THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Emilia Strong Sykes' $10.1 million fundraising profile is 70 percent dependent on individual donors and 30 percent on PACs and committees, with an additional $2.8 million in party and leadership money. Her industry-tied contributions show notable overlap between Labor Unions and Lawyers & Lobbyists (each representing 16 percent of non-political industry money), followed by Securities & Investment (13 percent) and Health Services (8 percent), patterns that align with her individual donor base, which is similarly concentrated in legal, financial services, and healthcare sectors. She has 147 recorded votes on file and no stock trading disclosures.
Raised · all cycles$10.1M▲ 95% in ’24 vs ’22#43 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share16%Labor Unions
Donor-sector votes8on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Sykes (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 Sykes voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 8 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Sykes'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$907K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
2$452K
HMP
PAC
3$308K
HOUSE VICTORY PROJECT 2024
PAC
4$143K
OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN
PAC
5$142K
AMERICA PAC
PAC
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Transportation and Infrastructure
Science, Space, and Technology
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Lateefah Simon
D-CA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Steven Horsford
D-NV · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Nydia M. Velázquez
D-NY · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Yassamin Ansari
D-AZ · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Brendan F. Boyle
D-PA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Steny H. Hoyer
D-MD · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment