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Why wouldn’t Pombo’s House Committee on Resources, which had jurisdiction, investigate these charges? Perhaps because convicted Jack Abramoff and his Mariana clients gave Pombo thousands in campaign donations.


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Title "Baker's Dozen"
Announcer 1 A baker's dozen.
Announcer 2 The most corrupt members of Congress as rated by an independent watchdog group.
Announcer 1 And Congressman Richard Pombo is one of them.
Fact Congressman Richard Pombo was rated one of the thirteen most corrupt members of Congress by the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on October 5, 2005.
Source Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington press release, October 5, 2005.
Announcer 2 Maybe that’s because of the favors Pombo did for convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Announcer 1 Pombo took thousands of dollars from Abramoff and his Mariana Islands clients.
Fact Congressman Pombo’s campaign and leadership political action committee (Rich PAC) received $7,500 from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, including a $2,000 contribution two weeks after Pombo was named chairman of the House Committee on Resources in January 2003. Pombo’s Rich PAC also received $3,000 from those Abramoff represented on the Northern Mariana Islands, including employees of the commonwealth’s government, the Saipan Garmant Manufacturers Association, and Tan Holdings, the clothing manufacturer.
Source Center for Responsive Politics website.
Announcer 1 Then, when Pombo was asked to investigate child prostitution and forced abortions on the islands, Pombo refused.
Fact Congressman Pombo is the chair of the House Committee on Resources which has jurisdiction over the Northern Mariana Islands. According to the Contra Costa Times, Congressman George Miller has “repeatedly [called] for a congressional investigation into Abramoff’s role in the Marianas, but Pombo refused.” As the Washington Post reported, “[a Department of the] Interior report found that Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry.” In his letters to Pombo, Miller cites similar reports of widespread abuses on the Marianas.
Source

Contra Costa Times, October 11, 2006,;

Washington Post, May 29, 2006; Letter from Congressman George Miller to Congressman Pombo, April 14, 2005

Letter from Pombo to Miller, May 9, 2005,;

Letter from Miller to Pombo, May 11, 2005, ;

Letter from Miller to Pombo, December 6, 2005,

Announcer 2 Sounds like there’s too many lobbyists in Pombo’s kitchen.
Fact Congressman Pombo received $233,360 in contributions from lobbyists from 2000 to 2005, ranking him in the top 10% , or 42nd of the 433 current members of the House ranked by a watchdog group, Public Citizen.
Source “Under the Influence,” Public Citizen.
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