MinivanHunter said:
Well, there are more Repubs than Dems in both houses of Congress.
Time has come for Harry Reid to resign.
any way you slice it the RIGHTIES are fuxored...and UBER (owned)
Here's a current list of congresspeople who had taken money. Repubs are NOT looking good,
over 80% of recipients are right-wingers (hah)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10723902/
Senate Republicans:
Kit Bond, R-Mo., $12,500 to the Salvation Army.
Jim Bunning, R-Ky., $1,000 to the St. Elizabeth Medical Center inpatient hospice program.
Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., $1,000 to the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation.
Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $8,000 to the Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.
Norm Coleman, R-Minn., $3,000 to be refunded or for charity.
Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., $1,000 to charity.
Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., $1,000 to charity.
Judd Gregg, R-N.H., $12,000 to Marguerites Place.
Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., $5,000 refunded. Isakson also donated $4,000 to the Salvation Army in December.
Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refunding $4,000 to three Indian tribes.
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., $18,500 to the Wayside Christian Mission.
Rick Santorum, R-Pa., $2,000 to charity.
Gordon Smith, R-Ore., $8,500 to be refunded or for charity.
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, $16,500 to charity. Stevens also donated $1,000 to the Alaska chapter of the Red Cross in December.
John Sununu, R-N.H., $3,000 to charity.
Jim Talent, R-Mo., $2,000 to be refunded. Talent also refunded $3,000 in August 2005.
Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., $8,000 to victims of the 2005 tornado in Wright, Wyo.
John Thune, R-S.D., $2,000 to White Buffalo Calf Woman Society.
John W. Warner, R-Va., $1,000 to charity.
Senate Democrats:
Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.
Tim Johnson, D-S.D., $8,250 to Billy Mills Running Strong for American Indian Youth.
Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., $5,000, to the American Indian College Fund.
House Republicans:
Rodney Alexander, R-La., $2,000 to charity.
Dan Burton, R-Ind., $19,000 to charity.
Dave Camp, R-Mich., $500 to charity.
Chris Cannon, R-Utah, $2,000.
Eric Cantor, R-Va., about $10,000 to the William Byrd Community House.
Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., $250 to charity.
Thomas M. Davis III, R-Va., amount uncertain.
Kay Granger, R-Texas, $2,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth.
J. Randy Forbes, R-Va., $1,000 to charity.
Melissa Hart, R-Pa., $2,000 to two womens shelters.
J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., $2,250 to the Salvation Army Katrina Disaster Fund.
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, $2,000 to the Dallas-Fort Worth USO.
Walter Jones, R-N.C., $1,000 to Salvation Army.
Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., $2,000 to be returned to the Mississippi band of the Choctaw Indian tribe.
Jim McCrery, R-La., $35,000 to the Salvation Army.
Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., $1,000 to Crossroads Safehouse.
Bob Ney, R-Ohio, $9,000 to charity.
Tom Petri, R-Wis., $11,000 to charity.
Chip Pickering, R-Miss., at least $2,500 to the Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.
Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio, $8,000 to charity.
Hal Rogers, R-Ky., $32,000 to the UNITE Foundation.
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., $949 to USO Operation Phone Home.
Jim Saxton, R-N.J., $7,000 total refunded in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Bill Shuster, R-Pa., $1,000 to charity.
John Sweeney, R-N.Y., $2,000 to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Curt Weldon, R-Pa., 2,000 to charity.
Jerry Weller, R-Ill., at least $500 to charity.
Roger Wicker, R-Miss., $250 to Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.
Heather Wilson, R-N.M., $1,000 to the Great Southwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
House Democrats:
Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, $500 to be returned to the Tigua tribe of El Paso.
Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., $1,500 total to be returned to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in California and the Michigan Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.
Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., $1,000 to be returned to the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.
Lane Evans, D-Ill., $2,000 to Community Caring Conference.
Tim Holden, D-Pa., $1,000 to an animal shelter.
Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., $2,000 to be refunded.
Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., $6,950 to be refunded.
Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.