All 55 donors for Jon Husted, with their interests

Donor interests

All 55 donors for Jon Husted, with their interests

2026 U.S. Senator from Ohio race · as of October 30, 2026

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What this is

These are the 55 donors in Jon Husted's donor-interest record for the 2026 U.S. Senator from Ohio race, largest filed amount first. Each one opens to what the donor does, what it lobbies for, and each of Jon Husted's stated positions that would change its money, in either direction, with the sources for both.

Every donor, largest first

By filed amount, ties by name; an amount reported, committed or refunded comes after every filed one. Each one opens to every position of the candidate's that would change its money, in either direction.

Crypto-industry super PACs: Fairshake and its affiliate (Defend American Jobs) · $56.6M · 4 alignments
$56,580,433 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

Fairshake is a super PAC formed in 2023 and funded by cryptocurrency companies; Defend American Jobs (C00836221) is its affiliate for Republican contests. On Fairshake's 2025-2026 FEC reports the itemized contributions are led by Ripple Labs ($48 million, January 21 and August 29, 2025), Coinbase ($25 million, March to June 2025) and AH Capital Management, Andreessen Horowitz's adviser ($23.8 million, December 10, 2025). In 2024 the network spent more than $40 million supporting Bernie Moreno against Brown.
Filed independent expenditures, as of 2026-10-19: Defend American Jobs reports $33,778,233.05 supporting Husted (12 lines) and $12,894,063.13 opposing Brown (5 lines) from Sept. 21, 2026 on, $46,672,296.18 in all, which is the amount above (several media buys are split into a supporting and an opposing line, so the two parts do not overlap); Fairshake itself names no Ohio candidate (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num). Earlier (recorded 2026-09-22, before any filing named an Ohio candidate): a commitment announced September 21, 2026 to spend at least $30 million against Sherrod Brown, per CoinDesk, The Block and crypto.news; not a filed expenditure. Fairshake's Schedule E through August 31, 2026 names only Illinois candidates, and Defend American Jobs' Schedule E through August 31, 2026 names no Ohio candidate. Fairshake transferred $37 million to Defend American Jobs in 2025-2026. Updated 2026-10-29: Defend American Jobs reports $36,054,435.05 supporting Husted (14 lines) and $19,706,265.13 opposing Brown (7 lines), $55,760,700.18 in all through the Oct. 29 file; the Oct. 19 figure of $46,672,296.18 re-sums to the cent from the Oct. 19 file (FEC bulk IE file modified 2026-10-29 10:14:47 GMT plus .fec filings through the feed item of 2026-10-29 18:56 UTC; amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num). Updated 2026-10-30: Defend American Jobs reports $36,874,167.46 supporting Husted (15 lines) and $19,706,265.13 opposing Brown (7 lines), $56,580,432.59 in all through the Oct. 30 file; the Oct. 29 figure of $55,760,700.18 re-sums to the cent from the filings through 2043584 (FEC bulk IE file modified 2026-10-30 10:14:32 GMT plus .fec filings through the feed item of 2026-10-31 00:30 UTC = 20:30 ET Oct. 30; amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · coindesk.com · theblock.co · crypto.news · factcheck.org · en.wikipedia.org · lda.senate.gov

Interests on record
- Coinbase's 2025 LDA filings list S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), all provisions, plus digital-asset tax treatment (S. 2207); Coinbase reported $770,000 to $1,160,000 in lobbying expenses per quarter.
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Campaign-level giving from the same companies: people listing Coinbase gave $17,500 in 5 contributions and people listing Andreessen Horowitz $10,500 in 3, and Coinbase's Innovation PAC gave $2,500, on Husted for Senate's reports.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Coinbase: S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), all provisions; digital-asset tax treatment (S. 2207), 2025 LDA filings (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Supports: Fairshake: spending against Sherrod Brown announced after the September 15, 2026 CLARITY cloture vote failed (federal)
  Source: theblock.co
- Supports: Coinbase: H.R. 3633, Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY); Senate cloture on the motion to proceed failed 49-50 on September 15, 2026 (federal)
  Sources: news.bitcoin.com · coindesk.com · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Coinbase: S. 1582 / S. 394, GENIUS Act (stablecoins), then implementation of P.L. 119-27 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Coinbase: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: all provisions related to digital assets (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Coinbase: Digital asset tax treatment (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Ripple: H.R. 3633, Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and the Senate market-structure draft (Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Ripple: GENIUS Act (P.L. 119-27) and H.R. 2392 STABLE Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Blockchain Association: H.R. 3633, Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) (federal)
  Sources: theblockchainassociation.org · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Blockchain Association: GENIUS Act (S. 919 introduced version; S. 1582) and H.R. 2392 STABLE Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Blockchain Association: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act; S. 2207 Lummis digital-asset tax package (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Blockchain Association: S.J.Res. 3 / H.J.Res. 25, resolutions disapproving the IRS DeFi broker rule (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of S. 1582, the GENIUS Act (payment stablecoin regulation), Senate roll call 318, June 17, 2025; passed 68-30.

How it would reach them: The law creates a federal licensing regime for payment-stablecoin issuers and their exchange partners; it applies to Coinbase and Ripple as issuers or distributors of stablecoins and would not reach a company outside that market.
Timing: Vote June 17, 2025; The Block reports crypto money flowing to Husted since April 2026 and the $30 million commitment came September 21, 2026, after the vote.

Sources: senate.gov · theblock.co · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, Senate roll call 234, September 15, 2026; cloture failed 49-50.

How it would reach them: The bill would divide oversight of digital-asset markets between the SEC and CFTC and set registration rules; it applies to exchanges such as Coinbase and to token issuers, which lobbied on it. Fairshake announced the Ohio commitment six days after this vote failed.
Timing: Vote September 15, 2026; commitment announced September 21, 2026 (position before the reported spending).

Sources: senate.gov · coindesk.com · crypto.news

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on S.J.Res. 3 and H.J.Res. 25, disapproving the IRS rule requiring decentralized-finance brokers to report gross proceeds of digital-asset sales (roll calls 102 and 151, March 4 and 26, 2025).

