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Interest groups

Money to Congress, by interest group.

Combined career total

$3.71B

to 537 sitting members from 971 tracked committees and their donors, election cycles 2010–2026.

A group is a set of Federal Election Commission committees tracked together. Its total counts the PAC money those committees sent to sitting members, the independent expenditures they ran to support those members, individual contributions from donors who also give to the same committees, and individual contributions from people whose employer matches the group’s industry.

Totals cover sitting members only. Money to a member who has since left Congress is still in the filings, but it is not in these numbers.

Groups
23
Tracked committees
971
Sitting members
537
Data range
2010–2026

Career total by group

Shared linear scale · sitting members only

Pro-Israel Lobby to Artificial Intelligence is a 26× range.

Groups link to their page.

All groups

  • Pro-Israel Lobby$462,048,531
    2026 $97.5M · 92 tracked committees · 534 members · top Haley StevensTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $56.1M · 74 tracked committees · 534 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Organized Labor$332,232,100
    2026 $39.5M · 80 tracked committees · 534 members · top Raphael WarnockTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $34.3M · 54 tracked committees · 536 members · top Frank PalloneTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Big Tech & Telecom$225,752,720
    2026 $29.9M · 75 tracked committees · 534 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Real Estate$220,393,329
    2026 $29.3M · 51 tracked committees · 535 members · top Susan CollinsTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Environment$178,227,897
    2026 $19.0M · 4 tracked committees · 502 members · top Mark KellyTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $28.1M · 78 tracked committees · 533 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Defense Industry$173,156,274
    2026 $30.1M · 79 tracked committees · 533 members · top Ken CalvertTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Insurance$171,279,818
    2026 $27.6M · 42 tracked committees · 533 members · top Richard NealTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Cryptocurrency$154,788,006
    2026 $43.1M · 38 tracked committees · 459 members · top Bernie MorenoTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $18.6M · 22 tracked committees · 535 members · top Mitch McConnellTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Agribusiness$113,724,215
    2026 $18.6M · 42 tracked committees · 532 members · top Glenn ThompsonTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $14.4M · 25 tracked committees · 534 members · top Mitch McConnellTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $15.5M · 29 tracked committees · 532 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $14.8M · 20 tracked committees · 533 members · top Sam GravesTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Oil & Gas$88,331,275
    2026 $11.6M · 74 tracked committees · 523 members · top John CornynTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Gun Lobby$87,200,493
    2026 $7.1M · 22 tracked committees · 524 members · top Ted CruzTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Accounting$81,178,449
    2026 $12.8M · 6 tracked committees · 531 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $13.5M · 27 tracked committees · 528 members · top Steny HoyerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $9.7M · 13 tracked committees · 534 members · top Mitch McConnellTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • Trial Lawyers$45,857,057
    2026 $5.5M · 7 tracked committees · 496 members · top Charles SchumerTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026
  • 2026 $15.2M · 17 tracked committees · 362 members · top Valerie FousheeTotals by cycle, 2010 to 2026

“Tracked committees” counts committees linked to a group, whether or not they have a recorded flow to a sitting member. “Members” counts sitting members with money from the group in the 2010–2026 cycles.