An energy company hosted a fundraiser last month for U.S. Sen.Evan Bayh,who serves on a committee working to overhaul energy policy, Bayh’s latest campaign disclosure report shows.

The Indiana Democrat benefited from a fundraiser at the Washington offices of the Energy Future Holdings Corp., a Dallas-based electricity giant.

Bayh’s campaign reported paying $150 at the end of June to the company for room rental.

Bayh serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which in mid-June passed an energy bill that includes a mandate that 15 percent of the nation’s power comes from renewable sources, a lower standard than the president wanted. Bayh was the only committee Democrat who voted against the standard, saying Indiana would be among the states that would bear a disproportionate share of the cost of meeting it.

The renewable mandate was one of the energy issues the Texas company has been lobbying on, according to lobbying disclosure reports.

Bayh, who joined the energy committee this year, has received more than $50,000 in political action committee contributions from energy interests this year.

Bayh raised $1.4 million from various sources and ended June with more than $12 million in the bank for his 2010 re-election effort.

He sent $5,000 of his funds to the U.S. Treasury to help reduce the national debt. The money represented the contributions he’d gotten from companies that had received federal bailout funds, according to his spokesman.

Only one Republican, state Sen.Marlin Stutzmanfrom LaGrange County, reported raising money to take on Bayh. Stutzman, who formed his campaign committee last month, raised $16,725, including $1,750 of his own money.

Among the out-of-state supporters who recently contributed to the campaign of U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., one backer stood out: weight-loss guruJenny Craig.

What’s the connection? It turns out not to be food and nutrition but horses.

Craig, who is retired from the weight-loss and nutrition company she founded and sold to Nestle in 2006, raises Thoroughbred horses. A Web site dedicated to saving wild horses promoted a bill that Burton is sponsoring that would ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption.

An assistant to Craig said her $2,400 donation was made on behalf of the Web site and because of Burton’s support for the legislation.

Burton was one of 33 House Republicans who voted Friday for a similar bill to protect wild horses.

Burton’s daughters and grandchildren have horses, and he finds the horse slaughter process particularly disturbing, according to his spokesman.

Woody Myers, who spent more than $2 million of his money unsuccessfully challenging U.S. Rep.Andre Carsonin last year’s Democratic primary, agreed to pay a $15,000 Federal Election Commission fine for not correctly disclosing that he’d given his campaign $263,185 before the primary.

The pre-primary report that Myers initially filed reported taking in $2,205 during the first half of April and spending $232,251.

More than two months after the primary, Myers filed an amended report stating his campaign had actually taken in $265,390 and spent $525,923. The first report did not include contributions Myers had made from his own pocket. Myers’ campaign told the FEC that was the mistake of an employee who was no longer working for the campaign.

The FEC said the incorrect reporting violated campaign finance law and worked out a conciliation agreement with Myers and his treasurer. The agreement was completed last month.

In Carson’s latest campaign disclosure report, filed Wednesday, he reported that Myers donated $2,400 to Carson’s re-election fund in April.

Already granted permission to spend campaign funds on his own legal defense, Rep.Pete Viscloskyhas asked the Federal Election Commission if he can do the same for his aides.

Federal investigators reportedly are looking into whether a now-defunct lobbying firm made improper campaign contributions to the Merrillville Democrat and other members who serve on the House committee that writes the annual spending bills.

Visclosky disclosed in May that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed records from his congressional and campaign offices. His chief of staff,Chuck Brimmer, who received one of the subpoenas, resigned.

Visclosky’s latest request to the FEC says it’s possible that other current or former aides could be asked for information.

“Accordingly,” Visclosky’s campaign committee treasurer wrote, “the committee submits this request seeking confirmation that it can also use campaign funds to pay for legal fees and expenses incurred by current and/or former staff members in connection with this investigation.”