From OPENCONGRESS.ORG:
The Senate has selected their conferees to meet with the House on ironing out the differences between the two chambers’ financial reform bills. It’s a pretty standard list including members of the Banking and Agriculture Committees that had jurisdiction over the bill as it moved through the Senate. But, since the Senate’s conferees have all been influential players on the issue, it means that they are bringing an unusually large amount of financial industry donations to the negotiating table.
On average, senators who will participate in the conference committee have received 2.85 times as much money from the Finance/Insurance/Real Estate industry in the 2010 campaign cycle than a typical senator. The average for conference committee members is $739,374 while the average for the full Senate is $259,261, according to data from OpenSecrets.org. …
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