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Tar Sands Pipeline Stalled or Not, Oil Money Will Flow

Protesters in front of the White House in September 2011 demonstrate against the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photograph: Pete Marovich/Corbis)

Tar Sands Pipeline Stalled or Not, Oil Money Will Flow

'Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections'

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Call the oil and gas industry what you want, but don't call them cheap. At least not when it comes to US members of Congress. In the wake of the Obama Adminstration's decision to delay ruling on the proposed tar sands pipeline from Canada, the industry shows no signs on skimping on campaign contributions as the US campaign season puts it foot on the gas pedal.

Today, the MapLight Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, research organization that reveals money's influence on politics, released an analysis looking at the relationship between oil and gas industry giving and the voting behavior of US House members. Some key findings:

  • Of the 118 House members who have the Oil & Gas Industry amongst their top 10 contributing industry groups, only two representatives ( Edward Markey and Charles Bass) voted against the deadline on the Keystone pipeline decision imposed in HR 1938.
  • Amongst the 195 House members who have the Oil & Gas industry amongst their top 20 contributing interest groups, only 10 voted against the deadline imposed in HR 1938.

HR 1938 was a House bill pushed last summer that would have directed the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Though that effort failed in the Senate, it was revived during the end of year payroll tax cut fight, and a form of it ultimately was signed by President Obama. This gives Obama until February 21st of this year to make a final decision.

Suzanne Goldenberg, environment correspondent for The Guardian, also reported on Maplight's finding, casting the upcoming deadline in further political context:

Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

The Canadian government is also on the offensive, with an attack this week on "jet-setting celebrities" opposed to tar sands pipelines. At the same time, TransCanada executives have embarked on a letter-writing campaign.

Meanwhile, north of the border, the oil services and pipeline building corporation Enbridge is trying to press its government to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline -- also intended to move tar sands (aka. 'the world's dirtiest fossil fuel') out of Alberta. That case, as the Globe and Mail reports, just got more difficult as another Enbridge pipeline, this one a natural gas pipeline in the United States, reported a "possible" leak on Tuesday, the same day public hearings opened for Northern Gateway.

U.S. pipeline regulators told Enbridge about the possible leak. A subsequent helicopter over-flight discovered a metre-wide patch of bubbles over the company's Stingray pipeline, which can carry 560-million cubic feet a day of natural gas from offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The bubbles were found about 100 kilometres from the Louisiana coast.

Despite leaks, politcal delays, and climate science the oil, the gas, and the money keep flowing. For a taste of those numbers, here's the full listing of Maplight's analysis:

