Commemorative Series No. 3 · The Fine Print
OUTSPENTNo. 35/74
Blanche
Lincoln
U.S. Senate · D-AR
Taken from the card industry
$39,650
S.256 · the bankruptcy bill · 2005tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 35/74
Card-Issuing Banks$38,250
Credit Cards$1,400
Made it harder to clear credit-card debt in bankruptcy. Filings got ~38% costlier; insolvency didn't fall. · 109-1-44OUTSPENT
Card 35 of 74 · tap the card to see who they work for
Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$39,650
The industry spent on the bill
$100M+
on an eight-year industry push to pass the bankruptcy bill
Then, after office
Lobbied for Pfizer at about $20,000 a month to keep the Medicare drug-price ban she voted for.
Source: The Intercept, 2021
The industry figure is lobbying spent on the bill, not a payment to this senator. Source: contemporary reporting (NBER; PBS Frontline). Everything here is documented public record; nothing alleges an illegal act.
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Card-Issuing Banks$38,250
JPMorgan$27,000
Am. Bankers Assn.$11,000
Wells Fargo$250
Credit Cards$1,400
Discover$850
American Express$550