Commemorative Series No. 1 · The Bank Rollback
OUTSPENTNo. 32/67
Thomas
Carper
U.S. Senate · D-DE
Taken from Wall Street
$188,518
S.2155 · Dodd-Frank rollback · 2018tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 32/67
Wall St & Finance$188,518
Pharma & Health$95,900
Real Estate$28,000
Telecom$19,850
Defense$3,740
This vote cut SVB's oversight. SVB collapsed in 2023. · 115-2-54OUTSPENT
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Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$188,518
The industry spent on the bill
$500M+
on the finance industry's federal lobbying in 2018
Through the leadership PAC
Beyond the campaign account, a leadership PAC under Carper's control (First State PAC) took $993,500 from banks, card lenders, drug makers and insurers.
Source: FEC; First State PAC
The industry figure is lobbying spent on the bill, not a payment to this senator. Source: OpenSecrets. Everything here is documented public record; nothing alleges an illegal act.
★ Hall of Shame
Carper voted with the money in more than one set:
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Wall St & Finance$188,518
Blackstone$54,500
Am. Bankers Assn.$20,000
Goldman Sachs$16,500
Visa$13,400
JPMorgan$12,200
Securities Industry$12,000
Morgan Stanley$5,500
BlackRock$4,500
Pharma & Health$95,900
Johnson & Johnson$22,550
Amgen$16,900
PhRMA$14,500
Eli Lilly$14,200
Pfizer$14,100
Merck$13,650
Real Estate$28,000
Natl Assn of Realtors$28,000
Telecom$19,850
Comcast$14,800
AT&T$2,700
Verizon$2,350
Defense$3,740
Lockheed Martin$2,000
Northrop Grumman$1,240
Boeing$500
Big Tech$3,000
Microsoft$2,000
Google$1,000