Does Tennessee’s Republican fundraising control federal awards in the state?

No. Republican committees reported $27.5 million of $35.1 million in FEC receipts. USAspending obligations of $421,144,318,337 across 287,801 awards have no party field in this packet. Receipt shares are not award shares. Sources remain FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.

How much have Tennessee federal candidates raised?

FEC aggregates show $35.1 million across 1,116 committees: Republican $27.5 million (78.3%), Democratic $7.6 million (21.6%), other $0.0 million. Use Tennessee campaign finance for the live roster. Party lines still do not describe awards.

What is Tennessee’s USAspending total?

USAspending.gov records $421,144,318,337 in obligations and 287,801 awards coded to Tennessee. That extract is not FEC operating expenditure and is not funded by $35.1 million in candidate receipts on this page. LobbyVault joins the TN extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Where are Tennessee’s FEC and award pages?

Tennessee campaign finance on LobbyVault and Tennessee USAspending on SpendingVault. All FEC ties lists other state joins. If a later bulk file disagrees with this packet, the later FEC.gov or USAspending.gov extract controls. LobbyVault joins the TN extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

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Tennessee campaign finance next to federal obligations

Tennessee candidate committees reported $35.1 million to the FEC, with Republican committees holding 78.3% of that total. Federal agencies obligated $421,144,318,337 across 287,801 Tennessee-coded awards. The award-row count sits near Indiana’s and Kentucky’s in this extract; the FEC mix is Tennessee’s own and still does not describe the awards.

Key figures

Tennessee FEC receipts: $35.1 million from 1,116 committees.
Republican committees reported 78.3% of FEC receipts — not of awards.
Tennessee USAspending: $421,144,318,337 across 287,801 awards.
Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Tennessee as a two-ledger state code

TN joins FEC.gov candidate receipts ($35.1 million, 1,116 committees) to USAspending.gov obligations ($421,144,318,337, 287,801 awards). A Nashville contribution does not post as a Knoxville obligation because both strings say Tennessee.

1,116 committees is a filing count, not a ballot census. 287,801 awards is an action count, not unique vendors. The dollar pair remains $35.1 million versus $421,144,318,337. Stacking them is a category error.

Tennessee campaign finance holds the FEC hub. Tennessee USAspending holds the award hub. All FEC ties holds the method index. The method is geography. It is not cashflow.

Music Row and auto-plant stories are search bait. They are not packet dollars. The packet dollars are $35.1 million and $421,144,318,337. Industry cuts belong on Tennessee USAspending when those fields exist, not in a sentence that starts from 78.3% Republican receipts.

Republican-majority receipts on the FEC side

Republican committees reported $27.5 million (78.3%). Democratic committees reported $7.6 million (21.6%). Other filers reported $0.0 million (0.1%), small enough to vanish in a rounded pie if you let it. Print $0.0 million if you print the percentages so they still close on $35.1 million.

An 78.3 percent Republican receipt share is a campaign-report fact about 1,116 committees. USAspending rows have no Republican flag in this packet. Health, energy, and defense awards, if present, still do not inherit FEC party codes.

East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee share TN. This packet does not split the two ledgers among them. 1,116 committees and 287,801 awards stay statewide. A three-grand-divisions chart would need another file.

Tennessee obligations sit on a different statute

$421,144,318,337 is an obligation total, not an FEC operating-expenditure total. Campaign ads, payroll, and consultants are other schedules. 287,801 award rows can include contracts and grants. Open Tennessee USAspending for agency and recipient cuts this packet does not publish.

State-office campaigns file with Tennessee’s registry, outside $35.1 million. City procurement paid without a federal award is outside $421,144,318,337. Three systems, two of which appear here.

Quote Tennessee campaign finance for the live FEC roster of 1,116 committees and $35.1 million in receipts. Quote Tennessee USAspending for $421,144,318,337 and 287,801 awards. All FEC ties keeps TN in a series of geographic joins. None of those pages adds receipts to obligations or assigns FEC party codes to awards.

Nearby award counts are not a political finding

Indiana and Kentucky show award counts near Tennessee’s 287,801. That neighborhood is not a finding about the South or about Republican receipt shares. Award-row counts depend on how agencies write actions. They do not track FEC party mixes.

Do not average $421,144,318,337 across 287,801 and present the mean as a USAspending statistic. This packet does not publish a mean award. Quote the two packet facts. Skip the homemade average.

Tennessee’s 1,116 committees and 287,801 awards answer different questions. Keep $35.1 million on the FEC.gov sentence and $421,144,318,337 on the USAspending.gov sentence even when a headline wants a single number. A single number would mix statutes. This join will not publish one.

Memphis, Nashville, and the statewide roll-up

Those cities share TN. This packet does not split $35.1 million or $421,144,318,337 among them. 1,116 committees and 287,801 awards stay statewide. Music-industry or auto-plant folklore is not a NAICS table. Open Tennessee USAspending if you need industry fields that exist.

Presidential committees tagged to Tennessee can sit among the 1,116 rows. Leave them in $35.1 million if FEC stored them there. Do not move their receipts into $421,144,318,337 because a contractor also lists Tennessee.

Tennessee citation

FEC.gov: $35.1 million; 1,116 committees; Republican $27.5 million; Democratic $7.6 million; other $0.0 million. USAspending.gov: $421,144,318,337; 287,801 awards. Do not apply the Republican receipt percentage to obligations.

Questions

Does Tennessee’s Republican fundraising control federal awards in the state?: No. Republican committees reported $27.5 million of $35.1 million in FEC receipts. USAspending obligations of $421,144,318,337 across 287,801 awards have no party field in this packet. Receipt shares are not award shares. Sources remain FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.
How much have Tennessee federal candidates raised?: FEC aggregates show $35.1 million across 1,116 committees: Republican $27.5 million (78.3%), Democratic $7.6 million (21.6%), other $0.0 million. Use Tennessee campaign finance for the live roster. Party lines still do not describe awards.
What is Tennessee’s USAspending total?: USAspending.gov records $421,144,318,337 in obligations and 287,801 awards coded to Tennessee. That extract is not FEC operating expenditure and is not funded by $35.1 million in candidate receipts on this page. LobbyVault joins the TN extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.
Where are Tennessee’s FEC and award pages?: Tennessee campaign finance on LobbyVault and Tennessee USAspending on SpendingVault. All FEC ties lists other state joins. If a later bulk file disagrees with this packet, the later FEC.gov or USAspending.gov extract controls. LobbyVault joins the TN extracts only. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov remain the originating systems.

Join of FEC.gov candidate receipts with USAspending.gov state obligations. These are different datasets — campaign contributions are not federal awards.