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Vote number 2007-423 requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations
on May 24, 2007 regarding bill H R 2316 Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
Results: Bill passed, 396-22

Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require a registered lobbyist who bundles contributions totaling over $5,000 to one covered recipient in one quarter to:
file a quarterly report with Congress; and
notify the recipient.
"Covered recipient" includes federal candidates, political party committees, or leadership PACs [but not regular PACs].
Proponents support voting YES because:
This measure will more effectively regulate, but does not ban, the practice of registered lobbyists bundling together large numbers of campaign contributions. This is a practice that has already taken root in Presidential campaigns. "Bundling" contributions which the lobbyist physically receives and forwards to the candidate, or which are credited to the lobbyist through a specific tracking system put in place by the candidate. This bill requires quarterly reporting on bundled contributions.
We ultimately need to move to assist the public financing of campaigns, as soon as we can. But until we do, the legislation today represents an extremely important step forward.
Opponents support voting NO because:
This legislation does not require that bundled contributions to political action committees, often referred to as PACs, be disclosed. Why are PACs omitted from the disclosure requirements in this legislation?
If we are requiring the disclosure of bundled contributions to political party committees, those same disclosure rules should also apply to contributions to PACs. Party committees represent all members of that party affiliation. PACs, on the other hand, represent more narrow, special interests. Why should the former be exposed to more sunshine, but not the latter?
The fact that PACs give more money to Democrats is not the only answer. Time and again the majority party picks favorites, when what the American people want is more honesty and more accountability.

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Voting YES counts for 2 points on VoteMatch question 16:
Stricter limits on political campaign funds;
Voting NO counts for -2 points on VoteMatch question 16.

Democrats voting on 2007-423

Neil Abercrombie NO Hawaii Democrat (Resigned 2010)

Gary Ackerman YES New York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.

Tom Allen YES Maine Democrat (Retiring 2008)

Jason Altmire YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Rob Andrews YES New Jersey Democrat

Michael Arcuri YES New York Democrat (until 2010)

Joe Baca YES California Democrat

Brian Baird YES Washington Democrat (until 2010)

Tammy Baldwin YES Wisconsin Democrat

John Barrow YES Georgia Democrat

Melissa Bean YES Illinois Democrat (Unseated 2010)

Xavier Becerra YES California Democrat

Shelley Berkley YES Nevada Democrat (Senate run 2012)

Sanford Bishop YES Georgia Democrat

Timothy Bishop YES New York Democrat

Earl Blumenauer YES Oregon Democrat

Dan Boren YES Oklahoma Democrat (Retiring 2012)

Leonard Boswell YES Iowa Democrat

Rick Boucher YES Virginia Democrat (until 2010)

Nancy Boyda YES Kansas Democrat (Unseated 2008)

Robert Brady YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Bruce Braley YES Iowa Democrat

Corrine Brown NO Florida Democrat

G.K. Butterfield YES North Carolina Democrat

Lois Capps YES California Democrat

Michael Capuano YES Massachusetts Democrat

Dennis Cardoza YES California Democrat

Russ Carnahan YES Missouri Democrat

Chris Carney YES Pennsylvania Democrat (until 2010)

Julia Carson YES Indiana Democrat (Deceased 2008)

Kathy Castor YES Florida Democrat

Ben Chandler YES Kentucky Democrat

Yvette Clarke YES New York Democrat

William Lacy Clay NO Missouri Democrat

Emmanuel Cleaver NO Missouri Democrat

James Clyburn YES South Carolina Democrat

Steve Cohen YES Tennessee Democrat

John Conyers YES Michigan Democrat

Jim Cooper YES Tennessee Democrat

Jim Costa YES California Democrat

Joe Courtney YES Connecticut Democrat

Bud Cramer YES Alabama Democrat (Retiring 2008)

