With the shutdown now shut down, Congress’ fiscal focus has shifted to talks between Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who chair their respective chambers’ budget committees.

The idea is to hammer out an agreement that would avert another crisis. But that, of course, is easier said than done, as these two leaders definitely have their differences. Ryan voted against the House bill to end the shutdown, while Murray voted in favor of it in the Senate. Ryan and Murray have only one group in common among their top five industry donors, the catch-all retired category.

Similarities can be found, though. Throughout their congressional careers, Murray’s beginning in 1993 and Ryan’s starting six years later, each lawmaker’s top 10 metro area donors have been evenly split between in-state and out-of-state locales. Murray and Ryan also have the same top five out-of-state metro area sources of cash: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, DC.

In-state sources dominate each lawmaker’s career top 20 contributing zip codes. In fact, according to OpenSecrets.org data, all 20 of the top zip codes contributing to Murray’s campaigns are in Washington state. looking at the top 20 zip codes contributing money to Murray’s campaigns, all 20 are in-state. Seventeen of Ryan’s top 20 zip codes are in Wisconsin, and the other three are in neighboring Illinois.

Which brings us to this week’s PolitiQuizz question:

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Over his congressional career, which zip code has been the largest source of donations for Ryan? Which zip code has been most generous in funding Murray over her career?

The first person to submit the entire correct answer to [email protected] will win a free OpenSecrets bumper sticker. The answers can be found somewhere on OpenSecrets.org. Happy searching!

In our last Politiquizz, we asked:

What is the one industry that lands among the top 10 donors to each of these five leadership PACs in the House: Freedom Project PAC, Every Republican is Crucial PAC, AmeriPAC: The Fund for a Greater America, PAC to the Future, and Majority Committee PAC?



Congratulations to Marcie from Flint, Mich., who was the first to respond with the correct answer: Securties & Investments was the only industry that landed among all five of the leadership PACs’ top 10 donors.

Image: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ark.), Ryan, Murray and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)



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