US SENATE

Employer text, not a chamber budget

Two hundred eighty-two unique donors produced 7,317 contributions totaling $4,513,115. About 26 itemized gifts per person and a $617 mean gift describe the arithmetic. Official Senate funds and the Senate itself are not the payor in this rollup. FEC individual and committee itemizations record what the contributor listed as employer. Most government treasury gifts to federal candidates are restricted; these rows are the self-reported US SENATE string plus itemized amounts.

Top employer matches US SENATE. “U.S. Senate,” “United States Senate,” and office-of-senator strings can exist as other keys. They are not inside $4,513,115 unless they matched this exact label.

Who can appear in 282 donors

Staff, members listing the chamber as employer, spouses using the same shorthand, and former staff who still write the old employer can all land in the cluster. The FEC does not certify current payroll. Unique-donor count is matching text, not a headcount of the 100-member Senate or of personal-office staff.

Occupation fields (legislative assistant, senator, chief of staff) are a separate cut. Use occupation breakdowns for titles. This page stays on the US SENATE industry key.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tagged to US Senate as employer?

The US SENATE industry cluster totals $4,513,115 in itemized FEC contributions, from 7,317 contributions and 282 donors. Filers listed US SENATE as employer or occupation. The figure is not a Senate institutional expenditure. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Does this mean the Senate itself donated $4.5 million?

No. The packet facts sum itemized receipts whose employer/occupation text matches US SENATE: $4,513,115 from 282 donors. Contributor names are on each FEC row. The chamber’s own accounts are a different reporting system. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Are House staff included?

Only if they wrote US SENATE. House, U.S. House, and similar strings, if stored as other keys, are other slugs. This page is the US SENATE key only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Is US SENATE a NAICS public-administration industry?

No. FEC individual files do not include NAICS. LobbyVault groups employer/occupation self-reports. US SENATE is the typed employer text. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.