US Senate and the 2010 FEC election cycle

US Senate crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — US Senate and 2010 — sum to $453,851. 186 itemized contributions and 52 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. This page joins the employer grouping US Senate to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the US Senate hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 52 unique donors and 186 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string US SENATE. UNITED STATES SENATE, U.S. SENATE, SENATE, and US HOUSE stay on their own keys if filers used them. Legislative-branch payroll or other legislative USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

10.1% of the US Senate roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,513,115 ($4.5 million). The 2010 slice of $453,851 is about 10.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 89.9%, or $4,059,264. Treating 2010 as the US Senate FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $453,851 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $4,513,115 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $4,513,115 as the denominator for the 10.1% 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 2010 from being folded silently into $4,513,115. 10.1% is $453,851 divided by $4,513,115. Rounding to $453,851 and $4.5 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

186 contributions from 52 donors

Dividing $453,851 by 186 contributions yields about $2,440 per itemized gift. Dividing by 52 donors yields about $8,728 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Us Senate 2010 holds the rows.

52 unique donors are contributor identities, not a census of employees, members, or officeholders. People who list the institution as employer or occupation can include staff, affiliates, and others who reused the string. Unitemized gifts never appear in $453,851. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 186 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation 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 2010 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and US Senate to drop the year. FEC cycle 2010 covers 2009–2010. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $453,851 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 186 contributions, the 52 unique donors, and the 10.1% share of $4,513,115. Comparing US Senate in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the US Senate × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $453,851. Legislative-branch payroll or other legislative USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 52 donors, and 186 contributions.

UNITED STATES SENATE, U.S. SENATE, SENATE, and US HOUSE are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into US SENATE. The key is filer-entered employer text — not a roll-call of sitting senators, not a Senate office payroll, and not a leadership PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2010 is a different page — the 2010 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing US Senate and 2010 together

Start with $453,851, then Us Senate 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US Senate, 2010, $453,851, 186 contributions, 52 donors, 10.1% of $4,513,115, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 10.1% share, the 52 donors count, and the $2,440 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2010 share of US politics from $453,851. The denominator for 10.1% is $4,513,115, the US Senate grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did US Senate donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $453,851 in itemized individual contributions for the US Senate grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 186 contributions and 52 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,513,115 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the US Senate × 2010 join.

What share of US Senate FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,513,115. The 2010 cell of $453,851 is about 10.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 89.9% ($4,059,264) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Senate hub holds other cycles.

Is this US Senate’s PAC or an official account?

No. $453,851 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to US Senate. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a roll-call of sitting senators, not a Senate office payroll, and not a leadership PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the US Senate 2010 join?

Open Us Senate 2010 for the cycle overlay, Us Senate for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.