Rank of Oil & Gas as a Contributing Interest GroupNameVote on HR 1938Total (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011)
1stRep. Steven Pearce [R, NM-2]AYE$370,020
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R, KS-4]AYE$333,156
Rep. Bill Flores [R, TX-17]AYE$266,184
Rep. Cory Gardner [R, CO-4]AYE$205,124
Rep. Dan Boren [D, OK-2]AYE$201,800
Rep. John Sullivan [R, OK-1]AYE$179,200
Rep. Jeff Landry [R, LA-3]AYE$176,050
Rep. Tim Griffin [R, AR-2]AYE$164,709
Rep. James Lankford [R, OK-5]AYE$156,760
Rep. Rick Berg [R, ND-0]AYE$151,561
Rep. Michael Conaway [R, TX-11]AYE$136,850
Rep. Tim Murphy [R, PA-18]AYE$133,700
Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R, MT-0]AYE$133,152
Rep. Steve Scalise [R, LA-1]AYE$125,335
Rep. Francisco Canseco [R, TX-23]AYE$121,767
Rep. Pete Olson [R, TX-22]AYE$106,400
Rep. Tom Cole [R, OK-4]AYE$103,400
Rep. Cynthia Lummis [R, WY-0]AYE$97,750
Rep. Doc Hastings [R, WA-4]AYE$97,171
Rep. Kevin Brady [R, TX-8]AYE$94,900
Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]AYE$91,550
Rep. Kay Granger [R, TX-12]AYE$79,850
Rep. Ted Poe [R, TX-2]AYE$79,700
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R, PA-5]AYE$73,600
Rep. William Thornberry [R, TX-13]AYE$68,425
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R, TX-27]AYE$67,600
Rep. Mike Coffman [R, CO-6]AYE$61,250
Rep. Ralph Hall [R, TX-4]AYE$55,208
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5]AYE$39,750
Rep. Rob Bishop [R, UT-1]AYE$21,750
2ndRep. John Fleming [R, LA-4]AYE$203,400
Rep. Mike Ross [D, AR-4]AYE$141,450
Rep. Bob Gibbs [R, OH-18]AYE$78,800
Rep. Bill Cassidy [R, LA-6]AYE$77,000
Rep. Scott Tipton [R, CO-3]AYE$66,250
Rep. Gregg Harper [R, MS-3]AYE$54,250
Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]AYE$6,400
3rdRep. Joe Barton [R, TX-6]AYE$137,270
Rep. Charles Boustany [R, LA-7]AYE$126,050
Rep. Stephen Fincher [R, TN-8]AYE$98,050
Rep. Jim Matheson [D, UT-2]AYE$90,550
Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]AYE$79,650
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R, KS-2]AYE$73,250
Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R, KS-1]AYE$64,846
Rep. Michael McCaul [R, TX-10]AYE$63,850
Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]AYE$62,700
Rep. Michael Burgess [R, TX-26]AYE$62,150
Rep. Dan Benishek [R, MI-1]AYE$47,750
Rep. Louis Gohmert [R, TX-1]AYE$43,150
Rep. Lou Barletta [R, PA-11]AYE$40,525
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R, VA-9]AYE$35,150
Rep. Tom McClintock [R, CA-4]AYE$18,600
4thRep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]AYE$120,700
Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R, TN-7]AYE$82,750
Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]AYE$80,300
Rep. John Shimkus [R, IL-19]AYE$80,250
Rep. Frank Lucas [R, OK-3]AYE$77,250
Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R, MS-1]AYE$74,550
Rep. David McKinley [R, WV-1]AYE$62,250
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R, CA-3]AYE$61,700
Rep. Edward Whitfield [R, KY-1]AYE$55,500
Rep. Darrell Issa [R, CA-49]AYE$54,500
Rep. Rick Crawford [R, AR-1]AYE$38,922
Rep. Paul Broun [R, GA-10]AYE$28,700
5thRep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]AYE$156,100
Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5]AYE$64,146
Rep. Todd Young [R, IN-9]AYE$47,150
Rep. William Shuster [R, PA-9]AYE$46,250
Rep. Donald Young [R, AK-0]AYE$37,550
Rep. Bill Johnson [R, OH-6]AYE$16,750
6thRep. Peter Sessions [R, TX-32]AYE$90,950
Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]AYE$68,400
Rep. Shelley Capito [R, WV-2]AYE$60,750
Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]AYE$58,150
Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]AYE$50,250
Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R, IL-11]AYE$45,400
Rep. Geoff Davis [R, KY-4]AYE$42,750
Rep. John Carter [R, TX-31]NV$40,050
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R, IN-8]AYE$30,200
7thRep. Kevin Yoder [R, KS-3]AYE$79,550
Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]AYE$56,000
Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R, TX-19]AYE$47,200
Rep. Joe Heck [R, NV-3]AYE$41,500
Rep. Diane Black [R, TN-6]AYE$40,550
Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20]AYE$31,250
Rep. Michael Simpson [R, ID-2]AYE$31,200
Rep. Jeff Duncan [R, SC-3]AYE$25,000
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]AYE$23,900
Rep. Steve Womack [R, AR-3]AYE$20,219
Rep. Mike Kelly [R, PA-3]AYE$18,750
8thRep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]AYE$78,100
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R, TX-5]AYE$72,300
Rep. Charles Dent [R, PA-15]AYE$56,950
Rep. Timothy Walberg [R, MI-7]AYE$38,150
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R, KY-2]AYE$28,400
Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]AYE$16,900
9thRep. Michele Bachmann [R, MN-6]NV$78,420
Rep. Scott Garrett [R, NJ-5]AYE$42,400
Rep. Spencer Bachus [R, AL-6]AYE$42,000
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R, WA-5]AYE$36,850
Rep. Steven Chabot [R, OH-1]AYE$36,700
Rep. Tom Reed [R, NY-29]AYE$32,250
Rep. John Gingrey [R, GA-11]AYE$27,500
Rep. Samuel Johnson [R, TX-3]AYE$26,100
Rep. Joseph Pitts [R, PA-16]AYE$25,000
Rep. Sue Myrick [R, NC-9]AYE$24,500
Rep. Trey Gowdy [R, SC-4]AYE$18,250
10thRep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7]AYE$144,650
Rep. Paul Ryan [R, WI-1]AYE$57,000
Rep. Kristi Noem [R, SD-0]AYE$50,900
Rep. Jeff Denham [R, CA-19]AYE$33,900
Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA-7]NOE$32,250
Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R, MO-4]AYE$30,600
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R, WA-3]AYE$29,600
Rep. Charles Bass [R, NH-2]NOE$28,850
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]AYE$26,300
Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R, UT-3]AYE$26,000
Rep. Tom Graves [R, GA-9]AYE$25,500

