Most of the 10 members of the Senate committee who grilled top-ranking employees of Goldman Sachs last month have accepted campaign contributions from either the bank's political action committee (PAC) or its employees.
Goldman executives – including CEO Lloyd Blankfein – were called before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on April 27 to answer questions about the bank's conduct during the run-up to the 2008 housing crisis.
However, according to Federal Elections Committee information collected by OpenSecrets.org, all but one of the subcommittee's 10 members have taken thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Goldman's official political arm or from individual employees.