Thursday, May 14, 2009

Thanks to Fire Dog Lake for the following chart
showing Democrats voted against credit card interest rate caps and the amount of money they received from the financial world:


Senator Credit Card
Interest Rate Caps
TARP I Bank Bailout
Oct 2008
TARP II Bank Bailout
Jan 2009
Lifetime FIRE
Donations
Akaka (D-HI) No Yes Yes $551,095
Baucus (D-MT) No Yes Yes $4,633,243
Bayh (D-IN) No Yes No $3,988,480
Bingaman (D-NM) No Yes Yes $492,042
Byrd (D-WV) No Yes Yes $421,000
Cantwell (D-WA) No No No $1,828,540
Carper (D-DE) No Yes Yes $2,160,628
Hagan (D-NC) No N/A Yes $545,000
Johnson (D-SD) No No Yes $3,025,166
Kaufman (D-DE) No Yes Yes $0*
Landrieu (D-LA) No No Yes $2,388,634
Lieberman (ID-CT) No Yes Yes $9,981,924
Lincoln (D-AR) No Yes No $1,672,292
Murray (D-WA) No Yes Yes $1,394,807
Nelson (D-FL) No No Yes $2,667,406
Nelson (D-NE) No Yes No $3,058,968
Pryor (D-AR) No Yes Yes $1,322,948
Shaheen (D-NH) No Yes No $659,000
Specter (D-PA) No Yes Yes $5,757,910
Stabenow (D-MI) No No Yes $1,736,406
Tester (D-MT) No No "Present" (Yes) $473,226
Warner (D-VA) No Yes Yes $1,950,479

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