Commemorative Series No. 1 · The Bank Rollback
OUTSPENTNo. 41/67
Charles
Grassley
U.S. Senate · R-IA
Taken from Wall Street
$131,206
S.2155 · Dodd-Frank rollback · 2018tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 41/67
Wall St & Finance$131,206
Pharma & Health$76,600
Telecom$65,625
Oil & Energy$28,160
Real Estate$25,000
This vote cut SVB's oversight. SVB collapsed in 2023. · 115-2-54OUTSPENT
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Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$131,206
The industry spent on the bill
$500M+
on the finance industry's federal lobbying in 2018
Through the leadership PAC
Beyond the campaign account, a leadership PAC under Grassley's control (Goldfinch PAC and The Hawkeye PAC) took $520,000 from banks, card lenders, drug makers and insurers.
Source: FEC; Goldfinch PAC and The Hawkeye PAC
The industry figure is lobbying spent on the bill, not a payment to this senator. Source: OpenSecrets. Everything here is documented public record; nothing alleges an illegal act.
★ Hall of Shame
Grassley voted with the money in more than one set:
Don't recognize a logo? Here's the key.
Wall St & Finance$131,206
Blackstone$43,705
Am. Bankers Assn.$30,000
Citadel$14,200
Securities Industry$10,000
Morgan Stanley$9,550
Goldman Sachs$6,300
JPMorgan$155
Pharma & Health$76,600
Amgen$47,100
Johnson & Johnson$16,600
Pfizer$6,900
PhRMA$4,000
Eli Lilly$2,000
Telecom$65,625
Verizon$38,525
Comcast$23,700
AT&T$3,400
Oil & Energy$28,160
Chevron$21,314
ExxonMobil$4,304
ConocoPhillips$1,542
Valero$1,000
Real Estate$25,000
Natl Assn of Realtors$20,000
American Tower$5,000
Big Tech$18,625
Google$11,650
Microsoft$6,250
Apple$500
Oracle$225
Defense$800
Northrop Grumman$500
Lockheed Martin$250
Boeing$50