Oil Contributions To Senators
Last week 35 senators voted against an amendment that would have reigned in the oil and gas industry. The 35 senators voting against the amendment have on average received three times as many campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry as their colleagues, as the table below shows. Read more here.
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| State | Senator | 2007 | 2006 | 2004 | 2002 | Total 2002-2007 | Cloture on Baucus Tax Amendment |
| Alabama | Shelby | 56,800 | 15,500 | 72,300 | No | ||
| Alaska | Stevens | 7,700 | 2,000 | 100,690 | 110,390 | No | |
| Arizona | Kyl | 133,700 | 5,000 | 1,000 | 139,700 | No | |
| Colorado | Allard | 175,100 | 175,100 | No | |||
| Florida | Martinez | 4,000 | 134,347 | n/a | 138,347 | No | |
| Georgia | Chambliss | 10,750 | 6,200 | 67,742 | 84,692 | No | |
| Georgia | Isakson | 20,850 | n/a | 20,850 | No | ||
| Idaho | Craig | 14,500 | 5,000 | 89,250 | 108,750 | No | |
| Kansas | Roberts | 18,500 | 6,000 | 55,250 | 79,750 | No | |
| Kentucky | McConnell | 59,200 | 76,250 | 135,450 | No | ||
| Kentucky | Bunning | 96,269 | 22,900 | 119,169 | No | ||
| Louisiana | Vitter | 68,500 | 259,746 | 328,246 | No | ||
| Louisiana | Landrieu | 33,600 | 27,500 | 221,405 | 282,505 | No | |
| Mississippi | Lott | 113,800 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 128,800 | No | |
| Mississippi | Cochran | 11,200 | 3,000 | 38,600 | 52,800 | No | |
| Missouri | Bond | 120,150 | 5,500 | 125,650 | No | ||
| Nebraska | Hagel | 10,300 | 63,850 | 74,150 | No | ||
| Nevada | Ensign | 70,100 | 23,000 | 3,000 | 96,100 | No | |
| N. Hamp. | Gregg | 31,500 | 1,000 | 32,500 | No | ||
| N. Hamp. | Sununu | 1,500 | 3,000 | 1,500 | 137,380 | 143,380 | No |
| N. Mexico | Domenici | 33,400 | 163,658 | 197,058 | No | ||
| N. Carol. | Dole | 2,500 | 900 | 6,500 | 127,229 | 137,129 | No |
| N. Carol. | Burr | 10,400 | 221,552 | 231,952 | No | ||
| Ohio | Voinovich | 11,200 | 92,850 | 34,150 | 138,200 | No | |
| Okla. | Inhofe | 54,700 | 17,750 | 241,258 | 313,708 | No | |
| S. Carol. | DeMint | 16,222 | 91,450 | n/a | 107,672 | No | |
| S. Carol. | Graham | 15,000 | 15,600 | 57,700 | 88,300 | No | |
| Tenn. | Alexander | 9,600 | 45,000 | 72,450 | 127,050 | No | |
| Tenn. | Corker | 173,700 | n/a | n/a | 173,700 | No | |
| Texas | Hutchinson | 300,161 | 242,070 | 7,000 | 549,231 | No | |
| Texas | Cornyn | 180,000 | 134,400 | 510,625 | 825,025 | No | |
| Utah | Hatch | 90,950 | 13,250 | 104,200 | No | ||
| Utah | Bennett | 7,000 | 51,750 | 1,000 | 59,750 | No | |
| Virginia | Warner | 6,000 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 56,523 | 65,523 | No |
| Wyoming | Enzi | 7,000 | 2,000 | 72,250 | 81,250 | No | |
| Total NO | 5,648,377 | ||||||
| Average NO | 161,382 | ||||||
| Alaska | Murkowski | 1,500 | 205,163 | n/a | 206,663 | Yes | |
| Ark. | Lincoln | 1,250 | 102,000 | 26,600 | 129,850 | Yes | |
| Ark. | Pryor | 16,750 | 1,000 | 29,900 | 47,650 | Yes | |
| Calif. | Feinstein | 36,175 | 16,500 | 2,000 | 54,675 | Yes | |
| Colo. | Salazar | 2,000 | 75,250 | n/a | 77,250 | Yes | |
| Conn. | Lieberman | 64,500 | 34,300 | 98,800 | Yes | ||
| Conn. | Dodd | 3,000 | 6,750 | 2,000 | 11,750 | Yes | |
| Del. | Biden | 24,500 | 2,000 | 15,500 | 42,000 | Yes | |
| Del. | Carper | 31,300 | 6,130 | 4,180 | 41,610 | Yes | |
| Florida | Nelson | 24,900 | 2,000 | 7,000 | 33,900 | Yes | |
| Hawaii | Inoyue | 1,000 | 19,000 | 1,000 | 21,000 | Yes | |
