The National Republican Congressional Committee last year ran ads asking “Is Baron Hill running for Congress in Indiana, or China?” The background: Hill, a member of the Energy & Commerce Committee, was a big booster of renewable energy subsidies, some of which went to Chinese-owned windmill companies using Chinese labor.
The question is even more poignant today, now that Hill has cashed out to APCO Worldwide, a lobbying firm whose headline client is COSCO, a shipping company owned by the Communist government of the People’s Republic of China.
Hill joins his former colleagues Bart Stupak and Earl Pomeroy in delivering key votes for health-care reform that proved fatal to his political career — before cashing out to a lobbying firm representing those companies that profit from it, making Hill part of the Great Health-Care Cashout. APCO worldwide last year claimed powerful ObamaCare backer PhRMA as a client.
Hill was also an agressive backer of climate change regulations, which won him typical praise from the Left. Here’s the Center for American Progress:
It’s harder to hold that Hill-stood-up-to-the-special-interests line now that he is a top lobbyist at a firm representing Solar Trust and Dow Corning, two big corporations that stand to profit from the very legislation he backed.