How it would reach them: Voiding the rule removed an information-reporting duty from decentralized-exchange front ends of the kind Uniswap Labs, a Fairshake donor, operates, and from the wider digital-asset trading market Coinbase and a16z portfolio companies serve.
Timing: Votes March 2025, before the Fairshake contributions of December 2025 and 2026 and the September 2026 commitment.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov

For their interests Direct

If the United States is going to lead in digital assets, we need a framework that is clear, practical and supports innovation and job creation here at home.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsored S. 4064, the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act (joined March 27, 2026), giving the CFTC authority over digital-commodity markets, and S. 1124, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.

How it would reach them: A CFTC regime for digital-commodity intermediaries sets registration rules for exchanges and brokers such as Coinbase; it is the Senate Agriculture Committee's half of the market-structure framework the industry lobbied under H.R. 3633.
Timing: Cosponsorship March 27, 2026, before the September 2026 commitment.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov
Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action) · $11.2M · 5 alignments
$11,246,258 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

The hybrid PAC of the Americans for Prosperity network. On its 2025-2026 reports its largest funders are Koch Inc. ($10 million on December 1, 2025 and $20 million on June 12, 2026), Stand Together Inc. ($2 million and $18 million) and the Stand Together Chamber of Commerce ($6.5 million); neither Stand Together entity discloses its own donors on these reports. Individuals giving $1 million or more include Jim Walton ($7 million), Craig Duchossois of The Duchossois Group ($2 million), Anthony Ressler of Ares Management ($2 million), Richard Haworth of Haworth Inc. ($1.5 million) and Gideon Powell of Cholla Petroleum ($1.21 million). Koch Industries is a privately held Wichita, Kansas conglomerate in refining, chemicals, fertilizer, pulp and paper, and electronics.
Independent expenditures supporting Husted as filed by AFP Action: 38 expenditures on its monthly reports from March 16 to August 28, 2026 ($3,632,209.70) plus 21 on its 24-hour reports from September 1 to September 16, 2026 ($2,346,090.31), for $5,978,300.01 (media placement, mail and door hangers). The FEC's processed by-candidate aggregate read $2,228,618.74 on September 19, 2026; it lags the filings. Updated 2026-10-19: independent expenditures supporting Husted through the Oct. 19 file are $9,714,685.16 (91 lines); the earlier $5,978,300.01 re-sums from the same file to the cent at Sept. 19, 2026. Separately, the same committee reports $9,990,605.05 opposing Sherrod Brown (63 lines), not counted in this amount (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num). Updated 2026-10-29: independent expenditures supporting Husted through the Oct. 29 file are $11,096,258.42 (105 lines); the Oct. 19 figure of $9,714,685.16 re-sums to the cent from the Oct. 19 file. Separately, the same committee reports $12,546,953.61 opposing Sherrod Brown (81 lines), not counted in this amount (FEC bulk IE file modified 2026-10-29 10:14:47 GMT plus .fec filings through the feed item of 2026-10-29 18:56 UTC; amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num). Updated 2026-10-30: independent expenditures supporting Husted through the Oct. 30 file are $11,246,258.42 (106 lines); the Oct. 29 figure of $11,096,258.42 re-sums to the cent from the filings through 2043584. Separately, the same committee reports $12,696,953.61 opposing Sherrod Brown (82 lines), not counted in this amount (FEC bulk IE file modified 2026-10-30 10:14:32 GMT plus .fec filings through the feed item of 2026-10-31 00:30 UTC = 20:30 ET Oct. 30; amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · americansforprosperity.org · en.wikipedia.org

Interests on record
- Permanent extension of the 2017 tax rates: AFP issued a key-vote alert on June 28, 2025 urging senators to vote yes on H.R. 1 and said the vote would be recorded on its scorecard.
  Source: americansforprosperity.org
- Permitting and nuclear licensing: Americans for Prosperity's Q2 2026 LDA filing ($660,000) lists H.R. 4776, the SPEED Act, and H.R. 3978, the Nuclear REFUEL Act, the House companion of Husted's S. 2082 ("provisions related to permitting reform").
  Source: lda.gov
- Digital assets: its Q3 2025 filing ($495,000) lists S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (CLARITY Act) as "regulatory clarity for digital assets".
  Source: lda.gov
- Funders' business exposure: Koch Industries' refining and chemicals operations sit under the same federal fuel, tax and permitting rules as other refiners.
  Sources: en.wikipedia.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: H.R. 1, the reconciliation law: key-vote alert urging a yes vote (June 28, 2025); listed under TAX, FIN and HCR in its Q2 and Q3 2025 LDA filings (federal)
  Sources: americansforprosperity.org · lda.gov
- Supports: H.R. 4776, the SPEED Act (NEPA review deadlines), Q3 2025 to Q2 2026 LDA filings (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: H.R. 3978, the Nuclear REFUEL Act (House companion of S. 2082), Q2 2026 LDA filing (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · govinfo.gov
- Supports: S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (CLARITY Act), Q3 2025 LDA filing (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Congressional Review Act resolutions on California's vehicle waivers (S.J.Res. 45, 46 and 47) and on DOE appliance rules (H.J.Res. 42, 75), 2025 LDA filings (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: AFP scored this vote. The law made the 2017 individual and pass-through rates permanent and restored full expensing for equipment and research; those provisions apply to AFP Action's disclosed corporate funder, Koch Industries, as they do to every C-corporation and pass-through, and to nobody in particular beyond that. The vote reaches AFP Action itself only as the fulfillment of a scored position.
Timing: Key-vote alert June 28, 2025 and Senate vote July 1, 2025 both precede AFP Action's 2026 independent expenditures; the expenditure dates are in the Schedule E filings.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · americansforprosperity.org · senate.gov · api.open.fec.gov

For their interests Direct

The Nuclear REFUEL Act would inject additional sustainable energy options into our economy by expanding clean nuclear energy production here at home.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 2082, the Nuclear REFUEL Act (introduced June 12, 2025; reported by the Environment and Public Works Committee without amendment October 29, 2025).

