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Report 1: How Does Your Representative/Senator Raise Campaign Money?
Data Retrieval and Analysis Exercise
Task
Complete a campaign financial profile on your member of Congress usingopensecrets.org[->0]
Introduction
Running for Congress is an expensive proposition. The Federal Election Commission reports that the overall expenditures for congressional elections during the 2008election cycle was approximately $ 800 million. In addition to these individual expenditures, the National Republic Campaign Committee raised an additional $715 million and the Democratic Campaign Committeeanother $520 million. In this exercise you must create a profile of the fund raising activities for your member of Congress. The 2010 election cycle, by all accounts, will exceed these totals.Step 1
Review Chapter 10 Campaigns and Elections and Chapter 12 Congress before beginning this assignment.
Step 2
Cut and paste or recreate the following table adjusting the space as needed.Gather the information about your member of Congress. You may select either your U.S. Representative or your U.S. Senator. Use OpenSecrets.Org to complete the table. USE THE 2010 ELECTION DATA! You willfind the link in the UPPER LEFT TAB “Politicians and Elections.”
Financial Profile Table OpenSecrets.Org[->1]
Name of Your Representative or Senator US Zip Code Identifier:http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jspUse this to identify your specific member of Congress.|Rep/Sen Ted Poe|
$ raised 2010|$876,075|
$ spent 2010|$569,846 |
$ cash on hand|$947,310|
% from large individuals|%69|% from PACs|%29|
% from Self Finance|%0|
Top 3 PAC Contributors |1. Business % of total PAC 2. Labor % of total PAC 3. Ideological% of total PAC|
Top 5 industries making campaign contributions (use "List PAC Contributions" link)|1. Lanier Law Firm2. Perry Homes3. FMC Technologies4. Credit Union National...
Data Retrieval and Analysis Exercise
Task
Complete a campaign financial profile on your member of Congress usingopensecrets.org[->0]
Introduction
Running for Congress is an expensive proposition. The Federal Election Commission reports that the overall expenditures for congressional elections during the 2008election cycle was approximately $ 800 million. In addition to these individual expenditures, the National Republic Campaign Committee raised an additional $715 million and the Democratic Campaign Committeeanother $520 million. In this exercise you must create a profile of the fund raising activities for your member of Congress. The 2010 election cycle, by all accounts, will exceed these totals.Step 1
Review Chapter 10 Campaigns and Elections and Chapter 12 Congress before beginning this assignment.
Step 2
Cut and paste or recreate the following table adjusting the space as needed.Gather the information about your member of Congress. You may select either your U.S. Representative or your U.S. Senator. Use OpenSecrets.Org to complete the table. USE THE 2010 ELECTION DATA! You willfind the link in the UPPER LEFT TAB “Politicians and Elections.”
Financial Profile Table OpenSecrets.Org[->1]
Name of Your Representative or Senator US Zip Code Identifier:http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jspUse this to identify your specific member of Congress.|Rep/Sen Ted Poe|
$ raised 2010|$876,075|
$ spent 2010|$569,846 |
$ cash on hand|$947,310|
% from large individuals|%69|% from PACs|%29|
% from Self Finance|%0|
Top 3 PAC Contributors |1. Business % of total PAC 2. Labor % of total PAC 3. Ideological% of total PAC|
Top 5 industries making campaign contributions (use "List PAC Contributions" link)|1. Lanier Law Firm2. Perry Homes3. FMC Technologies4. Credit Union National...
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