[link|http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/06/news0627e.html|Where big business and big government meet]

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Lott, for his part, didn't forget his friends at WorldCom.
Several months later, the Mississippi Republican chose a
senior WorldCom executive for a spot on a federal
commission studying Internet commerce, a major concern
for the telecom firm.

Lott also repeatedly opposed broadband legislation offered
by Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-La.)and John Dingell (D-Mich.)
that WorldCom waged an all-out battle against.

And when the Justice Department and European Union
blocked WorldCom's $129 billion bid for control of rival
long-distance company Sprint in 2000, Lott and Sen. Fritz
Hollings (D-S.C.) helped rally Senate opposition to a plan
by Germany's Deutsche Telekom Inc. to buy Sprint
instead.

[link|http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20020702_558.html|Their money's no good anymore]

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WorldCom and its workers have contributed to more than half the House members and about 80 percent of the Senate in the past 13 years, the Center for Responsive Politics review found.

In the 2000 cycle, they gave roughly $1.8 million more than two-thirds to the GOP, which then held the majority in both the House and Senate.

WorldCom's overall giving pattern has since changed. It and its employees donated at least $916,000 so far this election, split almost evenly between Republicans and Democrats, whose party now controls the Senate.