Commemorative Series No. 1 · The Bank Rollback
OUTSPENTNo. 21/67
Ted
Cruz
U.S. Senate · R-TX
Taken from Wall Street
$276,531
S.2155 · Dodd-Frank rollback · 2018tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 21/67
Wall St & Finance$276,531
Oil & Energy$150,292
Telecom$140,532
Defense$89,227
Pharma & Health$73,165
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
$276,531
The industry spent on the bill
$500M+
on the finance industry's federal lobbying in 2018
In the family
His wife, Heidi Cruz, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Source: Bloomberg
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.
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Wall St & Finance$276,531
Goldman Sachs$97,550
Blackstone$57,165
Am. Bankers Assn.$28,000
Morgan Stanley$15,854
Citadel$8,778
JPMorgan$4,929
Visa$275
Oil & Energy$150,292
Valero$51,029
ExxonMobil$29,380
Chevron$28,389
Am. Petroleum Inst.$18,000
Marathon$14,638
ConocoPhillips$6,116
Koch Industries$2,740
Telecom$140,532
Comcast$59,125
AT&T$58,374
Verizon$16,453
T-Mobile$5,721
Charter$859
Defense$89,227
Boeing$42,183
Lockheed Martin$15,649
Raytheon$14,875
Northrop Grumman$9,160
General Dynamics$5,766
L3Harris$1,594
Pharma & Health$73,165
Johnson & Johnson$54,720
Pfizer$10,814
Merck$3,290
AbbVie$2,005
PhRMA$1,000
Eli Lilly$730
Amgen$606
Big Tech$72,208
Microsoft$26,553
Apple$20,804
Oracle$12,814
Amazon$6,352
Google$5,685
Real Estate$14,826
CBRE$13,676
American Tower$1,000
Prologis$150