The Politics of Contracting - British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
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(In 1999, BNFL acquired Westinghouse Electric Company.)
British Nuclear Fuels Inc. (BNFL) is a Department of Energy (DoE) contractor in the nuclear energy business. Its activities range from reactor design and fuel manufacturing to power station decommission and clean-up. BNFL is currently under contract to head the Savannah River Nuclear Facility cleanup program as well as the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.
| Money Spent by British Nuclear Fuels to Influence Decisions and Secure Future Federal Contracts 1997 through 2004 |
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YEAR |
TOTAL Campaign Contributions |
INDIVIDUAL Contributions |
PAC Contributions |
SOFT MONEY** Contributions |
LOBBYING Expenditures |
CONTRACT AWARDS
(from U.S. Gov't) |
|
2004 |
$16,909
|
$15,409
|
$1,500
|
$0
|
NCA
|
NCA
|
| 2003* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$515,000
|
NCA
|
| 2002 |
$184,809
|
$17,459
|
$15,250
|
$162,100
|
$245,000
|
$1,686,758,000
|
| 2001* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$345,000
|
$1,789,133,000
|
| 2000 |
$143,650
|
$15,500
|
$250
|
$127,900
|
$480,000
|
$2,290,808,000
|
| 1999* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$120,000
|
$775,092,000
|
| 1998 |
$1,600
|
$1, 600
|
$0
|
$0
|
$80,000
|
$194,156,000
|
| 1997* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$140,000
|
$92,643,000
|
|
TOTALS
|
$346,968
|
$49,968
|
$17,000
|
$290,000
|
$1,925,000
|
$6,828,590,000
|
*Campaign contributions are reported in two-year cycles.
** In 2002, McCain-Feingold (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) banned soft money contributions. The United States Supreme Court upheld the soft money ban in 2003.
NCA means Not Currently Available.
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Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Company Executives for British Nuclear Fuels 1997 through 2004 |
| Lt. Colonel John Wiulcynski, U.S. Army Reserves (Ret.), Former Department of Energy Director of the Office of Field Management |
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Board Directors for British Nuclear Fuels 1997 through 2004 |
| Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Member of the Defense Policy Board, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Dr. Gail de Planque, Former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| Former Rep. Robert H. Michel (R-IL), Former House Minority Leader |
| James Schlesinger, Former Member of the Defense Policy Board, Former Secretary of Defense, Former Secretary of Energy, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Registered Company Lobbyists for British Nuclear Fuels 1997 through 2004 |
| Former Rep. Beryl Anthony (D-AR) (Winston & Strawn) |
| Michael F. Barrett, Jr., Former Investigator for Congressional Committee |
| Lanny J. Davis, Former Special Counsel to President William J. Clinton (Patton Boggs) |
|
Former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA) (Johnston & Associates) |
|
Firms Registered to Lobby for British Nuclear Fuels
1997 through 2004 |
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| Advocacy Group Akin, Gump, et al. Anderson Pitts Andrade, Vick & Associates Armenian, Garabed K. Arter & Hadden Barbour, Griffith & Rogers Barrett, Jr., Michael F. Berkshire Inc. Birch, Horton et al. Butera & Andrews Campbell-Crane & Associates |
Covington & Burling Dewey Ballantine Dykema Gossett FBA Inc. Florida Business Associates Inc. Garvey, Schubert & Barer GKV Association of McLean Global USA Inc. Griffin, Johnson et al. Groom & Nordberg Gruver, John Allen Hamberger Law Firm, Martin G. Hurt, Norton & Associates |
Johnson, Smith et al. Johnston & Associates Kaye, Scholer et al. Lipsen, Zel E. McBride Associates, Charlie Patton Boggs Podesta/Mattoon Powell, Goldstein et al. Swidler & Berlin Van Scoyoc Associates Wiley, Rein & Fielding Willkie, Farr & Gallagher Winston & Strawn |
POGO's list of the top 20 government contractors for FY 2002 was compiled by Government Executive magazine (Vol. 35, No. 12, August 2003, p. 24). The dollars for total, individual, political action committee, and soft money contributions, as of December 1, 2003, were provided by the Center for Responsive Politics. Lobbying expenditures were compiled by POGO from information obtained from Political Money Line and the Center for Responsive Politics. Contract award dollars from FY 1997 through FY 2002 were compiled by Government Executive magazine. In February 2004, DOD listed its top 100 contractors in FY 2003 and we provided those DOD contract award figures for completeness.
For more information about the revolving door between the government and federal contractors and about campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures, please see POGO's report "The Politics of Contracting." For more detailed information regarding misconduct by the government's top contractors, see POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database and POGO's report Federal Contractor Misconduct: Failures of the Suspension and Debarment System.
