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Thinkpad Like other members of the Texas delegation, Mr. DeLay, a Republican whose district is in the Houston suburbs near Enron's headquarters, received sizable personal campaign donations from Enron $28,900 since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Laptop Computers Enron used as lobbyists two influential members of Mr. DeLay's informal kitchen cabinet, Ed Buckham and Karl Gallant.
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Laptop Computer Mr. Buckham, a former chief of staff for Mr. DeLay, has worked closely on strategy with Mr. DeLay's political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority. And Mr. Gallant, who once served as that committee's director, went on to run the Republican Majority Issues Committee, a group widely considered close to Mr. DeLay, whose allies once hoped that the issues committee would serve as a counterweight to unions by financing get-out-the-vote efforts for conservative candidates.
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Desktop Computer Records also show that Enron and its executives made sizable donations to each of the groups. The 2000 disclosure statement for Mr. Gallant's committee includes a $50,000 contribution from Enron's chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, and a $25,000 contribution from Joseph W. Sutton, a vice chairman of Enron who left the company in November. Before that year, disclosure was not required for gifts to issues groups.
Notebooks Americans for a Republican Majority received a $10,000 corporate contribution from Enron in 2000 for its unregulated "soft money" account. And according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the group also received $47,250 in regulated contributions in 1995 through 2000 from Enron, its political action committee or individuals tied to the company.
Lenovo Mr. DeLay's spokesman, Stuart Roy, said there was nothing unusual about Mr. DeLay's relationship with Enron. He described the company as "an equal-opportunity political donor and an equal-opportunity employer, as well, hiring lobbyists who were both Republicans and Democrats and giving money to both sides, including a third of House Democrats and half of the Senate Democrats."
Hard Drive Mr. Gallant said he would not discuss his dealings with Enron, citing a confidentiality clause in his contract. Mr. Buckham did not return a phone call, and an aide said he would be unavailable until later this month.
Travelstar Mr. DeLay has been unabashed about demanding that business support Republicans, whom he considers commerce's natural ally. Aides said he froze Enron out of his office for some of the past year because it had hired Linda Robinson, a Democrat who was a senior Treasury official in the Clinton administration, to run its Washington office.
Gateway Mr. DeLay has previously urged lobbying firms and trade associations to install more Republicans in executive positions. Indeed, the House Ethics Committee wrote a warning, but took no official action, after he tried to persuade a lobbying group not to hire a Democrat as its president in 1998.
Laptop Parts Still, whatever the tensions last year, Mr. Delay and Enron had a natural alliance. In his days in the Texas Capitol, Mr. DeLay was called Dereg by some because of his support of business. And in Congress he has been a longtime proponent of energy deregulation, an issue dear to Enron.
Software Moreover, last year he was the chief Republican strategist who pushed through the House energy legislation that was favored by Enron and many other energy companies. Three years ago, when Enron lost out to a Japanese company in bidding to build a power plant in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, a United States territory in the Pacific, Mr. DeLay asked for the bidding to be reopened.
Hard Drives In some ways, Mr. DeLay's support for Enron was a matter of constituent service. Mr. Roy said that Enron's success had always been important to Mr. DeLay because of the hundreds of people the company employed in his Congressional district and the thousands of others in nearby Houston.
Electronics "Obviously, DeLay would not be doing his job if he were not trying to help job creation by a major company in Houston," Mr. Roy said.
Canon He said Mr. DeLay had never asked that the company hire his former aides as lobbyists.
Desktop Pc It is also the case that Enron cultivated the other side of the aisle. For example, Michael Lewan, a former chief of staff to Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who is running one investigation into the company's collapse, worked for Enron for a time, a spokesman for Mr. Lieberman confirmed. The spokesman, Dan Gerstein, said Mr. Lewan, who remains a political adviser to Mr. Lieberman, had severed his ties to the company.
Desktop Computers Enron officials in Washington referred questions to a company official in Houston who did not return a call.
Think Pad Having a lobbyist who is close to a lawmaker can help a company get attention. In 1999 Mr. Buckham told Mr. DeLay that the Japanese company had successfully bid to build the power plant in the Northern Marianas. Mr. DeLay wrote his letter asking that the bidding be reopened.
Repair Mr. Roy said there had been rumors at the time that some bidders had been locked out of the competition. He said Mr. DeLay's letter did not advocate on behalf of Enron, but for "a fair and open bidding system." Mr. Roy said he did not know who won the final contract.
Data Recovery A former aide to Mr. DeLay who did not want to be identified said of Enron, "They certainly through Ed Buckham got more attention than people who didn't have Ed Buckham."
Cisco After Enron hired Ms. Robertson for its Washington office in late 2000, relations with Mr. DeLay became more distant. "Relations were chilly all last year," Mr. Roy said.
Keyboard But as the member of the House Republican leadership shepherding Mr. Bush's program through the House, Mr. DeLay pulled off a stunning upset and built a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to pass energy legislation sought by many companies, including Enron.
Monitor Mr. Roy said Mr. DeLay had received no warnings that Enron was in deep financial trouble. With many of the hard-pressed Enron employees in his district, Mr. DeLay called the situation "heartbreaking" in an interview with a Houston television station this week and said his goal now was to find out whether there had been criminal wrongdoing by the company.
Desktop By Alison Mitchell
New York Times - 1/16/2002
Topic: Enron
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