Summaries of House financial disclosure forms

[Ron Burgundy]

AP - Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., senior Republican, House Armed Services Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Seventeen acres in Warren County, Va., $100,001-$250,000; Quarter-acre lot in Bear Lake, Utah, $15,001-$50,000; North Island Federal Credit Union accounts, $215,003-$550,000; Temecula Savings account, $100,001-$250,000.

Major sources of unearned income: Interest on North Island Federal Credit Union accounts, $6,003-$12,500.

Major liabilities: Southwest Airlines credit card, $15,001-$50,000; North Island Federal Credit Union credit card, $15,001-$50,000.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Hunter is retiring from Congress at the end of the year after a failed presidential bid. His son Duncan D. Hunter, a Marine reservist who's served in Iraq and Afghanistan, won the GOP nomination for his father's seat and is favored to win in November.

Hunter last year sold the cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virgina that he'd owned with Army secretary and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Pete Geren of Texas. The sale price was $100,001-$250,000.

Hunter's home east of San Diego burned down in 2003 during Southern California wildfires and he has rebuilt it over the past several years. Hunter is now back living in the home and values the property at $250,001-$500,000 (down from $500,001-$1 million in 2006).

Hunter is on the board of the American Conservative Union.

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Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Twenty-one stock funds, $703,000-$1.795 million; bank and securities accounts worth $117,000-$330,000; municipal bonds worth $61,000-$215,000; IRAs worth $17,000-81,000; stock in General Electric Co. and Bank of America Corp., both $15,001-$50,000; stock in DuPont Co., IStar Financial Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Stryker Corp., Thornburg Mortgage Inc. and Washington Mutual Inc., each $1,001-15,000; money market funds worth $2,000-$30,000.

Major sources of unearned income: Stock dividends, interest, $65,000-$161,200.

Major liabilities: None.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Dingell's wife, Debbie, is vice chairman of the General Motors Corp. Foundation. While some of the couple's assets are held jointly, she holds stock and stock options in her name from General Motors Corp. worth $650,000-$1.35 million. Her portfolio also includes holdings in ConocoPhillips, CVS Caremark Corp., DirecTV Group Inc., General Electric Co., Procter & Gamble Co., and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The congressman is a member of the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy, an Arlington, Va.-based conservation organization.

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Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, senior Republican, House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Ennis Business Forms investments, $15,001-$50,000; Reliant Energy investments, $15,0001-$50,000.

Major sources of unearned income: Dividends from Ennis Business Forms investment, $1,001-$2,500.

Major liabilities: Personal loan with Prosperity Bank of Ennis, Texas for less than $10,000.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Barton sold TXU Corp. stock for between $15,001-$50,000. He had listed the value of the stock in the same range in a 2006 report. Barton paid off a previous personal loan in 2006 before taking out another personal loan in 2007.

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Rep. Illena Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., senior Republican, House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria: None.

Major assets: A bank account worth $50,000 to $100,000 and a loan to Royal West Properties of $15,000 to $50,000.

Major sources of unearned income: None.

Major liabilities: None.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Ros-Lehtinen reported that her husband Dexter Lehtinen, who is an attorney, owns a rental house in Miami worth $250,000 to $500,000, which earned rent last year of between $1,000 and $2,500.

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Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman, House Judiciary Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Detroit investment property, $15,000-$50,000.

Major sources of unearned income: None.

Major liabilities: Overdraft reserve from the Congressional Federal Credit Union, $1,001-$15,000; unsecured loan from Sallie Mae, $1,001-$15,000.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Conyers reported 14 sponsor-paid trips. Six of the trips were to the New York metropolitan area to speak to groups such as the Rainbow Push Coalition, the American Sociological Association and the New School. He also traveled to Cincinnati and Chicago to speak to local branches of the NAACP, San Diego to speak to the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles and Haiti for a Haitian support project. Conyers' spouse, Monica Conyers, serves on the Detroit City Council.

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Lamar Smith, R-Texas, senior Republican, House Judiciary Committee

Earned income: $165,200

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Surface and mineral interests from Lamar Seeligson ranch in Premont, Texas, $1,000,001-$5,000,000; Bank of America investment account, $500,0001-$1,000,000; Barnstable, Mass. rental property, $250,001-$500,000; Part interest in a San Antonio office building, $100,0001-$250,000; Frost Bank, $15,001-$50,000; Lago Visa Joint Venture, $15,001-$50,000; Wachovia, $15,001-$50,000.

Major sources of unearned income: Rent, royalties and surface lease from Premont, Texas ranch, $50,001-$100,000; dividends and capital gains on Bank of America investment account, $50,001-$100,000; rent on Massachusetts property, $2,501-$5,000; interest on Lago Vista Joint Venture account, $1,001-$2,500.

Major liabilities: None.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Lamar Smith has partial interest in a ranch that has been in his family for four generations.

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Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, senior Republican, House Science Committee.

Earned income: $165,200.

Honoraria, all donated to charity: None.

Major assets: Stock in real estate company, North & East Trading Co., $500,001-$1,000,000; stocks in Lakeside Bancshares Inc., Rockwall, Texas, $1,000,001-$5,000,000 and $50,001-$100,000; certificates of Deposit and accounts at Lakeside National Bank, $500,001-$1,000,000; 152-acre farm in Hunt County, Texas, $100,001-$250,000; four acres adjacent to Rockwall, Texas, home, $100,001-$250,000.

Major sources of unearned income: State of Texas legislative pension, $65,748; stock dividends from Lakeside Bancshares Inc., $50,0001-$100,000; interest from Lakeside National Bank certificates of deposit and accounts, $15,001-$50,000.

Major liabilities: Business loan from his real estate company, North & East Trading Co., Rockwall, Texas, $100,001-$250,000.

Gifts: None.

Narrative: Hall sold stock in Crowley Holding Co., where he is chairman and director. The sale was for between $500,001-$1,000,000.

The value of 22 acres of rural land he owns with his wife dropped, but the value of his stocks in Lakeside Bancshares Inc. and Lakeside Bank rose.

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