Joseph Crowley YES New York Democrat

Henry Cuellar YES Texas Democrat

Elijah Cummings YES Maryland Democrat

Danny Davis YES Illinois Democrat

Lincoln Davis YES Tennessee Democrat (until 2010)

Susan Davis YES California Democrat

Peter Defazio YES Oregon Democrat

Bill Delahunt YES Massachusetts Democrat (until 2010)

Rosa DeLauro YES Connecticut Democrat

Norm Dicks YES Washington Democrat

John Dingell YES Michigan Democrat

Lloyd Doggett YES Texas Democrat

Joe Donnelly YES Indiana Democrat (Senate run 2012)

Mike Doyle YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Chet Edwards YES Texas Democrat (until 2010)

Keith Ellison YES Minnesota Democrat

Brad Ellsworth YES Indiana Democrat (until 2010)

Anna Eshoo YES California Democrat

Bob Etheridge YES North Carolina Democrat (Unseated 2010)

Sam Farr YES California Democrat

Chaka Fattah YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Bob Filner YES California Democrat (Mayoral run 2011)

Barney Frank YES Massachusetts Democrat

Gabby Giffords YES Arizona Democrat

Kirsten Gillibrand YES New York Democrat

Bart Gordon YES Tennessee Democrat (until 2010)

Al Green YES Texas Democrat

Gene Green YES Texas Democrat

Raul Grijalva YES Arizona Democrat

Luis Gutierrez YES Illinois Democrat

John Hall YES New York Democrat (until 2010)

Ralph Moody Hall YES Texas Democrat

Phil Hare YES Illinois Democrat (until 2010)

Jane Harman YES California Democrat (Resigned 2011)

Alcee Hastings NO Florida Democrat

Stephanie Herseth YES South Dakota Democratic (until 2010)

Brian Higgins YES New York Democrat

Maurice Hinchey YES New York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.

Ruben Hinojosa YES Texas Democrat

Mazie Hirono YES Hawaii Democrat (Senate run 2012)

Paul Hodes YES New Hampshire Democrat (until 2010)

Tim Holden YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Rush Holt YES New Jersey Democrat

Mike Honda YES California Democrat

Darlene Hooley YES Oregon Democrat (Retiring 2008)

Steny Hoyer YES Maryland Democrat

Jay Inslee YES Washington Democrat

Steve Israel YES New York Democrat

Jesse Louis Jackson YES Illinois Democrat

Sheila Jackson Lee YES Texas Democrat

William Jefferson YES Louisiana Democrat

Eddie Bernice Johnson NO Texas Democrat

Hank Johnson YES Georgia Democrat

Steve Kagen YES Wisconsin Democrat (until 2010)

Paul Kanjorski NO Pennsylvania Democrat (until 2010)

Marcy Kaptur NO Ohio Democrat

Dale Kildee YES Michigan Democrat

Carolyn Kilpatrick YES Michigan Democrat (until 2010)

Ron Kind YES Wisconsin Democrat

Dennis Kucinich YES Ohio Democrat

Nicholas Lampson YES Texas Democrat (Unseated 2008)

James Langevin YES Rhode Island Democrat

Rick Larsen YES Washington Democrat

John Larson YES Connecticut Democrat

Barbara Lee YES California Democrat

Sander Levin YES Michigan Democrat

Dan Lipinski YES Illinois Democrat

David Loebsack YES Iowa Democrat

Zoe Lofgren YES California Democrat

Nita Lowey YES New York Democrat

Steve Lynch YES Massachusetts Democrat

Tim Mahoney YES Florida Democrat (Unseated 2008)

Carolyn Maloney YES New York Democrat/Liberal

Ed Markey YES Massachusetts Democrat

Jim Matheson YES Utah Democrat

Doris Matsui YES California Democrat

Carolyn McCarthy YES New York Dem./Ind./Working-Families

Betty McCollum YES Minnesota Democrat

Jim McDermott YES Washington Democrat

Jim McGovern YES Massachusetts Democrat

Mike McIntyre YES North Carolina Democrat

Jerry McNerney YES California Democrat

Michael McNulty YES New York Dem./Cons. (Retiring 2008)

