Hat tip to Michelle Malkin and Newsalert

Good news: “Capitalism will be different” now, declares Geithner

Obama on pork: Gone With The Change

WSJ survey: Economists give Obama, Geithner failing grades so far

Hypocrisy Thy Name Is Obama

By all means Obama, keep talking about Rush, or make more promises you have no intention of keeping.  Newsflash..Half of those that voted to get you in are not following what you do, which is good news for you.  The bad news is that the other half is paying attention

In contrast, Barack Obama won the 2008 Presidential race with 52% of the vote. Some responses: Nation is united by victory for hope over historic divisions (Times UK) | America’s choice: Obama wins in a landslide | Obama’s night: Long road ends in landslide (BDH) | President-elect Obama wins landslide victory (TN) | Obama becomes first black president in landslide (AP)

The lists go on. So – to get it straight: 51% = deeply divided nation. 52% = landslide election.

Gotcha.

“You had the authority to prevent irresponsible lending practices that led to the subprime-mortgage crisis. You were advised to do so by many others. And now our whole economy is paying its price,” said Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), chairman of the House committee.

So did Mr. Waxman!  Is he tying to perpetuate his leaders lies? FLASHBACK to September 30, 1999: Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending.   Obama voted present on Mortgage reform, and Barney Frank’s Fannie Buddy Was An Executive at Fannie Mae.

Democrats Won’t Talk About Freddie And Fannie In The Hearings: “The reason we haven’t scheduled hearings on these two institutions and haven’t requested documents from either is because their demise isn’t someone else’s fault ” it’s ours, and we don’t want to own up to it.”  We know that Affirmative Action+Lending Practices=Financial Meltdown. “we’re in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people, resulting in what Sailer months ago called the “Diversity Recession“. Maybe Pigman can answer this though, Where Was Chris Dodd?

The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.

But it’s not safe to live here.

About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale – a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing – an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.

As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama’s state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.

“No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.

Obama’s campaign, in a written response to Globe questions, affirmed the candidate’s support of public-private partnerships as an alternative to public housing, saying that Obama has “consistently fought to make livable, affordable housing in mixed-income neighborhoods available to all.”

The campaign did not respond to questions about whether Obama was aware of the problems with buildings in his district during his time as a state senator, nor did it comment on the roles played by people connected to the senator.

Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.

Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.

Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers – including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko – collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.

One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.

Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.

Jarrett, a powerful figure in the Chicago development community, agreed to be interviewed but declined to answer questions about Grove Parc, citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat’s former business partners. She did, however, defend Obama’s position that public-private partnerships are superior to public housing.

“Government is just not as good at owning and managing as the private sector because the incentives are not there,” said Jarrett, whose company manages more than 23,000 apartments. “I would argue that someone living in a poor neighborhood that isn’t 100 percent public housing is by definition better off.” Continued…

Doug decided to do a flyover to see for himself.  Here is just one of the many pics he got, go take a look at the rest

winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”]

Grove Parc Plaza Apartments~Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this [past

Sharee Jones, who lives in another former Rezko building one block away, said her apartment was rat-infested for years.
“You could hear them under the floor and in the walls, and they didn’t do nothing about it,” Jones said.The problems came to public attention in a dramatic way in 2004, after a sport utility vehicle driven by a suburban woman trying to buy drugs struck one of the buildings, causing it to collapse. City inspectors arrived in the ensuing glare, finding a long list of code violations, leading city officials to urge the federal government to seize the complex.

In the midst of the uproar, a small group of Lawndale residents gathered to rally against the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, Barack Obama.

The organizers had a simple message: Cecil Butler had donated $3,000 to Obama’s campaign. Habitat had close ties to Obama and Obama had remained silent about Lawndale’s plight.

Paul Johnson, who helped to organize the protest, said Obama must have known about the problems.

“How didn’t he know?” said Johnson. “Of course he knew. He just didn’t care.”

“I’m not against Barack Obama,” said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. “What I am against is some of the people around him.”

Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.”

Sorry, Jamie: there is; and we should all worry.

Doug also has this, which is very relevant to this story, because it shows a pattern of waste and corruption at the expense of the poor.

