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State Candidate Contribution Amount EMPLOYEE POLITICAL EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ADVOCACY FUND FOR INNOVATION 2019 CONTRIBUTIONS State Candidate Contribution Amount Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan $1,000 Alabama Sen. Doug Jones $2,000 Rep. Terri Sewell $1,000 Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema $1,000 Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton $1,000 California Rep. Ami Bera $2,000 Rep. Lou Correa $1,000 Rep. Anna Eshoo $5,000 Rep. Kevin McCarthy $5,000 Rep. Devin Nunes $1,000 Rep. Scott Peters $2,500 Rep. Raul Ruiz $1,000 Rep. Linda Sanchez $2,500 Rep. Jackie Speier $1,000 Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner $5,000 Delaware Blue Hen PAC (Sen. Chris Coons) $2,500 Florida Rep. Darren Soto $1,000 Rep. Stephanie Murphy $1,000 Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson $1,000 Sen. David Perdue $1,000 Rep. Buddy Carter $2,500 Rep. Doug Collins $1,000 Rep. Drew Ferguson $1,000 Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo $2,500 Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth $1,000 Rep. Cheri Bustos $5,000 Rep. Bill Foster $1,000 Rep. Robin Kelly $1,000 Rep. Adam Kinzinger $1,000 Rep. Darin LaHood $1,000 Rep. Brad Schneider $1,000 Indiana Sen. Mike Braun $1,000 Rep. Larry Bucshon $2,500 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds $2,000 Sen. Joni Ernst $2,500 State Sen. Charles Schneider $1,500 State Sen. Jack Whitver $1,000 State Rep. Pat Grassley $1,000 Kentucky Bluegrass Committee (Sen. Mitch McConnell) $5,000 Rep. Brett Guthrie $2,500 Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy $1,000 Rep. Steve Scalise $5,000 Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey $1,000 Rep. Katherine Clark $2,500 Rep. Stephen Lynch $1,000 Maryland Rep. Anthony Brown $1,000 Rep. Steny Hoyer $5,000 Michigan Sen. Gary Peters $2,500 Rep. Fred Upton $2,500 Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson $1,000 Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt $2,500 Rep. Billy Long $1,000 Rep. Jason Smith $1,000 Montana Sen. Steve Daines $1,000 Nebraska Rep. Adrian Smith $1,000 Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen $1,000 New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez $5,000 Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman $5,000 Rep. Bill Pascrell $2,500 Rep. Mikie Sherrill $1,000 Rep. Jeff Van Drew $1,000 New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich $1,000 New York Rep. Eliot Engel $2,500 Rep. Tom Reed $2,500 North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr $1,000 Sen. Thom Tillis $3,500 THOMPAC (Sen. Thom Tillis) $1,500 Rep. G.K. Butterfield $2,500 Rep. George Holding $1,000 Rep. Richard Hudson $2,500 Rep. Patrick McHenry $1,000 Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup $1,000 Sen. Rob Portman $1,000 Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe $1,000 Sen. James Lankford $1,000 Rep. Tom Cole $1,000 Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader $2,500 Rep. Greg Walden $5,000 Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey $1,000 Rep. Brendan Boyle $2,500 Rep. Madeleine Dean $1,000 Rep. Chrissy Houlahan $1,000 Rep. Mike Kelly $1,000 Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon $1,000 Puerto Rico Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon $1,000 South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham $2,500 Sen. Tim Scott $2,500 Rep. Jim Clyburn $2,500 South Dakota Sen. John Thune $2,500 Tennessee Tenn PAC (Sen. Lamar Alexander) $1,000 Sen. Bill Hagerty $1,000 Rep. Phil Roe $1,000 Texas Alamo PAC (Sen. John Cornyn) $2,500 Rep. Kevin Brady $5,000 Rep. Michael Burgess $3,500 Rep. Will Hurd $1,000 Rep. Michael McCaul $1,000 State Sen. Kelly Hancock $500 State Sen. Bryan Hughes $500 State Sen. Robert Nichols $500 State Sen. Jane Nelson $500 State Sen. Kirk Watson $500 State Rep. Sarah Davis $500 State Rep. Dan Flynn $250 State Rep. James Frank $250 State Rep. Stephanie Klick $250 State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst $500 State Rep. Oscar Longoria $250 State Rep. Eddie Lucio $250 State Rep. Rick Miller $250 State Rep. Sergio Munoz $250 State Rep. Tom Oliverson $500 State Rep. Tan Parker $500 State Rep. Dennis Paul $250 State Rep. Walter T. Price $500 State Rep. Richard Raymond $500 State Rep. J.D. Sheffield $250 State Rep. Senfronia Thompson $500 Utah Sen. Mitt Romney $5,000 Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine $1,000 Sen. Mark Warner $1,000 Rep. Morgan Griffith $2,500 Washington Sen. Patty Murray $2,500 Rep. Derek Kilmer $1,000 Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers $2,500 West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito $1,000 Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind $1,000 Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso $1,000 Rep. Liz Cheney $1,000 Total YTD: December 31, 2019 $213,750.
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