Senate Proceeding on Sep 25th, 2008 :: 0:48:28 to 0:49:52
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Speech By: James Inhofe
Bill: H.R. 7022: To reform the financing of House elections, and for other purposes

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James Inhofe: calendar year. they reported receiving contributions totaling more than $94 million for -- during the 2006 irs -- i.r.s. filing period. they spent $18.9 million to promote stand on climate change issues

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Jeff Bingaman: and 19.5 million collectively on land and ocean environment issues. in addition to the publicity professed alliances among the groups, they are all connected by the foundations that provide them with

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Speech By: Jeff Bingaman

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Jeff Bingaman: a significant amount of funding. the heinz foundations are some of the largest contributors to the nonprofit environmental organizations and, of course, mrs. theresa heinz kerry is either chairperson of

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Jeff Bingaman: the board of trustees or member member of the board of trustees on each foundation. in fact, mrs. heinz kerry oversees more than $1.a -- $1.5 billion. last year alone, heinz gave $160,000 to nrdc

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Jeff Bingaman: directly. since 2002 she has given a total of $740,000 to e.d.f., l.c.v., and nrdc specifically. over the past five years, heinz has given $3.8 million to tides which donated significantly to all five

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Jeff Bingaman: of the mentioned environmental organizations and receives a large portion of their funding from foundations such as heinz. another major supporter of the environmental groups is the turner foundation.

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Jeff Bingaman: founded in 1990 by ted turner. the turner foundation sponsors specl projects including the partnership project comprised of 20 national environmental groups. since 2002 they have contributed more than

0:49:37 to 0:49:52( Edit History Discussion )

Jeff Bingaman: $2.9 million to the partnership project. additionally the turner foundation has given more than $1 million to nrdc, $778,000 to e.d.f., the environmental defense fund, and $6.7 million to l.c.v. education

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Sherrod Brown: fund. the few charitable -- the pew charitable trust that claims to be an independent nonprofit serving to inform the public on key issues gives substantially to environmental groups. two pew environmental