Who funds Congress

American Optometric Association

Health · Health Issues

Given to current members, 2021–2026
$3.7M
Members funded
391
From its employees
$7.3K
Spent lobbying, 2021–2026
$14.5M

Split by party

  • Democrats $1.7M46%
  • Independents $5K<1%
  • Republicans $2M54%

What they lobby on

Spent $14,499,000 on federal lobbying (2021: $1.7M, 2022: $2.4M, 2023: $2.2M, 2024: $2.6M, 2025: $3M, 2026: $2.4M).

Optometric health care

  • Health Issues
  • Veterans
  • Medicare/Medicaid
  • Defense
  • Education
  • Indian/Native American Affairs
  • Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
  • Insurance
  • Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

From lobbying disclosures filed for American Optometric Association.

Donations from its employees

Itemized donations from people who listed American Optometric Association as their employer, to current members' campaigns,2021–2026. These are personal donations, separate from the PAC.

  1. Bill CassidyRepublican · LA
    $2.3K
  2. Earl L. "Buddy" CarterRepublican · GA
    $2K
  3. Diana HarshbargerRepublican · TN
    $1K
  4. Ruben GallegoDemocrat · AZ
    $750
  5. John ThuneRepublican · SD
    $500
  6. Jamie RaskinDemocrat · MD
    $250
  7. Jack BergmanRepublican · MI
    $250
  8. Angela D. AlsobrooksDemocrat · MD
    $250

