List of Abramoff Related Refunds / Charity Donations

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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 how 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 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.

Other Senate Republicans:

-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.

-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 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.

-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.

-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 Children's 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.

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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. 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.

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

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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.

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February 2002

-Sen. David Vitter, R-La., $6,000 refunded.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5526169,00.html

List of those NOT refunding here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5526173,00.html