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Enron’s Campaign Contributions, 1989-2001- Senate & House
Center For Responsive Politics ^ | January 2002 | N/A

Posted on 01/11/2002 7:20:07 AM PST by angkor

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Enron Contributions to Current Senators, 1989-2001* Enron Contributions to Current Members of the House of Representatives, 1989-2001*
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  Name Total
Name Total Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) $42,750
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) $99,500 Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) $38,000
Phil Gramm (R-Texas) $97,350 Joe L. Barton (R-Texas) $28,909
Conrad Burns (R-Mont) $23,200 Tom DeLay (R-Texas) $28,900
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) $21,933 Martin Frost (D-Texas) $24,250
Michael D. Crapo (R-Idaho) $18,689 Charles W. Stenholm (D-Texas) $14,439
Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo) $18,500 Chet Edwards (D-Texas) $10,000
Gordon Smith (R-Ore) $18,000 Doug Bereuter (R-Neb) $10,000
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) $14,124 Larry Combest (R-Texas) $9,820
Chuck Hagel (R-Neb) $13,331 John D. Dingell (D-Mich) $9,000
Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) $12,000 Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) $8,500
John B. Breaux (D-La) $11,100 Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore) $8,500
John McCain (R-Ariz) $9,500 Kevin Brady (R-Texas) $8,000
Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) $8,053 Sam Johnson (R-Texas) $7,750
Pat Roberts (R-Kan) $8,000 Pete Sessions (R-Texas) $7,500
Bob Graham (D-Fla) $8,000 Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) $7,432
John Ensign (R-Nev) $7,500 Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) $7,250
Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) $7,250 Bill Thomas (R-Calif) $7,000
Don Nickles (R-Okla) $7,000 David Dreier (R-Calif) $7,000
Craig Thomas (R-Wyo) $7,000 E. Clay Shaw Jr (R-Fla) $7,000
Tom Daschle (D-SD) $6,000 Ralph M. Hall (D-Texas) $6,900
Ben Nelson (D-Neb) $6,000 W. J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La) $6,464
Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind) $5,750 Scott McInnis (R-Colo) $6,250
Kent Conrad (D-ND) $5,650 Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio) $5,850
Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo) $4,500 Dick Armey (R-Texas) $5,550
Ron Wyden (D-Ore) $4,000 Rick Boucher (D-Va) $5,332
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) $4,000 Steve Largent (R-Okla) $5,123
George Allen (R-Va) $3,500 John Culberson (R-Texas) $5,000
Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala) $3,500 Jim McCrery (R-La) $5,000
Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) $3,500 Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo) $5,000
Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) $3,500 Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) $4,850
Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) $3,500 Gene Green (D-Texas) $4,750
Thad Cochran (R-Miss) $3,000 Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo) $4,750
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) $3,000 Heather A. Wilson (R-NM) $4,500
Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) $3,000 John L. Mica (R-Fla) $4,500
Sam Brownback (R-Kan) $2,750 Lee Terry (R-Neb) $4,500
James M. Inhofe (R-Okla) $2,550 Kay Granger (R-Texas) $4,500
James M. Jeffords (I-Vt) $2,500 Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla) $4,400
Mary L. Landrieu (D-La) $2,500 Sonny Callahan (R-Ala) $4,350
Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) $2,500 Lamar Smith (R-Texas) $4,350
Jon L. Kyl (R-Ariz) $2,450 John M. Shimkus (R-Ill) $4,250
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo) $2,300 Cass Ballenger (R-NC) $4,050
Max Baucus (D-Mont) $2,250 Cal Dooley (D-Calif) $4,000
Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill) $2,038 Nick Lampson (D-Texas) $4,000
John W. Warner (R-Va) $2,000 J. C. Watts Jr (R-Okla) $3,750
Jesse Helms (R-NC) $2,000 Charles W. "Chip" Pickering Jr (R-Miss) $3,750
Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn) $2,000 Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz) $3,700
Trent Lott (R-Miss) $2,000 Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) $3,700
Evan Bayh (D-Ind) $2,000 Jim Turner (D-Texas) $3,500
John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WVa) $2,000 Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY) $3,500
Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn) $2,000 Frank Pallone Jr (D-NJ) $3,500
Tim Johnson (D-SD) $1,756 Ed Royce (R-Calif) $3,500
Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) $1,500 Mark Foley (R-Fla) $3,500
Jon Corzine (D-NJ) $1,250 Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) $3,500
Deborah Ann Stabenow (D-Mich) $1,000 Joe Skeen (R-NM) $3,500
Harry Reid (D-Nev) $1,000 Greg Walden (R-Ore) $3,500
Strom Thurmond (R-SC) $1,000 Max Sandlin (D-Texas) $3,000
Robert C. Byrd (D-WVa) $1,000 Jerry Lewis (R-Calif) $3,000
Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) $1,000 Vito J. Fossella (R-NY) $3,000
Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md) $1,000 David R. Obey (D-Wis) $3,000
Judd Gregg (R-NH) $1,000 William M. "Mac" Thornberry (R-Texas) $3,000
Bill Nelson (D-Fla) $1,000 Roy Blunt (R-Mo) $2,500
Wayne Allard (R-Colo) $1,000 Philip M. Crane (R-Ill) $2,500
Robert C. Smith (R-NH) $1,000 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla) $2,500
Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $1,000 Bud Cramer (D-Ala) $2,500
Zell Miller (D-Ga) $1,000 Amo Houghton (R-NY) $2,500
Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark) $1,000 Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash) $2,500
Robert G. Torricelli (D-NJ) $1,000 Mac Collins (R-Ga) $2,500
Jean Carnahan (D-Mo) $1,000 Cliff Stearns (R-Fla) $2,300
Rick Santorum (R-Pa) $1,000 David Wu (D-Ore) $2,250
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) $950 Wes Watkins (R-Okla) $2,250
Jim Bunning (R-Ky) $769 Frank D. Lucas (R-Okla) $2,000
  Adam Smith (D-Wash) $2,000
 *Based on FEC data downloaded 11/1/01. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-NY) $2,000
Senators not on this list received no Enron contributions. Charles Bass (R-NH) $2,000
Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) $2,000
Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif) $2,000
John Thune (R-SD) $2,000
Chris John (D-La) $2,000
Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) $2,000
Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan) $2,000
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) $2,000
Peter Deutsch (D-Fla) $2,000
Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) $2,000
Edward Whitfield (R-Ky) $2,000
Darlene Hooley (D-Ore) $1,950
David L. Hobson (R-Ohio) $1,850
Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore) $1,750
Don Young (R-Alaska) $1,600
William P. "Bill" Luther (D-Minn) $1,503
Jim Davis (D-Fla) $1,500
Harold Rogers (R-Ky) $1,500
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) $1,500
J. D. Hayworth (R-Ariz) $1,500
Charlie Norwood (R-Ga) $1,500
Jerry Weller (R-Ill) $1,500
George P. Radanovich (R-Calif) $1,500
Ed Bryant (R-Tenn) $1,500
Bart Gordon (D-Tenn) $1,500
Ken Calvert (R-Calif) $1,500
Mark Green (R-Wis) $1,500
C. W. Bill Young (R-Fla) $1,500
Jim Ramstad (R-Minn) $1,350
Jerry Moran (R-Kan) $1,250
Jim Ryun (R-Kan) $1,250
Porter J. Goss (R-Fla) $1,100
Gary A. Condit (D-Calif) $1,041
James L. Oberstar (D-Minn) $1,000
Constance A. Morella (R-Md) $1,000
Solomon P. Ortiz (D-Texas) $1,000
Richard M. Burr (R-NC) $1,000
John Shadegg (R-Ariz) $1,000
James P. Moran (D-Va) $1,000
Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va) $1,000
Nancy L. Johnson (R-Conn) $1,000
J. Randy Forbes (R-Va) $1,000
Howard Coble (R-NC) $1,000
Ric Keller (R-Fla) $1,000
Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn) $1,000
Rod R. Blagojevich (D-Ill) $1,000
Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill) $1,000
Steve Buyer (R-Ind) $1,000
Tim Roemer (D-Ind) $1,000
Roger Wicker (R-Miss) $1,000
James C. Greenwood (R-Pa) $1,000
Patrick J. Tiberi (R-Ohio) $1,000
Anne Northup (R-Ky) $1,000
John P. Murtha (D-Pa) $1,000
Norm Dicks (D-Wash) $1,000
Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo) $900
Tom Latham (R-Iowa) $800
John E. Sununu (R-NH) $800
Richard H. Baker (R-La) $800
Curt Weldon (R-Pa) $750
Steven C. LaTourette (R-Ohio) $550
David Vitter (R-La) $500
Michael N. Castle (R-Del) $500
Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif) $500
Tom Sawyer (D-Ohio) $500
Rick Larsen (D-Wash) $500
Jim McDermott (D-Wash) $500
Melissa A. Hart (R-Pa) $500
Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo) $500
Xavier Becerra (D-Calif) $500
Ciro D. Rodriguez (D-Texas) $500
George Nethercutt (R-Wash) $500
Dan Miller (R-Fla) $500
Donald Manzullo (R-Ill) $500
Tom Petri (R-Wis) $500
Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich) $500
Baron P. Hill (D-Ind) $500
Ted Strickland (D-Ohio) $500
Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) $500
John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) $500
Karen McCarthy (D-Mo) $500
John Tanner (D-Tenn) $500
Dave Weldon (R-Fla) $500
Robert Wexler (D-Fla) $500
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla) $500
Mary Bono (R-Calif) $500
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) $500
Ron Paul (R-Texas) $500
Nick J. Rahall II (D-WVa) $500
Frank R. Wolf (R-Va) $500
Bob Ney (R-Ohio) $500
Robert Menendez (D-NJ) $500
Cynthia A. McKinney (D-Ga) $500
William J. Jefferson (D-La) $500
Duncan Hunter (R-Calif) $500
Brad Sherman (D-Calif) $500
Jane Harman (D-Calif) $500
Christopher B. Cannon (R-Utah) $500
James V. Hansen (R-Utah) $500
Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) $500
Edolphus Towns (D-NY) $500
Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa) $500
Ernest Istook (R-Okla) $500
Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas) $500
Joel Hefley (R-Colo) $350
  Peter T. King (R-NY) $300
  Wally Herger (R-Calif) $300
  Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) $250
  Eric Cantor (R-Va) $250
  Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill) $250
  Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif) $250
  Brian Baird (D-Wash) $250
  Albert R. Wynn (D-Md) $125
   
