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Follow the money
Who pays to keep good policy dead.
Lobbying spend against the bills we track — mapped to the votes it bought.
$214M
spent lobbying against tracked bills, last cycle
61
legislators receiving 6-figure sums from opponents
88%
of top recipients voted the donor's way
Spend by industry
Where the money against the public good comes from.
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Top corporate opponents
The biggest spenders, what they're fighting, and who they fund.
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The money, then the vote
Documented contributions followed by the matching vote. Correlation, plainly shown — sourced, not spun.
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THEN THE VOTE
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See record →
Correlation is not proof of a quid pro quo. We show the timeline and the public filings; you draw your own conclusion.
How we track the money
We pull disclosed lobbying spend and campaign contributions from public filings, match them to the specific bills each entity registered to lobby, and line them up against recorded votes. Every figure links to its filing.
Sources: FEC · Senate LDA filings · OpenSecrets · Congress.gov roll calls. Illustrative sample data.