Angela D. Alsobrooks
Democrat
· MD Senate · 119th Congress
Senate Committee on Banking · and Urban Affairs · and Community Development · and Investment · Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · and Water · Senate Committee on Health · and Pensions · Senate Special Committee on Aging
Influence Score
73.3
Highly 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
4.8
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
5.2
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$7,734,242
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$57,942,563
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
7.0
/ 10
Revolving door
former staff now working as lobbyists
0.0
/ 3
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
9.0
/ 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
9.3
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
7.5
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
4.0
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
11.7
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
JSTREETPAC
$92,460 direct
DMFI PAC
$2,000 direct · $8,500 outside spending
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $50.10M 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 — $100K.
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
WOMEN VOTE
Total money from this network
$5,982,366
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
J STREET ACTION FUND
Share from this one network
6.0%
Amount from this network
$92,460
Total from all networks
$1,546,035
Networks contributing
331
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Who funds Alsobrooks
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$8,579,034
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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
3.9%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
2.00×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
5.9%
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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
MEDSTAR HEALTH
$82K
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR
$67K
PRINCE GEORGE S COUNTY
$54K
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER FELD LLP
$50K
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
$43K
STATE OF MARYLAND
$42K
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
$42K
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
$41K
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
$37K
AMAZON COM
$34K
VENABLE LLP
$33K
GOOGLE
$30K
META PLATFORMS
$29K
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
$29K
GALLAGHER EVELIUS JONES LLP
$27K
MEYERS RODBELL ROSENBAUM PA
$27K
MICROSOFT
$26K
BRIGHTVIEW SENIOR LIVING
$25K
GIBSON DUNN CRUTCHER LLP
$24K
ARNOLD PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP
$23K
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Angela D. Alsobrooks comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$31.65M
Disclosed outside spending
$29.74M
Dark-money outside spending
$1.91M
Share that is dark money
6.05%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$1.84M
Groups hiding their donors
11
By funding network
MARYLAND'S FUTURE
$57.86M
AMERICA VOTES ACTION FUND
$4.04M
NATIONAL NURSES UNITED FOR PATIENT PROTECTION
$2.12M
CASA IN ACTION PAC
$296K
SAVE AMERICA FUND
$292K
PROGRESSIVE PROMISE
$255K
SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION)
$203K
1199 SEIU UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS EAST FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION FUND
$150K
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ACTION FUND
$79K
RED SENATE
$79K
THE DEMOCRATIC ACTION PAC
$61K
CLIMATE EMERGENCY VOTERS PAC
$50K
1199 SEIU NEW YORK STATE POLITICAL ACTION FUND
$33K
LARRY GIBSON
$31K
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY VICTORY FUND
$30K
Groups that hide their donors
$804K
$31K
4 smaller groups under $500
$1K
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.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATES
$10K
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND EVERYTOWN VICTORY FUND
$10.01M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND
$43K
DCCC
$3.29M
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG
$14.00M
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY VICTORY FUND
$3.00M
SEBASTIAN SCRIPPS
$1.50M
ELIZABETH SIEGELMAN
$400K
JEFFRIES VICTORY FUND
$225K
PAT RYAN FOR CONGRESS
$75K
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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.
354 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $6.15M to Angela D. Alsobrooks across 511 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$6.15M
Shared contributors
354
Contributions
511
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 351 | 498 | $5.84M |
| 2026 | 6 | 13 | $308K |
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Angela D. Alsobrooks's file shows clear influence markers across multiple categories for the top funding network, placing them in the upper range of this Congress. The pattern runs above what coincidence would produce, and the methodology page documents what each category requires.
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