Super Bowl Party in Indianapolis – Rep. John Conyers, Jr. D-Mich., and America Forward PAC is scheduled to head to Super Bowl XLVI to watch the New York Giants go against the New England Patriots. The $5,000 super fan package includes one Super bowl ticket and two tickets to attend a luncheon.

Last year, the Moving America Forward PAC hosted a Super Bowl XLIV game and & Luncheon in Miami.

Huskies vs. Hoyas – On Wednesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is scheduled to be at a fundraiser at the Verizon Center to watch the UConn Huskies take on the Georgetown Hoyas.  To attend the fundraiser and game, the suggested contribution is $1,500. According to the Ticketmaster website, there are still tickets available for $41.30, including fee.

Birthday Celebration – Rep. Larry Kissell, D-N.C., is scheduled to have a birthday reception on Tuesday, with Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.  The suggested contribution to attend the birthday celebration starts at $5,000 to host and $500 for individual tickets.

Money Makin’ Thursday – According to Party Time records, Thursday will be busy day for both sides of the aisle. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., is scheduled to have a reception with special guest Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. The Tuesday Group PAC is also scheduled to have a reception in the evening. After checking to see if the groundhog will see its shadow, Rep. Mark Critz, D-Pa. is scheduled to have a Groundhog Day breakfast.  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will be hosting the Good Life Council Lunch with Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.

Coffee and Bagels – The RAD-PAC, associated with the American College of Radiology, is scheduled to host a Coffee and Bagels Meet and Greet with Republican Reps. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn., and Tom Price,R-Ga., M.D.

Newt in the Sunshine State – After coming off his victory in the South Carolina Primary win, the former speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is scheduled to attend the 2012 Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday. Gingrich is listed on the invitation as the honored guest and speaker at the fundraiser that benefits the Orange County Republican Executive Committee.

For more on upcoming presidential fundraisers, check out our fundraiser tracker.

Washington Capitals Game – Capitals and Bruins fans, Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., will be at the game tomorrow at the Verizon Center.

Happy Birthday! – Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., is scheduled to be in San Diego on Thursday for a birthday celebration dinner. To wish Bilbray happy birthday in person, tickets start at $2,500 per table and $250 per person.

Breakfast of Champions – A fundraising breakfast in honor of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is scheduled for Tuesday. The suggested contributions start at $2,000 for PACs and $500 for individuals.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will be having a round table breakfast scheduled for Wednesday.

At least five members of the congressional Super Committee tasked with reducing the nation’s deficit are scheduled to hold or host fundraisers just as the panel will be beginning its work.

The lawmakers are Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who is co-chairing the panel, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., along with Reps. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Dave Camp, R-Mich.

Murray, also the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is set to host a reception on Sept. 13—just days before the deadline for the committee to hold its first meeting.

A few weeks later, as the panel continues meeting, the compromise-seeking chair of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus has planned a fundraiser for his re-election. The event is hosted by the influential National Association of Realtors, a group that would fiercely fight any attempt by the powerful panel to cut the mortgage tax deduction, which was proposed by the Senate’s ‘Gang of Six,’ another recent group working on deficit reduction.

The NAR has spent over $10 million lobbying this year alone, the seventh highest sum among all organizations, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The association is the fourth highest political giver at the federal level since 1989, according to the CRP.

The 12-member committee has an unusual amount of power. Tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts, the panel has until before Thanksgiving to vote on a plan. If they agree to one, it would get fast-tracked through Congress—without the usual obstruction of procedural rules.

Clyburn, the House Assistant Minority Leader, is also headlining a fundraiser—benefiting Rep. Gabrille Giffords, D-Ariz.—just before the deadline for the panel’s first meeting.  On Sept. 7, the day the House reconvenes, Becerra, who also serves in the House Leadership, is using a Washington Nationals game to raise money for his leadership PAC. On the same day, Camp has planned a moneymaker, as first reported by Time Magazine.

In addition to Murray, the September DSCC fundraiser is also hosted by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other Senate Democrats. The autumn-themed event awards annual maxed-out donors (those giving $30,800 to the DSCC) with six tickets. Individual tickets can be had for $1,000.

That fundraiser is only one of a slew of fall events scheduled by the DSCC during the Super Committee’s deliberations. The group’s fall lineup includes at least six other fundraisers, and it’s not known if Murray will be attending any of those since very few details about the conference, retreat, brunch and other events are currently publicly known. Murray has headlined two other recent DSCC events, including one yesterday.

Today the New York Times reports how a physician-owned Texas hospital has been able to win policy favors in the health care reform bill after feting lawmakers and contributing generously to the Democratic Senatorial Committee (DSCC).

Physicians and others affiliated with the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance contributed about a half a million dollars to the DSCC around a reception on March 30 held at the home of Alonzo Cantu, a prominent developer connected the hospital. Another event at Cantu’s home, attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in September 2007 brought in at least $800,000 for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (We don’t have those particular parties in our database–we wish we did! We rely on what we get on invitations from our sources, but always are on the look out for more.)

Meanwhile, the hospital’s PAC, Border Health PAC, contributed $120,000 last election cycle, including some contributions to Republicans.

The hospital has fared well in negotiations over the health care reform bill so far, reports the Times, avoiding suggested restrictions on physician ownership of hospitals. Critics have argued that physician-owned hospitals contribute to uneccessarily high health care spending, since there’s an incentive to overorder tests. (A recent article in The New Yorker singles out the hospital as an example of this phenomenon.)

Here at Party Time, we’re sure that there must be a thousand untold stories just like this one buried in our database of invitations. We can’t dig them all out ourselves–we urge everybody to take a hard look at these events, try connecting some dots, and see what you find out.

Congressional Democrats are finding a way around President Barack Obama’s ban on lobbyist contributions, reports Jonathan Martin in Politico today.

Obama is speaking at a dinner tonight at the Mandarin Hotel for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). In the past this dinner has brought in big lobbyist bucks. But because Obama will be there, the committees won’t be taking lobbyist contributions for the event.

However, lobbyist money will be welcome the next morning at a $5,000-per-head “issues” conference featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and a variety of committee chairmen. (We don’t have copies of these invitations in our database. If you have them, please send them to us here.)

Reports Politico:

Obama refuses to appear at fundraising events where lobbyists are allowed to contribute money, so the Democrats can’t collect lobbyists’ cash at Thursday night’s dinner. But since the president won’t be at the morning-after event, congressional Democrats will be free to collect the lobbying dollars then that they couldn’t take the night before.

This seems the very definition of violating the spirit of the lobbyist contribution ban–and the piece quotes some anonymous Democratic sources saying it’s Obama’s fault for not reining the Dems in.

Yet at the same time, more anonymous Democratic insiders are quoted griping because the White House won’t help raise lobbyist cash. One says Obama should be leaning on surrogate organizations to send out fundraising alerts. Another points out that the lobbyist money ban puts the committees in a bind:

“It’s kind of like going to Los Angeles and then excluding the entertainment industry,” said a senior Democrat. “Well, then you’re going to have a lame event.”

Seems like Obama’s getting the worst of both worlds right now. He’s getting the blame both because his lobbyist money ban is too weak–and because he won’t pull out the stops to get lobbyist money.