  *Based on FEC data downloaded 11/1/01.
  Members not on this list received no Enron contributions.
 
 
       


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To: Miss Interpretate
The idea that democrats are equally culpable in this enron scandal is a pretty desperate stretch for republicans. enron gave over 70% to republicans since 1989. It's not even close. The fact that enron gave a little to democrats is just them trying to cover their a$$e$, like their cynical attempt to give to democrats right before they went under.

so now CONservatives can say "see, dems are guilty too!"

nice try. clinton might have met with lay once or twice, or played golf with them--but it's nothing compared to the bush white house, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of enron.

I suspect that if the Enron had given the Repubs $1, that Dems would be howling like they have been.

Your grasp of the FACTS in the matter is sadly lacking. President Clinton's Administration had much more to do with Enron that what you claim. Do a search on FR, or if you like, I can provide you with the information.

Trying to foist this unto GW will fail. If this is the best you have to go on, the Dem party is in deep trouble.

41 posted on 01/11/2002 8:17:09 AM PST by Fury
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To: Miss Interpretate
Go back to the hole that you crawled out from under and get your facts straight.
42 posted on 01/11/2002 8:18:03 AM PST by itsinthebag
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To: Miss Interpretate
this table only includes donations to members of congress

That's to show you exactly how far this "scandal" will go in Congress. I give it another two weeks, max.

Too bad.

44 posted on 01/11/2002 8:22:19 AM PST by angkor
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To: Miss Interpretate

Interesting...... help me explain the following......


45 posted on 01/11/2002 8:23:47 AM PST by deport
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To: Miss Interpretate
member since 1/11/02--only because they ban people whenever they try to debate the other side of the issues

I take it, then, that you've been here under another name and been banned?

or dare to criticize bu$h.

Huh? Bush-bashing goes on all the time on FR.

(And someone should tell you that the S is next to the A on the keyboard - not shift-4.)
46 posted on 01/11/2002 8:24:50 AM PST by Xenalyte
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To: Miss Interpretate
member since 1/11/02--only because they ban people whenever they try to debate the other side of the issues, or dare to criticize bu$h.

But you don't offer intelligent debate missy. You have come here to spew your venom. Do it at demonRAT underground.

47 posted on 01/11/2002 8:25:21 AM PST by itsinthebag
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To: Miss Interpretate
almost every company gives to both parties, but the huge disparity tells you who enron was in bed with. check post 14, bush received 10 times more than gore.

Really? So can we assume that Enron was "in bed with" Ken Bentsen and Sheila Jackson Lee because they gave these two Dem Congress"people" more money than all other House members from 1989-1991? Or does that only work for folks that run for President?

member since 1/11/02--only because they ban people whenever they try to debate the other side of the issues, or dare to criticize bu$h.

No, you must be thinking of DU.

48 posted on 01/11/2002 8:25:34 AM PST by Fury
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To: First_Salute
So all the hot air of yesterday, about how G. W. received over a half-million dollars from Enron, is not true? It seems from the table; yes; no?

I wonder if CNN/CBS/NBC/ABC would seriously air this information. What do you think?

Maybe we should email Rather, Jennings, King, et al with the tables above.

49 posted on 01/11/2002 8:27:28 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Miss Interpretate
Accepting political donations is not illegal, dingbat.

Providing services in return for those donations (Like the Clinton Administration did when they took $100,000 from Enron to grease the skids for a $3 billion power-plant project in India) is illegal.

Yet another Clinton scandal is bubbling up to the surface.

But hey, at least your favorite rambunctious scoundrel got away with the rape.

50 posted on 01/11/2002 8:27:54 AM PST by dead
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To: Miss Interpretate
they ban people whenever they try to debate the other side of the issues

Looks like they've been banning you for your monumental stupidity.

Your asinine and mewling protests cannot circumvent the numbers. Unless Schumer, Daschle, Hitlery, Dingell, Markey, and Gephardt want to find their names dragged into this as well, this "story" is going nowhere.

51 posted on 01/11/2002 8:28:04 AM PST by angkor
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To: Miss Interpretate
Are you a disrupter?

Miss Interpretate member since January 11th, 2002 -----That's TODAY, folks!

52 posted on 01/11/2002 8:29:35 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Miss Interpretate

LOL..... Gore's a loser..... why waste money on him. This also seems to indicate that the Democrats come cheap. Is that true....

53 posted on 01/11/2002 8:31:33 AM PST by deport
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To: deport
BTTT!

1) Who was President from Jan. 1993 to Jan. 2001?......

54 posted on 01/11/2002 8:33:14 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Miss Interpretate
Hey MIS-interpretate, the ENRON investigation will backfire big time in the demonRATS bloated faces and uncover criminal behavior of the Klintoon administration. The demonRATS don't realize what they've stirred up in the pot. Wouldn't it be ironic that an investigation the demonRATS called for ended up nabbing their poster boy, the rapist! LOL!!! WATCH OUT!!
56 posted on 01/11/2002 8:34:21 AM PST by itsinthebag
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To: First_Salute
Bush distances himself from Enron's fall
By Ben Fenton in Washington
(Filed: 11/01/2002)

PRESIDENT BUSH appeared to be trying to distance himself yesterday from one of his biggest commercial backers ahead of a series of official investigations into its collapse.

Mr Bush said he had ordered a review of rules surrounding pension funds and the disclosure of information by corporations after Enron, the energy company, once America's seventh largest, applied for bankruptcy protection last month. It was the largest bankruptcy in American history.

His announcement was seen as an effort to distance the White House from the disaster of a company whose share price fell from £58 to 50p in less than a year.

He said he had never discussed the problems with any Enron executives including Kenneth Lay, chairman, who was a friend of the president and his father and of Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Questions and legal actions have already arisen over Mr Lay's efforts to save his company and his attempts to camouflage its problems, with some reports tying two senior members of the Bush administration to the company's final days.

The Justice Department is to set up a task force to investigate Enron's business activities and this is expected to focus on the behaviour of the board and the way in which employees' pensions were closely tied to the companies shares.

There have been accusations that the directors, including Mr Lay, defrauded investors by concealing vital information about the company's finances.

The collapse of Enron, which made huge sums of money by trading in electricity, gas and oil supply, cost thousands of jobs, ruined the pension funds of hundreds of people and cost investors billions of dollars.

It is also under investigation by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the main watchdog of share-trading activities in America.

Ari Fleischer, the president's spokesman, said the government was investigating whether pensioners and other investors could be helped.

Enron has many close links to politics. Mr Fleischer confirmed that Mr Lay met Paul O'Neill, the treasury secretary, and Don Evans, the commerce secretary, to discuss its problems.

In the months since Mr Bush entered the White House, Mr Lay has also discussed the administration's energy policy with Mr Cheney or members of his staff on at least six occasions.

Enron has offered financial support for Mr Bush from the time he first decided in 1993 to run for the governorship of Texas, with executives of the company donating more than £400,000 to his two gubernatorial campaigns and his presidential campaign, according to public records.

Enron was the 12th largest corporate donor to the Bush-Cheney campaign, giving £78,000. Both the company and, in a joint donation with his wife Linda, Mr Lay gave £70,000 to the committee that funded Mr Bush's inaugural gala.

Mr Lay has given more than £600,000 to political parties since 1989 and was linked closely to Ann Richards, the Democratic governor of Texas beaten by Mr Bush in 1994, but 90 per cent of his donations have gone to the Republican Party and its candidates, especially in his own, oil-dominated state.

Enron was also one of the biggest spending companies in lobbying circles in Washington.

57 posted on 01/11/2002 8:35:10 AM PST by Ridin' Shotgun
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To: First_Salute
PS ... obviously the filing date for this story is incorrect.
58 posted on 01/11/2002 8:37:09 AM PST by Ridin' Shotgun
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To: angkor
Needs to be indexed
59 posted on 01/11/2002 8:38:11 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Miss Interpretate
Were you this energetic and noble about exposing corruption in the White House while Klintoon was president?
60 posted on 01/11/2002 8:38:30 AM PST by itsinthebag
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