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Doc and Gene Green of Texas chaired the investigative subcommittee of the Ethics Committee that found Charlie Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, guilty of eleven of the thirteen counts against him on November 20, 2010. (Hastings family)
Doc surprised many with his unsuccessful attempt to absorb the energy portfolio of the House Energy and Commerce Committee into the Natural Resources Committee in November 2010. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc and ranking member Ed Markey of Massachusetts enjoy a lighthearted moment during a hearing of Doc’s committee on the Deepwater Horizon disaster on January 26, 2011. The two cooperated on legislation that sold off the National Helium Reserve to make the gas available to high tech industry. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Speaker John Boehner, vice president Joe Biden, President Obama, and Senate majority leader Eric Cantor try to negotiate a budget deal in the White House in July 2011. (White House Press Office/Pete Souza)
Pitching the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act in February 2012. Left to right: Jeb Henserling of Texas, Doc, Speaker Boehner of Ohio, and Fred Upton of Michigan. Like much of the legislation passed in the House, the measure died in the Senate. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Standing in front of the start of the Alaska Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 2012. Doc continued to fight to open up Alaska for more energy exploration. Left to right: Don Young of Alaska, Doc, and committee staffers Todd Young and Tim Charters. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc and Natural Resources committee members review documents during a committee hearing in 2013. Left to right: Don Young of Alaska, Doc, ranking member Peter DeFazio of Oregon, and David Watkins, chief minority counsel. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc’s district staff was the foundation of his excellent constituent relations. Long-time staffer Sharlyn Berger (front row, far left) and district director Barb Lisk (front row, second from left) appear in October 2014. (Sharlyn Berger)
Doc speaks to President Obama about energy policy after the president met with the Republican conference on January 14, 2013, to talk about raising the debt limit. (Hastings family)
Doc and his family walk from his Pasco office to a nearby hotel to announce that he will not seek re-election, February 13, 2014. (Tri-City Herald/Bob Brawdy)
Doc speaks to a water rights rally of three thousand farmers in Fresno, California, in conjunction with a field hearing of the Natural Resources Committee that would lead to legislation to free up water supplies held up by a smelt listed on the Endangered Species Act, March 19, 2014. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc presides during House debate over the Concurrent Resolution of the 2015 budget as budget chairman and future Speaker Paul Ryan compliments him on his twenty years of service, April 10, 2014. (Hastings family)
Doc speaks to colleagues, staff, family, and friends in the Natural Resources Committee hearing room during the formal unveiling of his official portrait on November 19, 2014. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc enjoys his retirement from the deck of his Pasco, Washington, home overlooking the Columbia River with the broad expanse of the Hanford Site and Rattlesnake Mountain in the background. (House Committee on Natural Resources)
Doc, Senator Maria Cantwell, a National Park Service ranger, and local school children raise the American and National Park Service flags over the B Reactor, November 11, 2015. (National Park Service)
Author C. Mark Smith (right) conducted approximately 150 hours of recorded interviews with Doc in the office of his Pasco home between January 2016 and August 2017 for this book. C. Mark Smith.
