THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Senator Cassidy's $8.6 million fundraising profile relies more heavily on individual donors (62%) than PACs and committees (38%), with $404K in separate party and single-issue political contributions. His industry-tied money concentrates in health services (19%), securities and investment (18%), and lawyers and lobbyists (14%), with smaller portions from pharmaceuticals, biotech, and insurance—a pattern reflected in his individual donor base, which similarly skews toward securities, legal, and healthcare professionals. He has filed 356 stock trades under the STOCK Act disclosures and maintains a voting record of 118 recorded votes.
Raised · all cycles$8.6M▲ 38% in ’24 vs ’22#23 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share19%Health Services
Donor-sector votes6on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Cassidy (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 Cassidy voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Cassidy'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$516K
FIRST HORIZON
corporation
2$81K
ONE TEAM SENATE MAJORITY
PAC
3$56K
WIN RED
PAC
4$40K
NEUBERGER BERMAN
employees
5$39K
TEXAS ONCOLOGY
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Committee–Donor Overlap93%
Bill Cassidy (R) chairs the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee overseeing Health Services — their largest tracked donor sector
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which has jurisdiction over the Health Services sector. Health Services comprises 18.1% of his donor base ($1.56M), ranking him 14th among Republicans in donor concentration from that sector.
Spouse Trading85%
99% of the trades disclosed by Bill Cassidy are attributed to their spouse's account
Of 145 disclosed trades that state whose account they were made in, 144 (99%) are attributed to Bill Cassidy's spouse, totaling $0.2M–$2.2M in disclosed ranges. The STOCK Act requires members to disclose trades by themselves, their spouse, and dependent children; the attribution shown here is stated on the face of each filing and carries no implication about who directed the trades.
Money Timing81%
Bill Cassidy (R): Securities & Investment donations hit $77K (12.9× their monthly average) the month of their YEA on HJRES25-119
In March 2025, Bill Cassidy received $77,000 from Securities & Investment-classified donors, representing 12.9 times that sector's trailing 12-month average of $5,986.92 per month. On March 26, 2025, Cassidy voted YEA on HJRES25-119, which provided congressional disapproval of a Securities & Investment regulatory rule, with the vote occurring during the same month as the donation spike.
LEGISLATION
3 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Energy and Natural Resources
Finance
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Chairman
Veterans' Affairs
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