Orange Julius – Today, Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., is scheduled to attend the National Orange Show Annual Awards Dinner in San Bernardino, Calif.  To join Baca at this event, tickets range from $5,000 for PACs to $99 for individual contributions. Baca’s fundraiser invitations appear frequently in the Party Time database.

Tuesday Moneymakers – Tuesday is a popular day to fundraise this week for several members of Congress. Legendary R&B singer Chaka Khan is the featured entertainment at an evening concert at the Birchmere, where Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga. plans to raise cash. Cost is $85 for a ticket from Ticketmaster; Johnson is asking donors for $1,500 for one ticket, $2,500 for two.Meanwhile, Reps. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Mike Quigley, D-Ill., are planning fundraisers at the Washington Capitals vs. St. Louis Blues hockey game. Stearns’ event is hosted by former Texas Rep. Jack Fields, now a lobbyist for the Twenty-First Century Group, along with an AT&T lobbyist, a Verizon lobbyist, and another with the Glover Park Group. Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., will be hosting a seasonal New York Apple Harvest Reception at the National Democratic Club Townhouse. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. plans to appear at a dinner fundraiser benefiting Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Tuesday night.

Race for Massachusetts - As the Massachusetts Senate race continues to heat up,  Sen. Scott Brown continues his fundraising efforts on Wednesday as he hosts a breakfast fundraiser. To join Brown for breakfast, tickets start at $2,500 for PACs and $1,000 for individuals.

Big Easy in DC – Bringing Louisiana flavor to the nation’s capitol, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D. La., will be hosting an evening filled with sweets and treats from the Bayou at her Capitol Hill home on Wednesday.

Tired of Turkey, Try Chinese Takeout – If people are tired of Thanksgiving leftovers, they can join Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., on Wednesday for Chinese Takeout. Hosts are lobbyists Dan Mattoon and Mike Zarrelli.

Texas Sized Breakfast – Originally scheduled for October 25, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, R-Texas, breakfast fundraiser has been rescheduled for this Thursday. Former Super Committee Member Rep. Xavier Becerra, R-Calif., is scheduled to attend as a special guest.

Tis’ the Season – As 2011 comes to a close, politicians are scrambling to raise money with holiday cheer. This Thursday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will be hosting a holiday party featuring Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. This fundraiser is to benefit a long list of “Frontline Members,” including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Melvin Watt, D-N.C., and Heath Schuler, D-N.C. will also be hosting holiday themed fundraisers on Thursday. Sewell will be having a holiday cupcakes and cocktails reception; Watt will be hosting a “holiday sip” in the evening; and Shuler will kick-off winter with a Southern reception.

Rep. Gwen Moore, D- Wis.,  is hosting a holiday concert fundraiser featuring American Idol finalist and Wisconsin native Naima Adedapo this Saturday. Attendees can pay $75 for two tickets or $50 for one ticket.

California Dreamin’ – Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., will be at Honorable Tom Reynold’s 19^th Annual Pebble Beach Golf Weekend starting Dec.2-4. The cost is $5,000 per PAC and $2,500 per individual.

Ski Weekend- Sen. Lisa Murkowski will be in Deer Valley, UT for the First Tracks Ski Trip. Murkowski has raised cash while skiing before.

For the complete list of fundraisers this week, check out Party Time.

A GOP contender for the open Texas Senate seat is making the rounds in Washington, DC, raising cash at several events hosted by lobbyists.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, R.-Texas, was scheduled to attend a reception on Monday at the town home of lobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta. The Podestas are well known fundraisers for the Democratic Party. All except for one host, Rebecca Edgar, are lobbyists for the Podesta Group, where Tony Podesta is the founder and serves at the chairman.

Yesterday, Dewhurst was due at a  meet and greet at National Association of Wholesaler Distributors. The hosts, Jade West and Dirk Van Dongen, are lobbyists at the association.  Both West and Van Dongen have given money to Republican candidates in the past. More recently, West gave a contribution of $1,000 to the Rick Perry campaign in September.  Van Dongen contributed to the Bush campaign in 2003 and 2004, and to Sen. John McCain’s campaign in 2008.

On November 21, Dewhurst was the beneficiary for a reception. Three of the five hosts are lobbyists for Ogilvy Government Relations. Ogilvy represents such clients as the American Petroleum Institute and Chevron Corp. According to Open Secrets, Dewhurst is one of the top five recipients of contributions from the oil and gas industry.

Dewhurst faces a crowded field of competitors in Texas’ March primary, but so far is in the lead according to a recent poll by the Texas Tribune. Dewhurst also leads the pack so far in fundraising, having collected $5.1 million. To date nearly all of his money has come from in-state donors.