Top recipients

  1. Mark PocanDemocrat · WI
    $30K
  2. Angie CraigDemocrat · MN
    $30K
  3. Earl L. "Buddy" CarterRepublican · GA
    $30K
  4. Kevin HernRepublican · OK
    $29K
  5. Jack BergmanRepublican · MI
    $29K
  6. John JoyceRepublican · PA
    $27.7K
  7. Yvette D. ClarkeDemocrat · NY
    $27.5K
  8. Robert E. LattaRepublican · OH
    $27.5K
  9. Brett GuthrieRepublican · KY
    $27.5K
  10. Frank Pallone, Jr.Democrat · NJ
    $27.5K
  11. Troy A. CarterDemocrat · LA
    $27K
  12. Paul TonkoDemocrat · NY
    $25.5K
  13. Kim SchrierDemocrat · WA
    $25K
  14. James E. ClyburnDemocrat · SC
    $25K
  15. Michael GuestRepublican · MS
    $24.5K
  16. Guy ReschenthalerRepublican · PA
    $24K
  17. Mike BostRepublican · IL
    $23.5K
  18. Janice D. SchakowskyDemocrat · IL
    $22.5K
  19. Morgan McGarveyDemocrat · KY
    $22.5K
  20. Terri A. SewellDemocrat · AL
    $22.5K
All 391 recipients
Mark Pocan$30,000
Angie Craig$30,000
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter$30,000
Kevin Hern$29,000
Jack Bergman$29,000
John Joyce$27,650
Yvette D. Clarke$27,500
Robert E. Latta$27,500
Brett Guthrie$27,500
Frank Pallone, Jr.$27,500
Troy A. Carter$27,000
Paul Tonko$25,500
Kim Schrier$25,000
James E. Clyburn$25,000
Michael Guest$24,500
Guy Reschenthaler$24,000
Mike Bost$23,500
Janice D. Schakowsky$22,500
Morgan McGarvey$22,500
Terri A. Sewell$22,500
Mike Quigley$22,000
Bill Foster$22,000
Darin LaHood$21,500
Diana Harshbarger$21,500
Lori Trahan$20,500
Neal P. Dunn$20,500
Val T. Hoyle$20,000
Robert Menendez$20,000
Riley M. Moore$20,000
Steven Horsford$19,500
Darren Soto$19,500
Craig A. Goldman$19,500
David P. Joyce$19,000
Donald G. Davis$19,000
Nikki Budzinski$18,500
Derrick Van Orden$18,500
James Comer$18,500
Frank J. Mrvan$18,500
Steve Scalise$18,000
John B. Larson$18,000
Kathy Castor$18,000
Tim Walberg$18,000
Jim Banks$17,500
Jason Smith$17,500
Kat Cammack$17,500
August Pfluger$17,500
Jahana Hayes$17,500
Greg Landsman$17,500
Emilia Strong Sykes$17,500
Donald Norcross$17,000
Troy Balderson$17,000
Gary J. Palmer$17,000
Richard Hudson$17,000
Delia C. Ramirez$17,000
Roger Williams$17,000
Mike Flood$17,000
H. Morgan Griffith$16,500
Adrian Smith$16,500
Scott Fitzgerald$16,500
Jake Ellzey$16,500
Russell Fry$16,500
Mike Rogers$16,000
Ron Estes$16,000
Beth Van Duyne$16,000
Jodey C. Arrington$16,000
Randy Feenstra$16,000
Pat Fallon$16,000
Chris Pappas$16,000
Joe Courtney$15,500
Raja Krishnamoorthi$15,000
John R. Curtis$15,000
Doris O. Matsui$15,000
Jay Obernolte$15,000
Sylvia R. Garcia$15,000
John Barrasso$15,000
Laurel M. Lee$15,000
Kevin Mullin$15,000
Gabe Vasquez$15,000
Blake D. Moore$15,000
Julie Fedorchak$15,000
Julia Letlow$14,500
Mike Johnson$14,500
Scott H. Peters$14,000
Gus M. Bilirakis$14,000
Jennifer A. Kiggans$14,000
Michael Baumgartner$14,000
Joyce Beatty$13,500
Henry Cuellar$13,500
Nicholas A. Langworthy$13,500
Suzanne Bonamici$13,000
Rosa L. DeLauro$13,000
Mike Kelly$13,000
Nathaniel Moran$13,000
Nanette Diaz Barragán$13,000
Lizzie Fletcher$13,000
Christopher H. Smith$12,500
Lisa C. McClain$12,500
Raul Ruiz$12,500
Brian K. Fitzpatrick$12,500
David Kustoff$12,500
Sydney Kamlager-Dove$12,500
Vince Fong$12,500
Nellie Pou$12,500
Diana DeGette$12,000
