THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Representative Scholten's $10.8 million fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward individual donors, who account for 75 percent of contributions, with PACs and committees comprising 25 percent of her total. Industry-tied contributions cluster in Lawyers & Lobbyists (22 percent), Securities & Investment (11 percent), and Labor Unions (11 percent), a pattern broadly consistent with her individual donor base, which similarly draws from legal, financial services, and healthcare professions. She has no stock trade disclosures on file and has cast 147 recorded votes during her tenure.
Raised · all cycles$10.8M▲ 43% in ’24 vs ’22#34 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share22%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes8on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Scholten (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 Scholten voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 8 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Scholten'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$570K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
2$171K
MILLER JOHNSON
employees
3$113K
FOR OUR FUTURE
PAC
4$66K
VARNUM LLP
employees
5$64K
DEFEND THE VOTE
PAC
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Transportation and Infrastructure
Small Business
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Peter Welch
D-VT · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Mary Gay Scanlon
D-PA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Joe Neguse
D-CO · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-FL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Gabe Amo
D-RI · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Edward J. Markey
D-MA · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions