THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Latta's fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward PAC and committee contributions, which account for 62 percent of his $4.7 million total, with individual donors providing the remaining 38 percent. His industry-tied PAC money shows distributed support across telecommunications, lawyers and lobbyists, health services, electric utilities, and oil and gas sectors, each representing between 7 and 12 percent of industry funding. Individual donors employed in law, construction and engineering, and health services comprise his non-PAC contributor base, creating a donor pattern with notable overlap in professional services and regulated industries.
Raised · all cycles$4.7M▲ 24% in ’24 vs ’22#97 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share12%Telecommunications
Donor-sector votes25on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Latta (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 Latta voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 25 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Latta'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$43K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC
PAC
2$39K
FIFTH THIRD BANK
corporation
3$34K
INVARIANT
employees
4$34K
REALTORS PAC
PAC
5$33K
MISSION STRATEGIES
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Spouse Trading85%
100% of the trades disclosed by Robert E. Latta are attributed to their spouse's account
Of 20 disclosed trades that state whose account they were made in, 20 (100%) are attributed to Robert E. Latta's spouse, totaling $0.1M–$0.4M in disclosed ranges. The STOCK Act requires members to disclose trades by themselves, their spouse, and dependent children; the attribution shown here is stated on the face of each filing and carries no implication about who directed the trades.
Committee–Donor Overlap72%
Robert E. Latta (R) sits on the Energy and Commerce committee overseeing Telecommunications — their largest tracked donor sector (12%)
Robert E. Latta (R-OH) serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has jurisdiction over the Telecommunications sector. Telecommunications comprises 11.6% of his donor base ($0.54M), ranking as his largest identifiable donor sector and #1 among Republicans in his party.
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Energy and Commerce
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Frank Pallone, Jr.
D-NJ · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Debbie Dingell
D-MI · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
August Pfluger
R-TX · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
H. Morgan Griffith
R-VA · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
John Joyce
R-PA · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Doris O. Matsui
D-CA · House
TelecommunicationsLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services