List of those returning Abramoff-related money [View All]

This is from the Associated Press:

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 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 will 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.

Senate Republicans:
—Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., $12,500 to the Salvation Army.
—Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., $1,000 to charity.
—Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refunding $4,000 to three Indian tribes.
—Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., $2,000 to charity.
—Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., $8,500 to be refunded or for charity.
—Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., $3,000 to charity.
—Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., $8,000 to victims of the 2005 tornado in Wright, Wyo.
—Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., $2,000 to White Buffalo Calf Woman Society.

Senate Democrats:
—Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.
—Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., $8,250 to Billy Mills Running Strong for American Indian Youth.

House Republicans:
—Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, $2,000.
—Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., about $10,000 to the William Byrd Community House.
—Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., $250 to charity.
—Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, $2,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth.
—Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa., $2,000 to two women’s shelters.

—Rep. Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., $1,500 to be returned to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
—Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., $1,000 to Crossroads Safehouse.
—Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, $9,000 to charity.
—Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., $949 to USO Operation Phone Home.
—Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., $1,000 to charity.
—Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., $2,000 to St. Jude Children’s Resesarch Hospital.
—Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., 2,000 to charity.
—Rep. Jerry Weller, R-Ill., at least $500 to charity.
—Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., $1,000 to the Great Southwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

House Democrats:
—Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., $1,000 to be retruned to the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.
—Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill., $2,000 to Community Caring Conference.
—Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., $1,000 to an animal shelter.
—Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., $2,000 to be refunded.
—Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., $6,950 to be refunded.


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. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., $6,000 to the Oklahoma Medi­
cal Research Foundation.
—Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., $19,900 refunded and given to charity.

August-November 2005
—Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J., $1,000 to the Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation.
—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.
—Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., $3,000