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AIPAC’s recent spending on elections and lobbying places it among the largest single-issue political players in Washington: AIPAC and its super PAC reported roughly $95.1 million on the 2024 elections...
Public records require senators to disclose travel paid by foreign governments or private sponsors and those disclosures are held in the Senate Office of Public Records and quarterly or semiannual rep...
A targeted review of the provided reporting and data sources finds no article or dataset among them that names specific former U.S. senators who both received campaign contributions from Venezuela‑lin...
OpenSecrets’ reporting included a specific figure for AIPAC’s federal lobbying spend tied to the 2022 cycle — “over $2.7 million” — but the provided OpenSecrets pages and associated snippets do not co...
Available public records systems exist to capture whether senators reported meetings with Venezuelan officials or lobbyists, but the reporting provided does not include any specific senators or disclo...
Verifying an allegation that a foreign regime paid a U.S. senator rests on documentary proof that links money or things of value from a foreign principal into the senator’s pocket, campaign, staff, or...
Recreating a country-by-senator contributions table requires assembling two public but distinct datasets — FEC campaign finance records and Senate public financial/lobbying disclosures — and then engi...
Senate ethics rules treat travel or hospitality from foreign-linked entities—defined broadly to include foreign governments, registered foreign agents, and private sponsors that retain lobbyists—as gi...
A significant minority of U.S. senators hold financial ties to the fossil-fuel sector — watchdog analyses find at least 10 senators holding sizable “Big Oil” stock positions and broader surveys identi...
Recent reporting and official materials show the Senate enforces strict disclosure and outside-earnings limits — Senators whose pay equals or exceeds the 120% GS‑15 threshold ($150,160 for CY 2025) fa...