Financial Services Industry PAC Contributions and Senate Committee Membership
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2011
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between relevant senate committee membership and campaign contributions from financial services industry political action committees (PACs) from 1998 to 2002. Since this was a period of significant legislative activity affecting the industry, it provides a fruitful time period to investigate the relationship between contributions and committee membership. It is found that membership on the Senate Banking Committee is consistently related to contributions from financial services PACs. Membership on the Senate Finance Committee is related to PAC contributions from some sectors of the industry for some time periods. It is also found that contributions are significantly higher for those senators facing re-election in the particular election cycle. The importance of relevant committee membershipto PAC contributions in the senate is consistent with previous work dealing with the House.
Publication Information
Bennett, Randall W. and Loucks, Christine. (2011). "Financial Services Industry PAC Contributions and Senate Committee Membership". Atlantic Economic Journal, 39(3), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-011-9277-z