R-VA·U.S. House·District 6

Ben Cline

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$4.4M

raised· #151 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party

TRAIL AI

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Ben Cline's fundraising profile is substantially reliant on PAC and committee sources, which account for 64 percent of his $4.4 million in direct contributions, with an additional $568,000 in party and leadership money. Industry-tied PAC money concentrates in Defense & Aerospace, Telecommunications, Agriculture, and Construction & Engineering, while his individual donor base draws primarily from legal, investment, and real estate professionals. No stock trading disclosures are on file for this member.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$2.8M

tagged $

Party & Leadership22.4%

Defense & Aerospace16.9%

Telecommunications14.1%

Agriculture13.1%

Single-Issue Advocacy10.2%

Lawyers & Lobbyists8.7%

Construction & Engineering7.4%

Technology7.3%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 64% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$4.4M

classified

Party & Leadership22.4%

Defense & Aerospace16.9%

Telecommunications14.1%

Agriculture13.1%

Single-Issue Advocacy10.2%

Lawyers & Lobbyists8.7%

Construction & Engineering7.4%

Technology7.3%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$525,385

CLINE VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC

$94,700

HOUSE FREEDOM FUND

PAC

$73,370

BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$56,000

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. PAC

PAC

$50,000

NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$50,000

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$47,718

BUILDING BRIDGES PAC

PAC

$47,000

NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NSSF PAC)

PAC

$47,000

NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NCBA-PAC)

PAC

$45,000

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC)

PAC

$42,500

COX ENTERPRISES PAC (COXPAC) INC.

PAC

$40,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

DENTONS US LLP PAC

PAC · Apr 17, 2026

+$1,000

THE HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP, INC. FEDERAL PAC (AKA HARTFORD ADVOCATES FEDERAL FUND)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

FRALIN, WILLIAM HEYWOOD MR. SR. (RETIREMENT UNLIMITED, INC.)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY - PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,500

EMPLOYEES OF NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,500

MILLER, WILLIAM (NONE)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

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R-TX · House

Party & LeadershipDefense & AerospaceAgriculture

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Tommy Tuberville

R-AL · Senate

Party & LeadershipDefense & Aerospace

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

BECK, AVENT MR. (NONE)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

BLACKROCK FUNDS SERVICES GROUP LLC POLITICAL ACTIO

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

GROFF, SUSAN L. MS. (NONE)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

BARR, WILLIAM (TORRIDON LAW)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

MVL PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION PAC (INSURING AMERICA PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

SHAKAROVA, REGINA MS. (BOW APPLE CAPITAL)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

CLINE VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$39,500

GROFF, SUSAN L. MS. (NONE)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC. POLITICA

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,000

JOBS, ENERGY AND OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

SHAKAROVA, REGINA MS. (BOW APPLE CAPITAL)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

CLINE VICTORY COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$29,500

MR. SOUTHERN MISSOURIAN IN THE HOUSE PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

FRALIN, WILLIAM HEYWOOD MR. SR. (RETIREMENT UNLIMITED, INC.)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,500

WALMART INC. PAC FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

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COMING SOON

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No historical stock trade disclosures on file for this member.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

109,089

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$15.4B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Defense & Aerospace

48,778 filings$6.0B

Telecom & Broadcasting

23,495 filings$4.0B

Technology

20,580 filings$3.3B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

11 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

$76.3M

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

25,136$3.5B

2018

5,904$617.0M

2019

5,780$598.7M

2020

9,074$795.2M

2021

6,277$584.2M

2022

6,532$627.3M

2023

9,742$856.9M

2024

9,980$870.5M

2025

8,594$840.6M

2026

9,891$963.9M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

SOUTHERN COMPANY

21 filings

$65.9M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.