubious distinction went to Sens. John Barrasso (R-
Wyo.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
But for those who simply want to give
Nelson a tie as a present, fear
not. He’ll still wear one from
someone else … he just prefers to do his own picking.
When asked if he’ll don a
gifted tie, he replied that his
family has learned over the
years: Best to leave the tiechoosing to him. “I didn’t
say I wouldn’t,” he said.
“Because I get my own ties,
they don’t get me ties.”
Lott to Lugar:
There is life after
Congress
OVERHEARD: Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) telling Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), near
the upper chamber’s Ohio Clock on
Wednesday, “I’ll tell you what — life
on the outside ain’t so bad!”
Lugar last week lost a primary challenge to Indiana’s state treasurer,
Richard Mourdock. Lott is now a
prominent lobbyist.
By Judy Kurtz
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Project Adviser - Work/Consumer Issues
AARP is the leading membership organization that champions positive social change
through information, advocacy, philanthropy, products and community services to enrich
people’s lives today and those of generations to come. Here’s your chance to take action
and make and impact for the 50 + population in Washington, DC and throughout the US!
As a Project Adviser for financial security issues (e.g., investor protection, workforce issues
and retirement security) in our Education and Outreach team, you will lead the development and implementation of strategic initiatives, particularly in new consumer information/education program development for workforce and consumer (asset protection) issues. This includes conceptualizing and leading new program development and managing
implementation activities ( which may include project research and analyzing ongoing
progress of programs and identifying and implementing mid-course corrections), as well
as providing counsel and functional support on strategic issues. You will also manage special projects and assists in developing the strategic, operational, and product development
and evaluation process.
Requires Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) in communications, marketing,
social marketing, business administration or other field aligned with the subject matter
issues (e.g., investor protection, workforce issues, retirement security) and duties of this
position; 7+ years of demonstrated experience and success in designing, leading and growing high impact social programs; or an equivalent combination of training and experience
related to the duties of the position. Must have exceptional communications and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to engage and mentor others and to build coalitions
to achieve defined goals.
Qualified candidates should apply on line at www.aarpjobs.com.
Position posted under “All Available Positions” category.
Project Manager-Education &
Outreach Health Issues
AARP is the leading membership organization that champions positive social change
through information, advocacy, philanthropy, products and community services to
enrich people’s lives today and those of generations to come. Here’s your chance to
take action and make and impact for the 50 + population in Washington, DC and
throughout the US!
In this role, you will assist in developing and implementing projects on health issues
for AARP’s Health portfolio. Help develop and manage effective tactical work plans
to conduct project research, guide program development, plan strategic communications and create tailored messaging for targeted audiences, with a focus on implementing, monitoring, and evaluating issue campaigns.
This position will be focused on outreach, communications and marketing – the project manager will be responsible for implementing and executing strategies to broaden the reach of our educational assets, managing the development of online tools,
working with our web teams to create a strong presence for our work on aarp.org,
and managing our use of external marketing channels, including social media. The
project manager will also interface with our state offices and internal departments on
various projects as well.
Bachelor’s degree in program or project management, business administration or related field; 5+ years of relevant experience in positions where coordination, networking, information sharing and/or marketing were central to the job; or a combination
of education and experience in areas directly related to the duties of this position. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, demonstrated ability to build, sustain and nurture strong, productive working relationships internally and externally.
Qualified candidates should apply on line at www.aarpjobs.com. Position posted
under “All Available Positions” category.
AARP Public Policy Institute
Sr. Medicare Policy Expert
In the areas of health and Medicare issues, you will identify solutions to major policy
challenges facing the United States and the Medicare program and the impact of persons
as they age, including Medicare beneficiaries. The individual is expected to have substantive knowledge of Medicare issues, particularly in the areas of the Sustainable Growth
Rate, and payment, delivery, and broader Medicare reform issues. Preference will be
given to applicants who have used, and are familiar with, the MCBS data and are knowledgeable about out-of-pocket spending and utilization by Medicare beneficiaries, and the
financing aspect of the Medicare program, such as spending, costs, and trust fund issues.
You will develop policy options and reform strategies to enable AARP to advocate
and promote transformational social changes in line with AARP’s priorities. Conduct
and oversee original research projects on high visibility and potentially controversial
Medicare policy issues. Bring to the analysis quantitative skills and familiarity with
datasets, including MCBS, and other health care datasets. Critique federal legislative and
regulatory proposals, provide objective policy analysis to inform AARP’s public outreach
and advocacy efforts, represent AARP in important public policy forums, and serve as
an expert resource to AARP staff and volunteer leaders, as well as to opinion leaders and
policymakers outside AARP.
• Identifies emerging policy issues and designs/develops policy options and reform strategies in policy areas of importance to AARP, including the identification of the legislative and regulatory steps necessary to achieve the desired policy changes, formulation of
strategies regarding the sequencing of the legislative and regulatory steps, and assessment
of how proposed changes impact on other related policy goals.
• Conceptualizes conducts original research and manages contract research with external
vendors. Writes reports for internal and external audiences, including federal/state
policymakers and opinion leaders. For all written reports, oversees internal and external
peer review, administrative review, and document production.
• Critiques Federal legislative and regulatory proposals in areas of expertise. Provides
objective policy analysis for timely use by key internal clients to inform advocacy efforts.
Evaluates current policy positions and provides technical input for the drafting of The
Policy Book: AARP’s Public Policies.
• Capable of persuading peers as to the merits of AARP positions and preferred solutions. Serves on policy-related commissions, boards, technical and advisory panels, and
participates in high-level public policy meetings. Serves as peer reviewer for professional
journals, federal agencies, and non-federal entities that influence public policy.
• Provides quality oversight for publications in areas of expertise. Provides expert
reviews to staff in the production of educational information and advocacy materials
representing AARP’s policy positions. Provides expert information and guidance to
government agencies, media, and members of the policy community, other researchers,
and members.
• Demonstrates “One AARP” cultural attributes and behaviors in all interactions.
Completion of an advanced degree in Public Policy, Social Sciences, Law, or a related
discipline, and 8 years of experience related to the position. Completion of a Doctorate
degree preferred.
Excellent written and oral communications skills and exceptional presentation skills
to present subject matter issues for all types of audiences. Highly technical knowledge
related to Medicare and knowledge of appropriate research methodologies are required
and identified in the posting for the area of focus. Ability to analyze data and understand
data models, tools, and techniques preferred. Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to
work well in a team.
Qualified candidates should apply on line at www.aarpjobs.com. Position is
posted under “All Available Positions” category.
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Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute
Consumer Financial Security
The AARP Public Policy Institute (“PPI”) is looking for a talented expert to identify policy
challenges and solutions in the areas of financial services generally, elder financial abuse
and fraud, elder law, debt and credit, investor protection, credit reporting, financial literacy
and other financial and consumer issues. This PPI expert will be responsible for conducting
targeted research and advising internal and external thought leaders on federal and state
policy, business practices and consumer education.
This policy advisor uses specific knowledge of state and federal financial regulatory systems
and consumer protection laws governing financial services products, disclosure, sales practices, elder abuse, fraud, and consumer protection to inform AARP research and advocacy.
He or she is expected to choose appropriate methodologies and data to conduct and oversee
original research on highly visible and potentially controversial policy issues in areas of
importance to AARP. The position will also require the policy advisor to critique legislative and regulatory proposals, provide objective policy analysis to inform AARP’s public
outreach and advocacy efforts, represent AARP in public forums, and serve as an expert
resource to AARP staff and volunteer leaders, as well as to opinion leaders and policymakers outside AARP.