How it would reach them: Americans for Prosperity lobbied the House companion, H.R. 3978, in Q2 2026 on "provisions related to permitting reform". The bill text removes equipment that reprocesses spent fuel without separating plutonium from the Atomic Energy Act's definition of a production facility. It reaches companies seeking to license such recycling plants, not AFP Action or its funders directly; the link is to the network's stated permitting agenda.
Timing: S. 2082 introduced June 12, 2025; AFP filing covers April to June 2026; AFP Action expenditures for Husted begin March 16, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of S. 1582, the GENIUS Act, Senate roll call 318, June 17, 2025 (68-30).

How it would reach them: AFP lobbied the bill in Q3 2025 as regulatory clarity for digital assets. The law sets federal licensing for payment-stablecoin issuers; it does not reach AFP Action or Koch Industries' business.
Timing: Vote June 17, 2025; AFP filing covers July to September 2025, after the vote.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 88, H.J.Res. 87 and H.J.Res. 89, disapproving EPA waivers for California's vehicle and engine rules, Senate roll calls 277, 279 and 281, May 22, 2025.

How it would reach them: AFP's Q2 2025 filing lists the Senate versions (S.J.Res. 45, 46 and 47). Ending the waivers keeps gasoline and diesel demand in the adopting states above what the rules required, which reaches refiners such as Koch Industries' Flint Hills Resources along with the rest of the industry.
Timing: Votes May 22, 2025.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

The Federal Reserve has no business monitoring the transactions of Ohioans or any other law-abiding American.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsored S. 1124, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.

How it would reach them: Americans for Prosperity's Q3 2025 filing lists the House version, H.R. 1919, as "regulatory clarity for digital assets". The bill bars the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency; it reaches the Fed, not AFP Action's funders' businesses.
Timing: AFP filing covers July to September 2025; his cosponsorship was announced January 12, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov
Senate Leadership Fund (SLF PAC) · $3.1M · 1 alignment
$3,065,289 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership. Its itemized receipts for January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 total $253.6 million on its FEC reports. The largest single source is One Nation, its affiliated 501(c)(4), which does not disclose its own donors: $70.74 million in three transfers dated December 31, 2025 to June 30, 2026. The largest disclosed individual donors are Miriam Adelson ($30 million), Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone ($17 million), Paul Singer of Elliott Management ($14.5 million), Elon Musk of SpaceX ($10 million) and Kenneth Griffin of Citadel ($10 million); the largest corporate donors are Chevron ($3.9 million), RAI Services, the Reynolds American tobacco unit ($3.0 million), the American Petroleum Institute ($3 million), Altria ($2.25 million), Devon Energy, Koch GA and the National Community Pharmacists Association ($2 million each), Valero and Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Capital Management ($1.5 million each), Occidental Petroleum ($1.25 million) and Coinbase ($1 million).
Independent expenditures supporting Husted: $3,065,289.45 in 27 lines through the Oct. 30 file (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file modified 2026-10-30 10:14:32 GMT plus .fec filings through the feed item of 2026-10-31 00:30 UTC; amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num). Nine of them, from 2025-08-20 to 2026-06-04, total $617,775.95 (online advertising, text messaging and printing). Separately, the same committee reports $92,676,723.84 opposing Sherrod Brown (77 lines), not counted in this amount. 10TV and Ohio Capital Journal reported a $79,000,000 spending plan for the race (July 2026), which is a plan, not a filing.

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · factcheck.org · 10tv.com · ohiocapitaljournal.com · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Electing and re-electing Republican senators; the group states no business or policy agenda of its own. One Nation's funders are not disclosed, so the interests behind $70.74 million of its 2025-2026 money cannot be documented.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · factcheck.org
- Its disclosed corporate funders are concentrated in oil and gas (Chevron, API, Devon, Valero, Occidental), tobacco (Reynolds American, Altria), pharmacy (NCPA) and digital assets (a16z, Coinbase); their own federal agendas are listed under agenda.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, all provisions (Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Petroleum Institute: H.R. 9340 and oil and gas regulatory dockets (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase: H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (see the crypto entry) (federal)
  Source: coindesk.com
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (all provisions); power for AI data centers; behind-the-meter, co-located generation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: Year-round E15: H.R. 1346 / S. 593 (all provisions) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: energy provisions (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: Permitting: H.R. 4776 SPEED Act, H.R. 3898 PERMIT Act, H.R. 8308 CERTAIN Act, H.R. 3668 pipeline review coordination (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: American Petroleum Institute: H.J.Res. 35, Congressional Review Act disapproval of EPA's methane Waste Emissions Charge (signed March 14, 2025) (federal)
  Sources: api.org · lda.gov
- Supports: American Petroleum Institute: H.R. 1 budget reconciliation (Energy and Commerce title): permanent repeal of the methane fee and energy development provisions (federal)
  Sources: api.org · lda.gov
- Supports: American Petroleum Institute: Year-round E15: H.R. 1346 / S. 593, Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (federal)
  Sources: marshall.senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Petroleum Institute: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act; H.R. 6529 Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act; H.R. 6336 FAIR Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Valero: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: renewable fuels provisions (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Valero: Renewable Fuel Standard; sustainable aviation fuel; domestic fuel market (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Valero: Vehicle fuel economy standards; California Advanced Clean Cars II waiver (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Valero: Imports of renewable fuel feedstock; renewable fuel exports; crude oil (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 35, disapproving EPA's rule implementing the waste emissions charge on methane from oil and gas facilities, Senate roll call 97, February 27, 2025 (52-47).

How it would reach them: The resolution voided the rule that set how the methane charge would be collected from large oil and gas facilities; that reaches the oil and gas producers among SLF PAC's disclosed funders (Chevron, Devon, Occidental) and every other covered operator. SLF PAC itself has no stake in the rule.
Timing: Vote February 27, 2025; the oil company contributions to SLF PAC on its reports run from March 2025 to June 2026, and its Husted expenditures from August 2025 to June 2026.

