THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Rep. Bera's fundraising profile is moderately dependent on institutional money, with 57 percent of contributions coming from PACs and committees and 43 percent from individual donors, along with $437K in party and single-issue political funding. Industry-tied contributions show a concentration in health services (29 percent of industry money), followed by lawyers and lobbyists (13 percent), pharmaceuticals and biotech (6 percent), insurance (6 percent), and securities and investment (5 percent), a pattern mirrored in his individual donor base where health services, legal, and financial professionals predominate. He has no recorded stock trades on file.
Raised · all cycles$4.0M▼ 21% in ’24 vs ’22#133 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share29%Health Services
Donor-sector votes17on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Bera (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Bera voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 17 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Bera's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$220K
HONORING AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT PAC
PAC
2$108K
LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR A SAFER AMERICA PAC
PAC
3$38K
BANK OF STOCKTON
corporation
4$36K
WESTERN HEALTH ADVANTAGE
employees
5$35K
UC DAVIS
employees
COMMITTEES
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Foreign Affairs
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Bill Cassidy
R-LA · Senate
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Terri A. Sewell
D-AL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Mike Crapo
R-ID · Senate
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
John Joyce
R-PA · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Vern Buchanan
R-FL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsInsurance
Robin L. Kelly
D-IL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech