The biggest givers on the list, issued Thursday, were labor groups.

And Republicans are sure to call upon the big givers again.

"If they get a call from a big giver, they may feel an obligation."

Its answer is big givers and politicians on the take.

As a group, the other big givers were from Oregon, especially timber companies.

'At the moment the big givers appear to have been giving more and the smaller ones less,' Fountain says.

The program confirms that some of the nation's biggest political givers are not particular about which party they support.

Or so several big givers have been told this month.

Another form of fund raising has been private house concerts aimed at big givers.

Some of the new big givers had never given to public schools before.