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Campaign Funds Flow to Relatives

By John Bresnahan
Roll Call Staff
May 5, 2003, Midnight

For House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), politics is now a family business.

DeLay has both his wife and daughter on the payroll of political organizations he controls or is affiliated with, and the two women have raked in nearly $350,000 in just under three years from those groups.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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