Oil and Gas Political Contributions

	Scotty-Not all the Tables Copied to Page See Links at bottom of Page for Complete Tables Oil & Gas: Money to Congress Total contributions: $13,872,160 Rank Organization Amount Dems Repubs Source Indivs PACs Soft $ 1 Koch Industries $724,300 14% 86% 2 Exxon Mobil $548,214 13% 87% 3 Chevron Corp $516,891 18% 82% 4 Valero Energy $467,000 17% 83% 5 Marathon Oil $378,190 23% 76% 6 Occidental Petroleum $314,050 20% 80% 7 Williams Companies $311,500 26% 74% 8 American Gas Assn $250,500 43% 56% 9 Devon Energy $230,970 12% 87% 10 Chesapeake Energy $228,480 57% 43% 11 Anadarko Petroleum $227,150 21% 79% 12 ConocoPhillips $201,947 29% 71% 13 Mewbourne Oil Co $180,500 5% 95% 14 Pilot Corp $164,140 5% 95% 15 Plains Exploration & Production $154,700 23% 76% 16 Bass Brothers Enterprises $145,215 40% 60% 17 Enterprise Products Partners $145,150 19% 81% 18 Independent Petroleum Assn of America $144,500 25% 75% 19 Red Apple Group $140,100 61% 38% 20 Society of Indep Gasoline Marketers $133,500 63% 37% METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs, soft money donors, and individuals giving $200 or more. (Only those groups giving $5,000 or more are listed here. Soft money applies only to cycles 1992-2002.) In many cases, the organizations themselves did not donate; rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates. All donations took place during the 2009-2010 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center. Top 20 Members Candidate Amount McCain, John (R-AZ) $2,677,524 Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) $2,137,225 Gramm, Phil (R-TX) $1,682,814 Cornyn, John (R-TX) $1,652,150 Barton, Joe (R-TX) $1,458,530 Inhofe, James M (R-OK) $1,231,523 Pearce, Steve (R-NM) $998,178 Young, Don (R-AK) $981,263 Obama, Barack (D) $973,551 McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $862,561 Nickles, Don (R-OK) $841,388 Vitter, David (R-LA) $791,335 Dole, Bob (R) $781,705 Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA) $758,744 Domenici, Pete V (R-NM) $747,897 DeLay, Tom (R-TX) $690,140 Conaway, Mike (R-TX) $652,718 Sessions, Pete (R-TX) $645,864 Tiahrt, Todd (R-KS) $628,073 Santorum, Rick (R-PA) $614,17 Party Split: Dems: Repubs: Others: $3,421,498 $7,053,733 $16,250 All Candidates: $10,491,481 Incumbents Only: $7,951,271 House # of Members Average Contribution Total Contributions Democrats 186 $9,443 $1,756,453 Republicans 164 $20,691 $3,393,312 Independents 0 $0 $0 TOTAL 350 $14,714 $5,149,765 The US House of Representatives has 435 members and 5 non-voting delegates. Totals may exceed 440 due to mid-term replacements. Senate # of Members Average Contribution Total Contributions Democrats 48 $26,939 $1,293,054 Republicans 34 $44,249 $1,504,452 Independents 2 $625 $1,250 TOTAL 84 $33,319 $2,798,756 The US Senate has 100 members. Totals may exceed 100 due to mid-term replacements. The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more. All donations took place during the 2009-2010 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center. Big Oil and Gas Political Contributions Election Cycle
	2010*	14	$13,872,160	$8,131,890	$5,740,270
	2008*	16	$35,690,662	$25,594,958	$10,095,704
	2006*	14	$20,372,756	$12,089,647	$8,283,109
	2004*	16	$26,077,264	$18,963,016	$7,114,248
	2002	13	$25,037,766	$8,514,319	$6,450,281
	2000	10	$34,323,192	$11,353,899	$6,928,043
	1998	8	$21,622,444	$6,342,453	$6,767,892
	1996	7	$26,015,197	$9,621,114	$6,539,583
	1994	7	$17,729,113	$6,712,122	$6,492,029
	1992	7	$20,581,722	$8,834,872	$6,462,523
	1990	8	$10,911,614	$4,829,390	$6,082,224
	Total	10	$252,233,890	$120,987,680	$76,955,906

Soft Money Contributions	Donations to Democrats	Donations to Republicans
N/A	$3,952,205	$9,900,476
N/A	$8,137,815	$27,534,717
N/A	$3,629,686	$16,653,466
N/A	$5,063,900	$20,989,499
$10,073,166	$5,028,030	$19,999,841
$16,041,250	$7,054,356	$26,759,817
$8,512,099	$5,040,155	$16,501,692
$9,854,500	$5,960,180	$19,628,720
$4,524,962	$6,652,777	$11,054,891
$5,284,327	$6,907,222	$13,491,397
N/A	$4,161,315	$6,749,999
$54,290,304	$61,587,641	$189,264,515

% to Dems	% to Repubs
28%	71%
23%	77%
18%	82%
19%	80%
20%	80%
21%	78%
23%	76%
23%	75%
38%	62%
34%	66%
38%	62%
24%	75%

Tables Provided by: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2010&ind=e01

†These numbers show how the industry ranks in total campaign giving as compared to more than 80 other industries. Rankings are shown only for industries (such as the Automotive industry) -- not for widely encompassing "sectors" (such as Transportation) or more detailed "categories" (like car dealers).

*These figures do not include donations of "Levin" funds to state and local party committees. Levin funds were created by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions of $200 or more from PACs and individuals to federal candidates and from PAC, soft money and individual donors to political parties, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. While election cycles are shown in charts as 1996, 1998, 2000 etc. they actually represent two-year periods. For example, the 2002 election cycle runs from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002.

Data for the current election cycle were released by the Federal Election Commission on Sunday, June 13, 2010.

NOTE: Soft money contributions to the national parties were not publicly disclosed until the 1991-92 election cycle, and were banned by the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act following the 2002 elections.

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