| Hawaii | Akaka | 5,800 | 5,800 | Yes | |||
| Idaho | Crapo | 3,000 | 60,650 | 6,000 | 69,650 | Yes | |
| Illinois | Obama | 500 | n/a | 500 | Yes | ||
| Illinois | Durbin | 3,550 | 22,250 | 25,800 | Yes | ||
| Indiana | Bayh | 15,300 | 29,900 | 23,250 | 68,450 | Yes | |
| Indiana | Lugar | 20,750 | 15,950 | 3,750 | 404,50 | Yes | |
| Iowa | Grassley | 8,000 | 73,800 | 13,500 | 95,300 | Yes | |
| Iowa | Harkin | 6,700 | 800 | 27,600 | 35,100 | Yes | |
| Maine | Collins | 1,500 | 57,050 | 58,550 | Yes | ||
| Maine | Snowe | 20,900 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 23,900 | Yes | |
| Maryland | Mikulski | 1,000 | 9,110 | 10,110 | Yes | ||
| Maryland | Cardin | 16,650 | n/a | n/a | 16,650 | Yes | |
| Mass. | Kerry | 2,000 | 313,360 | 20,850 | 336,210 | Yes | |
| Mass. | Kennedy | 15,600 | 5,250 | 20,850 | Yes | ||
| Michigan | Stabenow | 8,500 | 250 | 5,000 | 13,750 | Yes | |
| Michigan | Levin | 1,000 | 15,450 | 16,450 | Yes | ||
| Minn. | Coleman | 12,250 | 6,700 | 136,400 | 155,350 | Yes | |
| Minn. | Klobuchar | 4,250 | n/a | n/a | 4,250 | Yes | |
| Missouri | McCaskill | 26,850 | n/a | n/a | 26,850 | Yes | |
| Montana | Baucus | 23,350 | 1,000 | 86,750 | 111,100 | Yes | |
| Montana | Tester | 2,700 | n/a | n/a | 2,700 | Yes | |
| Nebraksa | Nelson | 89,050 | 9,250 | 9,000 | 107,300 | Yes | |
| Nevada | Reid | 2,000 | 23,900 | 51,250 | 77,150 | No* | |
| N. Jersey | Menendez | 22,300 | n/a | n/a | 22,300 | Yes | |
| N. Jersey | Lautenberg | 7,000 | 6,250 | 13,250 | Yes | ||
| N. Mexico | Bingaman | 75,670 | 35,950 | 3,864 | 115,484 | Yes | |
| N. York | Clinton | 64,670 | 40,850 | 3,150 | 108,670 | Yes | |
| N. York | Schumer | 28,000 | 52,918 | 80,918 | Yes | ||
| N. Dakota | Conrad | 26,750 | 5,500 | 1,000 | 33,250 | Yes | |
| N. Dakota | Dorgan | 2,000 | 16,300 | 7,000 | 25,300 | Yes | |
| Ohio | Brown | 2500 | n/a | n/a | 2,500 | Yes | |
| Oregon | Wyden | 6,500 | 6,000 | 12,500 | Yes | ||
| Orgeon | Smith | 18,650 | 4,500 | 79,925 | 103,075 | Yes | |
| Penn. | Specter | 6,000 | 104,778 | 21,000 | 131,778 | Yes | |
| Penn. | Casey Jr. | 31,200 | n/a | n/a | 31,200 | Yes | |
| R. Island | Reed | 1,200 | 2,800 | 4,000 | Yes | ||
| R. Island | Whitehouse | 19,500 | n/a | n/a | 19,500 | Yes | |
| S. Dakota | Thune | 7,645 | 264,327 | 134,650 | 406,622 | Yes | |
| Vermont | Sanders | 2,850 | n/a | n/a | 2,850 | Yes | |
| Vermont | Leahy | 2,250 | 1,000 | 3,250 | Yes | ||
| Virginia | Webb | 3,750 | n/a | n/a | 3,750 | Yes | |
| Wash. | Murray | 500 | 18,000 | 3,750 | 22,250 | Yes | |
| Wash. | Cantwell | 5,450 | 500 | 8,150 | 14,100 | Yes | |
| W. Virginia | Byrd | 12,750 | 12,750 | Yes | |||
| W. Virginia | Rockafeller | 4,150 | 29,950 | 34,100 | Yes | ||
| Wisconsin | Feingold | 1,250 | 10,446 | 200 | 11,896 | Yes | |
| Wisconsin | Kohl | 0 | Yes | ||||
| Total YES | 3,302,661 | ||||||
| Average YES | 56,942 | ||||||
| Alabama | Sessions | 3,500 | 5,700 | 74,350 | 83,550 | Absent | |
| Arizona | McCain | 2,600 | 7,050 | 9,650 | Absent | ||
| Calif. | Boxer | 400 | 6,850 | 2,200 | 9,450 | Absent | |
| Kansas | Brownback | 2,500 | 72,240 | 10,500 | 85,240 | Absent | |
| Oklahoma | Coburn | 8,000 | 181,658 | n/a | 189,658 | Absent | |
| S. Dakota | Johnson | 3,050 | 25,550 | 28,600 | Absent |
* Reid originally voted for cloture but switched his vote to "no" so he could require a revote
Source: Center for Responsive Politics; Federal Election Comission
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