Dan adds:

Well they made a ton of cash with Obama’s help and kicked it back into his campaign. And the people this was all supposed to help? Just watch the video and you be the judge. This is outrageous. And the Oba-messiah couldn’t even be bothered to comment when this is going on inside of his old Illinois district. What a scumbag.

I suppose the answer is more money, right? Sure. Just like the 150 million he blew at CAC without improving education one bit.

Are we seeing a pattern here? American Thinker posted on it in September.

CLINTON: “…I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.

OBAMA: No, no, no.
(Excerpt from the January, 21, 2008, CNN Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina)

Keep this in mind as you look backat the video and pictures.

When we founded The Habitat Company in 1971, we challenged ourselves to create a real estate company with the character and quality that would successfully meet the needs of Chicago’s diverse communities, while also meeting the long-term financial objectives of our investors.

This challenge has become our mission and the driving force behind our success. Throughout our history, we believe we have met our goals by providing quality housing and good value to our residents and a profitable return to our investors. We have created more than 17,000 apartments, condominiums and townhomes, as well as a variety of innovative commercial and recreational properties.

With over 23,000 units under management, we are one of the largest private residential property managers in Chicago and the Midwest, and continue to provide the highest level of quality and service in every property we manage.

We look forward to continuing to meet the challenges we set with the single principle that guides each Habitat employee and has become an integral part of each endeavor”“Management Makes The Difference.”

Obama raised $150 million last month.  I wonder how much of that came from the very people that are supposed to be overseeing these housing projects.

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Ace has the scoop on the Ohio  SOC scam!  Read his links, but this says it all, imo:

Brunner doesn’t want to allow the local boards to investigate at all. So she presents them with a fait accompli by refusing to tell them which registrations warrant investigation.

The court ordered her to comply by Friday. She protests she can’t and it will have to wait until Monday.

I don’t blame her for playing for time.

I have a tip which I don’t wish to out yet until I have more confidence in it. The tip concerns the number of likely fraudulent registrations she’s refused to divulge to the local boards of elections, effectively forcing them to accept votes made by these unmatchable registrations due to her concealing their likely fraudulence.

If she doesn’t tell them, they can’t strike the registrations.

The number is large. Not million large. But still large.

And she’s been sitting on them. She’s been deliberately failing to inform the local boards of elections these registrations simply do not match any information from DMV records, Social Security records, property records, tax records.

They do not check out. There is no particular reason to believe they’re real. Especially considering all the fake registrations already submitted by ACORN caught by the local boards for being transparently fake.

Whatever the number is — even if it’s smallish — she has nothing but corrupt purposes for failing to comply with state law and inform local boards of the problems.

My tip, however, says it’s not smallish at all.

Finally, on the matter of deregulation and the financial crisis, Sen. Obama should consider his own complicity in the failure of Congress to adopt legislation that might have prevented the subprime meltdown.

In the summer of 2005, a bill emerged from the Senate Banking Committee that considerably tightened regulations on Fannie and Freddie, including controls over their capital and their ability to hold portfolios of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. All the Republicans voted for the bill in committee; all the Democrats voted against it. To get the bill to a vote in the Senate, a few Democratic votes were necessary to limit debate. This was a time for the leadership Sen. Obama says he can offer, but neither he nor any other Democrat stepped forward.

Instead, by his own account, Mr. Obama wrote a letter to the Treasury Secretary, allegedly putting himself on record that subprime loans were dangerous and had to be dealt with. This is revealing; if true, it indicates Sen. Obama knew there was a problem with subprime lending ” but was unwilling to confront his own party by pressing for legislation to control it. As a demonstration of character and leadership capacity, it bears a strong resemblance to something else in Sen. Obama’s past: voting present.

Ed:

What did Barack Obama do?  He wrote a letter.  He didn’t bother to co-sponsor the bill that could have prevented this year’s financial collapse, or to even allow it to come to a vote.  Obama talked (allegedly ” we have yet to see this letter) while McCain took action.

Now Obama and the same Democrats who pushed Fannie and Freddie to buy a trillion dollars in bad loans want to blame “deregulation” for the crisis.  It wasn’t deregulation, and as Wallison points out, the industry didn’t get deregulated at all.  Congress created this crisis by pushing Fannie and Freddie into not just buying subprime paper but into transforming it into securities that infected the entire financial system.

H/T to Ace for the video.

From TitusOneNine:

John McCain. 25 May 2005, speaking to the Senate:

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.

