NASHVILLE — State campaign finance records show U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., accepted a $5,000 contribution from U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., who lives in a Capitol Hill Christian fellowship house with Mr. Wamp.

The contribution came 13 days after Sen. Ensign admitted to the world he had had an affair with a former staffer.

Sen. Ensign’s political action committee, Battle Born PAC, contributed the money on June 24, according to Federal Election Commission records. Rep. Wamp reported receiving the contribution to his gubernatorial campaign on June 29, according to his Tennessee Registry of Election Finance disclosure.

The contribution was first reported by Politico.com on Monday.

Wamp campaign spokesman John Crisp was not available for comment today.

Rep. Wamp, who is from Chattanooga, for years has lived at the C Street Center in Washington, D.C., a building owned and maintained by a group affiliated with the Fellowship Foundation, a secretive organization which organizes the National Prayer Breakfast each year.

The 133 C St. SE home, a former convent, is registered in District of Columbia tax records as a religious and commercial building, according to news accounts.

For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.