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While the country's been conducting a war on terrorism, defense contractor ManTech International Corp. has seen its revenues nearly double, amounting to almost $1 billion in its last public report.

The Virginia company has hired four firms to lobby Congress on its behalf and received military contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., has received more campaign money from top managers at ManTech, where his father is a senior vice president, than from any other donor — $36,200 so far, according to data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

And in nine of nine cases in which ManTech representatives lobbied Capitol Hill on specific Defense Department or war-related spending bills, Renzi voted with a majority of his colleagues to pass those bills.

Such votes are not illegal. But analysts say Renzi only brings more scrutiny upon himself for votes on bills with family connections.

"There's certainly the appearance of a conflict where you're voting on something that could benefit a relative," said Nick Nyhart, executive director of nonpartisan group Public Campaign, which tracks large campaign contributors in Washington and supports publicly financed federal elections.

Renzi's vote was hardly the tiebreaker on any of the bills, which would have passed easily had Renzi abstained.

"If he wants to play it safest he would avoid voting on legislation that would benefit his family," said Massie Ritsch, spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics.

Renzi declined to answer questions for this story.

In the wake of recent indictments of lobbyists and congressmen for influence peddling and bribery, campaign contributions are becoming the subject of more scrutiny, Nyhart said.

"What before might have passed as an isolated incident is now getting a second look," Nyhart said, citing the Jack Abramoff scandal.

The bills on which ManTech lobbied funded missiles, military salaries, aircraft and other wartime staples. But some funded projects that are of more questionable value to national security, such as water treatment in Yuma.

ManTech lobbied for Homeland Security money for personnel background checks — a service it provides — and for more information technology at the State Department, another area of the company's expertise, according to lobbying reports.

The company, which employs about 6,000 according to its Web site, told investors in its 2005 annual report it had secured a $300 million Army contract, a $200 million contract with the Air Force, a $76 million Navy contract and other assorted classified contracts worth $200 million.

ManTech has received at least $75 million in work that was awarded without a fully competitive bidding process, according to data from the Center for Public Integrity.

Renzi is a former insurance company executive who also sits on the powerful House Committee on Financial Services, which oversees insurance, commercial banks, international finance and housing.