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Originally Posted by Rogean
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I've remained pretty ignorant to political matters, but are they seriously getting that much money entirely on whether the bill passes or not?
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Not sure if I'm reading the question right, but this money has already been contributed to them.
I can't tell from the website, but those numbers likely are the aggregate of every dollar each member has received from those particular organizations during their tenure in congress. I can see that the numbers are from the end of the 2010 cycle, so nothing contributed after November 2010 would be counted. My guess is that each member's totals from these companies will be up 20% or more when we see the 2012 numbers, much like financial and healthcare industry contributions were way up during the healthcare and bank reform debates.
One thing to note about that list though is that those are mostly senior members and/or part of their party leadership. Those people inherently take in more money since they get to set the agenda in their chamber or committee. I'm not defending the wholesale selling-out of our elected officials, just saying that these higher-up people are getting tons of money from all sides.