Don Bacon
Republican
· NE-2 · 119th Congress
and Department Operations (Chair) · Information Technologies (Chair) · and Innovation (Chair) · House Committee on Agriculture · and Research · and Biotechnology · and Poultry · House Committee on Armed Services
Influence Score
80.0
Highly exposed
↑ +4.6
vs 118th (75.4)
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This score measures financial influence across twelve categories. Each bar shows how this member compares to all others in Congress. Longer bars mean more exposure.
Score breakdown — twelve categories
Contributionsmoney from PACs (political action committees) and individual donors
10.9
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
5.9
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$5,427,853
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$11,032,882
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
4.0
/ 10
Revolving door
former staff now working as lobbyists
0.0
/ 3
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
5.7
/ 12
Contribution timingmoney arriving near key votes
< 0.1
/ 6
Stock tradesbuying stocks in industries they regulate
0.0
/ 1
Dark moneyfunding from groups that hide their donors
0.1
/ 2
Outbound money distributionmoney this member sends out to the party and to colleagues
12.0
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
10.0
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
4.7
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
10.7
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
$26,921 direct
NORPAC
$16,750 direct
REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (RJC-PAC)
$12,555 direct
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $23.71M in lobbying from FARA-registered firms representing South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia. This exposure is weighted at 0.2% of face value in the score — $47K.
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Score across four congresses
Score and tier for each Congress. Members are ranked against others in the same Congress, so tiers are comparable across rows. Raw scores reflect different data availability per Congress.
| Congress | Score | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| 116th · 2019-2021 | 75.7 | Highly exposed |
| 117th · 2021-2023 | 58.7 | Moderately exposed |
| 118th · 2023-2025 | 75.4 | Highly exposed |
| 119th · 2025-2027 | 80.0 | Highly exposed |
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
SLF PAC
Total money from this network
$4,170,189
Number of funding networks contributing
1
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Where most of the money comes from
What share of their combined contributions and outside spending comes from a single network. Party committees are excluded.
Network
UNITE THE COUNTRY
Share from this one network
1.4%
Amount from this network
$61,000
Total from all networks
$4,379,773
Networks contributing
633
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Who funds Bacon
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$7,337,274
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Does the money match their power?
Whether their money comes from the industries their committees actually oversee
Money from industries they regulate
8.4%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
2.00×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
22.4%
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Money timed to key votes
Donations arriving near key votes in the policy areas this member regulates
Times money arrived near a vote
1
Money that arrived near votes
$1K
Distinct donors
1
Distinct employers
1
Share of their total fundraising
0.02%
Biggest clusters of timed money
LEIDOS
$1K
BOEING
$500
BAE SYSTEMS
$260
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Top Donors
Biggest sources of contributions, grouped by employer, this cycle
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES
$239.91M
BLOOMBERG
$31.16M
CITADEL ASSET MANAGEMENT
$27.00M
CITADEL ASSET MANAGEMENT
$17.00M
BLOOMBERG
$16.32M
NEWSWEB
$16.29M
EMC
$15.53M
ADELSON DRUG CLINIC
$12.50M
THE BLACKSTONE
$10.70M
RYAN SPECIALTY
$10.36M
STG
$10.00M
ADELSON DRUG CLINIC
$10.00M
REYES
$9.34M
REYES
$9.15M
THE CHARLES SCHWAB
$7.51M
SAND HILLS PUBLISHING
$7.50M
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL
$6.70M
EUCLIDEAN CAPITAL
$6.50M
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
$6.43M
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
$6.33M
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Don Bacon comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$16.55M
Disclosed outside spending
$15.96M
Dark-money outside spending
$585K
Share that is dark money
3.54%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$568K
Groups hiding their donors
6
By funding network
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC NETWORK
$7.12M
DCCC
$5.98M
WITH HONOR FUND II, INC.
$2.05M
BIG RED LEADERSHIP PAC
$1.39M
GIFFORDS PAC
$942K
SLF PAC
$785K
EARN INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS
$638K
WOMEN VOTE
$503K
AMERICA PAC
$480K
SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY AMERICA
$450K
LCV VICTORY FUND
$311K
ESAFUND
$304K
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION PAC
$300K
314 ACTION FUND
$284K
POLICE COALITION OF AMERICA PAC
$275K
Groups that hide their donors
$311K
1 smaller group under $500
$8
Likely donors behind the dark money supporting this member
Inferred
Donors who fund the disclosed PACs in the same network as the hidden groups above. "Coverage" is how many of that network's disclosed groups a donor funds — the more they fund, the more likely they also back the hidden group.
JEFFREY J KOLOZE
$8K
GEORGE ERBACHER
$3K
THOMAS MORRIS
$2K
EDWIN BOTERO
$300
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND EVERYTOWN VICTORY FUND
$10.01M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND
$43K
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG
$14.00M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND
$3.00M
SEBASTIAN SCRIPPS
$1.50M
ELIZABETH SIEGELMAN
$400K
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Pro-Israel network donors
This counts contributions to this member from individuals whose FEC filings also show contributions to one of the 16 pro-Israel political action committees tracked by the Index. It is a measure of donor overlap — not a claim about why any individual gave, and not part of the influence score.
675 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $1.71M to Don Bacon across 864 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$1.71M
Shared contributors
675
Contributions
864
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 168 | 239 | $378K |
| 2024 | 513 | 577 | $808K |
| 2026 | 33 | 48 | $524K |
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Don Bacon's file shows clear influence markers across multiple categories for the top funding network, placing them in the upper range of this Congress. The pattern runs above what coincidence would produce, and the methodology page documents what each category requires.
Data: FEC (Federal Election Commission) filings · 118th–119th Congress · lobbying disclosures · VoteView recorded votes
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required