Senate Commerce Committee Roll Call Vote on S.2686
Here's our scorecard shown with 2005/06 campaign cycle donations.
Voting FOR Senate Bill S.2686
12 Republicans / 3 Democrats
Republicans:
Ted Stevens - Alaska - Chairman $35,750* $22,000** $17,000***
John McCain - Arizona $45,750**
Conrad Burns - Montana $114,090* $85,500** $47,450***
Trent Lott - Mississippi $22,000***
Kay Bailey Hutchison - Texas
Olympia Snowe - Maine $19,500** $26,000***
Gordon Smith - Oregon $27,000**
John Ensign - Nevada $49,250* $52,990** $62,749***
George Allen - Virginia $43,100* $44,750** $30,940***
John Sununu - New Hampshire $21,000*
Jim DeMint - South Carolina
David Vitter - Louisiana
Democrats:
Daniel K. Inouye - Hawaii - Co-Chairman
Mark Pryor - Arkansas $33,800* $24,500**
E. Benjamin Nelson - Nebraska $39,200* $51,650** $27,000***
Voting AGAINST Senate Bill S.2686
7 Democrats:
John D. Rockefeller IV - West Virginia
John F. Kerry - Massachussetts $341,111**
Byron L. Dorgan - North Dakota $22,200**
Barbara Boxer - California $42,650**
Bill Nelson - Florida $18,750* $71,048** $55,900***
Maria Cantwell - Washington $32,700** $56,600***
Frank Lautenberg - New Jersey $16,000** $18,000***
All donations took place during the 2005-2006 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Monday, May 29, 2006.
*Telephone Utilities Donation
**Telecom Services and Equipment Industry Donations
*** Cable TV Industry Donations
Source: opensecrets.org list of top 20 recipients in campaign donations. Candidates not showing amounts were not in the top 20.
INDUSTRY: Telephone Utilities
TOTAL GIVING TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS: $1,234,249
INDUSTRY: Telecom Services & Equipment
TOTAL GIVING TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS: $1,250,854
INDUSTRY: TV/Movies/Music
TOTAL GIVING TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS: $2,917,741