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Once indispensable to powerful pols, FERC commissioner navigates power politics
John Norris spent more than three decades running high-profile political campaigns in his home state of Iowa -- and once ran for Congress himself. But these days, as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, he's more interested in the wonky world of transmission and pipeline policy than maneuvering political battlefields. Norris said he doesn't miss the political world where he once thrived, lamenting an influx of third-party spending on campaigns.