Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Senator · D-NY
OverviewMoney & Influence
7 former staff now lobby Gillibrand's office.
Former employees have moved to lobbying firms connected to this member's work.
$872K raised$163 avg donation48% from NY7 former staff → lobbyists
Key Findings
7 former staff now work as lobbyists
Multiple former employees have moved to lobbying firms, 4 with high-confidence matches.
52% of donations come from outside NY
More than half of funding comes from out-of-state donors.
62% of money comes from large donors (>$1,000)
A significant share of funding comes from major individual donors.
Low committee-donor overlap
PAC funding shows minimal connection to industries regulated by this member's committee.
How Does Money Flow Through Congress?
An interactive guide to the influence pipeline
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How Does Money Flow Through Congress?
An interactive guide to the influence pipeline
How It Works
The Influence Pipeline
How money flows to — and through — Kirsten E. Gillibrand's office.
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The Company
A corporation wants a law passed or blocked.
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The PAC
Direct donations are illegal. So employees pool money into a Political Action Committee.
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The Target
PACs fund members on committees that regulate their industry.
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The Committee
These committees write the laws that affect the donor's business.
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🗳️
The Vote
Your representative votes — and the pattern is clear.
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The Lobbying
Those lobbyists push specific bills before their former colleagues.
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The Revolving Door
Former staff become lobbyists for the same industries that fund their old boss.
The cycle repeats.
01
The Company
A corporation wants a law passed or blocked.
02
The PAC
Direct donations are illegal. So employees pool money into a Political Action Committee.
03
The Target
PACs fund members on committees that regulate their industry.
04
⚖️
The Committee
These committees write the laws that affect the donor's business.
05
🚪
The Revolving Door
Former staff become lobbyists for the same industries that fund their old boss.
06
📋
The Lobbying
Those lobbyists push specific bills before their former colleagues.
07
🗳️
The Vote
Your representative votes — and the pattern is clear.
The cycle repeats.
Follow the Money
Top individual donor: Chouake, Benjamin from NJ ($14K). Education is the largest PAC sector at $114K from 30 PACs.
Industry PACs
$308KWhich sectors fund this member
Leadership PACs
$2.7MHow much power this member brokers
Off The Sidelines Pac
Raised: $755KSpent: $1.0M
Off The Sidelines Pac
Raised: $1.8MSpent: $1.5M
Empire Pac
Raised: $5KSpent: $9K
Empire Pac
Raised: $73KSpent: $161K
Top Individual Donors
$3.9MNamed people writing checks
NJ · Norpac · 5x
Stavis, Amy↗$14K
NY · Not Employed · 4xRowan, Marc↗$14K
CT · Apollo Global · 4xStavis, Robert↗$14K
NY · Bessemer Venture Partners · 4xCorns, Evan R.↗$10K
FL · 2xIN · Not Employed · 7x
Gillibrand
Armed Services, Intelligence
Votes Cast by Policy Area
Economics and Public Finance
207
International Affairs
83
Armed Forces and National Security
68
Health
35
Transportation and Public Works
35
Taxation
29
The Revolving Door
Elana Broitman — senior advisor fromjul.26 → Greenberg Traurig, Llp; The Roosevelt Group; The Jewish Federations Of North America↗(47 filings)
Deep Dive
How we built this & what it doesn't prove
- • Donor data from FEC filings (9.47M individual contributions)
- • Voting records from Congress.gov roll call data
- • Lobbying data from Senate LDA filings
- • Staff employment from House disbursement records
Correlation between donations and votes does not prove causation. Members may vote in alignment with donors because they share genuine policy beliefs, not because of financial influence. We present the connections — you decide what they mean.