METHODOLOGY: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to current members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Oil & Gas industry, July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011. Campaign contribution figures and industry classification provided by OpenSecrets.org. Top 10 contributing industry groups calculated by MapLight. Contributions from political parties and from other candidates are not included in MapLight's "Top 10" lists.

A link to this data release can be found here.

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Call the oil and gas industry what you want, but don't call them cheap. At least not when it comes to US members of Congress. In the wake of the Obama Adminstration's decision to delay ruling on the proposed tar sands pipeline from Canada, the industry shows no signs on skimping on campaign contributions as the US campaign season puts it foot on the gas pedal.

Today, the MapLight Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, research organization that reveals money's influence on politics, released an analysis looking at the relationship between oil and gas industry giving and the voting behavior of US House members. Some key findings:

  • Of the 118 House members who have the Oil & Gas Industry amongst their top 10 contributing industry groups, only two representatives ( Edward Markey and Charles Bass) voted against the deadline on the Keystone pipeline decision imposed in HR 1938.
  • Amongst the 195 House members who have the Oil & Gas industry amongst their top 20 contributing interest groups, only 10 voted against the deadline imposed in HR 1938.

HR 1938 was a House bill pushed last summer that would have directed the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Though that effort failed in the Senate, it was revived during the end of year payroll tax cut fight, and a form of it ultimately was signed by President Obama. This gives Obama until February 21st of this year to make a final decision.

Suzanne Goldenberg, environment correspondent for The Guardian, also reported on Maplight's finding, casting the upcoming deadline in further political context:

Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

The Canadian government is also on the offensive, with an attack this week on "jet-setting celebrities" opposed to tar sands pipelines. At the same time, TransCanada executives have embarked on a letter-writing campaign.

Meanwhile, north of the border, the oil services and pipeline building corporation Enbridge is trying to press its government to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline -- also intended to move tar sands (aka. 'the world's dirtiest fossil fuel') out of Alberta. That case, as the Globe and Mail reports, just got more difficult as another Enbridge pipeline, this one a natural gas pipeline in the United States, reported a "possible" leak on Tuesday, the same day public hearings opened for Northern Gateway.

U.S. pipeline regulators told Enbridge about the possible leak. A subsequent helicopter over-flight discovered a metre-wide patch of bubbles over the company's Stingray pipeline, which can carry 560-million cubic feet a day of natural gas from offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The bubbles were found about 100 kilometres from the Louisiana coast.

