Bi-Annual Senate Financial Disclosure Statements

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Thbis is the one on my Sen:
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ranking Democrat, Senate Committee on
Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Four trusts, $430,000-$2.56 million.
Major sources of unearned income: Dividends and interest from
trusts, $10,800-$29,600.
Major liabilities: Credit card debt, $15,000-$50,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Kerry inherited three of his four trusts in 2002,
after the death of his mother, Rosemary Kerry. His wife, Teresa
Heinz, is heir to the Heinz food fortune and her wealth is
estimated at more than $500 million. Her holdings include millions
of dollars in stocks in companies like H.J. Heinz Co., Microsoft,
Anheuser Busch Co., General Electric Co., Proctor & Gamble and IBM.
She also is an owner of the Thyme Square Restaurant and the Flying
Squirrel charter airline.

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., ranking Democrat, Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: $16,500.
Major assets: Four Kennedy family trust funds, three other trust
funds including two blind trusts, combined value of $9.7
million-$46.5 million.
Major sources of unearned income: Family and blind trusts,
$440,000-$3.3 million.
Major liabilities: Mortgage on Hyannisport, MA, residence, $1
million-$5 million.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Kennedy purchased the former Hyannisport home of his
brother, President John Kennedy, from the president's daughter
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her husband. He paid $3 million
for the house, which is located next to Senator Kennedy's home in
the Kennedy family compound. He received $50,000-$100,000 in rental
income from the property. Sen. Kennedy's wife, Victoria Reggie
Kennedy, owned undeveloped land in Lafayette, La., worth
$100,001-$250,000. Kennedy received $1,001-$2,500 for rental of a
parking space in Boston. His honoraria was for monthly appearances
on the ``Face Off'' radio program.
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Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., ranking Democrat, Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Stock of Commercial Metals Corp. and other
companies, mutual funds, and bank accounts, $220,000-$700,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Capital gains on sale of Texas
Genco Holdings stock, $15,001-$50,000; dividends and capital gains
from Commercial Metals stock, $15,001-$50,000.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Lieberman received fees of $20,000 as manager of a
family trust. He reported taking two privately funded trips. One
was a two-day trip to Los Angeles paid for by the Friends of the
Fulfillment Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps disadvantaged
students. The other was to New York to deliver the keynote address
at a dinner, and was funded by the Auschwitz Jewish Center
Foundation. His wife Hadassah Lieberman, received $40,000 for three
speeches last year at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and
for two Jewish groups.
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Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., ranking Democrat, Senate
Rules Committee.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Cottage in County Galway, Ireland,
$100,000-$250,000.
Major sources of unearned income: None.
Major liabilities: Mortgage on Ireland cottage,
$100,000-$250,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Dodd traveled to Coral Gables, Fla., for three days
in February, to participate in the annual conference of the
U.S.-Spain Council, which paid his expenses. Dodd's wife, Jackie
Clegg, has property in Utah worth $15,001-$50,000.
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Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, ranking Democrat, Senate Veterans'
Affairs Committee.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: A condominium in Alexandria, Va., Akaka family
savings accounts and Honolulu real estate, and a Senate Federal
Credit Union account, each worth $100,001-$250,000.
Major sources of unearned income: State of Hawaii pension,
$13,672; Rent from Virginia condo, $5,001-$15,000.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Akaka earned his pension from the state of Hawaii by
working for the Department of Education, running the state Office
of Economic Opportunity and serving as a special assistant to the
governor, before being elected to Congress.
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Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., ranking Democrat, Senate Ethics
Committee.
Johnson requested and was granted an extension to file his
disclosure report.
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Sen. Ted F. Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman, Senate Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee.
Earned income: $172,900
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union account,
$250,001-$500,000; IRA with Key Trust Co. National Association
holdings, $100,001-$250,000; CSFB, LLC, a money market account,
$50,001-$100,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Capital gains of
$100,001-$500,000 each sales of on five properties in Alaska;
Interest on promissory note, $15,001-$50,000.
Major liabilities: Taxes due IRS on sale of a limited liability
company, $1000,001-$250,000.
Gifts: Rug and tea set from the president of Azerbaijan, $950;
grape serving set from King Abdullah of Jordan, $150; watch from
the president of France, $328. All donated to the secretary of the
Senate.
Narrative: As Senate president pro tempore, Stevens earned
$171,900, rather than the base Senate salary of $158,100. His
earned income also included a $1,000 director's fee from Chamer
Co., Inc., a family investment company. Stevens' wife received
income of more than $1,000 from her job at Mayer, Brown, Rowe &
Maw, a Washington, D.C. law firm. His largest source of unearned
income was the June 15 sale of his interest in undeveloped land in
the Centerpoint subdivision in Anchorage, which totaled about
$227,000. His tax bill was paid in full in April, 2005