Tom Cole$12,000
Brendan F. Boyle$12,000
Randy K. Weber, Sr.$12,000
Roger Marshall$12,000
Cliff Bentz$12,000
Derek Schmidt$12,000
Kevin Cramer$11,500
Dusty Johnson$11,500
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez$11,500
Norma J. Torres$11,000
Melanie A. Stansbury$11,000
Lance Gooden$11,000
Bennie G. Thompson$11,000
Hakeem S. Jeffries$11,000
David G. Valadao$11,000
Josh Gottheimer$11,000
Julia Brownley$10,500
Brian Babin$10,500
Vicente Gonzalez$10,500
J. French Hill$10,500
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford$10,500
Robin L. Kelly$10,100
John Boozman$10,000
Joe Neguse$10,000
James A. Himes$10,000
Steny H. Hoyer$10,000
Ruben Gallego$10,000
Steve Womack$10,000
Todd Young$10,000
Elise M. Stefanik$10,000
Marsha Blackburn$10,000
Gregory F. Murphy$10,000
Jerry Moran$10,000
Peter Welch$10,000
William R. Timmons IV$10,000
Bill Hagerty$10,000
Marc A. Veasey$10,000
Michael F. Bennet$10,000
Seth Magaziner$10,000
Christopher R. Deluzio$10,000
Mazie K. Hirono$10,000
Deb Fischer$10,000
Ben Ray Luján$10,000
Janelle S. Bynum$10,000
Derek Tran$10,000
Dina Titus$10,000
Ashley Moody$10,000
John W. Mannion$10,000
Shelley Moore Capito$10,000
Gabe Evans$10,000
Glenn Grothman$10,000
Dan Sullivan$10,000
Jim Jordan$10,000
Lisa Blunt Rochester$9,500
Patty Murray$9,500
John R. Carter$9,500
Margaret Wood Hassan$9,500
Tom Emmer$9,500
Monica De La Cruz$9,500
Rick W. Allen$9,500
Brittany Pettersen$9,500
Eric Sorensen$9,500
Jennifer L. McClellan$9,500
Erin Houchin$9,500
Bruce Westerman$9,000
Marcy Kaptur$9,000
Michael K. Simpson$9,000
Debbie Dingell$9,000
Pete Sessions$9,000
Virginia Foxx$9,000
Lateefah Simon$9,000
Brian Jack$9,000
Kristen McDonald Rivet$9,000
Tom Barrett$9,000
J. Luis Correa$8,500
Carol D. Miller$8,500
David Rouzer$8,500
Harold Rogers$8,500
Jared Moskowitz$8,500
Zachary Nunn$8,500
Nancy Mace$8,000
Mariannette Miller-Meeks$8,000
Katie Boyd Britt$8,000
Debbie Wasserman Schultz$8,000
Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann$8,000
Rudy Yakym III$8,000
Scott Perry$8,000
Jimmy Patronis$8,000
Thomas H. Kean, Jr.$8,000
Jamie Raskin$7,500
Lauren Underwood$7,500
Jefferson Van Drew$7,500
Chuck Grassley$7,500
W. Gregory Steube$7,500
Vern Buchanan$7,500
Lisa Murkowski$7,500
John Hoeven$7,500
Ron Wyden$7,500
Frederica S. Wilson$7,500
Jimmy Panetta$7,500
Mike Carey$7,500
Ron Johnson$7,500
Mike Crapo$7,500
Ashley Hinson$7,500
Suzan K. DelBene$7,500
Greg Casar$7,500
Robert Garcia$7,500
Pete Ricketts$7,500
Marilyn Strickland$7,500
Andrew R. Garbarino$7,500
Lucy McBath$7,500
Ayanna Pressley$7,500
Adam Gray$7,500
Ben Cline$7,500
Russ Fulcher$7,500
Brandon Gill$7,500
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.$7,000
Raphael G. Warnock$7,000
James Lankford$7,000
Tracey Mann$7,000
Michelle Fischbach$7,000
Robert J. Wittman$7,000
Morgan Luttrell$7,000
Ami Bera$7,000
Andrea Salinas$7,000
Alma S. Adams$7,000
Tim Moore$7,000
Tim Sheehy$7,000
Max L. Miller$7,000
Bradley Scott Schneider$7,000
Mike Levin$6,500
Dan Crenshaw$6,500
Trent Kelly$6,500
Brian Schatz$6,500
Hillary J. Scholten$6,500
Mike Kennedy$6,500
Stephanie I. Bice$6,500
Michael A. Rulli$6,500
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.$6,500
Nicholas J. Begich III$6,500
Juan Ciscomani$6,500