Sources: senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
James Haslam and spouse (Susan "Dee" Haslam) · $551K · 0 alignments
$551,074 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Jimmy and Dee Haslam own the Cleveland Browns and the Columbus Crew and hold a stake in the Milwaukee Bucks; she is CEO of Haslam Sports Group. Wikipedia describes him as former chairman of the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain; his 2026 filings still list him as chairman of Pilot Travel Centers. Both live in Knoxville, Tennessee.
James Haslam: $125,000 to Team Husted on May 5, 2025 (filed as owner, Cleveland Browns); $7,000 on March 4, 2026 and $15,037.06 on June 26, 2026 (two rows) to Team Husted, and $125,000 on April 29 and $7,000 on May 22, 2026 to Husted Victory (filed as chairman, Pilot Travel Centers / Pilot Oil). Susan Haslam: $125,000 to Team Husted May 5, 2025, $7,000 March 4, 2026 and $15,037.05 June 26, 2026, and $125,000 to Husted Victory April 29, 2026 (filed as CEO, Haslam Sports Group, or owner, Cleveland Browns). Total $279,037.06 and $272,037.05. The campaign's reports attribute $7,000 of the May 2025 gift from each to Husted for Senate. Not counted: a $7,000 Team Husted gift of Sept. 9, 2025 filed as James A. Haslam, founder, Pilot Corp., which Team Husted aggregated separately from the May 2025 gift and may be another family member.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · haslamsportsgroup.com · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Pilot Travel Centers' 2026 LDA filings list fuel and Renewable Fuel Standard issues, E15, the biodiesel blenders tax credit and H.R. 8497/S. 4408 (SEED Act). Haslam Sports Group's Ohio business includes the Browns and the Crew and their stadiums.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · haslamsportsgroup.com
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Pilot Travel Centers: energy policy, E15, S. 881 and H.R. 8497/S. 4408 (SEED Act) (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Pilot Travel Centers: Renewable Fuel Standard; biodiesel blenders tax credit (Q2 2026 LDA filing, Ardent Strategies) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
AIPAC PAC and contributions routed through it · $549K · 3 alignments
$548,800 as filed · PAC · Out of state

AIPAC lobbies Congress on legislation related to Israel; AIPAC PAC, formed in late 2021, endorses and gives to candidates; the FEC rows for this committee also list it as the intermediary on earmarked individual contributions. AIPAC's 2025 LDA filings report $880,060 to $973,910 in quarterly lobbying income.
Summed from Husted for Senate's FEC reports: 269 memo rows name AIPAC PAC (C00797670) as intermediary, dated 2025-11-26 to 2026-06-30, for $543,800: 268 earmarked individual contributions ($538,800) and one earmarked PAC contribution, $5,000 from SUN PAC (SunPAC) on 2026-02-13. AIPAC PAC also gave $5,000 directly on 2026-04-22, for $548,800 gross. Seven of the earmarked individual gifts, $26,000 in all, were refunded between Feb. 4 and June 30, 2026, leaving $522,800 net. The conduit's running aggregate on the last memo row reads $544,063.92, $263.92 above the itemized memo rows; AIPAC PAC's own reports show the difference is 21 earmarks of $1.00 to $100.00 that Husted for Senate left unitemized but counted in the aggregate (for example filings 1929590, 1970275, 1985701 and 2000144, Schedule B line 23), matching each step of the gap to the cent. Separately, NORPAC was conduit for $29,500 (8 contributions, May 5, 2026) and gave $2,500 directly, and the Republican Jewish Coalition's PAC gave $5,000 and was conduit for $5,920.33.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.senate.gov · tiffinohio.net · readsludge.com · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- AIPAC's 2025 LDA filings list H.R. 1422/S. 556 (Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025), the FY2026 NDAA, H.R. 1229/S. 554 (U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act), the State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills, and S. 1889 (repeal of the Iran Sanctions Act sunset).
  Source: lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: H.R. 1422 / S. 556, the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, in all four 2025 quarterly LDA filings (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Supports: H.R. 1229 / S. 554, the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act; FY2026 NDAA; State-Foreign Operations appropriations; S. 1889 (Iran Sanctions Act sunset repeal), 2025 LDA filings (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the motions to discharge S.J.Res. 33 and S.J.Res. 26, joint resolutions disapproving proposed foreign military sales to Israel, Senate roll calls 165 and 166, April 3, 2025 (rejected 15-82 and 15-83).

How it would reach them: The resolutions would have blocked specific arms sales; the Nay votes let the sales proceed. This reaches the U.S. security-assistance relationship that AIPAC lobbies on; it has no effect on AIPAC's own finances.
Timing: Votes April 3, 2025; the earmarked contributions run from November 26, 2025 to June 30, 2026 (position before donations).

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

For their interests Direct

As Iranian proxies continue to threaten Israel's survival and U.S. shipping in the Red Sea, the U.S. must cut off Tehran's ruthless regime from the resources it needs to fund its aggression.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsor of S. 556, the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, joined April 3, 2025.

How it would reach them: The bill extends sanctions to the ports and refineries that handle Iranian petroleum and adds rewards for reporting evasion; AIPAC lists the same bill number in each of its four 2025 quarterly filings. It applies to foreign energy-logistics firms, not to any U.S. donor.
Timing: Cosponsorship April 3, 2025, before the November 2025 to June 2026 contributions.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of S. 2296, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, Senate roll call 570, October 9, 2025 (77-20).