An upcoming Washington, D.C. fundraiser for former Rep. Mark Neumann, R-Wis., who is running for the open Senate seat in Wisconsin, is hosted by a biotechnology lobbyist with ties to GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., are listed as special guests. Both senators have endorsed Neumann.

This is the first DC-based fundraising invitation Party Time has received for Neumann, who ran and lost a bid for the gubernatorial race in 2010. He will likely face Democratic candidate Rep. Tammy Baldwin in the general election next year, which is considered a toss up, despite Baldwin’s large fundraising advantage. Neumann is expected to get extra help from outside conservative interests.

The lobbyist hosting the fundraiser,  Allen Shofe, works for the firm Emergent Biosolutions, and reportedly does congressional outreach for Huntsman. He was one of a long list of hosts for a June 15 Washington, D.C. event raising money for Horizon PAC, a political action committee that has been linked to the presidential candidate, although the campaign claims it is not connected. In the past, Shofe has hosted fundraisers for Sen. Scott Brown, R.-Mass., and other Republicans and Shofe has worked for drug company Eli Lilly and tobacco interests. He did not return a call for comment.

Baldwin recently had a joint fundraiser with Democratic Massachusetts candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Note: The original version of this post mistakenly stated that Sen. Tom Coburn represented Maryland.

Yesterday presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, R-GA., was scheduled to headline a breakfast fundraising event in Urbandale, Iowa for Jeff Mullen, who is running for the state Senate. Cost was $35 for an individual and $50 for a couple.

Mullen told the Iowa Republican “I know Iowans are being bombarded with Presidential Candidates this close to the Iowa Caucus but we’ve got to keep in mind that our Iowa Senate is at a pivotal position.”

Earlier this week Gingrich saw a surge in the polls, after suffering campaign setbacks last summer. News also broke this week, however, that Gingrich earned at least $1.6 million consulting for mortgage company Freddie Mac, which is putting him under new scrutiny. On Wednesday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings criticizing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for lavish bonuses to executives.

Gov. Harley Barbour, R-Miss., and presidential candidate Herman Cain will be joining forces at the 2011 Statesman of the Year Dinner in Sarasota, Fla.  Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, is being honored at this event to benefit the Republican Party of Sarasota County. In October, Barbour told The Hill that his wife would vote for Cain if the election were on that day.

While all eyes are on the supercommittee this week as their deadline for identifying budget cuts fast approaches, a few of the lawmakers on the panel still have some time on their hands for fundraising.

This week, there are eight fundraisers planned either benefiting a supercommittee member or where they are playing host. Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., was scheduled to host a fundraiser for Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Texas Monday night at Charlie Palmer Steak while Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., will be hosting an event for Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas on Tuesday. The nine-term congressman may be facing a primary challenge in March against State Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio if the Texas Legislature passes its redistricting map. So far Castro has raised more than $500,000 since announcing his candidacy for Congress.

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s, D-S.C. will be hosting a breakfast event on Wednesday to raise money for his Leadership PAC and another fundraiser at the restaurant Art and Soul, the Politico reports. Rep Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., is scheduled to attend a breakfast Tuesday morning at the Democratic Club.

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., has a breakfast fundraiser planned on Wednesday, Nov. 16, according to the National Journal and later that evening, he will be having a 50^th birthday celebration at Sonoma. GOP Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wy., Dan Coats, R-Ind., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Jim DeMint, R-S.C.,  Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are scheduled to attend. Lastly, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., will be hosting an event for Sen. Orrin Hatch on Thursday.

Since the creation of the panel at least seven members have accepted money from lobbyists, including Camp, according to the Washington Post, Camp took in the most contributions — “$707,000 for his campaign and $180,000 for his leadership PAC.”

Although, only Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., announced that he would stop raising money, other members have said they would not schedule any new fundraising events. For a list of all supercommittee fundraisers see here.

Aloha Candidate Lingle — Several ranking Senate Republicans will be attending a fundraiser to benefit candidate Linda Lingle, R-Hawaii, on Wednesday at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The list includes Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Mike Johanns, R-Neb., Jim Risch, R-Idaho and John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Young at Heart — Sen. John Thune’s leadership PAC , called the Heartland Values PAC, will be having a Young Professionals Reception on Wednesday at Good Stuff Eatery.

Go Speed Racer, Go! — Rep. David Vitter, R-La., will be holding a leadership PAC event at the Disney World Westin Swan Hotel & Walt Disney Speedway this weekend. The trip package for a weekend filled with golfing, Indy car racing and dinner costs $2,500 per individual or PAC.

