Associated Press Writer
June 13, 2008
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Republican Whip.
Earned income: $165,200
Honoraria, all donated to charity: none
Major assets: Three IRAs, each $100,000-250,000; Bank of America
savings account, $50,000-100,000; Fidelity investment fund,
$50,000-100,000.
Major sources of unearned income: None.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Most of Kyl's assets are in individual retirement
accounts, which were worth almost $550,000 at the end of 2007.
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Leaders of Senate Committees
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. - chairman Senate Agriculture Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Johnson & Johnson stock, $50,000-100,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Dividends on Johnson & Johnson
stock, $1,001-$2,500.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Harkin's wife, Ruth Raduenz, was employed by Houston-based
ConocoPhillips, United Technologies Corp. of Washington, D.C.,
and paper and pulp company AbitibiBowater Inc. of Montreal
with an unspecified salary and stock options from each. Her
investment holdings include more than $1 million in United
Technologies Corp. and in a money market fund. She also held
investments worth $500,000-$1 million each in ConocoPhillips
Corp. and in two mutual funds.
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga. - senior Republican Senate Agriculture
Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Southwest Georgia Financial Group stock, $50,001-$100,000;
Gateway Capital investment fund, $50,001-$100,000; South Georgia
Banking Company CD, $50,001-$100,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Interest from South Georgia
Banking Company CD, $2,501-$5,000; interest from Gateway Capital
fund, $1,001-$2,500; dividends from Southwest Georgia Financial
Group stock, $1,001-$2,500.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: In 2006, when he was chairman of the Agriculture
Committee, Chambliss reported being reimbursed for four domestic
trips for farm-related speaking engagements. But after losing
the gavel in 2007, he reported no travel. He reported no major
transactions, except the sale of MetLife stock owned by his
wife for $15,001-$50,000. Since 1996, Chambliss has been an
honorary board member of the Georgia-based Camp Sunshine, a
program for children with cancer.
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Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W-Va. - Senate president
pro tempore, chairman Senate Appropriations Committee.
Earned income: $213,500
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Individual retirement account, $100,000-$250,000.
Insurance holdings $100,000-$250,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Interest on IRA, $5,000-$15,000.
Rental home, $5,000-$15,000.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: The longest-serving senator in U.S. history, the
90-year-old Byrd never accumulated the wealth enjoyed by many
of his Senate colleagues. Beyond his IRA, his main source of
unearned income was rent from a house in Shepherdstown, West
Virginia. He also reported $30,000 in income from a book.
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Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. - senior Republican,
Senate Appropriations Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: A cabin in Oxford, Miss., $250,001-$500,000.
Major sources of unearned income: None.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Cochran received roundtrip airfare from Washington
to Boston, hotel and meals from the John F. Kennedy Library
Foundation, Inc., in March 2007. He received ground travel
and meals in Sonoma, Calif., from The Wine Institute in April
2007.
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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. - chairman Senate
Armed Services Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: House in Washington, D.C, $774,120.; 1/9th undivided
interest in commercial real estate in Birmingham, Mich., $317,300;
half interest in 79 acres in Livingston County, Mich., $284,000;
10 acres in Livingston County, Mich., $120,000; two-thirds
interest in 18 acres in Livingston County, $102,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Rent on commercial real
estate in Birmingham, $21,022; Rent on a unit in personal residence,
$7,546.
Major liabilities: None.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Each year, Levin provides a precise breakdown of
his assets instead of noting the broad ranges his holdings
fall within, as required by law. He also details spending from
his Senate office, including expenditures such as lunches and
farewell gifts to staffers. Levin serves as a member of two
limited liability real estate companies: Detroit-based LRS
Co. and Birmingham, Mich.-based Levinson-Levin Properties.
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Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. - chairman
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: Cottage in County Galway, Ireland, $100,001-$250,000.
Major sources of unearned income: Rent from cottage., $5,001-$15,000.
Major liabilities: Mortgage on cottage, $100,001-$250,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Dodd received a $78,893 advance from Crown Publishing
Group in New York for his book "Letters from Nuremberg." His
father was a prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. His wife,
Jackie, has money market funds, IRAs and stock in companies
including Blockbuster, Inc. and Brookdale Senior Living, Inc.
She received director fees from Blockbuster, Inc., Cardiome
Pharma Corp., the Chicago Board of Trade, Javelin Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. and Brookdale Senior Living. She reported $15,001-$50,000
income from the sale of land in Wasatch, Utah.
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Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. - senior Republican
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Earned income: $165,200.
Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.
Major assets: 48 shares of Tuscaloosa Title Co., $1 million-$5
million; Tuscaloosa house, more than $1 million; Washington,
D.C., townhouse, more than $1 million; Bank CD's, $500,001-$1
million.
Major sources of unearned income: Dividends from Tuscaloosa
Title Co., $100,001-$1 million.
Major liabilities: Wells Fargo mortgage on Tuscaloosa apartment
complex, $1 million-$5 million. Loan from Regions Bank, $250,001-$500,000.
Gifts: None.
Narrative: Shelby transferred a portion of his 124-unit apartment
complex in Tuscaloosa into a family trust on Dec. 31 2007,
valuing the transfer at $500,001-$1 million.
Shelby's office said he would amend his report to clarify
that he still owns the remainder of the complex, valued at
$5 million to $25 million.
Shelby's wife also sold an IRA valued at $500,001-$1 million.
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