Halliburton is famous as a military contractor tied to former CEO, Dick Cheney. Many folks may not know that they also have their own Political Action Committee.

The FEC Disclosure Report Search Results provide interesting information on who Halliburton Company PAC wants in the House and Senate.

HALLIBURTON COMPANY PAC's Friends

Candidate	Party	State	Office	Net Contributions 2005-2006*
George Allen	Rep.	VA	Senate	$2000*
Joe L. Barton	Rep.	TX	House	$3000
Brian P. Bilbray	Rep.	CA	House	$1000
Earl Blumenauer	Dem.	OR	House	$0*
Roy Blunt	Rep.	MO	House	$1000
Denise Bode	Rep.	OK	House	$2000
John A. Boehner	Rep.	OH	House	$1000
Charles W. Boustany, Jr.	Rep.	LA	House	$1000
Conrad Burns	Rep.	MT	Senate	$2000
Ken Calvert	Rep.	CA	House	$2500
Lincoln D. Chafee	Rep.	RI	Senate	$1000
Tom Cole	Rep.	OK	House	$2000
Michael K. Conaway	Rep.	TX	House	$2000
Barbara L. Cubin	Rep.	WY	House	$1000
Henry R. Cuellar	Dem.	TX	House	$2000
John Culberson	Rep.	TX	House	$4500
Geoffrey C. Davis	Rep.	KY	House	$1000
Thomas M. Davis III	Rep.	VA	House	$3000
Richard Michael DeWine	Rep.	OH	Senate	$2000
John Eric Ensign	Rep.	NV	Senate	$2000
Raymond E. “Gene” Green	Dem.	TX	House	$2000
Charles T. Hagel	Rep.	NE	Senate	$1500
Samuel Robert Johnson	Rep.	TX	House	$2000
John Heddens Kingston	Rep.	GA	House	$1000
Jon L. Kyl	Rep.	AZ	Senate	$1000
Trent Lott	Rep.	MI	Senate	$2000
James Otis McCrery III	Rep.	LA	House	$2000
Charlie Melancon Jr.	Dem.	LA	House	$1000
E. Benjamin Nelson	Dem.	NE	Senate	$1000
Solomon P. Ortiz	Dem.	TX	House	$1000
Ted Poe	Rep.	TX	House	$1000
Richard Pombo	Rep.	CA	House	$4000
Silvestre Reyes	Dem.	TX	House	$0*
Richard J. Santorum	Rep.	PA	Senate	$2500
Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	ME	Senate	$1000
John Sullivan	Rep.	OK	House	$2000
James Matthew Talent	Rep.	OK	House	$2000
Craig Thomas	Rep.	WY	Senate	$2000
William Thomas	Rep.	CA	House	$2000
David Vitter	Rep.	LA	Senate	$2500
John William Warner	Rep.	VA	Senate	$1000
Roger F. Wicker	Rep.	MI	House	$1000
Heather A. Wilson	Rep.	NM	House	$1000

*When negative contributions were listed, the money was subtracted out to get net contributions for the time period in question.

As you can see, Halliburton Company PAC has a particular fondness for Republicans and Texas Democrats.

During the same time period, the National Republican Congressional Committee received $6500 from Halliburton Co PAC. The National Republican Senatorial Committee received $2500.

Time constraints have kept me from responding to this as quickly as I would like, but I think it is still important to comment on a bigoted ad from the Lieberman Senate Campaign. Queerty.com has extensive coverage of the issue, including screen shots and video.

The technique used in the ad was to make Lieberman's opponent, Ned Lamont, look subservient and dependent on former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker by putting a pink shirt on his cartoon caricature and giving the Lamont cartoon a high pitched voice. Attacking men by associating female and queer traits with them is reprehensible. It is a personal insult to all queers and to all women.

There is an element of irony. Women like Cindy Sheehan and queers like Harvey Milk have shown more courage and independence than Lieberman is capable of doing.

Lieberman's defenders might point out the Champaign Fund's 100% rating for the incumbent on lgbt issues. However, two terribly important votes on lgbt issues show that such a rating is either outdated or inaccurate. Lieberman cast a viciously homophobic, sexist, and racist vote in favor of confirming John Roberts to the Supreme Court. Joe-mentum cast an equally homophobic, sexist, and racist vote on Alito filibuster, the only Alito vote that affected the outcome of his nomination.

It is no secret that Alito and Roberts have devoted their adult lives to attacking all civil rights and to subverting and undermining the U.S. Constitution. Lieberman didn't just betray the queer community with those votes, he violated his oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.

Hopefully, the HRC will put aside the pressure of rich, right-wing donors who love Ann Coulter's endorsee, Joseph Lieberman, and endorse Ned Lamont who is better on queer issues.