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Chemical Council Legislative Releases 

Incumbent members of the Texas Legislature took a whopping $582,375 from the 20 reporting Chemical Council member PACs between 1995 and 1998. The 25 current members of the Legislature’s three environmental committees—who move most of the environmental-impact bills that interest the Chemical Council—took $140,425 of this amount. These committee members, who account for 14 percent of all legislative seats, walked away with 24 percent of the money that Chemical Council PACs contributed to members of the Legislature.
 
 

Chemical Council PAC Donations To Environmental Committee Members, '95-'98       Senate Natural Resources Committee  Member Party / Home TCC PAC $ Top TCC Donor Buster Brown (C) R-L. Jackson $24,900 Dow Ken Armbrister* (VC) D-Victoria $19,550 Dow Tom Haywood R-Wichita Falls $11,800 Coastal Bill Ratliff* R-Mt. Pleasant $6,000 Dow Eddie Lucio D-Brownsville $5,700 Coastal Teel Bivins R-Amarillo $4,500 TCC Gonzalo Barrientos D-Austin $3,450 Coastal   Total $75,900     House Natural Resources Committee  Member Party / Home TCC PAC $ Top TCC Donor David Counts (C) D-Knox City $12,250 Coastal Ron Lewis D-Mauriceville $7,550 Dow Robby Cook D-Eagle Lake $5,925 Dow Peggy Hamric* R-Houston $3,150 Exxon Gary Walker (VC) R-Plains $3,100 TCC Frank Corte R-San Antonio $2,800 TCC Tracy King D-Uvalde $550 TCC Robert Puente D-San Antonio $350 Enron John Shields* R-San Antonio $0     Total $35,675     House Environmental Committee  Member Party / Home  TCC PAC $ Top TCC Donor Robert Talton R-Pasadena $6,550 Dow Ed Kuempel R-Seguin $6,100 TCC/Dow Sue Palmer* R-Fort Worth $5,400 Fina Warren Chisum (C) R-Pampa $4,500 TCC Ray Allen (VC) R-Grand Prairie $4,300 Amoco Charlie Howard R-Sugar Land $1,100 TCC Zeb Zbranek* D-Winnie $500 Coastal John Culberson* R-Houston $400 TCC Dawnna Dukes D-Austin $0     Total $28,850   * Not on committee in '97; C = Chair; VC = Vice Chair.

 
 

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