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14 health care groups and their lobbyists gave more than $500,000 to McConnell
By James R. Carroll
WASHINGTON — Since 2007, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has received more than half a million dollars from 14 health-care organizations and their 127 outside lobbyists — more than any other member of Congress except former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
That kind of concentrated bundling of donations is part of an unseen web of campaign giving, according to a new study by the non-partisan Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics.
The two organizations said the grouping of contributions suggests that the impact of special interests’ donations to lawmakers is amplified by the Washington lobbyists those interests employ.
“The bundles point to the people with the most juice,” said Larry Makinson, senior fellow at Sunlight and a veteran analyst of campaign finance. McConnell is “a good example of one of the oldest precepts in politics, which is: money follows power.”
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who won his fifth term in the Senate last year, received $276,050 in campaign contributions from 14 health care companies and organizations, either from their political action committees or employees, according to the study. Their 127 outside lobbyists donated an additional $237,722, it found.
McCain, R-Ariz., was his party’s nominee for president last year, losing to Democrat Barack Obama. He ranked first among recipients with $427,530 in contributions from 22 health-care organizations and an additional $473,400 from their 184 outside lobbyists.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the authors of a Democratic health care proposal, ranked third in donations both from health-care interests and their lobbyists, with $252,750 from 11 organizations and $200,899 from their 109 outside lobbyists.
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By James R. Carroll
WASHINGTON — Since 2007, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has received more than half a million dollars from 14 health-care organizations and their 127 outside lobbyists — more than any other member of Congress except former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
That kind of concentrated bundling of donations is part of an unseen web of campaign giving, according to a new study by the non-partisan Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics.
The two organizations said the grouping of contributions suggests that the impact of special interests’ donations to lawmakers is amplified by the Washington lobbyists those interests employ.
“The bundles point to the people with the most juice,” said Larry Makinson, senior fellow at Sunlight and a veteran analyst of campaign finance. McConnell is “a good example of one of the oldest precepts in politics, which is: money follows power.”
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who won his fifth term in the Senate last year, received $276,050 in campaign contributions from 14 health care companies and organizations, either from their political action committees or employees, according to the study. Their 127 outside lobbyists donated an additional $237,722, it found.
McCain, R-Ariz., was his party’s nominee for president last year, losing to Democrat Barack Obama. He ranked first among recipients with $427,530 in contributions from 22 health-care organizations and an additional $473,400 from their 184 outside lobbyists.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the authors of a Democratic health care proposal, ranked third in donations both from health-care interests and their lobbyists, with $252,750 from 11 organizations and $200,899 from their 109 outside lobbyists.
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Maybe, James Carroll has revealed the secret behind the lack of REAL healthcare reform.
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