just see where the Congresscriters are donating the money. A lot of the Dems are returning it to Tribe's causes, however it's a different story for the Repubs. I think it should be returned to the original owners!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-corrupt6jan06,0,2519602,print.story?coll=la-home-nationThis 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 how much money Hastert received or planned to donate.
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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 to 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.
-Republican Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., $16,000.
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Christopher 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.
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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.
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Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., $5,000 refunded. Isakson also donated $4,000 to the Salvation Army in December.-Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., $2,000 to be donated to medical research
-Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refunding $4,000 to three Indian tribes.
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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.
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John W. Warner, R-Va., $1,000 to charity.Senate Democrats:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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J. Randy Forbes, R-Va., $1,000 to charity.-Melissa Hart, R-Pa., $2,000 to two women's 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.
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Walter Jones, R-N.C., $1,000 to the Salvation Army.-Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., $2,000 to be returned to the Mississippi band of the Choctaw Indian Tribe.
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Jim McCrery, R-La., $35,000 to the Salvation Army.-Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., $1,000 to Crossroads Safehouse.
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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.
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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.
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Bill Shuster, R-Pa., $1,000 to charity.-John Sweeney, R-N.Y., $2,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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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.
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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.
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Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.December 2005:
-Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., $18,892 to seven tribal colleges.
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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. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J., $1,000 to the Center for Hope Hospice. Ferguson also donated $1,000 to the Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation in August 2005.
-Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., $6,000 to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
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Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., $19,900 refunded and given to charity.August-November 2005
-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.
February 2002
-Sen. David Vitter, R-La., $6,000 refunded.