The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.

For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.

I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.

I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.

The legislation was blocked by Democrats, with the assistance of a few Republicans.

James Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae and current Obama advisor, has cost us many tens of billions of dollars we can’t afford.

Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae and current Obama advisor, has cost us many tens of billions of dollars we can’t afford.

Barack Obama:  if we can’t afford his advisors, we certainly can’t afford him.

HEATHER NAUERT: Barack Obama attacking John McCain once again on the economy and the market turmoil today. Our John Gibson has new information on the Democratic presidential nominee and the mortgage mess for us now. What have you got John?

JOHN GIBSON: Alright Heather. Lehman Brothers’ collapse is traced back to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two big mortgage banks that got a federal bailout a few weeks ago. Freddie and Fannie used huge lobbying budgets and political contributions to keep regulators off their backs. A group called the center for responsive politics keeps track of which politicians get Fannie and Freddie political contributions. The top three U.S. Senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks were democrats and number two is Senator Barack Obama.

Now, remember, he has only been in the Senate four years but still managed to grab the number two spot ahead of John Kerry, decades in the senate, and Chris Dodd who is chairman of the senate banking committee. Fannie and Freddie have been creations of the congressional democrats and the Clinton white house, designed to make mortgages available to more people, and as it turned out, some people who couldn’t afford them. Fannie and Freddie have also been places for big Washington democrats to go to work in the semi-private sector and pocket millions. The Clinton administration’s white house budget director Franklin Raines ran Fannie and collected 50 million dollars. Jamie Gurilli, Clinton Justice Apartment Official, worked for Fannie and took home 26 million dollars. Big Democrat Jim Johnson, recently on Obama’s VP search committee has hauled in millions from his Fannie Mae C.E.O. job.

Now remember, Obama’s ads and stump speeches attack McCain and republican policies for the current financial turmoil. It is demonstrably not Republican policy and worse, it appears the man attacking McCain, Senator Obama, was at the head of the line when the piggy’s lined up at the Fannie and Freddie trough for campaign bucks. Senator Barack Obama, number two on the Fannie/Freddie list of favored politicians after just four short years in the senate. Next time you see that ad, you might notice he fails to mention that part of the Fannie and Freddie problem. Heather.

NAUERT: Wow, that’s quite a report, begs the question ” where is John McCain on this?

GIBSON: John McCain is a measly $20,000 after over 20 years so he really doesn’t even come close in the political contribution department.

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An idiot at best:

“Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.

“However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs : I feel we didn’t do enough.’

“The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?” –McCain spokesman Brian Rogers

Via AP:

Via the Standard, here’s The Lamb taking his new tough-guy approach aimed at reassuring the base that he won’t let the GOP push him around the way they did Kerry. But since he is, after all, the Lamb, it’ll air only in Georgia lest wider exposure upset the balance in public perception of who’s running the more negative campaign. The insinuation, obviously, is that McCain gave Reed a pass during his Senate committee’s investigation of Abramoff and now he’s getting a quid pro quo in the form of fundraisers organized by Reed. Read Politifact to see how much of a “pass” Reed actually got. It’s true that he wasn’t charged with anything, but he was named in the committee’s report 197 times, was tied to “numerous unseemly Abramoff efforts,” and was “plagued by scandal as a result.” So much for the quid pro quo. Even TNR concedes that it’s ” “maybe” ” unfair.

“Democrats Don’t Know Jack???” It lists the forty of forty-five Senate Democrats who’ve accepted cash from Abramoff and/or his clients. (via NewsBusters)

40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:

Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500

Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500

Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950

Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000

Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792

Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750

Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000

Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000

Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000

Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000

Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830

Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991

Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168

Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500

Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300

Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941

Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000

Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500

Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550

Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250

The second is a table produced on the Captialeye.org website. It details all of Abranoff’s political donations either personally, on behalf of various Indian tribes and SunCruz Casinos since 1999. Many Democrats appear there as well.

Data for the current election cycle were released electronically by the Federal Election Commission on October 31, 2005. Figures include contributions to federal candidates, PACs and party committees.

