Senator occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Senator × 2012

SENATOR plus cycle 2012 equals $251,496. 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 2012. State Senator, U.S. Senator, and Senator/Attorney are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a current-office roster for either chamber. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder $6,830,702.

Parent hubs: Senator donations and the 2012 election cycle. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $251,496 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Senator in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $251,496. SENATOR is the typed title. STATE SENATOR is a different occupation key. Federal versus state chamber is unpublished. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Donor names are absent and are not invented.

SENATOR as typed, not a job census

$7,082,198 belongs to the exact string SENATOR across harvested cycles. It is not a current-office roster for either chamber. People who wrote nearby wording — State Senator, U.S. Senator, and Senator/Attorney — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 3.6% of that title bucket. Share of SENATOR is not share of all 2012 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $251,496. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $7,082,198. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Senator donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell.

166 Senator receipts in a presidential year

60 donors and 166 receipts — about 2.8 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $1,515; mean per donor about $4,192. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 166 is a line count, not 60 one-time gifts. SENATOR is the typed title. STATE SENATOR is a different occupation key. Federal versus state chamber is unpublished. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by SENATOR.

2012 as a presidential FEC window next to Senator

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2012 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on individual receipts, not a single calendar year of January filings only. Inside that window, this occupation cell is $251,496 from 166 contributions and 60 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle book remains $7,082,198.

Independent expenditures are omitted from $251,496. Adjacent pages for the 2012 election cycle, Senator donations, all occupations, and all FEC ties keep those broader cuts. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, no percentage of national 2012 giving is claimed.

Self-reported Senator versus committee filings

Cite $251,496 as Senator in 2012. Cite $7,082,198 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add a professional association’s own committee filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $251,496 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.6%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode SENATOR 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 presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to read Senator money in 2012

This join does not recode SENATOR into a current-office roster for either chamber. SENATOR is the typed title. STATE SENATOR is a different occupation key. Federal versus state chamber is unpublished. If a researcher needs license or NAICS crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation.

Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods without this occupation string, and bundled contributions that never carried SENATOR are outside $251,496. Independent expenditures are outside $251,496. Quote the cell as itemized individual receipts only.

Questions

How much did Senator filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Senator itemized $251,496 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 166 receipts and 60 donors. That is 3.6% of $7,082,198 under SENATOR. State Senator, U.S. Senator, and Senator/Attorney are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this count a professional association’s PAC spending?

No. $251,496 is individual contributions tagged Senator in 2012. Association committee filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $251,496 would blend FEC tables. See Senator donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Senator in 2012 is $251,496 on 166 receipts from 60 donors.

Are senator labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses SENATOR. State Senator, U.S. Senator, and Senator/Attorney are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a current-office roster for either chamber. Cite $251,496 for this title in 2012 on 166 receipts from 60 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Senator donations ($7,082,198 for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $251,496 from 166 receipts and 60 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Senator in 2012.