How it would reach them: AIPAC lobbied the FY2026 NDAA; the authorization covers U.S.-Israel defense cooperation among many other programs, so the vote bears on AIPAC's agenda without reaching it specifically.
Timing: Vote October 9, 2025, before the contributions.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
High Plains PAC · $515K · 2 alignments
$515,000 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A political committee based in Lander, Wyoming (treasurer Les Williamson) whose Form 1A lists Barrasso Victory, a joint fundraising committee, as its affiliate. Its reported receipts from Jan. 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 total $1,158,080.40, led by Tim Dunn of CrownQuest Operating, a Midland, Texas oil producer ($500,000), William Austin of Starkey Hearing Technologies ($300,000), Energy Transfer LP ($100,000), Albert Hegyi of 1st Financial Bank USA ($100,000), John Childs of J.W. Childs Associates ($50,000), Roy Pfautch of Civic Service ($50,000) and US Oncology Network PAC ($30,000). The same Sept. 16 report also backs Senate candidates in Alaska, Iowa and Michigan and opposes two others.
Three independent expenditures supporting Husted, all dated Sept. 16, 2026 and paid to Advocacy Architects: $325,000 media placement, $175,000 telemarketing and $15,000 media production (24-hour report FEC-2014017, filed Sept. 19, 2026; FEC bulk IE file). Checked 2026-10-19: unchanged through the Oct. 19 file (3 lines supporting Husted) (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Energy Transfer's 2025 LDA filing (Owen Evans Ingols) lists liquefied natural gas exports, upstream oil and gas issues and methane provisions in H.R. 1; CrownQuest's own filings were not looked up.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Energy Transfer: LNG exports; methane in H.R. 1 (Q2 2025 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 35, disapproving EPA's rule implementing the methane waste emissions charge, Senate roll call 97, Feb. 27, 2025 (52-47).

How it would reach them: Voiding the rule removed the collection method for the methane charge on large oil and gas facilities, which reaches oil producers such as CrownQuest and pipeline operators such as Energy Transfer among High Plains PAC's funders.
Timing: Vote Feb. 27, 2025; the funders' gifts to High Plains PAC May 2025 to March 2026; its Husted spending Sept. 16, 2026.

Sources: senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsored S. 883, the Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025, joined April 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The bill ends the Energy Department's LNG export approval; Energy Transfer, a funder, lists LNG exports on its lobbying filing without naming this bill.
Timing: Cosponsorship April 1, 2025; Energy Transfer's $100,000 to the PAC May 21, 2025.

Sources: govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov
Heartland Bank (to his state committee, Jon Husted for Ohio) · $492K · 0 alignments
$492,000 as filed · campaign committee · In state

A central Ohio community bank on whose board he served, paid, from May 2022 to January 2025 while lieutenant governor. It merged in 2025 into German American Bancorp of Jasper, Indiana, whose bank is Indiana-chartered. His 2025 Senate disclosure lists deposits at the bank and stock in the successor held by him and his wife.
$492,000 to Jon Husted for Ohio, his state political committee, after he joined the bank's board in 2022 and continuing at least to June 30, 2026, when it gave $15,000, per Ohio Capital Journal's reading of Ohio Secretary of State records. The state filings themselves were not opened in this pass.

Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · signalohio.org

Interests on record
- Community-bank regulation and deposit insurance; the successor company is regulated federally and by Indiana, not by Ohio's Division of Financial Institutions, which said it did not need to approve the merger.
  Source: ohiocapitaljournal.com
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
American Chemistry Council · $385K · 2 alignments
$385,242 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A national chemical-industry trade association (not a PAC) that reports independent expenditures on Form 5. Its Aug. 21, 2026 report shows no contributions received for the spending, so the money comes from the association itself; its members are not disclosed on the FEC filing.
One independent expenditure supporting Husted, $385,242 on Aug. 21, 2026 for streaming, digital and broadcast advertising placed through Orange Agency (Form 5, FEC-2009256; FEC bulk IE file). The same report backs two House candidates. Checked 2026-10-19: unchanged through the Oct. 19 file (1 lines supporting Husted) (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · senate.gov · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- ACC's Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing lists H.R. 161 (New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act), H.R. 9340 (Ratepayer Protection Act), H.R. 3898 (PERMIT Act), H.R. 4776 (SPEED Act), H.R. 640/S. 615 (Chemical Tax Repeal Act) and H.R. 8477, which would reverse energy-related changes made by P.L. 119-21 (H.R. 1). An outside firm's Q2 2026 filing for ACC says it advocated reinstating energy-efficiency tax incentives repealed under H.R. 1.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: ACC: H.R. 161, New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ACC: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: ACC: reinstate energy-efficiency tax incentives repealed under H.R. 1; H.R. 8477 (Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ACC: H.R. 640/S. 615, Chemical Tax Repeal Act (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Permitting reform is affordability.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced S. 5363, the New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act, on Aug. 7, 2026.

How it would reach them: His release says the bill would clarify EPA's reading of Clean Air Act New Source Review so manufacturers and energy producers can complete pollution-control, efficiency and reliability projects more easily; chemical plants are among those manufacturers, and ACC lists the House bill of the same title (H.R. 161) on its filing.
Timing: Bill introduced Aug. 7, 2026; ACC's expenditure Aug. 21, 2026 (position before the spending).

Sources: govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Cuts against their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (enacted as P.L. 119-21), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025 (50-50, Vice President voting Yea).