Despite leaks, politcal delays, and climate science the oil, the gas, and the money keep flowing. For a taste of those numbers, here's the full listing of Maplight's analysis:

Rank of Oil & Gas as a Contributing Interest GroupNameVote on HR 1938Total (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011)
1stRep. Steven Pearce [R, NM-2]AYE$370,020
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R, KS-4]AYE$333,156
Rep. Bill Flores [R, TX-17]AYE$266,184
Rep. Cory Gardner [R, CO-4]AYE$205,124
Rep. Dan Boren [D, OK-2]AYE$201,800
Rep. John Sullivan [R, OK-1]AYE$179,200
Rep. Jeff Landry [R, LA-3]AYE$176,050
Rep. Tim Griffin [R, AR-2]AYE$164,709
Rep. James Lankford [R, OK-5]AYE$156,760
Rep. Rick Berg [R, ND-0]AYE$151,561
Rep. Michael Conaway [R, TX-11]AYE$136,850
Rep. Tim Murphy [R, PA-18]AYE$133,700
Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R, MT-0]AYE$133,152
Rep. Steve Scalise [R, LA-1]AYE$125,335
Rep. Francisco Canseco [R, TX-23]AYE$121,767
Rep. Pete Olson [R, TX-22]AYE$106,400
Rep. Tom Cole [R, OK-4]AYE$103,400
Rep. Cynthia Lummis [R, WY-0]AYE$97,750
Rep. Doc Hastings [R, WA-4]AYE$97,171
Rep. Kevin Brady [R, TX-8]AYE$94,900
Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]AYE$91,550
Rep. Kay Granger [R, TX-12]AYE$79,850
Rep. Ted Poe [R, TX-2]AYE$79,700
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R, PA-5]AYE$73,600
Rep. William Thornberry [R, TX-13]AYE$68,425
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R, TX-27]AYE$67,600
Rep. Mike Coffman [R, CO-6]AYE$61,250
Rep. Ralph Hall [R, TX-4]AYE$55,208
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5]AYE$39,750
Rep. Rob Bishop [R, UT-1]AYE$21,750
2ndRep. John Fleming [R, LA-4]AYE$203,400
Rep. Mike Ross [D, AR-4]AYE$141,450
Rep. Bob Gibbs [R, OH-18]AYE$78,800
Rep. Bill Cassidy [R, LA-6]AYE$77,000
Rep. Scott Tipton [R, CO-3]AYE$66,250
Rep. Gregg Harper [R, MS-3]AYE$54,250
Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]AYE$6,400
3rdRep. Joe Barton [R, TX-6]AYE$137,270
Rep. Charles Boustany [R, LA-7]AYE$126,050
Rep. Stephen Fincher [R, TN-8]AYE$98,050
Rep. Jim Matheson [D, UT-2]AYE$90,550
Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]AYE$79,650
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R, KS-2]AYE$73,250
Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R, KS-1]AYE$64,846
Rep. Michael McCaul [R, TX-10]AYE$63,850
Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]AYE$62,700
Rep. Michael Burgess [R, TX-26]AYE$62,150
Rep. Dan Benishek [R, MI-1]AYE$47,750
Rep. Louis Gohmert [R, TX-1]AYE$43,150
Rep. Lou Barletta [R, PA-11]AYE$40,525
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R, VA-9]AYE$35,150
Rep. Tom McClintock [R, CA-4]AYE$18,600
4thRep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]AYE$120,700
Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R, TN-7]AYE$82,750
Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]AYE$80,300
Rep. John Shimkus [R, IL-19]AYE$80,250
Rep. Frank Lucas [R, OK-3]AYE$77,250
Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R, MS-1]AYE$74,550
Rep. David McKinley [R, WV-1]AYE$62,250
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R, CA-3]AYE$61,700
Rep. Edward Whitfield [R, KY-1]AYE$55,500
Rep. Darrell Issa [R, CA-49]AYE$54,500
Rep. Rick Crawford [R, AR-1]AYE$38,922
Rep. Paul Broun [R, GA-10]AYE$28,700
5thRep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]AYE$156,100
Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5]AYE$64,146
Rep. Todd Young [R, IN-9]AYE$47,150
Rep. William Shuster [R, PA-9]AYE$46,250
Rep. Donald Young [R, AK-0]AYE$37,550
Rep. Bill Johnson [R, OH-6]AYE$16,750
6thRep. Peter Sessions [R, TX-32]AYE$90,950
Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]AYE$68,400
Rep. Shelley Capito [R, WV-2]AYE$60,750
Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]AYE$58,150
Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]AYE$50,250
Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R, IL-11]AYE$45,400
Rep. Geoff Davis [R, KY-4]AYE$42,750
Rep. John Carter [R, TX-31]NV$40,050
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R, IN-8]AYE$30,200
7thRep. Kevin Yoder [R, KS-3]AYE$79,550
Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]AYE$56,000
Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R, TX-19]AYE$47,200
Rep. Joe Heck [R, NV-3]AYE$41,500
Rep. Diane Black [R, TN-6]AYE$40,550
Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20]AYE$31,250
Rep. Michael Simpson [R, ID-2]AYE$31,200
Rep. Jeff Duncan [R, SC-3]AYE$25,000
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]AYE$23,900
Rep. Steve Womack [R, AR-3]AYE$20,219
Rep. Mike Kelly [R, PA-3]AYE$18,750
8thRep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]AYE$78,100
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R, TX-5]AYE$72,300
Rep. Charles Dent [R, PA-15]AYE$56,950
Rep. Timothy Walberg [R, MI-7]AYE$38,150
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R, KY-2]AYE$28,400
Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]AYE$16,900
9thRep. Michele Bachmann [R, MN-6]NV$78,420
Rep. Scott Garrett [R, NJ-5]AYE$42,400
Rep. Spencer Bachus [R, AL-6]AYE$42,000
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R, WA-5]AYE$36,850
Rep. Steven Chabot [R, OH-1]AYE$36,700
Rep. Tom Reed [R, NY-29]AYE$32,250
Rep. John Gingrey [R, GA-11]AYE$27,500
Rep. Samuel Johnson [R, TX-3]AYE$26,100
Rep. Joseph Pitts [R, PA-16]AYE$25,000
Rep. Sue Myrick [R, NC-9]AYE$24,500
Rep. Trey Gowdy [R, SC-4]AYE$18,250
10thRep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7]AYE$144,650
Rep. Paul Ryan [R, WI-1]AYE$57,000
Rep. Kristi Noem [R, SD-0]AYE$50,900
Rep. Jeff Denham [R, CA-19]AYE$33,900
Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA-7]NOE$32,250
Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R, MO-4]AYE$30,600
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R, WA-3]AYE$29,600
Rep. Charles Bass [R, NH-2]NOE$28,850
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]AYE$26,300
Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R, UT-3]AYE$26,000
Rep. Tom Graves [R, GA-9]AYE$25,500

