Government Affairs donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Government Affairs × 2014

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS plus cycle 2014 equals $840,210. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2014. Government relations, lobbyist, public affairs, and legislative affairs are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an LDA registrant census, a House or Senate lobbyist list, or a firm billing file. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Government Affairs donations at /occupations/government-affairs/ and the 2014 election cycle at /election-cycles/2014/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $840,210 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Government Affairs in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $840,210. In-house versus contract versus association shops is unpublished for Government Affairs in 2014. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, not government relations

$8.4 million ($8,440,747) belongs to the exact string GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS across harvested cycles. It is not an LDA registrant census, a House or Senate lobbyist list, or a firm billing file. People who wrote nearby wording — government relations, lobbyist, public affairs, and legislative affairs — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2014 slice is 10.0% of that title bucket. Share of GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS is not share of all 2014 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $840,210. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $8,440,747. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Government Affairs donations and the live 2014 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $840,210.

1,025 government-affairs receipts from 262 donors

262 donors and 1,025 receipts — about 3.9 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $820; mean per donor about $3,207. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 262 donors makes this a modest occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,025 is a line count, not 262 one-time gifts; receipts outnumber donors by a wide margin, so repeat gifts and amended lines are doing real work in the count. In-house versus contract versus association shops is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $840,210.

Affairs string versus LDA and PAC tables

Cite $840,210 as Government Affairs in 2014. Cite $8,440,747 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add LDA filings and the employer’s PAC to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $840,210 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 10.0%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite government-affairs money in 2014

A clean footnote names occupation GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, election cycle 2014, $840,210 in itemized individual contributions, 1,025 receipts, and 262 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $820 per line and $3,207 per donor in the cell. If the live Government Affairs donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,025 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Government Affairs donations rolls every cycle into one GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS running total. The 2014 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2014 total. Only the Government Affairs × 2014 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,025 receipts and $840,210. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did government affairs filers donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Government Affairs itemized $840,210 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 1,025 receipts and 262 donors. That is 10.0% of $8,440,747 under GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. Government relations, lobbyist, public affairs, and legislative affairs are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include lobbying-firm PACs?

No. $840,210 is individual contributions tagged Government Affairs in 2014. LDA filings and the employer’s PAC file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $840,210 would blend FEC tables. See Government Affairs donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Government Affairs in 2014 is $840,210 on 1,025 receipts from 262 donors.

Are government affairs labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. Government relations, lobbyist, public affairs, and legislative affairs are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an LDA registrant census, a House or Senate lobbyist list, or a firm billing file. Cite $840,210 for this title in 2014 on 1,025 receipts from 262 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Government Affairs donations ($8.4 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $840,210 from 1,025 receipts and 262 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Government Affairs in 2014.