Marty Meehan YES Massachusetts Democrat (Retired 2007)

Gregory Meeks NO New York Dem./Working-Families

Michael Michaud YES Maine Democrat

Brad Miller YES North Carolina Democrat

George Miller YES California Democrat

Alan Mollohan YES West Virginia Democrat

Dennis Moore YES Kansas Democrat (until 2010)

Gwen Moore YES Wisconsin Democrat

James Moran YES Virginia Democrat

Chris Murphy YES Connecticut Democrat (Senate run 2012)

Patrick Murphy YES Pennsylvania Democrat (until 2010)

John Murtha NO Pennsylvania Democrat (Deceased Feb. 2010)

Jerrold Nadler YES New York Dem./Lib./Working-Families

Grace Napolitano YES California Democrat

Richard Neal YES Massachusetts Democrat

David Obey YES Wisconsin Democrat (until 2010)

John Olver YES Massachusetts Democrat

Solomon Ortiz YES Texas Democrat (Unseated 2010)

Frank Pallone YES New Jersey Democrat

Bill Pascrell YES New Jersey Democrat

Ed Pastor YES Arizona Democrat

Donald Payne YES New Jersey Democrat

Ed Perlmutter YES Colorado Democrat

Collin Peterson YES Minnesota Democrat/Farmer/Labor

Earl Pomeroy YES North Dakota Democrat (until 2010)

David Eugene Price YES North Carolina Democrat

Nick Rahall YES West Virginia Democrat

Silvestre Reyes YES Texas Democrat

Ciro Rodriguez YES Texas Democrat (until 2010)

Steven Rothman YES New Jersey Democrat

Lucille Roybal-Allard YES California Democrat

Dutch Ruppersberger YES Maryland Democrat

Tim Ryan YES Ohio Democrat

John Salazar YES Colorado Democrat (Unseated 2010)

Linda Sanchez YES California Democrat

Loretta Sanchez YES California Democrat

John Sarbanes YES Maryland Democrat

Jan Schakowsky NO Illinois Democrat

Adam Schiff YES California Democrat

Allyson Schwartz YES Pennsylvania Democrat

Bobby Scott YES Virginia Democrat

David Scott YES Georgia Democrat

Jose Serrano YES New York Democrat/Liberal

Joe Sestak YES Pennsylvania Democrat (until 2010)

Carol Shea-Porter YES New Hampshire Democrat (until 2010)

Brad Sherman YES California Democrat

Heath Shuler YES North Carolina Democrat

Albio Sires YES New Jersey Democrat

Ike Skelton YES Missouri Democrat (until 2010)

Louise Slaughter YES New York Democrat

Zack Space YES Ohio Democrat (until 2010)

John Spratt YES South Carolina Democrat (until 2010)

Pete Stark YES California Democrat

Bart Stupak YES Michigan Democrat (until 2010)

Betty Sutton YES Ohio Democrat

John Tanner NO Tennessee Democrat (until 2010)

Gene Taylor YES Mississippi Democrat (until 2010)

Bennie Thompson YES Mississippi Democrat

Mike Thompson YES California Democrat

John Tierney YES Massachusetts Democrat

Ed Towns NO New York Democrat/Liberal

Mark Udall YES Colorado Democrat (Senate 2008)

Tom Udall YES New Mexico Democrat (Senate 2008)

Chris Van Hollen YES Maryland Democrat

Nydia Velazquez YES New York Democrat/Working-Families

Peter Visclosky YES Indiana Democrat

Tim Walz YES Minnesota Democrat

Debbie Wasserman Schultz YES Florida Democrat

Maxine Waters YES California Democrat

Mel Watt NO North Carolina Democrat

Henry Waxman YES California Democrat

Anthony Weiner YES New York Democrat (Resigned 2011)

