Capitol Hill is bustling with new faces. This week, a staggering 96 new House members and a dozen new senators who had no role in the 111th Congress were sworn into office. (Four victorious U.S. Senate candidates in November also vacated U.S. House seats.)

Who are these new political elites? Who’s bankrolled their ascents to the national stage? And what personal financial holdings do they have? The Center for Responsive Politics has the answers.

Today, the Center for Responsive Politics has updated its congressional personal finances database to include .pdf files of the most recent reports from all these new lawmakers, covering their holdings in calendar year 2009.

This update includes the forms submitted to the Senate by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), the state’s former attorney general, who filed delinquent documents in December — seven months late — after questions from OpenSecrets Blog.

Reports for their personal finances for calendar year 2010 will be due to the House and Senate on May 15.

Researchers at the Center for Responsive Politics have dutifully scanned these latest disclosure files from House and Senate candidates. The Center’s team now turns to data entry, coding, checking and verifying the information, so we may make Congress’ personal financial information easily accessible to the public while ensuring it’s as accurate and understandable as possible. These new profiles will be completed in the coming weeks.

You can also find a list of these new federal lawmakers on our OpenSecrets.org website here — and follow the links to see the complete campaign finance profiles for each new member.

All campaign finance profiles detail the new members’ cash raised and spent during the 2010 midterm election, as well as their top contributors, top industries, expenditures, donor geographic breakdown and more.

Happy New Year and Happy New Congress, money-in-politics sleuths! Now start your digging!



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