But neither Mr. Vedder nor the newspaper mentioned American Enterprise Institute's financial links to the Waltons.
Among the most aggressive to cut previous financial links to Enron and Andersen have been senators who face re-election this fall.
Last week Unison, the public sector union, said it was reviewing its financial links with the Labour Party, a link the Fire Brigades Union has already severed.
Research suggests companies with financial links to the Tories scooped up £1.5bn of NHS contracts between 2012 and 2014.
A total of 124 peers, equivalent to 16% of the House of Lords, have direct financial links with financial services firms.
"We have the National Terrorism Financial Investigation Unit, which investigates the financial links to terrorism," says my contact.
The Church of England has finally cut its financial links with Wonga, the controversial payday lender, it was announced on Thursday.
Private companies with financial links to Tory politicians have won NHS contracts worth £1.5bn in the past two years, according to research by the UK's largest trade union.
In October 1989, National Security Decision Directive 26, signed by Bush, explicitly supported increased financial links with Iraq.
But of 29 articles strongly recommending the rival Eli Lilly drug, Actos, as a replacement for Avandia, 25 were by authors with financial links to Lilly.
The MP rejects suggestions he coached a businessman employed by a firm with which he has financial links on what to say in evidence to the committee.
