In September, Perzel, a former speaker of the House and a top Republican fund-raiser, accepted $1,100 in golf balls from Crown Holdings, according to the corporation's lobbying-expense reports. The packaging giant, with world headquarters in Philadelphia, also reported providing $863 in balls a month earlier to Kenney, also a Republican.



Martin O'Rourke, a spokesman for Perzel and Kenney, said the two longtime lawmakers hadn't known that Crown Holdings provided the golf balls, and that when they learned of it from a reporter they decided to reimburse the company.