The 2017 Pension Political Power 25: Joe Manchin

No. 17 Joe Manchin

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< 25 Top Pension Power Players

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17. Joe Manchin
U.S. Senator

Donald Trump may have won West Virginia on a promise to revive the coal industry, but will he stand up for coal miners’ pensions? That’s what Joe Manchin wants to know. The Democratic senator from West Virginia has led the charge on Capitol Hill to bail out the United Mine Workers of America’s health care and retirement funds. This year he helped reintroduce the Miners Protection Act, which would prop up the depleted funds with $3 billion over the next decade; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the legislation in 2016. Manchin, 69, has cozied up to Trump, breaking party lines to support several of the new president’s cabinet picks. Representing a Democratic stronghold that backed Trump, he could be in a unique position to broker a bipartisan deal, but he faces a tough 2018 reelection campaign. — Jess Delaney


The 2017 Pension Political Power 25

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1. Andy Puzder
Secretary of Labor

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2. Bruce Rauner
Governor of Illinois

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3. Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Education

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4. Laura & John Arnold
Founders,
Laura and John Arnold Foundation

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5. Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of the Treasury

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6. Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Commerce

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7. Tani Cantil-Sakauye
California Chief Justice

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8. Paul Ryan
Speaker of the House

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9. Anthony Scaramucci
Founder, SkyBridge Capital

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10. Kevin de León
California State Senator and President Pro Tempore

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11. Mike Enzi
Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security

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12. Steve Sweeney
President,
New Jersey State Senate

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13. Jerry Brown
Governor of California

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14. Corey Lewandowski
Co-founder, Avenue Strategies

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15. Paul Singer
President,
Elliott Management Corp.

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16. Randel Johnson
Senior Vice President, Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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17. Joe Manchin
U.S. Senator

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18. Kenneth Feinberg
Founder and managingpartner, Feinberg Rozen

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19. Scott Walker
Governor of Wisconsin

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20. Richard Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

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21. Mike Rawlings
Mayor of Dallas

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22. Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator

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23. Kent Mason
Partner,
Davis & Harman

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24. Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator

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25. Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers


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