This is the bill that created the concept of the State Department's International Energy Coordinator job, which oversaw creation of the Global Shale Gas Initiative/Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program.

Common Donors

Donor Total People
Nasser J Kazeminy $100,000 Norm Coleman
Jack N. Halpern $56,420 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Ken Salazar
Marilyn Carlson Nelson $51,530 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman
Whitney MacMillan $46,800 Norm Coleman, Chuck Hagel
Bernie Marcus $44,100 Norm Coleman, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman
David Frauenshuh $42,200 Norm Coleman
Ben Barnes $41,200 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Ken Salazar
Larry Rockefeller $41,000 Joe Biden, Olympia Snowe
Robert Mazer $39,800 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman, Larry Edwin Craig, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar
John C Whitehead $39,100 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman, Larry Edwin Craig, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Hagel
Michael Bloomberg $38,900 Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Olympia Snowe
Glen A Taylor $38,300 Norm Coleman
Richard P Richman $37,300 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Ken Salazar
Eli Broad $36,300 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman
Barbi Weinberg $36,250 Joe Biden, Larry Edwin Craig, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Ken Salazar, Olympia Snowe
Larry Weinberg $36,000 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Olympia Snowe
Leonard Blavatnik $35,400 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Richard Green Lugar, Ken Salazar
Seth Klarman $34,200 Joe Biden, Norm Coleman, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Olympia Snowe
Peter Buttenwieser $33,700 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman, Ken Salazar
Abby S Milstein $33,200 Joe Biden, Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman