EPW Sens. With Ties To Environmentalist Left Should Return Money Or Recuse Themselves

EPW Sens. With Ties To Environmentalist Left Should Return Money Or Recuse Themselves

In response a letter sent by Senate Dems on the EPW Committee, AR2 is demanding that they disclose their ties to extreme environmental groups & return that money or they recuse themselves from next week’s hearing

January 13, 2017

In response the hypocritical and preposterous letter sent by Senate Democrats on the EPW Committee to Scott Pruitt, AR2 is demanding that they fully disclose their ties to dark money extreme environmental groups and return that money, or they recuse themselves from next week’s EPA Administrator confirmation hearing.

The fact is that these Senate Democrats are bought and paid for by out-of-touch groups that are proposing policies that would destroy millions of jobs and cost our country billions of dollars. Instead of listening to the message sent by the American people, these Senators are committed to doing the bidding of these fanatical organizations because they have flooded them with $4.7 million in combined campaign cash.

See below to see just how comprised this group of Senators is by these environmentalist groups:

Member Total (Contributions And Independent Expenditures)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) $19,346
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) $9,381
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) $7,385
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) $272,893
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) $17,750
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) $3,184,627
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) $1,204,567
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) $40,188
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) $35,365
Total $4,791,502

Because these Senators cannot be trusted to objectively give Scott Pruitt a fair shake due to this outside influence from these radical green groups, we are calling on them to return the campaign contributions they have received from these organizations or recuse themselves from next week’s hearing in the interest of fairness and accountability.

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