National Republican Congressional Cmte $478,000

National Republican Senatorial Cmte $436,500

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte $423,480

Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte $354,700

Republican National Cmte $326,000

J. D. Hayworth (R-Ariz) $101,620

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) $69,000

Democratic National Cmte $65,720

Thad Cochran (R-Miss) $65,500

Conrad Burns (R-Mont) $59,590

Richard Pombo (R-Calif) $54,500

Jim McCrery (R-La) $52,750

2002 President’s Dinner Cmte $50,000

John T. Doolittle (R-Calif) $50,000

Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) $42,500

Patty Murray (D-Wash) $40,980

Don Nickles (R-Okla) $40,000

Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) $36,000

Dave Camp (R-Mich) $35,500

John Boehner (R-Ohio) $32,500

Hal Rogers (R-Ky) $32,000

Bob Ney (R-Ohio) $31,500

Tom DeLay (R-Texas) $30,500

Harry Reid (D-Nev) $30,500

Billy Tauzin (R-La) $30,500

Denny Rehberg (R-Mont) $30,000

Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) $28,000

Tom Daschle (D-SD) $26,500

Charles H. Taylor (R-NC) $25,750

Democratic Party of Michigan $23,000

Trent Lott (R-Miss) $22,000

Roger Wicker (R-Miss) $21,600

Mary Bono (R-Calif) $21,500

James M. Inhofe (R-Okla) $21,500

Brad R. Carson (D-Okla) $20,600

Pete Sessions (R-Texas) $20,500

Republican Party of New Hampshire $20,000

Don Young (R-Alaska) $19,708

Dale E. Kildee (D-Mich) $19,000

Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) $18,500

Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md) $17,500

Charles W. “Chip” Pickering Jr. (R-Miss) $17,500

Jack Kingston (R-Ga) $17,000

Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) $15,500

Jerry Weller (R-Ill) $15,500

Democratic Party of Oklahoma $15,000

Chris John (D-La) $15,000

Republican Party of Mississippi $15,000

Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) $14,500

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) $14,000

John Breaux (D-La) $13,750

Frank Pallone, Jr (D-NJ) $13,600

Spencer Abraham (R-Mich) $13,000

Eric Cantor (R-Va) $13,000

Christopher S. ‘Kit’ Bond (R-Mo) $12,500

Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif) $12,500

Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif) $12,500

Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore) $12,500

George W. Bush (R) $12,000

Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo) $12,000

Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo) $12,000

Judd Gregg (R-NH) $12,000

Mary L. Landrieu (D-La) $11,500

Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) $11,500

Barney Frank (D-Mass) $11,100

Max Baucus (D-Mont) $11,000

Tom Petri (R-Wis) $11,000

Chris Cannon (R-Utah) $10,000

Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) $10,000

Democratic Party of North Dakota $10,000

John Ensign (R-Nev) $10,000

Jerry Lewis (R-Calif) $10,000

John McCain (R-Ariz) $10,000

Nick Rahall (D-WVa) $10,000

Republican Party of Kentucky $10,000

Phil Crane (R-Ill) $9,750

Democratic Party of South Dakota $9,500

Democratic Party of Minnesota $9,000

Johnny Isakson (R-Ga) $9,000

Ron Kind (D-Wis) $9,000

Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio) $9,000

Roy Blunt (R-Mo) $8,500

Peter Deutsch (D-Fla) $8,500

George Radanovich (R-Calif) $8,500

Bob Smith (R-Fla) $8,160

Joe Baca (D-Calif) $8,000

Dick Durbin (D-Ill) $8,000

Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark) $8,000

Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) $8,000

Xavier Becerra (D-Calif) $7,523

Bill Thomas (R-Calif) $7,500

Tim Johnson (D-SD) $7,250

Dan Burton (R-Ind) $7,000

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) $7,000

George R. Nethercutt Jr. (R-Wash) $7,000

Tom Reynolds (R-NY) $7,000

Craig Thomas (R-Wyo) $7,000

Democratic Party of New Mexico $6,250

John R. Kasich (R-Ohio) $6,067

Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) $6,000

Rick Renzi (R-Ariz) $6,000

Rick Santorum (R-Pa) $6,000