How it would reach them: ACC's 2026 filings say it is working to reinstate energy-efficiency tax incentives that H.R. 1 repealed and list H.R. 8477 to reverse the law's energy changes; on that part of the law his vote ran opposite to the stated ACC position.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; ACC's filings Q2 2026; its expenditure Aug. 21, 2026.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Robert Granieri (Jane Street co-founder) · $322K · 0 alignments
$322,100 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Co-founder of Jane Street Capital, a New York trading firm and market maker (Wikipedia). Husted Victory (C00937797), a joint fundraising committee registered Feb. 5, 2026 whose Form 1 lists Husted for Senate, his leadership PAC (Jobs Opportunity Now PAC) and the NRSC as participants. Through June 30, 2026 it took in $3,636,778.53 and spent $2,755,532 of it on payments to SRCP Media described as media and media production; it transferred $35 to Husted for Senate, $50 to Jobs Opportunity Now PAC and $28,376 to the NRSC.
$318,600 to Husted Victory on May 29, 2026 (filed as director, Jane Street) plus $3,500 given directly to Husted for Senate on April 11, 2025. The campaign's July 2026 report lists a $3,500 memo entry for him inside a $35 transfer from Husted Victory dated June 11, 2026; the memo exceeds the transfer it sits under, so that $3,500 is shown here as part of the $318,600, not added to it.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Jane Street Group's federal lobbying: "issues related to the regulation of financial investments" (Hogan Lovells, 2025-2026) and tax issues including H.R. 1 (third quarter 2025).
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Jane Street Group: regulation of financial investments (LDA filings, Q3 2025 to Q2 2026) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Jane Street Group: tax issues; H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Q3 2025 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Richard Emmet (Jane Street Capital, as filed) · $319K · 0 alignments
$318,600 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Listed on Husted Victory's report as employed by Jane Street Capital in finance. No other business or public role was sourced. Husted Victory (C00937797), a joint fundraising committee registered Feb. 5, 2026 whose Form 1 lists Husted for Senate, his leadership PAC (Jobs Opportunity Now PAC) and the NRSC as participants. Through June 30, 2026 it took in $3,636,778.53 and spent $2,755,532 of it on payments to SRCP Media described as media and media production; it transferred $35 to Husted for Senate, $50 to Jobs Opportunity Now PAC and $28,376 to the NRSC.
One $318,600 contribution to Husted Victory on June 12, 2026 (filed employer Jane Street Capital, occupation finance, Larchmont, New York). Husted for Senate's reports through June 30, 2026 attribute none of it to the campaign. Separately, a Richard Emmet of Larchmont filed as retired appears as a $3,500 memo entry to the campaign on Dec. 8, 2025, routed through One Team Senate Majority; it is not added to the amount.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Jane Street Group's federal lobbying: "issues related to the regulation of financial investments" (Hogan Lovells, 2025-2026) and tax issues including H.R. 1 (Porterfield, Fettig & Sears, third quarter 2025).
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Jane Street Group: regulation of financial investments (Q2 2026 LDA filing, Hogan Lovells) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Jane Street Group: tax issues; H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Q3 2025 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Jason Lucarelli (Minute Men Staffing, as filed) and spouse · $300K · 0 alignments

$300,000 as filed · PAC · In state

Filed as owner (2025) and CEO (2026) of Minute Men Staffing, Cleveland and Bratenahl, Ohio; LaNee Lucarelli filed as homemaker. No other business or public role was sourced.
$250,000 from Jason Lucarelli to Husted Victory on May 29, 2026, plus $25,000 each from him and LaNee Lucarelli to Team Husted on June 21, 2025. Husted for Senate's reports attribute $7,000 of each Team Husted gift to the campaign (four $3,500 memo entries, July 2025 report); none of the Husted Victory gift is attributed to the campaign through June 30, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Ohio Republican Party State Central & Executive Committee (to Husted Victory) · $300K · 0 alignments
$300,000 as filed · party committee · In state

The Ohio Republican Party's federal committee; it is also a participant in Team Husted (Form 1A, March 18, 2026). Husted Victory (C00937797), a joint fundraising committee registered Feb. 5, 2026 whose Form 1 lists Husted for Senate, his leadership PAC (Jobs Opportunity Now PAC) and the NRSC as participants. Through June 30, 2026 it took in $3,636,778.53 and spent $2,755,532 of it on payments to SRCP Media described as media and media production; it transferred $35 to Husted for Senate, $50 to Jobs Opportunity Now PAC and $28,376 to the NRSC.
$200,000 on March 25, 2026 and $100,000 on April 24, 2026 to Husted Victory, from the party's federal account (C00162339). In the other direction, Team Husted transferred $479,246.69 in joint-fundraising proceeds to the same party committee from March 2025 to June 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- Electing Republican candidates; a party committee states no business agenda.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Larry Connor (The Connor Group) · $258K · 0 alignments

$258,302 as filed · PAC · In state

Head of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm in Miamisburg, Ohio (Wikipedia).
$250,000 to Team Husted on Aug. 20, 2025 plus an $8,301.77 in-kind contribution of food and beverage on Sept. 30, 2025 (filed as chairman/founder, The Connor Group, Dayton). The campaign's reports attribute $7,000 of the August gift to Husted for Senate.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Win It Back PAC · $250K · 2 alignments
$250,341 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A super PAC headed by Club for Growth president David McIntosh. Its 2025-2026 receipts on its FEC reports come from Club for Growth Action ($4,535,000 in 11 transfers, February 2 to July 28, 2026), Jeff Yass, listed as a managing director of SIG ($4.5 million), and School Freedom Fund, a Club-affiliated PAC ($1.9 million). In 2023-2024 its reports show Club for Growth Action ($41.35 million), Agenda for America ($2.74 million), John Childs of J.W. Childs Associates ($1.75 million), David Morgan ($1 million) and Thomas Klingenstein of Cohen Klingenstein ($1 million).
Two filed expenditures supporting Husted dated February 7, 2026, for a door-to-door field program, $250,340.91, on Win It Back's Schedule E; no later Husted expenditure appears on its reports through August 31, 2026 or its September 2026 24-hour reports. Checked 2026-10-19: unchanged through the Oct. 19 file (2 lines supporting Husted) (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · clubforgrowth.org · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Club for Growth's June 30, 2025 key-vote alert urged a yes vote on H.R. 1, citing permanent income-tax rates and the 20 percent qualified business income deduction, full expensing, the scholarship tax credit and Medicaid work requirements, and said the vote would be scored.
  Source: clubforgrowth.org
- School choice: its funders School Freedom Fund and Jeff Yass are school-choice advocates; Club for Growth's H.R. 1 key-vote alert cited the scholarship tax credit.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · clubforgrowth.org
What they lobby for
- Supports: H.R. 1: key-vote alert urging yes, citing permanent rates, the 20 percent pass-through deduction, full expensing, the scholarship tax credit and Medicaid work requirements (federal)
  Source: clubforgrowth.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: Club for Growth scored this vote; Win It Back is led by the Club's president and was seeded by the Club's super PAC. The provisions the Club cited reach taxpayers and businesses generally rather than the PAC or its funders in particular, so the link is to the sponsoring organization's scored agenda, not to a business.
Timing: Key-vote alert June 30, 2025 and Senate vote July 1, 2025 precede the 2026 independent expenditures.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · clubforgrowth.org · senate.gov · api.open.fec.gov

For their interests Industry

This creates a school choice tax credit that will help create more scholarship opportunities for parents and children

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Hirono amendment (S.Amdt. 2382) to eliminate the scholarship-granting-organization tax credit from H.R. 1, roll call 358, July 1, 2025 (rejected 50-50).