Thomas R. Suozzi$6,500
Lloyd Doggett$6,000
Madeleine Dean$6,000
Danny K. Davis$6,000
John R. Moolenaar$6,000
Catherine Cortez Masto$6,000
Nikema Williams$6,000
Eric Schmitt$6,000
Ted Cruz$6,000
Charles E. Schumer$5,500
Haley M. Stevens$5,500
Bonnie Watson Coleman$5,500
Jake Auchincloss$5,500
Eugene Simon Vindman$5,500
Andy Kim$5,000
John Thune$5,000
Josh Harder$5,000
Nancy Pelosi$5,000
Bill Cassidy$5,000
David Schweikert$5,000
Byron Donalds$5,000
Tim Scott$5,000
Tammy Duckworth$5,000
Don Bacon$5,000
Teresa Leger Fernandez$5,000
Richard Blumenthal$5,000
Ted Budd$5,000
Nicole Malliotakis$5,000
Josh Brecheen$5,000
Mike Lee$5,000
John Fetterman$5,000
Burgess Owens$5,000
Mark Alford$5,000
Grace Meng$5,000
Mike Thompson$5,000
Jasmine Crockett$5,000
Becca Balint$5,000
Jill N. Tokuda$5,000
Shri Thanedar$5,000
Jacky Rosen$5,000
Aaron Bean$5,000
Maxwell Frost$5,000
Valerie P. Foushee$5,000
Daniel S. Goldman$5,000
Roger F. Wicker$5,000
Timothy M. Kennedy$5,000
Sheri Biggs$5,000
James C. Justice$5,000
Veronica Escobar$5,000
Nick LaLota$5,000
Angus S. King, Jr.$5,000
Tony Wied$5,000
David J. Taylor$5,000
Wesley Bell$5,000
Martin Heinrich$5,000
David McCormick$5,000
George Whitesides$5,000
John W. Hickenlooper$5,000
Jon Husted$5,000
Troy E. Nehls$5,000
Christian D. Menefee$5,000
Herbert C. Conaway, Jr.$5,000
Austin Scott$5,000
Jon Ossoff$5,000
Aisha Wahab$5,000
Pete Stauber$4,500
Barry Moore$4,500
Brian J. Mast$4,500
Jesús G. "Chuy" García$4,500
Robert B. Aderholt$4,500
Adam B. Schiff$4,500
Jonathan L. Jackson$4,500
Gabe Amo$4,500
Josh Riley$4,500
Stacey E. Plaskett$4,500
Matt Van Epps$4,500
Troy Downing$4,500
Ann Wagner$4,000
Seth Moulton$4,000
Dan Newhouse$4,000
Glenn Thompson$4,000
Gregory W. Meeks$4,000
Elissa Slotkin$3,500
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.$3,500
Gwen Moore$3,500
Sharice Davids$3,000
Jimmy Gomez$3,000
Frank D. Lucas$3,000
Keith Self$3,000
Salud O. Carbajal$2,500
Linda T. Sánchez$2,500
Lloyd Smucker$2,500
Rick Larsen$2,500
Andrew Ogles$2,500
John Kennedy$2,500
Michael Lawler$2,500
Brad Knott$2,500
Celeste Maloy$2,500
Steve Daines$2,500
Young Kim$2,500
LaMonica McIver$2,500
Susan M. Collins$2,500
Ronny Jackson$2,500
Michael Cloud$2,500
Summer L. Lee$2,500
Ilhan Omar$2,500
Maxine Dexter$2,500
Kelly Morrison$2,500
Mike Rounds$2,500
Pat Harrigan$2,500
Laura Gillen$2,500
Dave Min$2,500
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez$2,500
Mark R. Warner$2,500
Robert F. Onder, Jr.$2,500
Maggie Goodlander$2,500
Michael T. McCaul$2,000
Andy Barr$2,000
Barry Loudermilk$2,000
Ken Calvert$2,000
Emanuel Cleaver$2,000
Richard E. Neal$2,000
Mark E. Amodei$2,000
Joe Wilson$2,000
Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.$2,000
Tim Kaine$2,000
Tommy Tuberville$2,000
Patrick Ryan$2,000
Suhas Subramanyam$2,000
Sarah McBride$2,000
Joaquin Castro$2,000
George Latimer$2,000
Jack Reed$2,000
Sara Jacobs$1,500
Dwight Evans$1,500
Zoe Lofgren$1,500
John H. Rutherford$1,500
Jeff Crank$1,500
Ryan Mackenzie$1,500
Mark Harris$1,500
William R. Keating$1,000
Bryan Steil$1,000
Maria Elvira Salazar$1,000
Gary C. Peters$1,000
Sam Graves$1,000
Christopher A. Coons$1,000

PAC

American Optometric Association Political Action Committee
PAC · C00024968
$3.7M