Arlen Specter (R-Pa) $6,000

Suzanne Terrell (R-La) $6,000

Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) $5,500

Elton Gallegly (R-Calif) $5,500

Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) $5,250

David E. Bonior (D-Mich) $5,000

Tom Cole (R-Okla) $5,000

Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) $5,000

Democratic Party of Montana $5,000

Phil English (R-Pa) $5,000

Mark Foley (R-Fla) $5,000

J. Randy Forbes (R-Va) $5,000

James V. Hansen (R-Utah) $5,000

Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich) $5,000

Fritz Hollings (D-SC) $5,000

Jay Inslee (D-Wash) $5,000

Thomas P. Keefe Jr. (D-Wash) $5,000

Don Manzullo (R-Ill) $5,000

Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md) $5,000

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) $5,000

Republican Party of New Jersey $5,000

Deborah Ann Stabenow (D-Mich) $5,000

Heather Wilson (R-NM) $5,000

Joe Wilson (R-SC) $5,000

Tom Davis (R-Va) $4,500

Van Hilleary (R-Tenn) $4,500

Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) $4,500

Wayne Allard (R-Colo) $4,000

Shelley Moore Capito (R-WVa) $4,000

Tom Carper (D-Del) $4,000

Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) $4,000

Kent Conrad (D-ND) $4,000

Tom Feeney (R-Fla) $4,000

Chuck Hagel (R-Neb) $4,000

Robin Hayes (R-NC) $4,000

Jerry Kleczka (D-Wis) $4,000

Jon L. Kyl (R-Ariz) $4,000

Sander Levin (D-Mich) $4,000

Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif) $4,000

George Miller (D-Calif) $4,000

Rob Portman (R-Ohio) $4,000

William V. Roth Jr. (R-Del) $4,000

Larry Craig (R-Idaho) $3,500

Kalyn Cherie Free (D-Okla) $3,500

James L. Oberstar (D-Minn) $3,500

Charles J. Melancon (D-La) $3,100

George Allen (R-Va) $3,000

Ann Womer Benjamin (R-Ohio) $3,000

Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) $3,000

Jack A. Blossman Jr. (R-La) $3,000

Norm Coleman (R-Minn) $3,000

Cal Dooley (D-Calif) $3,000

Tom Foley (I-Minn) $3,000

Sam Graves (R-Mo) $3,000

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) $3,000

Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz) $3,000

John B. Larson (D-Conn) $3,000

Bill McCollum (R-Fla) $3,000

Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) $3,000

David R. Obey (D-Wis) $3,000

Doug Ose (R-Calif) $3,000

Ed Pastor (D-Ariz) $3,000

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) $3,000

Richard M. Romero (D-NM) $3,000

Brad Sherman (D-Calif) $3,000

John E. Sununu (R-NH) $3,000

James M. Talent (R-Mo) $3,000

Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss) $3,000

J. C. Watts Jr. (R-Okla) $3,000

Max Cleland (D-Ga) $2,500

Frank D. Lucas (R-Okla) $2,500

Grace Napolitano (D-Calif) $2,500

Republican Party of Oklahoma $2,500

Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif) $2,500

Bill Luther (D-Minn) $2,250

Rob Simmons (R-Conn) $2,250

Gene Taylor (D-Miss) $2,250

Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) $2,000

Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) $2,000

Rodney Alexander (R-La) $2,000

John Ashcroft (R-Mo) $2,000

Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) $2,000

Dan Boren (D-Okla) $2,000

Charles W. Boustany Jr (R-La) $2,000

Tom Coburn (R-Okla) $2,000

Mac Collins (R-Ga) $2,000

Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn) $2,000

John D. Dingell (D-Mich) $2,000

Doug Dodd (D-Okla) $2,000

Ned Doucet (D-La) $2,000

Lane Evans (D-Ill) $2,000

Sam Farr (D-Calif) $2,000

Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) $2,000

Bill Frist (R-Tenn) $2,000

William L. Gormley (R-NJ) $2,000

Kay Granger (R-Texas) $2,000

Stewart Greenleaf (R-Pa) $2,000

Katherine Harris (R-Fla) $2,000

Melissa Hart (R-Pa) $2,000

Sam Johnson (R-Texas) $2,000

Walter B. Jones Jr. (R-NC) $2,000

Ric Keller (R-Fla) $2,000

John Neely Kennedy (D-La) $2,000

Carl Levin (D-Mich) $2,000

Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) $2,000

Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) $2,000

