Is Comcast buying congressional cooperation for less than a million dollars? Cheap, huh?

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Follow the money to Congress on Comcast-Time-Warner deal
By seattlepi.com staff, February 14, 2014

The next phase for the proposed $45 billion Comcast-Time-Warner corporate union will be before the long arm of the federal government, whose regulators will be sifting out the antitrust implications of a merger that could hammerlock one-third of the market. The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission will be at the front of giving this merger the smell test.

No doubt our nation’s elected representatives will get in in the act, too, and there the money-and-politics picture clouds. Comcast has been among the most generous donors to our nation’s stewards in Washington and our pals at Maplight – which analyzes the impact of money on politics — says Comcast has “been focusing their giving on members of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, which has jurisdiction over the Federal Communications Commission.”

Here’s Maplight’s analysis of OpenSecrets.org data of contributions to current members of Congress from PACs and employees of Comcast Corp., from January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2012.

SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMCAST
COMMUNICATIONS &        CONTRIBUTIONS
TECHNOLOGY
CA 98000
Anna Eshoo 30000
Doris Matsui 20000
Henry Waxman 48000
CO 34000
Cory Gardner 5500
Diana DeGette         28500
IA 5000
Bruce Braley 5000
IL 80000
Adam Kinzinger 17000
Bobby Rush 36000
John Shimkus 27000
KS 5000
Mike Pompeo 5000
KY 12500
Steven Brett Guthrie 12500
LA 14500
Steve Scalise 14500
MI 217275
Fred Upton 81500
John Dingell 100775
Mike Rogers 35000
MO 1000
Billy Long 1000
NC 21000
George “G.K.” Butterfield 19000
Renee Ellmers         2000
NE 30000
Lee Terry         30000
NJ 44300
Frank Pallone 29000
Leonard Lance         15300
NM 11500
Ben Ray Lujan         11500
OH 8500
Bob Latta         8500
OR 53000
Greg Walden 53000
PA 59250
Mike Doyle 59250
TN 28500
Marsha Blackburn 28500
TX 77000
Joe Barton 77000
UT 36500
Jim Matheson 36500
VT 16700
Peter Welch 16700
GRAND TOTAL         853525
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