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What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to the industries which gave them the most money over their entire careers?

The Senate: Lawyers, Drugs, and Money SECTOR | # OF MEMBERS Finance, insurance, and real estate 57 Lawyers and lobbyists 25 Health 5 Agribusiness 3 Labor 2 Energy and natural resources 2 Miscellaneous business 2 Communications and electronics 1 No money raised 3 Total seats | 100

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) Terms: 2 (9 in House) Total raised: $62.2 million, 27% from finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) Top donors: A major defender of Wall Street interests before the crash, Schumer has netted more big bank money than any member of Congress who hasn’t run for president. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Terms: 1 Total raised: $17 million, 7% from FIRE Top donors: In the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, Brown’s biggest donors were Fidelity Investments, Bain Capital (Mitt Romney’s old firm), and Credit Suisse. But—whoops!—he voted for the financial regulation bill. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Terms: 5 Total raised: $37.2 million, 14% from FIRE Top donors: The top Senate Republican’s most generous contributors have been US Smokeless Tobacco—now part of Altria, née Philip Morris—and Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel’s. Cheers! Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Terms: 4 (2 in House)Total raised: $35.4 million, 17% from lawyers and lobbyists Top donors: 5 out of the majority leader’s top 10 lifetime donors are casinos or gambling interests. The industry has bet more than $1.7 million on him, plus $1.3 mil on fellow Nevada Sen. John Ensign. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Terms: 3 (5 in House) Total raised: $75.3 million, 7% from lawyers and lobbyists Top donors: Boxer is Hollywood’s favorite member of Congress (aside from Sen. John Kerry). Her second-biggest donor is Time Warner; Disney is sixth. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) Terms: 2 (4 in House) Total raised: $31.8 million, 12% from agribusiness Top donors: The ranking member of the ag committee has never met a federal farm subsidy he didn’t like. He just happens to be Congress’ second-most bountiful recipient of agribusiness cash. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) Terms: 4 (4 in House) Total raised: $16.2 million, 13% from energy and natural resources Top donors: Inhofe, who’s declared that “man-induced global warming is an article of religious faith,” has received more money from Koch Industries than any other company. The oil firm has given nearly $25 million to climate-change denial groups.

The House: Big Labor vs. Big Money SECTOR | # OF MEMBERS Labor 159 Finance, insurance, and real estate 159 Health 26 Agribusiness 23 Lawyers and lobbyists 20 Miscellaneous business 18 Energy and natural resources 10 Defense 7 Transportation 6 Communications and electronics 4 Construction 1 Unfilled seats 2 Total seats | 435