God Bless United States Inc.

Above is Open Secret‘s list of the twenty corporations that were donors this year to both presidential conventions. Even though the McCain-Feingold law bars soft-money contributions to the national political parties, the Federal Election Commission decided last year to remove a 1994 ban on individual and corporate convention sponsorship.

In a feature on the corporate underwriting of the Democratic Convention, CBSnews.com captured a telling moment from one of the sessions this week:

Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., rose on Wednesday to give the invocation to the crowd of delegates and members of Congress who had gathered in the Harvard Club, 38 stories above Boston’s streets.

“Bless the people who are here, the corporate sponsors, the corporate citizenship they are providing,” Davis said.

You can read the full CBS story here.