Peter Welch YES Vermont Democrat

Robert Wexler YES Florida Democrat (resigned Jan. 2010)

Charlie Wilson YES Ohio Democrat (until 2010)

Lynn Woolsey YES California Democrat (Retiring 2012)

David Wu YES Oregon Democrat

Albert Wynn YES Maryland Democrat (Unseated 2008)

John Yarmuth YES Kentucky Democrat

Republicans voting on 2007-423

Robert Aderholt YES Alabama Republican

Rodney Alexander YES Louisiana Republican

Michele Bachmann YES Minnesota Republican

Spencer Bachus YES Alabama Republican

Richard Hugh Baker YES Louisiana Republican (Resigned 2008)

Gresham Barrett YES South Carolina Republican (until 2010)

Roscoe Bartlett YES Maryland Republican

Joe Linus Barton YES Texas Republican

Judy Biggert YES Illinois Republican

Brian Bilbray YES California Republican

Gus Bilirakis YES Florida Republican

Rob Bishop YES Utah Republican

Marsha Blackburn YES Tennessee Republican

Roy Blunt YES Missouri Republican (until 2010)

John Boehner YES Ohio Republican

Jo Bonner YES Alabama Republican

Mary Bono YES California Republican

Charles Boustany YES Louisiana Republican

Kevin Brady YES Texas Republican

Henry Brown YES South Carolina Republican (until 2010)

Vern Buchanan YES Florida Republican

Michael Burgess YES Texas Republican

Dan Burton YES Indiana Republican

Steve Buyer YES Indiana Republican (until 2010)

Ken Calvert YES California Republican

Dave Camp YES Michigan Republican

Chris Cannon YES Utah Republican

Eric Cantor YES Virginia Republican

Shelley Moore Capito YES West Virginia Republican

John Carter YES Texas Republican

Steve Chabot YES Ohio Republican

John Howard Coble YES North Carolina Republican

Tom Cole YES Oklahoma Republican

Mike Conaway YES Texas Republican

Ander Crenshaw YES Florida Republican

Barbara Cubin YES Wyoming Republican (Retiring 2008)

John Culberson YES Texas Republican

David Davis YES Tennessee Republican (Unseated 2008)

Geoff Davis YES Kentucky Republican

Tom Davis YES Virginia Republican (Retiring 2008)

Nathan Deal YES Georgia Republican (Resigned 2010)

Mario Diaz-Balart YES Florida Republican

John Doolittle YES California Republican (Retiring 2008)

Thelma Drake YES Virginia Republican (Unseated 2008)

David Dreier YES California Republican

Jimmy Duncan YES Tennessee Republican

Vernon Ehlers YES Michigan Republican (until 2010)

Phil English YES Pennsylvania Republican (Unseated 2008)

Terry Everett YES Alabama Republican (Retiring 2008)

Mary Fallin YES Oklahoma Republican (until 2010)

Mike Ferguson YES New Jersey Republican (Retiring 2008)

Jeff Flake YES Arizona Republican (Senate run 2012)

Randy Forbes YES Virginia Republican

Jeff Fortenberry YES Nebraska Republican

Vito Fossella YES New York Rep./Cons. (Unseated 2008)

Virginia Foxx YES North Carolina Republican

Trent Franks YES Arizona Republican

Rodney Frelinghuysen YES New Jersey Republican

Elton Gallegly YES California Republican

Scott Garrett YES New Jersey Republican

Jim Gerlach YES Pennsylvania Republican

Wayne Gilchrest YES Maryland Republican (Unseated 2008)

Paul Gillmor YES Ohio Republican (Deceased 2007)

Phil Gingrey YES Georgia Republican

Louie Gohmert NO Texas Republican

Virgil Goode YES Virginia Republican (Unseated 2008)

Bob Goodlatte YES Virginia Republican

Kay Granger YES Texas Republican

Samuel Graves YES Missouri Republican

Denny Hastert YES Illinois Republican (Retired 2007)