METHODOLOGY: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to current members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Oil & Gas industry, July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011. Campaign contribution figures and industry classification provided by OpenSecrets.org. Top 10 contributing industry groups calculated by MapLight. Contributions from political parties and from other candidates are not included in MapLight's "Top 10" lists.

A link to this data release can be found here.

###

Call the oil and gas industry what you want, but don't call them cheap. At least not when it comes to US members of Congress. In the wake of the Obama Adminstration's decision to delay ruling on the proposed tar sands pipeline from Canada, the industry shows no signs on skimping on campaign contributions as the US campaign season puts it foot on the gas pedal.

Today, the MapLight Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, research organization that reveals money's influence on politics, released an analysis looking at the relationship between oil and gas industry giving and the voting behavior of US House members. Some key findings:

  • Of the 118 House members who have the Oil & Gas Industry amongst their top 10 contributing industry groups, only two representatives ( Edward Markey and Charles Bass) voted against the deadline on the Keystone pipeline decision imposed in HR 1938.
  • Amongst the 195 House members who have the Oil & Gas industry amongst their top 20 contributing interest groups, only 10 voted against the deadline imposed in HR 1938.

HR 1938 was a House bill pushed last summer that would have directed the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Though that effort failed in the Senate, it was revived during the end of year payroll tax cut fight, and a form of it ultimately was signed by President Obama. This gives Obama until February 21st of this year to make a final decision.

Suzanne Goldenberg, environment correspondent for The Guardian, also reported on Maplight's finding, casting the upcoming deadline in further political context:

Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

The Canadian government is also on the offensive, with an attack this week on "jet-setting celebrities" opposed to tar sands pipelines. At the same time, TransCanada executives have embarked on a letter-writing campaign.

