Top Industries 2011 - 2016

SELECT A CYCLE 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 Career

SELECT A PROFILE Campaign Committee Only Leadership PAC Profile Only Campaign Committee & Leadership PAC Combined

Top 20 Industries Contributing to Campaign Committee & Leadership PAC Combined Download .csv file

Top: 20 100

Industry Total Individuals PACs Health Professionals $414,500 $64,700 $349,800 Securities & Investment $390,400 $321,800 $68,600 Lobbyists $377,559 $369,559 $8,000 Lawyers/Law Firms $377,356 $237,106 $140,250 Retired $372,100 $372,100 $0 Leadership PACs $330,000 $0 $330,000 Insurance $273,700 $37,700 $236,000 Real Estate $218,125 $124,625 $93,500 Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $170,600 $64,100 $106,500 Defense Aerospace $163,500 $14,000 $149,500 Hospitals/Nursing Homes $137,050 $21,050 $116,000 Business Services $128,750 $95,250 $33,500 Accountants $128,650 $22,150 $106,500 Commercial Banks $115,300 $44,300 $71,000 Pro-Israel $112,810 $73,910 $38,900 Misc Defense $108,350 $49,350 $59,000 Electronics Mfg & Equip $107,900 $22,900 $85,000 Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $106,950 $10,850 $96,100 Health Services/HMOs $104,623 $12,850 $91,773 Air Transport $103,900 $15,900 $88,000

Sector Totals

Sector Total Individuals PACs Agribusiness $207,540 $49,250 $158,290 Communications/Electronics $363,400 $135,400 $228,000 Construction $190,000 $74,250 $115,750 Defense $373,300 $73,300 $300,000 Energy & Natural Resources $194,413 $87,580 $106,833 Finance, Insurance & Real Estate $1,273,075 $645,975 $627,100 Health $774,373 $120,700 $653,673 Lawyers & Lobbyists $754,915 $606,665 $148,250 Transportation $303,783 $60,783 $243,000 Misc Business $700,400 $300,900 $399,500 Labor $191,100 $0 $191,100 Ideological/Single-Issue $613,046 $137,735 $475,311 Other $534,610 $504,610 $30,000

Percent of Contributions Categorized

Categorized: 92.03% Uncategorized: 7.97% Categorized $5,469,610 92.03% Uncategorized $473,606 7.97%

METHODOLOGY

The figures profiled here include money from two sources: These contributors were either the sponsors of a PAC that gave to the politician, or they were listed as an individual donor's employer. Donors who give more than $200 to any federal candidate, PAC or party committee must list their occupation and employer. Based on that information, the donor is given an economic code. These totals are conservative, as not all of the individual contributions have yet been classified by the Center. In cases where two or more people from the same family contributed, the income-earner's occupation/employer is assigned to all non-wage earning family members. If, for instance, Henry Jones lists his employer as First National Bank, his wife Matilda lists "Homemaker" and 12-year old Tammy shows up as "Student," the Center would identify all their contributions as being related to the "First National Bank" since that's the source of the family's income. Although individual contributions are generally categorized based on the donor's occupation/employer, in some cases individuals may be classified instead as ideological donors. A contribution to a candidate may be given an ideological code, rather than an economic code, if the contributor gives to an ideological political action committee AND the candidate has received money from PACs representing that same ideological interest.

NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2011 - 2016 Senate election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data available electronically on September 08, 2020.

+ See the reports included in calculating the numbers on this page.

Current cycle reports included in this race profile: Year Report Report Name File Number 2019 Q1 April Quarterly 1322783 2019 Q2 July Quarterly 1341039 2019 Q3 October Quarterly 1358665 2019 YE Year-end 1392337 2020 12P Pre-primary 1416342 2020 Q1 April Quarterly 1400268 2020 Q2 July Quarterly 1424710

("Help! The numbers don't add up...")

WHY DON'T THE NUMBERS ADD UP? Sometimes it's hard to make apple-to-apple comparisons across some of the pages in a candidate's profile. Here's why: Summary numbers - specifically "Total Raised and Spent" and "PAC/Individual Split" - are based on summary reports filed by the candidates with the Federal Election Commission. All other numbers in these profiles ("Quality of Disclosure," "Geography" and "Special Interests") are derived from detailed FEC reports that itemize all contributions of $200 or more. There is also a time lag in posting the information. While summary numbers are reported almost immediately by the FEC -- and listed quickly on OpenSecrets -- processing and analyzing the detailed records takes much longer. For that reason, summary numbers are usually higher (and more current) than the numbers based on detailed records. HOW CURRENT ARE THESE FIGURES? The figures in these profiles are taken from databases uploaded by the FEC to the internet on the first day of every month. Those databases are only as current as the FEC has been able to compile by that date (see the note above about lag times for data entry). The Center updates figures for "Total Raised and Spent" and for "PAC/Individual Split" a few days after the first of the month. The remaining figures - based on detailed contribution data - is updated by the Center after the 20th of every month. This gives us time to analyze the contributions and categorize them by industry and interest group.

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