US Senate political money — 2008 cycle

US Senate itemized gifts tagged to 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — US Senate (US SENATE) and 2008 — sum to $338,922. 261 itemized contributions and 93 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the US Senate hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. US SENATE is filer-entered employer/occupation text. It is not a Senate appropriations figure, not chamber operating funds, and not a leadership PAC disbursement table. U.S. SENATE, UNITED STATES SENATE, and US HOUSE are other strings. People listing a Senate office as workplace can appear; that is a text match, not a payroll audit. Do not read the cell as money the Senate spent. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into $338,922. This URL exists because the two dimensions meet.

Share math for the US Senate grouping

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,513,115 ($4.5 million). The 2008 slice of $338,922 is about 7.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.5% ($4,174,193). Treating 2008 as the US Senate FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,513,115 as the denominator for the 7.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $4,513,115.

Repeat gifts and the 2.8 lines-per-donor mean

Dividing $338,922 by 261 contributions yields about $1,299 per itemized gift. Dividing by 93 donors yields about $3,644 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

93 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, members, or licensees. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for US Senate 2008 holds the rows. This packet does not publish donor names; do not invent them.

2008 overlay versus the year hub

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. US Senate is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and US Senate to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $338,922.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $338,922 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 261 contributions, the 93 unique donors, and the 7.5% share of $4,513,115.

PAC disbursements are outside this total

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $338,922. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending obligations. Do not add $338,922 to federal spending figures.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 93 donors, and 261 contributions. US SENATE is filer-entered employer/occupation text. It is not a Senate appropriations figure, not chamber operating funds, and not a leadership PAC disbursement table. U.S. SENATE, UNITED STATES SENATE, and US HOUSE are other strings. People listing a Senate office as workplace can appear; that is a text match, not a payroll audit. Do not read the cell as money the Senate spent. Cite the exact stored string US SENATE crossed with 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citation template for US Senate 2008

Start with $338,922, then US Senate 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US Senate, 2008, $338,922, 261 contributions, 93 donors, 7.5% of $4,513,115, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string US SENATE.

The 7.5% share, the 93-donor count, and the $1,299 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Recipient committees are not listed in this packet. Naming a candidate or PAC as the destination of $338,922 would go beyond the facts.

Questions

What is the US Senate × 2008 FEC total?

FEC.gov aggregates show $338,922 in itemized individual contributions for the US Senate grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 261 contributions and 93 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,513,115 all-cycle figure. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $338,922 most of the US Senate grouping?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,513,115. The 2008 cell of $338,922 is about 7.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.5% ($4,174,193) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Senate hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does $338,922 count US Senate committee disbursements?

No. $338,922 is itemized individual contributions whose employer or occupation field grouped to US Senate (US SENATE) in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 261 contributions came from 93 donors. Do not invent those names from the grouping label.

How do I open the US Senate 2008 rows?

Open US Senate 2008 for the cycle overlay, US Senate for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.