US Senate and the 2014 FEC election cycle

The US Senate × 2014 join

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation text as grouped strings and election cycles as two-year tags. Where US Senate meets 2014, the itemized individual total is $277,224. That is 378 contributions from 72 donors. The figure is not a corporate treasury transfer and does not identify who received the money. Cite FEC.gov.

The us senate hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub restates a one-key total. This tie keeps both keys. US Senate is chamber employer text as stored. UNITED STATES SENATE, U.S. SENATE, and U S SENATE are other keys. Rows that used those other strings are not added into $277,224.

A share of 6.1% versus $4,513,115 is a scale check, not a ranking of cycles and not evidence of a coordinated program. The remaining 93.9% ($4,235,891) lives on other even-year pages for the same string. 2014 is a midterm even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Scale: $277,224 versus $4,513,115

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,513,115. The 2014 slice of $277,224 is about 6.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.9% ($4,235,891). Treating 2014 as the entire US Senate FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $4,513,115 as the denominator for the 6.1% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $4,513,115. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

Gift count, donor count, and $277,224

Dividing $277,224 by 378 contributions yields about $733 per itemized gift. Dividing by 72 donors yields about $3,850 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 5.2, a high repeat rate relative to a one-gift-per-person pattern. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

72 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count — here 378 lines on 72 identities. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. The overlay for Us Senate 2014 holds the rows.

The two-year 2014 window

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and 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 2014 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Us Senate to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $277,224 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 378 contributions, the 72 unique donors, and the 6.1% share of $4,513,115.

Text match is not a payroll file

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $277,224. 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. The page is chamber employer text as stored, not Senate PAC disbursements, not official Senate operating funds, and not the UNITED STATES SENATE spelling.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 72 donors, and 378 contributions. UNITED STATES SENATE, U.S. SENATE, and U S SENATE are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

A citation that keeps both keys

Start with $277,224, then Us Senate 2014 for rows, then Us Senate or 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US SENATE, 2014, $277,224, 378 contributions, 72 donors, 6.1% 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 6.1% share, the 72-donor count, and the $733 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 378 itemized contributions totaling $277,224 average about $733 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did US Senate donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $277,224 in itemized individual contributions for the US Senate grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 378 contributions and 72 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,513,115 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of US Senate FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,513,115. The 2014 cell of $277,224 is about 6.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.9% ($4,235,891) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed Senate staff only?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string US SENATE. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2014 only, totaling $277,224 from 72 donors across 378 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the US Senate 2014 join?

Open Us Senate 2014 for the cycle overlay, Us Senate for the grouping hub, and 2014 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. Cite FEC.gov for $277,224, 378 contributions, and 72 donors.