General Counsel occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

The General Counsel and 2008 join

LobbyVault stores this URL because two tables share rows: the General Counsel occupation aggregate and the 2008 election-cycle aggregate. The overlap is $636,773 on 671 itemized individual lines from 356 donor keys. GENERAL COUNSEL is an in-house legal title as typed. Attorney and Lawyer are broader keys. FEC.gov does not verify a bar number or an officer appointment. Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for General Counsel in 2008 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $636,773.

Share of GENERAL COUNSEL is not share of all 2008 receipts. 3.8% describes this title bucket only. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants.

What the GENERAL COUNSEL string covers

Open General Counsel donations for the $16,811,333 roll. That hub still holds $16,174,560 outside 2008. Most of the occupation total is not this cycle’s cell when the year share is 3.8%. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year.

General Counsel in 2008 is still the same filer-entered string as every other year on the occupation hub. What changes is the two-year clock and the harvested sums $636,773, 671, and 356. Keep both sides of the name when the dollars are quoted.

Itemized lines, donor keys, and 2008

671 is a line count, not 356 one-time gifts. Repeat itemization inside the same two-year window raises the gifts-per-donor figure to about 1.9. Mean dollars remain about $949 per line and $1,789 per donor in the cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by GENERAL COUNSEL.

Donor keys are not named on this page. The packet supplies counts, not identities. Do not invent contributors, employers, or committees to explain $636,773. Filers who wrote Attorney, Lawyer, or Counsel sit in other occupation rows. The 2008 election cycle hub is the next click for named committees in that year, still without attaching those names to this occupation cell unless the live table shows the join.

Correlation is not causation for General Counsel in 2008

General Counsel in 2008 is not a state-bar roll or an in-house counsel directory. It is not a state bar census, an in-house GC directory, or a Martindale extract. The harvested occupation field is the string GENERAL COUNSEL. Recodes into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class are researcher-built and are not this join.

Unitemized money never appears in $636,773. In-kind goods and earmarks without this occupation string are outside the cell. Committee PACs and other committee filings sit on committee reports, not on this individual-contribution occupation join. Keep itemized in the sentence.

Quoting $636,773 without mixing tables

Write General Counsel, 2008, $636,773, 671 contributions, and 356 donors in one sentence. Add 3.8% of $16,811,333 if the occupation share matters. Source FEC.gov. That sentence is the join. It is not a license census and not a federal award total.

Live tables remain the occupation hub and the 2008 cycle hub. This prose is a packet snapshot of the join. If FEC.gov restates an amendment, the overlay updates; do not keep a stale $636,773 after the live General Counsel table has moved.

Attorney and other neighboring keys

Use General Counsel donations when the question is every cycle under GENERAL COUNSEL. Use the 2008 election cycle when the question is every occupation in 2008. Use this page when the question is both: General Counsel and 2008, $636,773, 671 receipts, 356 donors.

Repeat the four numbers together: $636,773 in the 2008 cycle, 671 contributions, 356 donors, and 3.8% of $16,811,333. That sentence is the join. It is not a license census and not a federal award total.

General Counsel remains a filer-entered occupation string on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. The 2008 presidential window is the second filter. Together they produce $636,773, 671 contributions, and 356 donors. Researchers who need employer, committee, or party splits must leave this packet; those dimensions are not facts here. Neighboring titles Attorney, Lawyer, and Counsel stay on their own occupation hubs. The occupation total $16,811,333 still includes every other harvested cycle, which is why $16,174,560 sits off this page. Cite FEC.gov. Do not attach $636,773 to a state-bar roll or an in-house counsel directory or to a company PAC or a bar-association committee. Do not attach it to USAspending.gov awards. The join is the occupation GENERAL COUNSEL and the election cycle 2008, nothing else.

Questions

What is the General Counsel × 2008 dollar total?

The join records $636,773 in itemized individual contributions for occupation General Counsel in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 671 contributions and 356 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $16,811,333, so 2008 is 3.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is General Counsel the same as Attorney?

No. This cell is the exact string GENERAL COUNSEL. Filers who wrote Attorney, Lawyer, or Counsel sit in other occupation rows. Combining those keys with $16,811,333 would be a recode. The 2008 overlap remains $636,773 on 671 lines from 356 donors, source FEC.gov.

Did General Counsel donations pay for federal awards in 2008?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending.gov awards are different datasets. This page does not claim that $636,773 tagged General Counsel in 2008 funded contracts or grants. The cell is 671 itemized receipts from 356 donors, 3.8% of $16,811,333. Quote the occupation-cycle join only. Source FEC.gov.

Where are the live General Counsel and 2008 tables?

General Counsel donations carries the $16,811,333 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places General Counsel beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the General Counsel × 2008 intersection only.