Monday Moneymakers — Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., held a noon event today and former Rep. Dan Maffei, D-N.Y., will be having fundraiser this evening. The American Beverage Association PAC, among others, hosted the Lugar lunch. Maffeii’s hosts include Global Policy Solutions President CEO Maya Rockeymoore, who is married to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Busy Wednesday — There are a total of seven events scheduled as of now (including those mentioned earlier in the post) varying from breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and cocktail receptions. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will be at the American Trucking Association for cocktails and dinner fundraiser hosted by the Verizon PAC, American Dental PAC and the Truck PAC. The fundraiser will benefit his leadership PAC.

Thursday’s fundraisers — Sens. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan.

What do you get when you mix a politician and two of the hottest acts in the music industry? You will get one of the hottest concert tickets in town. Looking to end the year on a fundraising high note, Rep. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., is offering PACs a VIP reception and two tickets to the Jay-Z and Kanye West concert on Nov. 3 for $2,500, and charging $1,500 for the reception and one ticket. Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., will also have a fundraising event at the concert. The cost for his event is $1,500 per individual and $2,500 per couple. Currently, fans can get tickets to the show starting at $71.60, including fees.

According to Party Time records, this is not the first time Rep. Towns has used a concert as a fundraising venue. Since 2009, he has had events at the Verizon Center at the concerts of Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and of course Jay-Z. In addition, Rep. Carson had a fundraising event at the Jay-Z concert in March 2010 as well as the Beyonce concert in June 2009.

Although in this case Jay-Z or Kanye are performing public concerts that these representatives are using as an opportunity to fundraise, both entertainers have mixed Democratic politics and hip-hop in the past. During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Jay-Z held several concerts for then-candidate Obama to help the campaign register voters. During inauguration week, Jay-Z along with Young Jeezy, Beyonce and Mary J. Blige performed a concerted billed as billed as the ”Concert on the Eve of Change,” at the Warner Theatre. Jay-Z also held a private concert for Obama and his campaign staffers at the D.C. Armory.

West is no stranger to politics either. He performed during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO in 2008 along with other musical acts such as the Black Eyed Peas and Willie Nelson. Also, in 2008 the Kanye West Foundation partnered with ED in ’08 to challenge the presidential candidates to make education a priority in their agenda. More recently, he as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons made an appearance at the Occupy Wall Street protest.

Deficit panel-watching lobbyists throwing fundraiser for Orrin Hatch. Four lobbyists at Capitol Tax Partners, all with previous posts on the Senate Finance Committee, are hosting Hatch, R-Utah, the ranking Republican on the committee, for breakfast on Thursday. One of them, Lawrence Willcox, also used to be the senior advisor to the deficit panel’s Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and another, Lindsay Hooper, worked on the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.

The super committee is considering tackling tax reform, and Capitol Tax Partners lobbies on tax issues for some of nation’s biggest banks, the Federation of American Hospitals, and Amgen, all with stakes in the super committee’s work. Last week, Hatch and the Finance Committee Republicans submitted their formal recommendations to the panel, focusing on Medicare and Medicaid cuts.

Scott Brown hopes third event is a charm. For the third time in eight days, Brown, R-Mass., will hold an event catering to D.C. insiders and this one, being at The Dubliner, might just be Irish-themed. The Wednesday pub reception is for his leadership PAC, and seeks between $250 and $2,500 per head.

Brown will likely be apart of one of 2012’s most closely watched Senate races, with the leading Democrat in the race being consumer advocate and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, who is popular with liberals.

The Realtors’ PAC is keeping busy, hosting at least its fourth congressional fundraiser this month. On Thursday it’s Sen. Kay Hagan’s, D-N.C., turn. NAR’s PAC wants to ensure that the super committee lays off the mortgage interest tax deduction, which was cut by the Senate’s Gang of Six in its deficit plan.

Qualcomm officials fete Feinstein. The company’s VP for Government Affairs, Greg Farmer, is opening up his home for a Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., fundraiser Thursday, which also features another company lobbyist, Holly Fechner. Among the issues on the telecom company’s radar is allocating more spectrum for mobile broadband, which President Obama has proposed in his American Jobs Act and the super committee is reportedly considering.

Feinstein faces re-election in 2012, and recently injected $5 million of her own into her campaign after a political consultant embezzled nearly $4.7 million from her account.

Thursday’s breakfast asks for between $1,000 and $5,000 from donors.

An official of American Crossroads, the top-spending Super PAC in the 2010 election cycle, co-hosted a fundraiser for a lawmaker’s campaign last week, further blurring the line between candidate committees, which can raise limited contributions from individuals and political action committees, and Super PACs, which can raise unlimited funds from corporations, labor unions and individuals.

The Federal Election Commission ruled in June that candidates for federal office can raise funds for Super PACs—or independent expenditure-only committees—as long as they do not solicit contributions higher than those their own campaigns can accept. Super PAC officials are free to ask those donors for far more money.

Jim Dyke, secretary of American Crossroads, co-hosted a fundraiser for freshman congressman Tim Griffin, R-Ark. The other hosts were former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillispie and his wife. Gillespie and Karl Rove, the longtime senior adviser in the George W. Bush administration, encouraged the formation of American Crossroads and served as fundraisers for the group.

The invitation made no reference to American Crossroads. While Super PACs and candidates can coordinate their fundraising, they are still barred from coordinating spending, whether it be on television or radio ads, get out the vote efforts, or other campaign activities.

The fundraising reception was at a Capitol Hill Mexican restaurant on Sept. 14; the invite asked donors for up to $2,000 from PACs and $1,000 from individuals. Gillespie has hosted congressional fundraisers in the past, but this appears to be the first such event hosted by Dyke in Party Time’s records, which date back to mid-2008 but do not include all of D.C.’s fundraisers.

“Hosting the fundraiser could raise questions about possible coordination,” campaign finance lawyer Brett Kappel, of Arent Fox, wrote in an email, “but the FEC has never pursued a case based solely on hosting a fundraiser.”

Gillespie, Dyke and Griffin all said there was no coordination. In an email, Gillespie wrote,

“I’m proud to contribute to Tim Griffin’s re-election campaign, and have urged others to do so as well, but I’m not privy to his campaign’s strategy or decisions.  Likewise, I’m proud to support the efforts of American Crossroads and believe it’s an important counterweight to liberal groups, but I’m not an officer there, not a paid employee nor consultant and have no control over its expenditures.”

Dyke, who is from Arkansas, wrote, “As a board member [of American Crossroads] I am committed to upholding the legal separation between campaign and third party coordination and made certain that a contribution to Tim’s campaign and encouraging others to do so was in no way a violation of that separation.”

Asked if the event raised questions about coordination, Griffin wrote in a statement, “No. Jim Dyke has been a close friend for almost a decade, was a member of my wedding party and grew up in my district.”

There are professional ties among the three as well. When Gillespie led the Republican National Committee in 2004, Dyke was the communications director, and Griffin worked on opposition research. After the election, Griffin was tapped as a White House assistant to Rove.

He was later picked by the Bush Administration to replace Bud Cummins, one of the U.S. attorneys that was controversially dismissed in 2006. Griffin was appointed as the interim U.S. Attorney for Arkansas’ Eastern district in late 2006 but withdrew his candidacy months later amid the scandal.

A Department of Justice investigation later concluded that Cummins was fired because the White House wanted to give Griffin the position. The report quotes an email from DOJ official Kyle Sampson saying that getting Griffin appointed was important to Rove and Harriet Myers, the former White House counsel.

Neither American Crossroads nor Crossroads GPS spent money on Griffin’s race in 2010, according to FEC records. Dyke and Gillespie both head their own consulting practices and their respective companies share a K Street address. Dyke’s firm, JDA Frontline, is a strategic communications consulting firm that also has an office in South Carolina. Gillespie runs Ed Gillespie Strategies out of Virginia.

American Crossroads and its sister nonprofit Crossroads GPS plan to raise $240 million for the 2012 election.

Members of Congress had planned dozens of fundraisers in the nation’s capital this week, but with Congress adjourning for recess after reaching a deal to raise the debt limit, many events have been put off.

Yet at least one lawmaker—Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif.—is sticking around town and will attend a Thursday campaign fundraiser.

Sherman isn’t going anywhere, campaign consultant Mike Fraioli said, especially since his wife, who lives in the area, is planning to have a baby in two days. His event attempts to raise between $500 and $5,000 per attendee.

That’s not the case for his colleagues. At least five fundraisers have been canceled or postponed. Many more may be delayed as well, but calls to other congressional offices and campaign consultants were not immediately returned on Tuesday. Still other consultants would not comment on the events.

Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., who narrowly won her upstate New York seat last November, had landed Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for a D.C. fundraiser today, but it’s been canceled, spokeswoman Liza Lowery said. Scheduling a big-name congressman for a fundraiser can sometimes take months, and the event was to attract as much as $5,000 per head.

A member of the GOP leadership, Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, was also supposed to raise money today—at a hip bar in Logan Circle—but that, too, was called off, a campaign consultant said. Conservative darling Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was set to help him attract large checks.

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, along with three fellow Patton Boggs lobbyists, were ready to fete the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp, R-Mich., on Thursday. Camp spokeswoman Megan Piwowar said, “The event is not happening.”

Events this week for two other legislators, Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., and James Renacci, R-Ohio, were also postponed, campaign consultants said.

The fundraisers that we are told are canceled or postponed are marked as such on each event’s page. If you know of other events being called off, please email partytime@sunlightfoundation.com.