John Shimkus doesn’t really want to drill or mine. He wants other people to do the dirty work and drill and mine for him.

Money that Kevin Brady has been given from the political action committees of oil companies such as Anadarko Petroleum, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum and Valero seems to be more compelling to Brady, however, than the rapidly expanding mass of crude oil floating on the waters not far offshore from his home.

Sander Levin asked for money from energy industry political action committees – between $1,000 and $5,000 per PAC, according to the invitation sent out on behalf of Levin’s re-election campaign. In return for this money, the Energy Industry got pigs in a blanket.

PAC hosts to this PhRMA luncheon are being asked to pay Geoff Davis $2,000 just for one plate of the PhRMA food.

While millions of Americans scratched their heads and pulled at their hair while trying to figure out how they’d pay their tax bill and the grocery bill and the electric bill, covering costs that have inflated while wages have stagnated, Rep. Marsha Blackburn had free breakfast at an oyster bar with lobbyists and PAC directors [...]

Latham’s re-election campaign sent out invitations to Wednesday’s lobbyist-hosted dinner party that explicitly request representatives of PACs to come to the party with one thousand dollars a piece.

Congressman Patrick Murphy will tell the people of the 8th congressional district that he’s working for them, but then, it isn’t the people of the 8th congressional district that Murphy is meeting with tonight

On Tuesday, instead of getting out of bed to a bowl of cold cereal, like most Americans will, Representative Wasserman Schultz will go to have breakfast at the offices of the Glover Park Group lobbying firm.

Some special assistance from Pinnacle West Capital came to Harry Mitchell just as the congressman was about to make his final decisions about the American Clean Energy Security Act.

Why would the Murphy Oil Corporation give so much money to the Tim Griffin for Congress campaign? Perhaps it has something to do with Griffin’s pledge to support the continued reliance on dirty energy resources such as coal and oil, including “drilling wherever possible”.