Congress, legal-industry money, and medical-liability votes

Exactly what each column includes

• Trial-lawyer PACs: direct PAC-to-candidate contributions from the American Association for Justice PAC and the National Association of Shareholder & Consumer Attorneys PAC.
• Law-firm PACs: direct contributions from about 60 federal PACs connected to law firms (full list below). These firms do many kinds of work, including corporate defense and lobbying, so this column is not a trial-lawyer measure.
• Other lawyer PACs: bar and lawyer-association PACs (listed below).
• Attorney donors: itemized individual contributions (generally over $200 per cycle) to the member's principal or authorized campaign committees, from donors who listed an occupation containing "attorney", "lawyer" or "litigator". Covers the 2024 and 2026 cycles only. This includes all kinds of lawyers, not only plaintiffs' lawyers. Occupations are self-reported.
• AMPAC: direct contributions from the American Medical Association PAC, shown for comparison.
• 2017 vote: House roll call 337 (June 28, 2017), passage of H.R. 1215, Protecting Access to Care Act ($250,000 cap on non-economic damages in federally subsidized care). Passed 218–210; not taken up by the Senate. Clerk record. "—" means the member was not in the House then.

Sources: FEC bulk files at fec.gov: committee-to-candidate contributions (pas2) for 2022–2026, individual contributions (indiv) for 2024–2026, candidate-committee linkages (ccl) and the committee master (cm), all downloaded 2026-10-31. PAC rows use transaction types 24K/24Z with memo entries excluded; individual rows exclude memo entries. The 2026 cycle is partial. Members and FEC IDs come from congress-legislators. Not included: leadership PACs, party committees, super PACs and other outside spending. Refunds are netted.