US Senate and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Reading $298,679 as an intersection

$298,679 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is US Senate (US SENATE). The cycle filter is 2012. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 337 lines, and the 85 donors.

Because the grouping is self-reported employer string, not a chamber disbursement, the cell is a text match. Household members, retirees, and former workers can reuse a workplace or title. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate.

Use the industry hub when the question is every cycle for US Senate. Use the 2012 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $4,513,115 denominator

Divide $298,679 by $4,513,115 and the result is about 6.6%. The complementary share is 93.4%, or $4,214,436 outside 2012. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$4,513,115 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched US SENATE in any cycle in this table. The denominator $4,513,115 is every cycle stored for US SENATE, not revenue and not assets. $298,679 over $4,513,115 is about 6.6%. The leftover $4,214,436 is other even-year windows on the US Senate hub.

$886 per contribution, $3,514 per donor

Per-gift mean $886 and per-donor mean $3,514 follow from $298,679, 337, and 85. About 4.0 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed US SENATE as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $886 per itemized contribution, $3,514 per unique donor, 4.0 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $298,679, 337, and 85. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2012 and FEC cycle 2012 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $298,679. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

US Senate remains one grouping among many on the 2012 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2012 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $298,679 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $298,679 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that US Senate as an organization directed the gifts, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record. PAC filings sit outside $298,679. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is self-reported employer string, not a chamber disbursement, not Senate appropriations, a leadership PAC rollup, or U.S. Senate as a punctuation variant.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2012 overlay for this string, the US Senate industry hub, the 2012 election cycle hub, and the ties index. Together they let a reader add or remove one filter at a time without leaving FEC itemized-individual space.

This snapshot recorded $298,679 from 337 contributions and 85 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($298,679), then both keys (US Senate, 2012), then volume (337 contributions, 85 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: US Senate in 2012 is $298,679 from 337 itemized individual contributions and 85 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $4,513,115 across cycles, so 2012 is about 6.6% and other windows hold $4,214,436 (93.4%). The grouping is self-reported employer string, not a chamber disbursement, not Senate appropriations, a leadership PAC rollup, or U.S. Senate as a punctuation variant. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $886; mean per donor about $3,514; about 4.0 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $298,679.

Questions

How much did US Senate donors give in 2012?

The US Senate × 2012 cell is $298,679. FEC.gov counted 337 itemized individual contributions from 85 unique donors. That is the join, not the $4,513,115 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $298,679, 337 contributions, and 85 donors in the US Senate × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,513,115.

What share of US Senate FEC money is 2012?

About 6.6%. $298,679 divided by $4,513,115 is the 2012 share for this exact string. $4,214,436 (93.4%) sits in other cycles. No national 2012 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $298,679, 337 contributions, and 85 donors in the US Senate × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,513,115.

Does US Senate mean sitting senators only?

No. 85 unique donors matched US SENATE in 2012. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $298,679. FEC.gov is the source for $298,679, 337 contributions, and 85 donors in the US Senate × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,513,115.

Where is the overlay for the US Senate 2012 join?

The overlay path is the US Senate 2012 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2012 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $298,679. FEC.gov is the source for $298,679, 337 contributions, and 85 donors in the US Senate × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,513,115.