Tom Barrett
Republican
· MI-7 · 119th Congress
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Public Buildings · and Emergency Management · House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Influence Score
66.2
Moderately 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
5.1
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
5.3
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$7,963,855
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$50,139,618
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
4.3
/ 10
Revolving door
former staff now working as lobbyists
0.0
/ 3
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
9.6
/ 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
8.3
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
8.1
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
1.5
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
10.7
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (RJC-PAC)
$12,504 direct
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $20.42M 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 — $41K.
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
SLF PAC
Total money from this network
$8,075,187
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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FOR AMERICA
Share from this one network
6.8%
Amount from this network
$141,475
Total from all networks
$2,081,092
Networks contributing
375
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Who funds Barrett
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$8,864,759
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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
1.4%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
2.00×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
1.2%
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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
HOMEMAKER
$125K
HOMEMAKER
$94K
HOMEMAKER
$86K
OWNER
$21K
HAWORTH
$20K
ALTICOR
$17K
HAWORTH
$17K
HURON CAPITAL
$16K
STARKEY HEARING
$16K
SUBURBAN COLLECTION
$16K
OWNER
$15K
HIGHLAND ENGINEERING
$15K
MID AMERICAN GUNITE
$15K
AMWAY
$14K
FLEXIBL PLAN INVESTMENTS
$14K
FOUNDERS FUND
$14K
OWOSSO SPEEDWAY
$14K
PENSKE
$14K
STARKEY HEARING
$14K
WINKLEVOSS CAPITAL
$14K
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Tom Barrett comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$26.74M
Disclosed outside spending
$25.27M
Dark-money outside spending
$1.47M
Share that is dark money
5.50%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$10K
Groups hiding their donors
2
By funding network
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC NETWORK
$26.53M
DCCC
$16.92M
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION
$2.95M
GIFFORDS PAC
$2.52M
NRCC
$1.68M
VOTEVETS
$1.19M
PARTY_C00041160
$1.13M
EDF ACTION VOTES
$1.11M
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E
$1.02M
SLF PAC
$980K
AMERICA PAC
$435K
RETIRED AMERICANS PAC
$364K
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FOR AMERICA
$267K
SAVE WESTERN CULTURE
$194K
REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP FUND INC.
$175K
Groups that hide their donors
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.
JEFFREY J KOLOZE
$8K
GEORGE ERBACHER
$3K
THOMAS MORRIS
$2K
EDWIN BOTERO
$300
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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.
56 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $1.97M to Tom Barrett across 154 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$1.97M
Shared contributors
56
Contributions
154
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9 | 40 | $301K |
| 2024 | 34 | 65 | $590K |
| 2026 | 25 | 49 | $1.08M |
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Tom Barrett sits in the middle of this Congress on the index. There is a measured sponsor relationship, but the vote-alignment signal is weaker — money flows; the votes do not follow in lockstep.
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