How it would reach them: Club for Growth's alert named the scholarship credit as a reason to vote yes. The credit reaches donors to scholarship-granting organizations and the families and schools they fund; it does not reach Win It Back or its funders' businesses.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; School Freedom Fund and Yass contributions to Win It Back are dated September 2025 to July 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov · clubforgrowth.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Carl H. Lindner III and S. Craig Lindner (American Financial Group) · $250K · 0 alignments
$250,000 as filed · PAC · In state

Co-CEOs and co-presidents of American Financial Group, a Cincinnati insurance holding company (Wikipedia); both filed from Cincinnati. Other Lindner family members gave smaller sums to Team Husted and are not counted here.
Each gave $25,000 to Team Husted (Carl April 7, 2025; Craig April 24, 2025) and $100,000 to Husted Victory (Craig April 24, 2026; Carl April 27, 2026). The campaign's reports attribute $7,000 of each Team Husted gift to Husted for Senate.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.gov

Interests on record
- American Financial Group's 2026 LDA filing (WilmerHale) lists "insurance related issues" and no bill.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: American Financial Group: insurance related issues (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Michael S. Smith (Freeport LNG) · $250K · 1 alignment
$250,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Founder, chairman and CEO of Freeport LNG, which liquefies natural gas and exports it from a terminal at Freeport, Texas (Wikipedia). Husted Victory (C00937797), a joint fundraising committee registered Feb. 5, 2026 whose Form 1 lists Husted for Senate, his leadership PAC (Jobs Opportunity Now PAC) and the NRSC as participants. Through June 30, 2026 it took in $3,636,778.53 and spent $2,755,532 of it on payments to SRCP Media described as media and media production; it transferred $35 to Husted for Senate, $50 to Jobs Opportunity Now PAC and $28,376 to the NRSC.
$250,000 to Husted Victory on May 21, 2026 (filed as CEO, Freeport LNG, Broomfield, Colorado). Earlier, on May 12, 2026, a $3,500 contribution to Husted for Senate earmarked through AIPAC PAC (filed as consultant, Kaitar Resources) was refunded in full on May 20, 2026; it is not counted. None of the Husted Victory gift is attributed to the campaign through June 30, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · husted.senate.gov

Interests on record
- Liquefied natural gas exports: Freeport LNG exports U.S. gas as LNG. No 2025-2026 LDA filing with lobbying activity was found under its name; the only 2026 filing found is a no-activity termination.
  Sources: en.wikipedia.org · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

I'm supporting this bill to allow America to do what America does best—produce clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsored S. 883, the Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 (sponsor Sen. Tim Scott), joined April 1, 2025; per his release the bill would move LNG export permitting to FERC and end the Energy Department's authority over LNG exports.

How it would reach them: The bill removes the Energy Department export-approval step for LNG, which applies to every U.S. LNG exporter, Freeport LNG among them. No Freeport LNG filing on the bill was found.
Timing: Cosponsorship April 1, 2025; the Husted Victory gift May 21, 2026 (position before the gift).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · en.wikipedia.org · docquery.fec.gov
Drug distributors, drugmakers and device makers (PACs) · $183K · 1 alignment
$183,125 as filed · PAC

Drug wholesalers (Cardinal Health, whose PAC files from Dublin, Ohio; Cencora; McKesson and their trade group, the Healthcare Distribution Alliance), brand and generic drugmakers, device makers (Steris, Boston Scientific), and the pharmacy-benefit-manager and community-pharmacist trade groups, which sit on opposite sides of PBM legislation.
$183,125 net from 44 PACs in 80 contributions (2025-02-20 to 2026-06-30), after $3,200 refunded (Cardinal Health $1,200, Cencora $2,000). Largest: Cardinal Health $10,000; Healthcare Distribution Alliance $10,000; Steris $10,000; Abbott Laboratories $10,000; Amgen $10,000; Cencora $8,500; Johnson & Johnson $7,500; Medical Device Manufacturers Association $7,500; Pfizer $7,500; Viatris $7,000.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- Drug pricing, PBM regulation, tariffs on pharmaceuticals and 340B; the specific bills each lobbied are listed under agenda where the LDA lane found them.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

With the SMART OTC Act now law, families will have better access to over-the-counter medicines at lower costs

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsored the SMART OTC Act (S. 2529, introduced July 30, 2025), enacted in the November 2025 government funding law, easing FDA procedures for switching prescription drugs to over-the-counter status.