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Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Senate majority leader.
Earned income: $175,700
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Blind trusts, $7 million-$35 million.
Major sources of unearned income: Income from largest blind
trust, $1 million to $5 million.
Major liabilities: Suntrust Bank line of credit, $1 million to
$5 million.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Frist's other listed holdings include real estate and
investment funds. Besides his own trusts, Frist's wife, Karyn,
lists a blind trust worth more than $1 million. Each of his three
sons _ William Jr., Jonathan and Bryan _ also have two trusts worth
more than $1 million. While Frist is a heart surgeon, on leave from
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, his children's holdings
included small interests in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and fast-food
vendor Wendy's International Inc. Samaritan's Purse picked up
Frist's air transportation and meals during a trip to Chad, Sudan
and Kenya last August. Frist also accepted lodging while at a
speaking engagement in Memphis, Tenn., and air fare from New
Hampshire to Memphis and back to Washington for another speaking
engagement.
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Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Senate minority leader.
Earned income: $175,700.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: $24,000.
Major assets: 160 acres in Bullhead City, Ariz., $500,001-$1
million; Nevada land holdings and mining claims, $350,014-$828,000;
municipal and school district bonds, $895,026-$2.1 million; pension
plan stock in oil, medical, technology, banking and other
companies, $383,047-$1.6 million.
Major sources of unearned income: Interest from municipal and
school district bonds, $25,424-$62,600.
Major liabilities: Loan from Harry Reid Ltd., law firm,
$50,001-$100,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Reid owns portions of more than 200 acres of mining
claims in Nevada, including old claims around his hometown of
Searchlight. He made $1 million to $5 million by selling a piece of
property in Las Vegas and a 47 percent interest in an adjoining
property.
Reid increased his municipal and school district bond holdings
with 14 separate purchases of bonds from Muskegon, Mich., public
schools, Union City, N.J., and elsewhere. The purchases totaled
$510,013-$1.1 million.
Reid serves on the board of the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and is an
advisory board member of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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3. It's kind of amusing

that the children of a heart surgeon would have investments in doughnuts and fast food.

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4. Pat Roberts: R-KS

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence.
Earned income: $158,100.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Condominium in Alexandria, Va., $250,001-$500,000;
another condominium in Alexandria, Va., $100,001-$250,000; home in
Dodge City, Kan., $100,000-$250,000; commercial lot in Sumter,
S.C., $100,000-$250,000; money market accounts and mutual funds,
$117,000-$330,000; stocks in Time Warner Inc., Dell Computer Corp.,
Microsoft Corp., Costco Wholesale Corp., Coca-Cola Co.,
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, $7,000-$105,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Rent from Virginia and Dodge
City properties and installment interest on Sumter land,
$20,000-$60,000.
Major liabilities: Alexandria, Va., condominium, mortgage,
$100,000-$250,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Roberts' wife, Franki, invests in the stock market
and belongs to the Meager Means Investment Club. She owned about 60
stocks worth $70,000-$879,000. She made six stock sales and seven
purchases. She also purchased a one-half interest in two lots in
Columbia, S.C., each for $100,000-$250,000.