As of last month, he's actually become one of my staff aides.

Congressional staff aides said they knew of no other agreement in which a company has paid a Federal agency and gotten to use its name.

"We want to make them do what they're doing in public," said a senior Republican staff aide.

A Democratic staff aide said the "jury was still out."

Other lawmakers and former staff aides have come forward to defend the Senator.

"We sure weren't going to let him come riding in on a horse to save the day," one senior Republican staff aide said.

"It was a way of setting down a marker," said one senior Democratic staff aide.

A staff aide called out that it could not be found.

But the officials have not reported an increase in production costs, the staff aides said.

Speaking fees received by staff aides, the records show, generally range from $2,000 to $6,000 a year.