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 Read the rest when you click below... 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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