Nothing on web site.
McCaul on Healthcare / Medicare:
"The best possible healthcare system is driven by consumer choice, with patients and their preferred physician making decisions about care and costs. Our current system, both public (Medicare/Medicaid) and private (HMO’s, private physicians), is unsustainable and must be reformed. We are limiting physician and patient choices and driving up costs. Moreover, runaway litigation is forcing doctors to practice expensive “defensive medicine” and hampering the development of new medical procedures and new medicines, driving costs even higher and depriving us of the best quality care. The only ultimate solution is to rely on market forces and competition to drive prices down and improve the quality of service, and to reform our medical liability system.While, I am concerned about the $400 billion cost of the new Medicare bill, I like some of the new moves toward a market system that the bill contains. Moreover, we need to get the government out of the business of designing health care systems and then simply having the private sector compete to deliver those prescribed packages. Instead, we need to allow the private sector to design, price and deliver health care for all Americans, including seniors. Even the health care plan available to Members of Congress and other federal employees is superior to those Congress has designed for senior citizens. Finally, I strongly favor the expansion of Health Savings Accounts so Americans can gain even more control over their healthcare dollars and choices."
Searched records from 1980 to 2004:
Texas Mortgage Bankers PAC Payments
12/21/01 $1000.00 EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON FOR CONGRESS
Ben & Kathy Streusand Payments:
11/23/03 $2000.00 BUSH-CHENEY 04
06/06/03 $4000.00 FRIENDS OF JEB HENSARLING
02/27/02 $2000.00 FRIENDS OF JEB HENSARLING
11/06/00 $ 500.00 KEN BENTSEN FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
07/12/99 $1000.00 BUSH FOR PRESIDENT
08/27/93 $ 500.00 BOB KRUEGER CAMPAIGN
03/11/93 $1000.00 BOB KRUEGER CAMPAIGN (Senate)
08/26/92 $ 250.00 BOB KRUEGER FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER COMMITTEE
04/10/84 $ 500.00 FRIENDS OF BOB KRUEGER
11/18/83 $ 500.00 FRIENDS OF BOB KRUEGER
Michael & Linda McCaul Payments:
12/29/03 $2000.00 MCCAUL FOR CONGRESS
11/05/03 $4000.00 BUSH-CHENEY 04
10/29/03 $2000.00 MCCAUL FOR CONGRESS
02/04/00 $2000.00 BUSH FOR PRESIDENT
Also revealing: Individual Contributors
Streusand: $58k, almost all are mortgage bankers or attorneys.
McCaul: $410k, from a wide variety of businesses.
PAC Contributions:
Streusand: $1000 unknown
McCaul:
$6500 Finance/Insurance
$6000 Communications/Technology
$3750 Agriculture
$3500 Law
$3500 Health Care
$2000 Energy/Natural Resources
$ 250 Single-Issue Groups
~$35000 in smaller PAC contributions
Maybe it's just me but it sounds like Streusand is a paid lobbyist for the Mortgage Banking industry buying a seat in Congress. McCaul's support seems much more diversified with no single industry or PAC having significant influence.