Commemorative Series No. 1 · The Bank Rollback
OUTSPENTNo. 01/67
Mitch
McConnell
U.S. Senate · R-KY
Taken from Wall Street
$1,075,538
S.2155 · Dodd-Frank rollback · 2018tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 01/67
Wall St & Finance$1,075,538
Pharma & Health$327,943
Telecom$249,641
Oil & Energy$193,701
Big Tech$162,813
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
$1,075,538
The industry spent on the bill
$500M+
on the finance industry's federal lobbying in 2018
In the family
His wife, Elaine Chao, was a banker at Citicorp and Bank of America. Her family's shipping firm relies on Chinese state-bank financing.
Source: The Intercept; CNN
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
McConnell voted with the money in more than one set:
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Wall St & Finance$1,075,538
Blackstone$379,261
Goldman Sachs$176,155
Citadel$50,114
JPMorgan$42,664
Morgan Stanley$35,100
Securities Industry$27,500
Am. Bankers Assn.$26,500
Mastercard$20,000
BlackRock$3,000
Visa$470
Pharma & Health$327,943
Eli Lilly$88,100
Amgen$77,360
Johnson & Johnson$70,760
PhRMA$37,500
Pfizer$29,025
Merck$15,850
AbbVie$9,348
Telecom$249,641
Comcast$87,354
AT&T$82,612
Verizon$43,325
Charter$35,150
T-Mobile$1,200
Oil & Energy$193,701
ExxonMobil$52,192
Chevron$51,609
Marathon$36,690
Koch Industries$19,600
ConocoPhillips$13,450
Valero$10,160
Am. Petroleum Inst.$10,000
Big Tech$162,813
Apple$45,866
Microsoft$45,062
Amazon$38,057
Oracle$19,512
Google$14,316
Defense$84,262
Raytheon$33,210
Lockheed Martin$25,476
Boeing$10,757
Northrop Grumman$9,712
General Dynamics$4,407
L3Harris$700
Real Estate$14,790
CBRE$9,790
American Tower$5,000