Together, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have raked in $9.7 million in fossil-fuel industry contributions since 1990, a new report shows.
Texas' two Republican U.S. Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, have individually received more campaign funds from the fossil fuel industry since 1990 than any of their colleagues in the upper chamber save one, according to a Only U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who ran for president in 2008 and 2012, grabbing his party's nomination the second time, received more from the industry over that period. His haul totaled $8,519,708, according to the report.
"Groups like the American Petroleum Institute and the Koch-connected Americans for Prosperity have taken up the mantle of protecting the oil and gas industry against international pressure to scale back development," Open Secrets writes.