THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Menendez's fundraising profile relies more heavily on individual donors (68%) than PACs and committees (32%), with roughly $645K in separate party and leadership contributions. Industry-tied money concentrates in Lawyers & Lobbyists (28% of industry funds), Real Estate (13%), and Securities & Investment (11%), a pattern reflected in his individual donor base, which similarly draws from legal professionals, real estate, and financial services sectors. His voting record includes 147 recorded votes with no stock trade disclosures on file.
Raised · all cycles$5.9M▲ 39% in ’24 vs ’22#92 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share28%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes6on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Menendez (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 Menendez voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Menendez'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$534K
AIPAC PAC
PAC
2$136K
LOWENSTEIN SANDLER LLP
employees
3$118K
BOLD AMERICA
PAC
4$103K
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
5$96K
AMERICA'S PROMISE
PAC
COMMITTEES
Energy and Commerce
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Glenn Ivey
D-MD · House
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-FL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsReal EstateSecurities & Investment
Joe Neguse
D-CO · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsReal EstateSecurities & Investment
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-RI · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsReal EstateSecurities & Investment
Greg Stanton
D-AZ · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsReal EstateSecurities & Investment
Timothy M. Kennedy
D-NY · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsReal EstateSecurities & Investment