Charles E. Schumer: Former congressman, current Senator, Schumer was a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, is an AIPAC member, and is stridently pro-Israel. Donations received from Goldman Sachs: 1990: $15,500, 1992: $10,300, 1996: $42,000, 1998: $107,550, 2000: $99,500, 2002: $124,550, 2004: $58,040. Total: $457,400

Arlen Specter: is an American lawyer and politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Elected in 1980, he is currently the 12th-most senior member of the U.S. Senate and the fifth oldest senator. Previously a centrist Republican, Spector joined the Democratic Party on April 28, 2009. At the recommendation of Representative Gerald R. Ford, he worked for the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As an assistant counsel for the commission, he authored or co-authored the controversial “single bullet theory,” which suggested the wounds to Kennedy and non-fatal wounds to Texas Governor John Connally were caused by the same bullet. He voted for the Iraq War Resolution. Donations received from Goldman Sachs: 1990: $9,000, 1998: $9,000, 2002: $30,000, 2004: $51,000, 2008: $47,600.

Bill Clinton: served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 1992: $98,275, 1996: $43,384.

George Bush Sr received from Goldman Sachs in 1992: $68,250.

Joe Lieberman: is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President. Lieberman voted for the Iraq War Resolution. Donations received from Goldman Sachs: 1992; $11,500, 1994: $31,250, 2004: $34,000, 2006: 33,950.

Mitt Romney is an American businessman and former Governor of Massachusetts. Romney was CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. After his business career Romney was elected the 70th Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term expired January 4, 2007. Romney was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 1994: $19,750, 2008: $234,275.

Henry Paulson served as the 74th United States Treasury Secretary and is a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board of Governors. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. During that time period he donated the following $474,440 to political parties and campaigns:
Cycle Total Soft Money Dems Repubs % to Dems % to Repubs
1990 $5,250 $0 $1,000 $1,500 19% 29%
1992 $17,500 $0 $3,500 $9,250 20% 53%
1994 $12,240 $0 $-510 $5,000 -4% 41%
1996 $80,000 $25,000 $15,250 $59,500 19% 74%
1998 $27,500 $0 $1,500 $21,000 6% 76%
2000 $72,250 $50,000 $12,000 $54,000 17% 75%
2002 $71,500 $50,000 $1,500 $68,000 2% 95%
2004 $92,500 $0 $11,000 $76,500 12% 83%
2006 $95,700 $0 $9,800 $75,900 10% 79%

Robert Rubin: served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs. His most prominent post-government role was as Director and Senior Counselor of Citigroup, where he performed ongoing advisory and representational roles for the firm. From November to December 2007, he served temporarily as Chairman of Citigroup. One of his protégé’s was Current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Michael Paese, Goldman Sachs directory of government affairs: formerly top staffer to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., on the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank. He was a registered lobbyist for the Securities Industries and Financial Markets Association since he left Frank’s committee in September. He previously worked at JP Morgan and Mercantile Bankshares, and in between served as senior minority counsel at the Financial Services Committee.

Mark Patterson, Goldman Sachs directory of government affairs (before Paese): now the Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Patterson was a close Tom Daschle associate.

Tom Daschle: is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Daschle, D-South Dakota, said the threat of Iraq’s weapons programs “may not be imminent. But it is real. It is growing. And it cannot be ignored.” And voted accordingly on the Iraq War Resolution. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2004: $143,500.

Sen. Evan Bayh: Bayh is up for re-election in 2010 and his top donor is Goldman Sachs. Goldman is also the top donor to Bayh over the course of his Congressional career, during which Bayh has received more than $4 million from the finance, insurance and real estate sectors. Bayh was an early supporter of the idea of removing Saddam from power, and voted for the Iraq War Resolution.

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, Canada’s Central Bank: Carney had a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs in its London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto offices. His progressively senior positions included co-head of sovereign risk; executive director, emerging debt capital markets; and managing director, investment banking. He worked on South Africa’s post-apartheid venture into international bond markets, and was heavily involved in Goldman Sachs’s work with the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

Barack Obama: Supported Iraq funding bills to keep the war going. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2004: $58,000, 2008: $983,245

Rahm Emmanuel is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois’s 5th congressional district from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take up his current position in the Obama Administration. His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel was a member of the Israeli terrorist group Irgun. Emanuel is a close friend of fellow Chicagoan David Axelrod, chief strategist for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Axelrod signed the ketuba, a Jewish marriage contract, at Emanuel’s wedding, an honor that goes to a close friend. He holds a duel Israeli-U.S. citizenship. During the 2006 election, “if you toe the line for Rahm on the war, the money rains on you like manna from heaven and you are elevated to national celebrity status. But if you are anti-war, Rahm cuts you off at the wallet.” “Emanuel is not choosing proven fundraisers or winning candidates; he is choosing pro-war candidates” (http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10142006.html). Money from Goldman Sachs: 2006: $18,800, 2008: $37,750.

Jon Corzine is the Governor of New Jersey and a former United States Senator. In 1975 he moved to New Jersey to work for Goldman Sachs. He became Chairman and co-CEO of the firm where he worked until 1998. Below is money he donated to political parties and campaigns while co-CEO of Goldman Sachs, totaling $923,050:
Cycle Total Soft Money Dems Repubs % to Dems % to Repubs
1990 $7,750 $0 $2,250 $0 29% 0%
1992 $60,750 $25,000 $52,750 $0 87% 0%
1994 $79,250 $20,000 $70,500 $1,000 89% 1%
1996 $266,750 $217,500 $255,500 $1,000 96% 0%
1998 $507,300 $455,000 $502,300 $0 99% 0%
Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2000: $554,900, 2002: $47,970.

George W. Bush. President during 9/11. Launched the War in Iraq. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2000: $137,499, 2004: $392,600.

Al Gore: Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2000: $95,050

Hillary Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election. Clinton voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001. Clinton strongly supported the 2001 U.S. military action in Afghanistan. Clinton voted in favor of the October 2002 Iraq War Resolution. She was Senator of New York State during 9/11. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 2000: $88,170, 2004: $55,000, 2006: $138,570, 2008: $410,350.

John McCain is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, McCain supported Bush and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. He and then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission. He stated that Iraq was “a clear and present danger to the United States of America”, and voted accordingly for the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002. Money received from Goldman Sachs: 1998: $10,400, 2000: $67,320, 2004: $29,000, 2008: $230,095.

Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York during 9/11, received the following money from Goldman Sachs: 2000: $40,000, 2008: $109,450.

Jay Rockefeller: has served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. He is a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and was a vocal advocate for the war in Iraq. Donations received from Goldman Sachs: 1990: $15,000,

Paul Volcker: is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). He is currently chairman of the newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama. After leaving the Federal Reserve in 1987, he became chairman of the prominent New York investment banking firm, J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn & Co., a corporate advisory and investment firm in New York, run by James D. Wolfensohn, who was later to become president of the World Bank. As of October 2006, he is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He has had a long association with the Rockefeller family, not only with his positions at Chase Bank and the Trilateral Commission, but also through membership of the Trust Committee of Rockefeller Group, Inc. (RGI), which he joined in 1987. That entity managed, at one time, the Rockefeller Center on behalf of the numerous members of the Rockefeller clan.

Alan Greenspan is an American economist and was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He is largely responsible for the current Recession. He currently works as a private advisor and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. Greenspan also has served as a corporate director for Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.; General Foods, Inc.; J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Mobil Corporation; and The Pittston Company. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations foreign policy organization between 1982 and 1988. He also served as a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty in 1984.