D-CA·U.S. House·District 32

Brad Sherman

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$8.7M

raised· #73 in party

votes recorded

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Sherman's fundraising profile is heavily reliant on PAC and committee sources, which account for 63 percent of his $8.7 million total, with individual donors comprising the remaining 37 percent. Industry-tied contributions show substantial concentration in financial services, with Securities & Investment accounting for 31 percent of sector-based money, followed by Commercial Banks at 15 percent; this pattern is reinforced among his individual donors, who are notably employed in Securities & Investment, Lawyers & Lobbyists, and Real Estate. Labor Unions comprise 12 percent of his industry-tied funding, alongside smaller but material support from Real Estate and legal services sectors.

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

ALIGNMENT FLAGS

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Lobbying-Donor Overlap82%

Brad Sherman (D) voted NAY s1582-119; Securities & Investment is their largest tracked donor sector (29%) with 8168 active lobbying filings

The GENIUS Act (s1582-119) would establish federal and state regulatory frameworks for payment stablecoins issued by Securities & Investment firms and banking subsidiaries. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) voted NAY on s1582-119. Securities & Investment represents 29.3% of Sherman's identifiable donor base ($2.78M, ranking #6 in his party), while companies in this industry filed 8,168 lobbying reports since 2022 on related issues.

DONOR MIX

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

$4.9M

tagged $

Securities & Investment34.7%

Commercial Banks16.5%

Labor Unions13.8%

Real Estate9.7%

Lawyers & Lobbyists9.5%

Insurance8.6%

Defense & Aerospace4.3%

Single-Issue Advocacy2.9%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 56% 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

$8.7M

classified

Securities & Investment34.7%

Commercial Banks16.5%

Labor Unions13.8%

Real Estate9.7%

Lawyers & Lobbyists9.5%

Insurance8.6%

Defense & Aerospace4.3%

Single-Issue Advocacy2.9%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$1,152,188

SHERMAN, BRAD J.

other

$500,000

VANGUARD INVESTMENTS

corporation

$337,980

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$66,597

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$60,000

STRUCTURED FINANCE COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (STRUCTURED FINANCE PAC)

PAC

$55,000

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$50,000

UBS AMERICAS INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UBS PAC)

PAC

$48,500

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FINANCE COUNCIL PAC

PAC

$47,000

EXPERIAN NORTH AMERICA, INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (EXPERIAN PAC)

PAC

$45,500

L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. PAC

PAC

$44,000

SECURITIES INDUSTRY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$40,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

FLESH, ROBERT T. (HOMEWOOD REALTY)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

ISRAELYAN, MIKAYEL (REPUBLIC VENUE)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$2,000

SCHAPIRA, JAY (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$2,000

FELKER, PATTI (FELKER TOCZEK)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

SOPHER, MICHAEL (U.C. REGENTS)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

RENBAUM, JOEL (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

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

Bill Foster

D-IL · House

Securities & InvestmentCommercial BanksLabor Unions

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Adam B. Schiff

D-CA · Senate

Securities & InvestmentCommercial Banks

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.

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY BANKERS OF AMERICA PAC

PAC · May 13, 2026

RODRIGUEZ, LINDSAY (COPTIC SOLIDARITY)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

KAHAN, KEN (CALIFORNIA LANDMARK)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$2,500

SCHWAB, DAN (DHL)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

WU, KEN (REGENS CAPITAL GROUP)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$500

TD BANK N.A. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 13, 2026

+$2,500

NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL AND REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION CENTER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NMHC PAC)

PAC · May 12, 2026

+$1,500

THE PRIVATE INVESTOR COALITION, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 12, 2026

+$1,000

ABRAILIAM, LINDA (BRIGHTON COLLECTIBLES)

Individual · May 12, 2026

+$250

US MORTGAGE INSURERS PAC (USMI PAC)

PAC · May 12, 2026

+$1,000

SMITH, JEFFREY (STARBOARD VALUE LP)

Individual · May 12, 2026

+$1,000

CHALABI, JOHN (UCLA)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$1,000

THE OPTIONS CLEARING CORPORATION PAC

PAC · May 11, 2026

+$1,500

EDELMAN, LAWRENCE (RETIRED)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$500

HALPERN, JACOB (WOODBRIDGE GARDENS)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$1,500

WIENER, ROBERT (MAXX PROPERTIES)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$1,500

NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND

PAC · May 11, 2026

+$1,000

MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. PAC

PAC · May 11, 2026

+$1,000

MANNIS, RUSSELL (NOT-EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$1,500

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+3 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

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.

87,659

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$13.9B

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

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Commercial Banks

8,039 filings$1.3B

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

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

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

5 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

Real Estate

5,781 filings$710.6M

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

20,395$3.3B

2018

4,797$586.2M

2019

4,718$546.2M

2020

7,380$714.4M

2021

5,008$514.9M

2022

5,136$581.4M

2023

7,522$766.5M

2024

7,830$778.8M

2025

7,041$792.1M

2026

8,309$895.2M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

$69.4M

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

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.