The position requires someone with a background in law, economics or public policy,
knowledge of federal and state consumer protection and regulatory policies and a special
interest and background in the financial issues confronting older people, particularly financial exploitation of all kinds as well as the specific vulnerabilities of the older population.
The successful candidate must have excellent writing and oral presentation skills and the
ability to present complicated subject matter to all types of audiences. Minimum requirements for the position include: an advanced degree in law, economics, public policy, or a
related discipline and 8 years of experience related to the position. Completion of a Doctorate degree preferred.
Qualified candidates are invited to apply online at www.aarpjobs.com (listed
under “All Available Positions”).
Sr. Legislative Representative - Federal Health Issues
We’re millions of members strong – with more joining us every day—the most powerful
grass-roots organization around ac-cording to Fortune magazine. In fact, we’re more
involved than ever before. If you’re ready, here’s your chance to take action in Washington
DC and throughout the U.S.!
In this position, you will advocate AARP’s Health and Family public policy Issues,
particularly Medicare, pertaining to Americans 50 and older at the Federal level, before
Congress and the Executive Branch. You will develop strategies to achieve AARP’s advocacy
objectives in Medicare and shape public opinion regarding AARP policies, goals and
objectives in a wide range of public forums. You will serve as a spokesperson on Medicare
before legislative and non-legislative audiences, including the press, as well as develop,
foster and leverage Association relationships with members of Congress and the Executive
Branch including negotiating on behalf of AARP with Congressional and Administration
staffs regarding the content of legislation and regulations.
Requires: Completion of a Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) in Political
Science, Public Policy, or Journalism and 8-10 years relevant and progressively responsible
substantive experience in government, the private sector, or a non-profit organization
engaged in complex advocacy initiatives; or an equivalent combination of training and
experience related to the duties of this position. Extensive experience in the preparation and
presentation of policy positions (issues briefs, testimony, etc.), particularly involving Medicare. Ability to analyze legislation and regulations thoroughly and effectively and to apply
research results to justify or support Association policies and positions.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment, including building
strategic and solid partnerships with colleagues in our regional and state offices to advance
AARP's national and state advocacy goals. Must have issue knowledge of Medicare
advocacy, demonstrated through strong written and verbal communications.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement integrated issue campaigns to achieve
organizational goals, emphasizing teamwork throughout. Must be willing to work in a
rapidly changing environment. Experience with advocating for Medicare policy is required.
Qualified candidates are invited to apply online at www.aarpjobs.com.
Position listed under “All Available Positions” category
Business Developer
You must have prior success selling products/service to resistant decision makers in a competitive marketplace. You
must excel at finding and closing new business, developing
long-term relationships and succeeding in upselling/cross-selling and asking
for referrals from existing clients. You must have a proven track record of success, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and think quickly on your feet. You must
be an effective communicator, control ones emotions, be goal oriented, and
be committed to ones success. Experience in selling for 3-5 years, consultative
selling, solution selling. You must have previous earnings of at least $75,000.
Job hoppers need not apply.
Please visit http://ExpressScreen.com/XL427WL to apply.
NRTA: AARP’s Educator Community provides a bridge to a segment of AARP’s membership that is loyal
and active. Formerly known as the National Retired Teachers Association, NRTA was founded in 1947 by
retired educator Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus who went on to found AARP 11 years later. Currently, NRTA staff
work in a variety of areas that support AARP's goals and increase the level of engagement of retired
educators across the country.
In this role, you will be responsible for the vision, strategic direction, budgeting and operational success
of two distinct organizational components within AARP: 1) Directing the NRTA National Office/Department and serving on the AARP and States & Communities Leadership Teams to advance the Association’s
state and national priorities and the engagement of NRTA constituencies in them, and 2) Serving as the
executive leader and national spokesperson for an umbrella organization of 52 NRTA-affiliated state/metropolitan retired educators associations (REAs), 2700 local REA units and the Association of State Retired
Teacher Executives (ASRTE). Working collaboratively within a matrix environment, the position also develops and implements membership and engagement strategies to serve educators and AARP members
who have an affinity for education and learning..
Responsibilities
Leadership and Strategic Direction: Provides national leadership to NRTA’s field structure to
assure mutually beneficial relationships through clear communication and engagement around AARP’s vision, mission, goals and strategic direction as well through detailed knowledge of REA and other partner
priority areas. Serves on both the AARP and States & Communities Leadership Teams to advise and contribute to the organizational success of Association-wide priorities and specific Dashboard goals. Assure the
NRTA National Office meets critical business objectives, including the relationship with the NRTA Network
of state and local REAs, while also contributing to the design and execution of initiatives to support the
NRTA Membership Division.
Management and Staff/Volunteer Engagement: Assumes ultimate responsibility for the strategic di-
rection and operational success of NRTA plans developed collaboratively across the Association. Oversees
the successful integration and alignment of NRTA programs and constituencies in support of AARP’s Social
Change agenda. Assures the design of unique and relevant member experiences for the education/learning
member segment. Assures the engagement of members, volunteers and partners in AARP’s advocacy and
grassroots initiatives.
Relationship Building and Public Outreach: Builds and maintains executive level relationships and
wide-ranging alliances with external partners in education, government, business and social sectors. Oversees the development of targeted organizational partnerships that expand the reach and support of AARP
state and national priorities and NRTA initiatives. Serves as NRTA national spokesperson delivering public
presentations to diverse audiences on issues, policy and programmatic/advocacy initiatives.
Policy, Program and Issues Development: Leads the development of policy analysis and brings highlevel understanding of issues pertaining to the economic, health and well-being of 50+ adults, with particular focus on educator members and other public sector employees. Monitors the status of public employee
retirement benefits across the country and develops strategies to integrate resources from AARP with insights and skills from state Retired Educator Associations to assure that retirement benefits and pensions
remain strong. Understands and leads efforts that provide insight and knowledge regarding the impact of
policy on families and other generational concerns. Designs and builds national initiatives that are delivered
through state and local REAs in areas of advocacy and community service.
Requirements:
Completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Education, Public Policy, Business/Education Administration, Gerontology/Aging Research, or related discipline and eight to ten years of progressively responsible experience
in corporate leadership/management; or equivalent combination of expertise and experience related to the
requirements of the position. Background in volunteer/membership driven not-for-profit organizations essential and completion of an advanced degree preferred.
Qualified applicants should apply on line at www.aarpjobs.com. Position posted under “All Available
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Director, Public Affairs
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Newtown, CT seeks a Director of Public Affairs
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Vice President
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the nation’s largest
animal protection organization, is seeking a Vice President to lead its
Communications team in a fast-paced, high-energy, and deadline-driven
environment. The Vice President will provide strategic and day-to-day
operational leadership to its Communications departments, including
Public Relations, Publications, Video, Online Communications, and
Business Development, and will have operational responsibility for
all activities associated with the communications function including:
promoting, enhancing and protecting The HSUS’s brand and reputation;
driving broader public awareness, engagement, and donor support for
the organization; and raising the profile of The HSUS with key audiences.
The ideal candidate has at least ten years of experience working in
corporate communications, journalism, marketing, advertising, a
legislative/executive press office, or other position where advancing
messages, driving awareness, and promoting a brand through
communications was central to the role. Must have superior
communications skills (written and oral); superior leadership and
management skills; commitment to the mission of animal protection.
A Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, or a related field
required; advanced degree preferred.
Please send a cover letter and resume via The HSUS website at
http://www.humanesociety.org/about/employment/ by
following the directions within the Vice President of
Communications description or fax to 301-548-7701.
This position is located in Gaithersburg, Md.
FOR ALL CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING NEEDS, CONTACT
Keith Winer
Classified Advertising Executive
202.628.8532 • [email protected]
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