'The political action committees of Lockheed Martin, the National Association of Realtors, Pfizer and Chevron all reported making contributions to members of the Super Committee in the roughly 20 days of August after House and Senate leadership appointed them to the panel'

from theunion.............


The Sunlight Foundation today provides the first look into the PAC donations received by Super Committee members based on recent Federal Election Commission filings. PACs for 19 of the biggest political donors in the country reported more than $83,000 in contributions to 10 of the 12 members of the Super Committee or their leadership PACs.

Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) were the only members of the committee who did not receive donations.

Writes Bill Allison on the Sunlight blog:

Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., raised $26,500 from PACs of the big donors, with most going to his leadership PAC, Continuing a Majority PAC. Pfizer, Goldman Sachs and Comcast all sent $5,000 checks to the fundraising committees of the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee within days of his appointment to the debt reduction panel"..............READ MORE