THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Rep. Guthrie's fundraising profile relies heavily on PACs and committees, which account for 71 percent of his $10.7 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 29 percent coming from individual donors. His industry-tied money concentrates in health services (23 percent), lawyers and lobbyists (13 percent), and pharmaceuticals and biotech (12 percent), sectors that also appear among his individual donor base. His individual donors work primarily in legal, healthcare, and telecommunications fields, suggesting alignment between his contributor network and his fundraising patterns from organized interests in those same sectors.
Raised · all cycles$11.8M▲ 71% in ’24 vs ’22#32 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share23%Health Services
Donor-sector votes20on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Guthrie (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 Guthrie voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 20 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Guthrie'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$118K
ATT
employees
2GOOGLE
$70K
employees
3$62K
MEHLMAN CONSULTING
employees
4$54K
COMCAST
employees
5$48K
BGR GROUP
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Committee–Donor Overlap95%
Brett Guthrie (R) chairs the Energy and Commerce committee overseeing Health Services — their largest tracked donor sector (23%)
Brett Guthrie (R-KY) chairs the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has jurisdiction over the Health Services sector. Health Services represents 22.7% of his identifiable donations ($2.42M), ranking 8th among Republican committee members in donor concentration from that sector.
Sector-Aligned Voting94%
Brett Guthrie (R) voted YEA on 11 of 11 bills classified as favoring their donor sectors — #3 rate in the House
Brett Guthrie voted YEA on 100% of the 11 tracked bills classified as favoring Pharmaceuticals & Biotech and Telecommunications, the third-highest alignment rate among 358 House members with sufficient votes in these sectors. He voted YEA on HR8454-117, the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, which an AI classifier identified as favoring Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.
LEGISLATION
2 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Energy and Commerce · Chair
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
H. Morgan Griffith
R-VA · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Diana DeGette
D-CO · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Neal P. Dunn
R-FL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
John Joyce
R-PA · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Gus M. Bilirakis
R-FL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech
Frank Pallone, Jr.
D-NJ · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsPharmaceuticals & Biotech