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Maria Cantwell

Democrat · U.S. Senator from Washington

Israel lobby money, career total

$601,342

Ranked #118 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 Maria's behalf, including attacks on Maria's opponent by the same group.

How that compares

Cantwell against the rest of the Senate

Career totals from FEC filings, across the 100 sitting Senate members in our database. We scale against the top-10% threshold rather than the single highest total ($5,196,655, Susan Collins), because one outlier that large would flatten every other bar to nothing.

Takes more than
78%
of Congress in our database
In the Washington delegation
#3
of 12 listed
Among Senate Democrats
#23
of 45
Versus the Senate median
1.1×
the median of $542,540

The whole delegation

Israel lobby money across Washington

#MemberPartySeatCareer total
1Adam SmithDWA-09$891,482
2Patty MurrayDSEN$683,265
3Maria CantwellDSEN$601,342
4Marie Gluesenkamp PerezDWA-03$514,725
5Marilyn StricklandDWA-10$461,009
6Kim SchrierDWA-08$432,529
7Suzan DelBeneDWA-01$320,820
8Dan NewhouseRWA-04$167,970
9Pramila JayapalDWA-07$139,554
10Rick LarsenDWA-02$106,461
11Michael BaumgartnerRWA-05$102,727
12Emily RandallDWA-06$41,280

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

Comparable totals

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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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