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Thread #87744   Message #1641598
Posted By: Rapparee
04-Jan-06 - 10:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: The House that Jack {Abramoff} Built
Subject: RE: BS: The House that Jack {Abramoff} Built
Here's a list of those who have returned or who plan to return money from Abramoff:

This week:

-President Bush, $6,000 from Abramoff, his wife and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan for the Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign is being donated to the American Heart Association. Abramoff raised at least $100,000 for the campaign.
        
-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. A spokesman would not say much money Hastert received or planned to donate.

-House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., $8,500 to charity.

-Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, $15,000 to local charities in suburban Houston.

-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., $2,000 will be returned to the Michigan Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.
        
-Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., $11,000 to the American Indian Center of Chicago and the American Indian Health Service of Chicago.

Senate Republicans:

-Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., $12,500 to the Salvation Army.

-Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $8,000 to the Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.

-Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., $1,000 to charity.

-Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., $1,000 to charity.

-Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., $12,000 to Marguerites Place.

-Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refunding $4,000 to three Indian tribes.

-Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., $2,000 to charity.

-Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., $8,500 to be refunded or for charity.

-Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., $3,000 to charity.

-Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., $8,000 to victims of the 2005 tornado in Wright, Wyo.

-Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., $2,000 to White Buffalo Calf Woman Society.

Senate Democrats:

-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.

-Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., $8,250 to Billy Mills Running Strong for American Indian Youth.

-Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., $5,000, to the American Indian College Fund.

House Republicans:

-Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, $2,000.

-Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., about $10,000 to the William Byrd Community House.

-Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., $250 to charity.

-Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, $2,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth.

-Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa., $2,000 to two women's shelters.

-Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., $2,250 to the Salvation Army Katrina Disaster Fund.

-Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., $1,000 to charity.

-Rep. Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., $2,000 to be returned to the Mississippi band of the Choctaw Indian tribe.

-Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., $1,000 to Crossroads Safehouse.

-Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, $9,000 to charity.

-Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., at least $2,500 to the Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.

-Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio, $8,000 to charity.

-Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., $949 to USO Operation Phone Home.

-Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., $1,000 to charity.

-Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., $2,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., 2,000 to charity.

-Rep. Jerry Weller, R-Ill., at least $500 to charity.

-Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., $250 to Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.

-Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., $1,000 to the Great Southwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

House Democrats:

-Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, $500 to be returned to the Tigua tribe of El Paso.

-Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., $1,000 to be returned to the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.

-Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill., $2,000 to Community Caring Conference.

-Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., $1,000 to an animal shelter.

-Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., $2,000 to be refunded.

-Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., $6,950 to be refunded.

December 2005:

-Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., $18,892 to seven tribal colleges.

-Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., $42,000 to charity.

-Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., about $150,000 donated to Native American charities and refunded.

-Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., $3,750 to North Dakota's tribal colleges.

-Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., $67,000 refunded.

-Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., $6,000 to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

-Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., $19,900 refunded and given to charity.

August-November 2005

-Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J., $1,000 to the Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation.

-Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., returned $1,000.

-Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio, $1,000 to the American Indian College Fund.

-Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., $1,250 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.

-Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., $3,000.