Robert Menendez (D-NJ) $2,000

John L. Mica (R-Fla) $2,000

Connie Morella (R-Md) $2,000

C. L. “Butch” Otter (R-Idaho) $2,000

Republican Party of Oregon $2,000

James E. Rogan (R-Calif) $2,000

Craig F. Romero (R-La) $2,000

Adam Schiff (D-Calif) $2,000

Ronnie Shows (D-Miss) $2,000

Adam Smith (D-Wash) $2,000

John Sullivan (R-Okla) $2,000

John E. Sweeney (R-NY) $2,000

Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif) $2,000

Billy Tauzin III (R-La) $2,000

Mike Thompson (D-Calif) $2,000

John Thune (R-SD) $2,000

Patrick J. Tiberi (R-Ohio) $2,000

Maxine Waters (D-Calif) $2,000

Curt Weldon (R-Pa) $2,000

Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) $1,500

Norm Dicks (D-Wash) $1,500

Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash) $1,500

Elia Vincent Pirozzi (R-Calif) $1,500

John Kerry (D-Mass) $1,400

Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) $1,250

Rick A. Lazio (R-NY) $1,250

Helen Delich Bentley (R-Md) $1,000

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) $1,000

Sam Brownback (R-Kan) $1,000

Jim Bunning (R-Ky) $1,000

Ken Calvert (R-Calif) $1,000

Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif) $1,000

Rick Clayburgh (R-ND) $1,000

Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) $1,000

John Cornyn (R-Texas) $1,000

Jim Costa (D-Calif) $1,000

Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla) $1,000

Susan A. Davis (D-Calif) $1,000

Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) $1,000

Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) $1,000

John J. “Jimmy” Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn) $1,000

Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) $1,000

Mike Enzi (R-Wyo) $1,000

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $1,000

Lee Fletcher (R-La) $1,000

Ernie Fletcher (R-Ky) $1,000

Francis E. Flotron (R-Mo) $1,000

Scott Garrett (R-NJ) $1,000

George W. Gekas (R-Pa) $1,000

Carolyn W. Grant (R-NC) $1,000

Felix J. Grucci Jr. (R-NY) $1,000

Sydney Hay (R-Ariz) $1,000

Tim Holden (D-Pa) $1,000

Claude B. Hutchison Jr. (R-Calif) $1,000

Ernest J. Istook (R-Okla) $1,000

Kimo Kaloi (R-Hawaii) $1,000

Catherine Heller Keating (R-Okla) $1,000

Mark Kennedy (R-Minn) $1,000

John Koster (R-Wash) $1,000

Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) $1,000

Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) $1,000

John Linder (R-Ga) $1,000

Jim Maloney (D-Conn) $1,000

Dick Monteith (R-Calif) $1,000

Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo) $1,000

Anne M. Northup (R-Ky) $1,000

Rico Oller (R-Calif) $1,000

David Phelps (D-Ill) $1,000

Bill Redmond (R-NM) $1,000

Republican Party of Wisconsin $1,000

Bob Riley (R-Ala) $1,000

Charles S. Robb (D-Va) $1,000

Jim Saxton (R-NJ) $1,000

Brian David Schweitzer (D-Mont) $1,000

Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala) $1,000

Bill Shuster (R-Pa) $1,000

Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) $1,000

Pete Stark (D-Calif) $1,000

Pat Toomey (R-Pa) $1,000

Gloria Tristani (D-NM) $1,000

Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio) $1,000

John W. Warner (R-Va) $1,000

Derrick B. Watchman (D-Ariz) $1,000

Rick Weiland (D-SD) $1,000

Paul Wellstone (D-Minn) $1,000

Ron Wyden (D-Ore) $1,000

C. W. Bill Young (R-Fla) $1,000

Paul Ryan (R-Wis) $949

Joe Pitts (R-Pa) $894

Bob Borski (D-Pa) $720

Shelley Berkley (D-Nev) $500

Howard L. Berman (D-Calif) $500

Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Fla) $500

Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) $500

Democratic Party of Washington $500

Bob Ehrlich (R-Md) $500

Mark Emerson (R-Utah) $500

Charles R. Gerow (R-Pa) $500

Phil Gingrey (R-Ga) $500

Kirk Humphreys (R-Okla) $500

Barbara Lee (D-Calif) $500

Devin Nunes (R-Calif) $500

Adam H. Putnam (R-Fla) $500

Ed Royce (R-Calif) $500

Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif) $500

Tom Young (R-Ala) $500

Bill Janklow (R-SD) $250

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