Angela D. Alsobrooks
Democrat
· MD Senate · 119th Congress
Senate Committee on Banking · and Urban Affairs · and Community Development · and Investment · Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · and Water · Senate Committee on Health · and Pensions · Senate Special Committee on Aging
Influence Score
73.1
Highly exposed
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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
4.8
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
4.9
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$3,769,530
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$26,699,481
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
7.0
/ 10
Revolving door
former staff now working as lobbyists
0.0
/ 3
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
9.0
/ 12
Contribution timingmoney arriving near key votes
0.0
/ 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
9.3
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
7.5
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
4.0
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
11.8
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
JSTREETPAC
$92,460 direct
DMFI PAC
$2,000 direct
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $50.10M 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 — $100K.
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
WOMEN VOTE
Total money from this network
$5,982,366
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
J STREET ACTION FUND
Share from this one network
6.0%
Amount from this network
$92,460
Total from all networks
$1,546,035
Networks contributing
331
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Who funds Alsobrooks
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$4,614,322
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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
3.9%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
2.00×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
5.9%
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Money timed to key votes
Donations arriving near key votes in the policy areas this member regulates
No suspicious timing patterns detected.
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Top Donors
Biggest sources of contributions, grouped by employer, this cycle
NEA
$27.85M
CITADEL INVESTMENT
$10.00M
NEA
$7.05M
THE BLACKSTONE
$3.51M
BLOOMBERG
$2.86M
ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ
$2.64M
USPS
$2.10M
GOOGLE
$2.08M
COMCAST CC OF WILLOW GROVE
$2.07M
BOEING
$2.04M
THE ELEVANCE HEALTH COMPANIES
$1.33M
UNITED AIRLINES
$1.30M
GRANTHAM MAYO VAN OTTERLOO
$1.25M
VERIZON RSRCS
$1.16M
CONSTELLATION ENERGY GENERATION
$1.15M
ELI LILLY AND
$1.15M
GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT
$1.11M
PILOT HOUSE ASSOCIATES
$1.06M
VISION RIDGE
$1.02M
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK
$1.01M
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Angela D. Alsobrooks comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$31.65M
Disclosed outside spending
$29.74M
Dark-money outside spending
$1.91M
Share that is dark money
6.05%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$1.84M
Groups hiding their donors
11
By funding network
MARYLAND'S FUTURE
$26.66M
AMERICA VOTES ACTION FUND
$1.80M
NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION
$1.15M
CASA IN ACTION PAC
$165K
SAVE AMERICA FUND
$147K
PROGRESSIVE PROMISE
$128K
SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION)
$103K
1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION FUND
$75K
RED SENATE
$43K
THE DEMOCRATIC ACTION PAC
$36K
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ACTION FUND
$31K
LARRY GIBSON
$31K
CLIMATE EMERGENCY VOTERS PAC
$24K
NEA ADVOCACY FUND
$17K
1199 SEIU NEW YORK STATE POLITICAL ACTION FUND
$17K
Groups that hide their donors
$804K
$31K
4 smaller groups under $500
$1K
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.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATES
$10K
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND EVERYTOWN VICTORY FUND
$10.01M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND
$43K
DCCC
$3.29M
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG
$14.00M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND
$3.00M
SEBASTIAN SCRIPPS
$1.50M
ELIZABETH SIEGELMAN
$400K
JEFFRIES VICTORY FUND
$225K
PAT RYAN FOR CONGRESS
$75K
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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.
354 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $6.15M to Angela D. Alsobrooks across 511 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$6.15M
Shared contributors
354
Contributions
511
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 351 | 498 | $5.84M |
| 2026 | 6 | 13 | $308K |
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Angela D. Alsobrooks'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