Government Affairs political contributions from District of Columbia

The Government Affairs–District of Columbia join

Rows that carry occupation GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS and donor state DC sum to $3,428,234, 5,973 contributions, and 212 donors. Without the state filter, the occupation hub is $8,440,747, 17,735 contributions, and 947 donors. The District’s share of dollars is about 41%; of contributions, about 34% (5,973 of 17,735); of donors, about 22% (212 of 947).

Dollar share (about 41%) outruns donor share (about 22%). The District-coded Government Affairs slice is therefore more concentrated in people, and heavier in dollars per donor, than the national labeled mix. That is an aggregate comparison of two FEC columns. It is not a statement that DC government-affairs staff give more than their counterparts in Virginia or Maryland—those states have their own ties with their own facts.

Two hundred twelve District donors produced 5,973 contributions, about 28 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 19 rows per donor nationally (17,735 contributions from 947 donors). The DC slice is both dollar-heavy (about 41% of $8,440,747) and repeat-heavy relative to the national labeled mix. Those two observations still do not identify employers, clients, or recipients.

Government Affairs as a filer-entered title

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS is one of several related strings. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS is a separate occupation hub with its own national total. A donor who wrote LOBBYIST, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, or GOVT AFFAIRS would not be in this $8,440,747. Nine hundred forty-seven donors and 17,735 contributions describe only the exact string used here.

Virginia has a Government Affairs tie as well. Adding DC’s $3,428,234 to Virginia’s state-side total would still leave other states in the remaining gap to $8,440,747. This page reports the District overlap only.

District of Columbia as donor state

Two hundred twelve DC donors produced 5,973 contributions totaling $3,428,234. Donor state DC is the address on the itemized record. It can be a residence, a K Street office, or a mailing address. It is not proof of DC voter registration or of work inside the federal government.

The District’s campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to DC—chiefs of staff, economists, senior vice presidents, and others in separate ties. Those people are not in this Government Affairs join unless they also used this occupation string.

The District’s individual-contribution hub includes chiefs of staff, economists, senior vice presidents, and every other occupation coded DC. This join is only GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. The occupation hub without a DC filter still holds the remaining about 59% of dollars. A Beltway reader who collapses those hubs into one “K Street” total is inventing a category the FEC file does not keep.

What the relationship is not

This join does not measure lobbying registrations under the LDA, does not name employers, and does not claim that Government Affairs-coded gifts purchased policy. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping match. Correlation is not causation.

Itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC receipts are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Labels are filer-entered.

LDA registrations, House and Senate lobbying disclosures, and FEC individual receipts are different disclosure systems. This page uses only the last. A person who lobbies but wrote a different occupation string is absent from the $8,440,747. A person who wrote GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS and a non-DC state is absent from the $3,428,234. The join is the intersection, not the union, of those populations.

Why this Government Affairs page is not a restatement of District of Columbia

Subtract the District of Columbia dollars on this page from the national Government Affairs occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded Government Affairs in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the District of Columbia dollars, or only the Government Affairs national total, drops a key.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Where to read each dimension alone

Government Affairs donations holds the $8,440,747 national occupation total and the 947-donor count. District of Columbia campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to DC. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections.

Questions

How much have Government Affairs donors in DC given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Government Affairs and state District of Columbia total $3,428,234, from 5,973 contributions and 212 donors. Nationwide, Government Affairs-coded receipts are $8,440,747 from 17,735 contributions and 947 donors. The District is about 41% of those dollars.

Is Government Affairs the same as Government Relations?

No. They are different occupation strings in the FEC file. This join uses GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS only: $8,440,747 nationally and $3,428,234 in the District. Government Relations has its own occupation hub and its own state ties. Filers choose the words.

Why are there only 212 DC donors but about 41% of the dollars?

The District side is 212 donors, 5,973 contributions, and $3,428,234, against 947 donors and $8,440,747 nationally. A smaller share of people carrying a larger share of dollars means concentration in the DC-coded slice. This page does not name those donors or split the 5,973 rows by committee.

Does this money stay in District of Columbia races?

Not necessarily. Donor state is DC on the record. Recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This page does not allocate the $3,428,234 by office or geography of the recipient.