Doc Hastings YES Washington Republican

Robin Hayes YES North Carolina Republican (Unseated 2008)

Dean Heller YES Nevada Republican (Resigned 2011)

Jeb Hensarling YES Texas Republican

Wally Herger YES California Republican

Dave Hobson YES Ohio Republican (Retiring 2008)

Peter Hoekstra YES Michigan Republican (until 2010)

Bob Inglis YES South Carolina Republican (until 2010)

Darrell Issa YES California Republican

Bobby Jindal YES Louisiana Republican (Governor 2008)

Sam Johnson NO Texas Republican

Timothy Johnson YES Illinois Republican

Walter Beaman Jones YES North Carolina Republican

Jim Jordan YES Ohio Republican

Ric Keller YES Florida Republican (Unseated 2008)

Peter King YES New York Rep./Ind./Cons./Right-To-Life

Steve King YES Iowa Republican

Jack Kingston YES Georgia Republican

Mark Kirk YES Illinois Republican (until 2010)

John Kline YES Minnesota Republican

Joe Knollenberg YES Michigan Republican (Unseated 2008)

Randy Kuhl YES New York Republican (Unseated 2008)

Ray LaHood YES Illinois Republican (Retiring 2008)

Doug Lamborn YES Colorado Republican

Tom Latham YES Iowa Republican

Steven LaTourette YES Ohio Republican

Jerry Lewis YES California Republican

Ron Lewis YES Kentucky Republican (Retiring 2008)

Frank LoBiondo YES New Jersey Republican

Frank Dean Lucas YES Oklahoma Republican

Dan Lungren YES California Republican

Connie Mack IV NO Florida Republican

Donald Manzullo YES Illinois Republican

Kenny Marchant YES Texas Republican

Kevin McCarthy YES California Republican

Michael McCaul YES Texas Republican

Thad McCotter YES Michigan Republican

Jim McCrery YES Louisiana Republican (Retiring 2008)

Patrick McHenry YES North Carolina Republican

John McHugh YES New York Republican/Conservative

Buck McKeon YES California Republican

John Mica YES Florida Republican

Candice Miller YES Michigan Republican

Gary Miller YES California Republican

Jeff Miller YES Florida Republican

Jerry Moran YES Kansas Republican (until 2010)

Tim Murphy YES Pennsylvania Republican

Marilyn Musgrave YES Colorado Republican (Unseated 2008)

Sue Myrick YES North Carolina Republican

Randy Neugebauer YES Texas Republican

Devin Nunes YES California Republican

Ron Paul NO Texas Republican

Steve Pearce YES New Mexico Republican

Mike Pence YES Indiana Republican (Gov. run 2012)

John Peterson YES Pennsylvania Republican (Retired 2008)

Tom Petri YES Wisconsin Republican

Joseph Pitts YES Pennsylvania Republican

Todd Platts YES Pennsylvania Republican

Ted Poe YES Texas Republican

Jon Porter YES Nevada Republican (Unseated 2008)

Tom Price YES Georgia Republican

Deborah Pryce YES Ohio Republican

Jim Ramstad YES Minnesota Republican (Retiring 2008)

Ralph Regula YES Ohio Republican (Retiring 2008)

Dennis Rehberg YES Montana Republican (Senate run 2012)

Dave Reichert YES Washington Republican (Governor run 2012)

Rick Renzi YES Arizona Republican (Retiring 2008)

Thomas Reynolds YES New York Republican (Retiring 2008)

Hal Rogers YES Kentucky Republican

Michael Rogers YES Alabama Republican

Mike Rogers YES Michigan Republican

Dana Rohrabacher YES California Republican

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen YES Florida Republican

Peter Roskam YES Illinois Republican

Ed Royce YES California Republican

Paul Ryan YES Wisconsin Republican

Bill Sali YES Idaho Republican (Unseated 2008)

Jim Saxton YES New Jersey Republican (Retiring 2008)

Jean Schmidt YES Ohio Republican

James Sensenbrenner YES Wisconsin Republican

Pete Sessions YES Texas Republican

John Shadegg NO Arizona Republican

Christopher Shays YES Connecticut Republican (Unseated 2008)

John Shimkus YES Illinois Republican

Bill Shuster YES Pennsylvania Republican

Mike Simpson YES Idaho Republican

Adrian Smith YES Nebraska Republican

Christopher Smith YES New Jersey Republican

Lamar Smith YES Texas Republican

Linda Smith YES Washington Republican Former (1994-)

Mark Souder YES Indiana Republican (until 2010)

Cliff Stearns YES Florida Republican

John Sullivan YES Oklahoma Republican

Tom Tancredo YES Colorado Republican

Lee Terry YES Nebraska Republican

Mac Thornberry YES Texas Republican

Todd Tiahrt YES Kansas Republican (until 2010)

Pat Tiberi YES Ohio Republican

Fred Upton YES Michigan Republican

Tim Walberg YES Michigan Republican

Greg Walden YES Oregon Republican

Jim Walsh YES New York Rep./Ind. (Retiring 2008)

Zach Wamp YES Tennessee Republican (until 2010)

Dave Weldon YES Florida Republican (Retiring 2008)

Jerry Weller YES Illinois Republican (Retiring 2008)

Ed Whitfield NO Kentucky Republican

Roger Wicker YES Mississippi Republican (Senate 2008)

Heather Wilson YES New Mexico Republican (Senate 2008)

Joe Wilson YES South Carolina Republican

Bill Young YES Florida Republican

Don Young NO Alaska Republican

Independents voting on 2007-423

Marion Berry YES Arkansas Former Democrat (until 2010)

John Boozman YES Arkansas Former GOP (until 2010)

Allen Boyd NO Florida Former Democrat (until 2010)

Ginny Brown-Waite YES Florida Former GOP (until 2010)

Michael Castle YES Delaware Former GOP (until 2010)

Artur Davis YES Alabama Former Democrat (until 2010)

Lincoln Diaz-Balart YES Florida Former GOP (until 2010)

Rahm Emanuel YES Illinois Former Democrat (until 2009)

Tom Feeney YES Florida Former GOP

Ron Klein YES Florida Former Democrat (until 2010)

Tom Lantos YES California Former Democrat (until 2008)

John Linder YES Georgia Former GOP (until 2010)

Jim Marshall YES Georgia Former Democrat (until 2010)

Kendrick Meek YES Florida Former Democrat (until 2010)

Harry Mitchell YES Arizona Former Democrat (until 2010)

Adam Putnam YES Florida Former GOP (until 2010)

George Radanovich YES California Former GOP (until 2010)

Vic Snyder YES Arkansas Former Democrat (until 2010)

Hilda Solis YES California Former Democrat (until 2009)

Ellen Tauscher YES California Former Democrat (until 2009)

Diane Watson YES California Former Democrat (until 2010)

Total votes recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: YES 190; NO 14
Republicans: YES 174; NO 7
Independents: YES 20; NO 1

Vote number 2007-423 requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations on May 24, 2007 regarding bill H R 2316 Honest Leadership and Open Government Act Results: Bill passed, 396-22

Categorized under Government Reform

Voting YES counts for 2 points on VoteMatch question 16:Stricter limits on political campaign funds; Voting NO counts for -2 points on VoteMatch question 16.

Democrats voting on 2007-423

Republicans voting on 2007-423

Independents voting on 2007-423

Total votes recorded by OnTheIssues:

Vote number 2007-423 requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations
on May 24, 2007 regarding bill H R 2316 Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
Results: Bill passed, 396-22

Voting YES counts for 2 points on VoteMatch question 16:
Stricter limits on political campaign funds;
Voting NO counts for -2 points on VoteMatch question 16.