D.C.’s 50 Most Powerful People

As determined by GQ…(hits newsstands in D.C. later this month. Online now.)
1. Condoleezza Rice, 52, Secretary of State
2. Harry Reid, 67, Senate Majority Leader
3. Robert Gates, 63, Secretary of Defense
4. Justice Anthony Kennedy, 71, Supreme Court Justice
5. Nancy Pelosi, 67, Speaker of the House
6. Howard Kohr, 51, Executive Director, AIPAC
Bill Novelli, 66, CEO, AARP
Wayne LaPierre, 56, Executive Vice President, NRA
Billy Tauzin, 64, President and CEO, PhRMA

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7. David Addington, 50, Chief of Staff to the Vice President
8. Hillary Clinton, 59, Democratic Senator, New York
9. Karl Rove, 56, Deputy White House Chief of Staff
10. General Michael Hayden, 62, Director, CIA
11. Mitch McConnell, 65, Senate Minority Leader
12. Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., 66, Chairman, Patton Boggs, LLP
13. Ronald Reagan, Deceased 40th President of the United States
14. Tim Russert, 57, Washington Bureau Chief, NBC

15. Mark Penn, 53, CEO, Burson-Marsteller
16. Joshua Bolten, 53, White House Chief of Staff
17. Rahm Emanuel, 47, Democratic Congressman, Illinois
18. Henry Waxman, 68, Chair, House Oversight and Reform Committee
Patrick Leahy, 67, Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee
19. Nick Burns, 51, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
20. Barack Obama, 46, Democratic Senator, Illinois
21. Ed Gillespie, 46, Counselor to the President
22. John Podesta, 58, CEO, Center for American Progress

23. Ben Bernanke, 53, Chairman, Federal Reserve
24. David Rubenstein, 58, Managing Director, Carlyle Group
25. Michael Chertoff, 53, Secretary of Homeland Security
26. Seymour Hersh, 70, Reporter, The New Yorker
Dana Priest, 50, Reporter, Washington Post

27. Grover Norquist, 50, President, Americans for Tax Reform
28. Kevin Martin, 40, Chairman, FCC
29. Alex Castellanos, 53, Media Consultant
30. Bob Woodward, 64, Assistant Managing Editor, Washington Post
31. Daniel Snyder, 42, Owner of the Washington Redskins

32. Joe Lieberman, 65, Independent Democrat Senator, Connecticut
33. Steve Elmendorf, 47, President, Elmendorf Strategies LLC
34. Robert Gibbs, 36, Senator Obama’s Communications Director
Pete Rouse, 51, Senator Obama’s Chief of Staff
35. David Bradley, 54, Owner of the Atlantic Media Company
36. Ed Corrigan, 39, Executive Director, Senate Republican Committee

37. Simon Rosenberg, 43, President, New Democrat Network
38. Tommy Jacomo, 63, Executive Director, The Palm
39. Susan Glasser, 38, Managing Editor for National News, Washington Post
40. Michael Hausfeld, 61, Partner, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
41. Gamal Helal, 53, Senior Arabic Diplomatic Interpreter
42. Mason Lecky, 31, Director of Admissions, St. Albans
43. James A. Johnson, 63, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
44. Ed Feulner, 66, President, Heritage Foundation
45. Isabelle Goetz, 36, Hairstylist at Cristophe Salon
46. Andrew Sullivan, 44, Blogger, The Atlantic
47. Susan McCue, 41, President and CEO, ONE Campaign
48. Tom Toles, 55, Political Cartoonist
49. Nancy Jacobson, 44, Democratic Fund-Raiser, Socialite
50. Andrew Kohut, 55, President, Pew Research Center

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Nadine Cheung
Editor, The Job Post
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