Which members of Congress have accepted PhRMA PAC contributions since 2016, according to OpenSecrets?

1. How OpenSecrets records PhRMA PAC activity — and what the records show in principle

OpenSecrets publishes both an organizational profile for PhRMA and a PAC-specific page that tracks contributions and expenditures to federal candidates and committees; those pages indicate that the PhRMA PAC (and the broader pharmaceuticals/health-products sector) has made recurring contributions to federal campaigns and that detailed line-item data exists for recent cycles ^{[6] [3] [2] [4]}. OpenSecrets’ industry and PAC pages make clear the site draws from FEC filings and organizes data by cycle, recipient and dollar amount, and the snippets here state explicitly that PhRMA’s PAC activity and expenditures are cataloged on those pages ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

2. What can be said with confidence from the sources provided

From the materials available, it can be confidently stated that: PhRMA operates a PAC whose contributions and expenditures to federal candidates are tracked and viewable on OpenSecrets ^{[3] [2]}; the pharmaceuticals/health-products industry is a major PAC contributor overall and OpenSecrets maintains industry-level recipient summaries ^{[7] [4]}; and reporters who examined OpenSecrets’ data have used it to conclude that some prominent progressive senators did not receive PhRMA PAC donations to their Senate or presidential committees since 2016 — STAT’s analysis specifically found no PhRMA PAC or member-company PAC gifts to Bernie Sanders’ or Elizabeth Warren’s campaign committees in that window ^[5].

3. What the sources do not provide here — and why that matters

The supplied OpenSecrets snippets and the accompanying reporting do not include a compiled, named list of every member of Congress who accepted PhRMA PAC money since 2016, so it is not possible from these items alone to enumerate the recipients with citation ^{[1] [2] [3]}. OpenSecrets clearly holds the granular data (individual contribution records by recipient and cycle), but those specific recipient entries are not reproduced in the documents provided for this query, and therefore cannot credibly be transcribed or summarized here without accessing the actual OpenSecrets contribution-detail pages or the PAC expenditures export ^{[1] [2]}.

4. How to get the definitive list and methodological caveats

To produce a definitive roster of members who accepted PhRMA PAC contributions since 2016, the method is straightforward and documented by OpenSecrets and reporters: consult the PhRMA PAC donor/expenditures pages on OpenSecrets and filter by cycle or “all cycles,” or use the Pharmaceuticals/Health Products recipients summary and the PAC’s expenditures exports to extract recipient names and amounts ^{[1] [2] [8] [7]}. Readers should note, as KFF Health News and others do, that such tallies can vary by methodology (whether you include leadership PACs, presidential campaign committees, and contributions from related industry PACs or only the trade group’s own PAC) and that OpenSecrets’ numbers are FEC-derived and limited to contributions of $200 or more ^{[9] [4]}.

5. Bottom line and accountability angle

OpenSecrets is the source to consult for a verified, itemized list — the organization’s PhRMA PAC and pharmaceuticals industry pages contain the necessary contribution records, but the documents provided here do not reproduce that list, so this report cannot credibly name every member who received PhRMA PAC funds since 2016 without pulling directly from OpenSecrets’ recipient-detail pages ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Journalistic and academic users should therefore pull the OpenSecrets PAC expenditures or recipients exports and document the inclusion rules (which PACs are counted, which committees are included) before citing a final roster; the STAT piece serves as a caution that popular claims about individual senators accepting PhRMA PAC money can be checked and sometimes disproven by examining those same OpenSecrets records ^[5].