I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Like most Republicans elected in the 1994 wave he had a strongly conservative voting record. He was handily reelected in 1998. Steven Griles and former White House national energy policy director Andrew Lundquist) joined to form the political lobbying firm of Lundquist Nethercutt & Griles LLC.

Nethercutt then served as staff counsel and later chief of staff to Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) before returning to private practice in Washington State. A.