THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Maxine Waters' $3.0 million fundraising profile is evenly split between PAC/committee contributions (53%) and individual donors (47%), with $72K in party and single-issue money tracked separately. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in financial and legal services—Lawyers & Lobbyists (16%), Insurance (15%), Securities & Investment (13%), and Commercial Banks (12%)—a pattern reinforced by her individual donor base, which similarly draws from lawyers, investment professionals, and health services workers. Waters has 336 recorded votes on file and no stock trade disclosures.
Raised · all cycles$3.0M▼ 14% in ’24 vs ’22#159 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share16%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes12on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Waters (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 Waters voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 12 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Waters'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$122K
U.S. TREASURY
corporation
2$33K
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
employees
3$33K
INVARIANT
employees
4$30K
THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
5$30K
AMERICA'S CREDIT UNIONS PAC OF CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
PAC
COMMITTEES
Financial Services · Ranking Member
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Warren Davidson
R-OH · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsInsuranceSecurities & Investment
J. French Hill
R-AR · House
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Andy Barr
R-KY · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsInsuranceSecurities & Investment
Bill Huizenga
R-MI · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsInsuranceSecurities & Investment
Gregory W. Meeks
D-NY · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsInsuranceSecurities & Investment
William R. Timmons IV
R-SC · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsInsuranceSecurities & Investment