Looking to end the second quarter of 2011 on a high note, the Democratic Party has three high-dollar fundraisers scheduled for the end of June. Events will be held to benefit the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Women’s Senate Network of the DSCC.

The first scheduled event is the “Friends on the Hill Dinner” tonight. The dinner at the St. Regis Hotel will benefit the DSCC with suggested individual donations of $10,000. The main draw for this fundraiser will undoubtedly be the listed hosts: chiefs of staff to leading Democratic senators, including Harry Reid, D-Nev., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., among others.

Congressional staffers have been featured guests at other political fundraisers–earlier this year, for example, Party Time reported on two separate events hosted by chiefs of staff to Democratic House members. And last year, Party Time highlighted a fundraiser featuring a new chief of staff to a Republican senator as the main draw.

According to the Senate Ethics Manual from the 108th Congress (seemingly the last to have been published online), Senate Rule 41.1 prohibits employees of the Senate from soliciting, receiving, or having custody of campaign funds unless they hold one of three designations. The Senate offices of Sens. Murray and Durbin confirmed that their chiefs of staff are in fact designated to handle campaign funds but calls made to the offices of the other senators were not returned by the time of this post.

On June 21, the Women’s Senate Network of the DSCC will hold a reception and dinner to benefit those members of their network up for re-election in 2012. Listed contributions range from $1,000 to attend only the reception to $30,800 for the host committee. Those contributions will be made to the DSCC, with some funds directed to Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., all of whom will be up for re-election in the next campaign cycle.

The next night the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will have its turn when it holds a fundraiser honoring Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and John Lewis, D-Ga. Rep. Hoyer is celebrating his 30th year in Congress this year while Rep. Lewis is celebrating his 25th. While both representatives have individual fundraisers scheduled this month celebrating their feats of legislative longevity, this event will celebrate benefit the DCCC as a whole. Contributions start at $1,000 for an individual ticket while the honor of being a PAC host for the event will require a contribution of $15,000.

Rep. John Larson, Democrat from Connecticut, had a busy day today. In his datebook was this “insurance industry” fundraising breakfast. And he was also one of four lawmakers to introduce this bill, the 2009 Fair Elections Now Act, which would bring public financing to federal elections.

Supporters argue that if this bill passes, it would make the need for breakfasts like this one mostly moot. Lawmakers who participate would qualify for public funds to run their races if they first raised a set amount of small contributions from their community and agreed to take no large contributions from wealthy interests. Such candidates would get a four to one match on the small donations they raise up to a limit.

Trolling through the Party Time database, we quickly see that all four sponsors of this legislation have a lot of fundraising parties on their calendars. Here are Larson’s. Sen. Arlen Specter got special mention from us the other day for having a dozen fundraising parties scheduled for March alone. Sen. Dick Durbin has these parties for himself, but as a congressional leader also appears at many fundraisers for other lawmakers. And here are some parties for Rep. Walter Jones.

So the question before us is–are these lawmakers tired of all this partying?