R-KS·U.S. House·District 4

Ron Estes

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$9.6M

raised· #63 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party· loyal

TRAIL AI

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Estes derives 76% of his $9.6M contribution total from PACs and committees, with the remaining 24% from individual donors, alongside $1.2M in party and leadership money. Industry-tied PAC contributions show concentration in insurance (11%), health services (10%), defense and aerospace (9%), and securities and investment (8%), while his individual donor base includes notably higher representation from lawyers, lobbyists, and investment professionals. His voting record spans 331 recorded votes, with one stock trade disclosure filed under the STOCK Act.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

FUNDING PROFILE

Where the money comes from · what it's tied to

WHO GAVE IT

$9.6M raised

PACs & committees$7.3M· 76%

Individuals$2.3M· 24%

+ $582Kvia pass-through platforms (ActBlue/WinRed/party) — not counted in “raised”

WHAT IT'S TIED TO

Industry-tied$6.1M· 64%

Party & political$1.2M· 13%

Untraced (small donors)$2.3M· 23%

Two views of the same $9.6M — who gave it vs whatit's tied to. (Most industry money comes from PACs, so the two don't add together.)

Top sectors: Insurance, Health Services, Defense & Aerospace

Full breakdown →

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

FUNDING PROFILE

Source breakdown · industry signal · political money — shown separately

WHO GAVE IT

$9.6M raised

PACs & committees$7.3M· 76%

Individuals$2.3M· 24%

+ $582Kvia pass-through platforms (ActBlue/WinRed/party) — not counted in “raised”

WHAT IT'S TIED TO

Industry-tied$6.1M· 64%

Party & political$1.2M· 13%

Untraced (small donors)$2.3M· 23%

Two views of the same $9.6M — who gave it vs whatit's tied to. (Most industry money comes from PACs, so the two don't add together.)

INDUSTRY SIGNAL

The $6.1M industry-tied portion, by sector

$6.1M

industry-tied

Other sectors43.6%

Insurance10.8%

Health Services9.7%

Defense & Aerospace8.5%

Securities & Investment7.9%

Construction & Engineering7.3%

Agriculture7.3%

Lawyers & Lobbyists4.9%

PARTY & POLITICAL

The $1.2Mparty/leadership & single-cause portion — not an industry signal

Party & Leadership$1.0M

Single-Issue Advocacy$208K

How to read this: “Raised” is direct contributions ($9.6M). We trace it to an industry or political category via PAC names and donor employers; small online donors without an employer can't be traced. Industry and political money are shown separately so the economic-interest signal isn't drowned out by party and advocacy money.

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

TEAM ESTES

PAC

$803,620

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$703,302

EDWARD JONES

corporation

$113,669

KEEP KANSAS RED PAC

PAC

$85,000

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES (ACEC/PAC)

PAC

$54,750

TRANSYSTEMS

employees

$52,250

COX ENTERPRISES PAC (COXPAC) INC.

PAC

$50,000

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. PAC

PAC

$50,000

TEXTRON INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$48,500

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC)

PAC

$47,500

PFIZER INC. PAC

PAC

$45,000

TEACHERS INSURANCE ANNUITY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA PAC (TIAA PAC)

PAC

$42,500

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

GLOBAL MEDICAL RESPONSE, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 16, 2026

+$1,000

PRECISION METALFORMING ASSOCIATION VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY COMMITTEE (PMAVIC)

PAC · Apr 13, 2026

+$1,000

MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS TRIBAL OPERATIONS ACCOUNT

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

RUDY FOR INDIANA

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

THE BOEING COMPANY PAC (BPAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

CLARK, BECKY (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

Lloyd Smucker

R-PA · House

InsuranceHealth ServicesSecurities & Investment

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John B. Larson

D-CT · House

InsuranceHealth Services

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Funding Profile

“Raised” counts direct contributions from PACs and itemized individual donors. The Industry Signal donut shows only money traceable to an economic sector (via PAC names and donor employers); its center dollar figure always equals the sum of its slices. Party, leadership, and single-issue money is shown separately as political money, not industry — so it can't distort the economic-interest picture.

What we exclude from “raised”

FEC memo entries (informational subtotals that double-count money already reported elsewhere) are excluded — counting them inflated totals by tens of millions per member. Pass-through platforms (WinRed/ActBlue) that bundle many small donors are also shown apart from raised totals to avoid double-counting.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

AICPA PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS OF AMERICA, INC. PAC (INSURPAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

KPMG PARTNERS/PRINCIPALS AND EMPLOYEES PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

CHADWICK, KIRSTEN (FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

EMPLOYEES OF NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

RUDY FOR INDIANA

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,000

METLIFE INC. EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL PARTICIPATION FUND A

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

GARMIN INTERNATIONAL INC PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

MR. SOUTHERN MISSOURIAN IN THE HOUSE (MR. SMITH) PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC. FEDERAL PAC (PRUDENTIAL FEDERAL PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$5,000

CLARK, STEPHEN L. (CLARK INVESTMENT GROUP)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$3,000

NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL OF AMERICA COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COTTON

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

DELOITTE PAC

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. PAC (MARSH PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

DEERE & COMPANY PAC (AKA JOHN DEERE PAC)

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

Securities & Investment

Promoting awareness of motorcyclist profiling and encouraging collaboration and communication with t

COMING SOON

Live stock trade ingestion is being rebuilt.

We're migrating to a fresh data source for daily STOCK Act disclosures. Historical filings shown below are accurate but not currently refreshed nightly. Full real-time coverage returning shortly.

disclosures

purchases

sales

est. positions

+1 unparsed PTR — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

141,400

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$19.0B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Defense & Aerospace

48,778 filings$6.0B

Health Services

46,475 filings$4.9B

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

6 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

Real Estate

5,781 filings$710.6M

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

29,812$3.8B

2018

6,891$679.5M

2019

6,685$628.4M

2020

10,899$855.2M

2021

7,308$623.4M

2022

7,527$693.3M

2023

11,031$923.8M

2024

11,415$929.2M

2025

10,017$923.7M

2026

11,575$1.1B

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

$69.4M

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.