Meanwhile, north of the border, the oil services and pipeline building corporation Enbridge is trying to press its government to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline -- also intended to move tar sands (aka. 'the world's dirtiest fossil fuel') out of Alberta. That case, as the Globe and Mail reports, just got more difficult as another Enbridge pipeline, this one a natural gas pipeline in the United States, reported a "possible" leak on Tuesday, the same day public hearings opened for Northern Gateway.

U.S. pipeline regulators told Enbridge about the possible leak. A subsequent helicopter over-flight discovered a metre-wide patch of bubbles over the company's Stingray pipeline, which can carry 560-million cubic feet a day of natural gas from offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The bubbles were found about 100 kilometres from the Louisiana coast.

Despite leaks, politcal delays, and climate science the oil, the gas, and the money keep flowing. For a taste of those numbers, here's the full listing of Maplight's analysis:

Rank of Oil & Gas as a Contributing Interest GroupNameVote on HR 1938Total (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011)
1stRep. Steven Pearce [R, NM-2]AYE$370,020
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R, KS-4]AYE$333,156
Rep. Bill Flores [R, TX-17]AYE$266,184
Rep. Cory Gardner [R, CO-4]AYE$205,124
Rep. Dan Boren [D, OK-2]AYE$201,800
Rep. John Sullivan [R, OK-1]AYE$179,200
Rep. Jeff Landry [R, LA-3]AYE$176,050
Rep. Tim Griffin [R, AR-2]AYE$164,709
Rep. James Lankford [R, OK-5]AYE$156,760
Rep. Rick Berg [R, ND-0]AYE$151,561
Rep. Michael Conaway [R, TX-11]AYE$136,850
Rep. Tim Murphy [R, PA-18]AYE$133,700
Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R, MT-0]AYE$133,152
Rep. Steve Scalise [R, LA-1]AYE$125,335
Rep. Francisco Canseco [R, TX-23]AYE$121,767
Rep. Pete Olson [R, TX-22]AYE$106,400
Rep. Tom Cole [R, OK-4]AYE$103,400
Rep. Cynthia Lummis [R, WY-0]AYE$97,750
Rep. Doc Hastings [R, WA-4]AYE$97,171
Rep. Kevin Brady [R, TX-8]AYE$94,900
Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]AYE$91,550
Rep. Kay Granger [R, TX-12]AYE$79,850
Rep. Ted Poe [R, TX-2]AYE$79,700
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R, PA-5]AYE$73,600
Rep. William Thornberry [R, TX-13]AYE$68,425
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R, TX-27]AYE$67,600
Rep. Mike Coffman [R, CO-6]AYE$61,250
Rep. Ralph Hall [R, TX-4]AYE$55,208
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5]AYE$39,750
Rep. Rob Bishop [R, UT-1]AYE$21,750
2ndRep. John Fleming [R, LA-4]AYE$203,400
Rep. Mike Ross [D, AR-4]AYE$141,450
Rep. Bob Gibbs [R, OH-18]AYE$78,800
Rep. Bill Cassidy [R, LA-6]AYE$77,000
Rep. Scott Tipton [R, CO-3]AYE$66,250
Rep. Gregg Harper [R, MS-3]AYE$54,250
Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]AYE$6,400
3rdRep. Joe Barton [R, TX-6]AYE$137,270
Rep. Charles Boustany [R, LA-7]AYE$126,050
Rep. Stephen Fincher [R, TN-8]AYE$98,050
Rep. Jim Matheson [D, UT-2]AYE$90,550
Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]AYE$79,650
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R, KS-2]AYE$73,250
Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R, KS-1]AYE$64,846
Rep. Michael McCaul [R, TX-10]AYE$63,850
Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]AYE$62,700
Rep. Michael Burgess [R, TX-26]AYE$62,150
Rep. Dan Benishek [R, MI-1]AYE$47,750
Rep. Louis Gohmert [R, TX-1]AYE$43,150
Rep. Lou Barletta [R, PA-11]AYE$40,525
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R, VA-9]AYE$35,150
Rep. Tom McClintock [R, CA-4]AYE$18,600
4thRep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]AYE$120,700
Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R, TN-7]AYE$82,750
Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]AYE$80,300
Rep. John Shimkus [R, IL-19]AYE$80,250
Rep. Frank Lucas [R, OK-3]AYE$77,250
Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R, MS-1]AYE$74,550
Rep. David McKinley [R, WV-1]AYE$62,250
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R, CA-3]AYE$61,700
Rep. Edward Whitfield [R, KY-1]AYE$55,500
Rep. Darrell Issa [R, CA-49]AYE$54,500
Rep. Rick Crawford [R, AR-1]AYE$38,922
Rep. Paul Broun [R, GA-10]AYE$28,700
5thRep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]AYE$156,100
Rep. Rodney Alexander [R, LA-5]AYE$64,146
Rep. Todd Young [R, IN-9]AYE$47,150
Rep. William Shuster [R, PA-9]AYE$46,250
Rep. Donald Young [R, AK-0]AYE$37,550
Rep. Bill Johnson [R, OH-6]AYE$16,750
6thRep. Peter Sessions [R, TX-32]AYE$90,950
Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]AYE$68,400
Rep. Shelley Capito [R, WV-2]AYE$60,750
Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]AYE$58,150
Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]AYE$50,250
Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R, IL-11]AYE$45,400
Rep. Geoff Davis [R, KY-4]AYE$42,750
Rep. John Carter [R, TX-31]NV$40,050
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R, IN-8]AYE$30,200
7thRep. Kevin Yoder [R, KS-3]AYE$79,550
Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]AYE$56,000
Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R, TX-19]AYE$47,200
Rep. Joe Heck [R, NV-3]AYE$41,500
Rep. Diane Black [R, TN-6]AYE$40,550
Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20]AYE$31,250
Rep. Michael Simpson [R, ID-2]AYE$31,200
Rep. Jeff Duncan [R, SC-3]AYE$25,000
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]AYE$23,900
Rep. Steve Womack [R, AR-3]AYE$20,219
Rep. Mike Kelly [R, PA-3]AYE$18,750
8thRep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]AYE$78,100
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R, TX-5]AYE$72,300
Rep. Charles Dent [R, PA-15]AYE$56,950
Rep. Timothy Walberg [R, MI-7]AYE$38,150
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R, KY-2]AYE$28,400
Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]AYE$16,900
9thRep. Michele Bachmann [R, MN-6]NV$78,420
Rep. Scott Garrett [R, NJ-5]AYE$42,400
Rep. Spencer Bachus [R, AL-6]AYE$42,000
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R, WA-5]AYE$36,850
Rep. Steven Chabot [R, OH-1]AYE$36,700
Rep. Tom Reed [R, NY-29]AYE$32,250
Rep. John Gingrey [R, GA-11]AYE$27,500
Rep. Samuel Johnson [R, TX-3]AYE$26,100
Rep. Joseph Pitts [R, PA-16]AYE$25,000
Rep. Sue Myrick [R, NC-9]AYE$24,500
Rep. Trey Gowdy [R, SC-4]AYE$18,250
10thRep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7]AYE$144,650
Rep. Paul Ryan [R, WI-1]AYE$57,000
Rep. Kristi Noem [R, SD-0]AYE$50,900
Rep. Jeff Denham [R, CA-19]AYE$33,900
Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA-7]NOE$32,250
Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R, MO-4]AYE$30,600
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R, WA-3]AYE$29,600
Rep. Charles Bass [R, NH-2]NOE$28,850
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]AYE$26,300
Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R, UT-3]AYE$26,000
Rep. Tom Graves [R, GA-9]AYE$25,500

METHODOLOGY: MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to current members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Oil & Gas industry, July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011. Campaign contribution figures and industry classification provided by OpenSecrets.org. Top 10 contributing industry groups calculated by MapLight. Contributions from political parties and from other candidates are not included in MapLight's "Top 10" lists.

A link to this data release can be found here.

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