PMA Group and Clients Paid Out $40 Million to Current Congress
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No matter how we slice and dice the data related to contributions from embattled lobbying firm PMA Group and its clients, Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.), chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, remains at or near the top of the recipient list, along with Reps. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.). This week, though, we took yet another look at the contributions from the firm that specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients, this time analyzing all donations from the firm and its clients back in time to all members of the 111th Congress, plus President Obama. (Last week we focused on campaign contributions from the firm and its clients specifically to members of Murtha’s defense appropriations subcommittee, which has the power to earmark federal dollars for defense projects, and before that, we analyzed contributions from the firm alone–not including its clients–to members of the 111th Congress.)
PMA Group is reportedly under an ongoing FBI investigation for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Since 1998, the firm and its clients have given $40.4 million total to the candidate committees and leadership PACs of 516 lawmakers–nearly every member of the current Congress–with Democrats collecting 58 percent of that. President Obama is high on the list, having collected $905,700 from the firm and its clients, ranking him fourth among all recipients after Murtha, Visclosky and Moran. One caveat about Obama’s total: Because presidential contenders raise so much more money than congressional candidates, they tend to rank highly on lists like this one. PMA represented some very large companies, whose employees supported Obama, but the lobbying firm’s own people gave him a total of $4,225 in the 2004 and 2008 cycles. Lockheed Martin and Boeing were not only among the PMA Group clients to give the most money to members of defense appropriations subcommittee, but they also were the biggest givers to all members of Congress–$6.8 million and $4.9 million, respectively.
To download a spreadsheet with contributions from PMA and its clients to ALL members of the 111th Congress back in time, click here: PMA_and_Clients_to_111th_AND_Obama.xls
Note that the spreadsheet has three pages: a summary that totals by election cycle, company-by-company detail and rankings, and recipient-by-recipient detail and rankings.
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