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Jim Himes

Democrat · U.S. Representative, CT-04

Israel lobby money, career total

$107,908

Ranked #330 of 533 members of Congress in our database.

Figure compiled from Federal Election Commission filings as of September 5, 2026: direct and earmarked donations from 97 pro-Israel PACs across every FEC cycle since 1980, plus independent expenditures made on Jim's behalf, including attacks on Jim's opponent by the same group.

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How that compares

Himes against the rest of the House

Career totals from FEC filings, across the 433 sitting House members in our database. We scale against the top-10% threshold rather than the single highest total ($18,929,197, George Latimer), because one outlier that large would flatten every other bar to nothing.

Takes more than
38%
of Congress in our database
In the Connecticut delegation
#7
of 7 listed
Among House Democrats
#133
of 214
Versus the House median
89%
of the $121,518 median

The whole delegation

Israel lobby money across Connecticut

#MemberPartySeatCareer total
1John LarsonDCT-01$346,571
2Richard BlumenthalDSEN$327,757
3Rosa DeLauroDCT-03$248,693
4Jahana HayesDCT-05$206,414
5Chris MurphyDSEN$135,685
6Joe CourtneyDCT-02$128,994
7Jim HimesDCT-04$107,908

Sitting members only. Amounts are career totals compiled from FEC filings as of September 5, 2026.

Comparable totals

Members who took about the same

Mark Takano D CA-39 $108,138 Blake Moore R UT-01 $108,210 William Timmons R SC-04 $108,416 John Garamendi D CA-08 $107,257 Pete Stauber R MN-08 $108,908 Mark Amodei R NV-02 $109,101

Method

What this card counts

Career totals from pro-Israel PACs, compiled from Federal Election Commission filings: every dollar the 97 pro-Israel committees we track have ever put into a politician's campaigns, across every federal office they have run for and every FEC cycle on file (1980 to today). That means direct PAC checks, the earmarked checks the PACs bundle and pass through (AIPAC PAC, NORPAC, JStreetPAC), and independent expenditures (ads, mailers, organizing) made to elect them, including money the same group spent attacking their opponent in that race. Where a super PAC that is not itself a pro-Israel PAC is funded mainly by the lobby's mega-donors or by a tracked PAC, we count that spending only after a donor review, and we publish the filings on the Receipts page. Money spent AGAINST a politician is never added to their total. Full methodology and the list of tracked committees.

Source: Federal Election Commission filings, as of September 5, 2026. AIP challenges money in politics, never any people or faith. If you believe a figure here is wrong, the Receipts page shows how to check it and how we publish corrections.

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