How it would reach them: Faster prescription-to-OTC switches reach makers of nonprescription products, whose trade group (the Consumer Healthcare Products Association) and Pharmavite gave to his campaign; they also reach drug wholesalers, which distribute OTC products.
Timing: Bill July 30, 2025; enacted November 2025; CHPA PAC and Pharmavite PAC contributions on the reports.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
ClearPath Action Fund, Inc. · $168K · 2 alignments
$167,820 as filed · super PAC · Out of state

A super PAC that says it supports Republican lawmakers who back its energy-innovation agenda; it lists Husted on its 2026 slate as a "Clean Energy Champion for Ohio" and announced $5 million for 13 candidates in December 2025. Its only itemized 2025-2026 receipts are $4,000,000 from ClearPath Action for Conservative Energy, Inc. (November 19 and December 29, 2025), a nonprofit that does not itemize its own donors.
Independent expenditures supporting Husted on ClearPath Action Fund's filings: five on its monthly reports from June 25 to August 2026 ($110,910) and one on a September 5, 2026 24-hour report ($50,160), for $161,070 as listed, but one $18,250 item appears twice (first as a memo line, then when reported as disseminated), so the total is $142,820 (digital media, printing and postage). Updated 2026-10-19: independent expenditures supporting Husted through the Oct. 19 file are $167,820.00 (6 lines); the earlier $142,820.00 re-sums from the same file to the cent at Sept. 22, 2026 (FEC 2026 independent-expenditure file, modified 2026-10-19 10:13 GMT, amended filings removed only where a later filing names them in prev_file_num).

Sources: fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · clearpathactionfund.org · clearpathactionfund.org · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- Its Husted page ties his record to keeping energy "affordable, reliable, and built here" and names semiconductor fabs, data centers and reshored manufacturing as the loads that energy must serve.
  Sources: clearpathactionfund.org · clearpathactionfund.org
What they lobby for
- Supports: Energy supply for new industrial loads: its Husted page names semiconductor fabs, data centers and reshored manufacturing as loads that energy must serve (federal)
  Source: clearpathactionfund.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

The Nuclear REFUEL Act would inject additional sustainable energy options into our economy by expanding clean nuclear energy production here at home.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 2082, the Nuclear REFUEL Act (introduced June 12, 2025; reported by the Environment and Public Works Committee without amendment October 29, 2025).

How it would reach them: The bill amends section 11 v. of the Atomic Energy Act so that equipment reprocessing spent nuclear fuel "in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements" is no longer a "production facility". It reaches companies that would license such recycling plants (Oklo Inc. and others lobbied on it), not ClearPath itself, which has no plants.
Timing: Bill introduced June 12, 2025; ClearPath's 2026 slate announcement was December 2025 and its expenditures are 2026-cycle filings.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.senate.gov · clearpathactionfund.org

Mixed Industry

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026; asked unanimous consent to pass it on September 17, 2026, and Sen. Heinrich objected.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. ClearPath's Husted page treats data centers as loads Ohio should serve; the bill shifts the upgrade cost to those loads. Nothing on the page states a position on the bill.
Timing: S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026, after the December 2025 slate announcement.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · clearpathactionfund.org · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com
Brian Colleran (Provider Services, Inc., as filed) and spouse · $150K · 0 alignments

$150,000 as filed · PAC · In state

Filed as owner of Provider Services, Inc. No business or public role was sourced beyond the filing.
$75,000 each from Brian and Gretchen Colleran to Team Husted on Sept. 26, 2025 (he filed as owner, Provider Services, Inc.; she as homemaker; Chagrin Falls, Ohio). The campaign's reports attribute $7,000 of each to Husted for Senate.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Banks, card issuers and payment companies (PACs) · $136K · 3 alignments
$135,500 as filed · PAC

Banks (Huntington, whose PAC files from Columbus; KeyCorp, from Cleveland; Fifth Third; PNC; JPMorgan; U.S. Bancorp), card issuers (Bread Financial, Capital One, American Express), payment processors (Worldpay, Global Payments) and bank and credit-union trade groups, including the Community Bankers Association of Ohio.
$135,500 from 26 PACs in 55 contributions (2025-03-10 to 2026-06-30), $13,500 of it through joint fundraising committees. Largest: Bread Financial $10,000; Huntington Bancshares $10,000; JPMorgan Chase $10,000; UBS Americas $10,000; Fifth Third Bancorp $10,000; American Bankers Association $7,500; KeyCorp $7,500; Community Bankers Association Of Ohio $7,500; America's Credit Union $5,000; Bipartisan Voluntary Public Affairs Committee Of Pnc Financial Services Group (... $5,000.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Stablecoin and digital-asset market rules (GENIUS, CLARITY), card-network competition and bank capital rules; the specific bills each lobbied are listed under agenda where the LDA lane found them.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Huntington Bancshares: S. 1582, GENIUS Act (stablecoins), all provisions; H.R. 2392 STABLE Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Huntington Bancshares: H.R. 3633, Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Huntington Bancshares: Credit Card Competition Act (listed as the 2023 bill, all provisions) and S. 381, 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Huntington Bancshares: H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) tax issues: energy credits for wind and solar, share-repurchase tax, and the effects of Medicaid and SNAP changes (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: JPMorgan Chase: H.R. 3633 (CLARITY), H.R. 2392 (STABLE) and S. 394 (GENIUS): digital asset and stablecoin legislation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: JPMorgan Chase: Bank structure, capital requirements and capital formation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: JPMorgan Chase: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: corporate and international tax (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: JPMorgan Chase: FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800 / S. 4784): cybersecurity, data protection and outbound investment (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: KeyCorp: GENIUS Act (S. 394, then P.L. 119-27 implementation) and H.R. 2392 STABLE Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: KeyCorp: Digital asset market structure (CLARITY Act period) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: KeyCorp: Credit card interchange (the subject of the Credit Card Competition Act) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: KeyCorp: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: 48E investment credit, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, auto-loan interest deduction, proposed Section 899 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Seeks changes to: American Bankers Association: H.R. 3633, CLARITY Act, Section 404 (stablecoin interest and yield) (federal)
  Sources: bankingjournal.aba.com · bankingjournal.aba.com · aba.com · lda.gov
- Opposes: American Bankers Association: Credit Card Competition Act of 2026 (S. 3623 / H.R. 7035) (federal)
  Sources: bankingjournal.aba.com · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Bankers Association: GENIUS Act (S. 394 / S. 919 / S. 1582) and H.R. 2392 STABLE Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Bankers Association: H.R. 1944 / S. 381, 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Mixed Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on cloture (roll call 312, June 12, 2025) and on passage (roll call 318, June 17, 2025) of S. 1582, the GENIUS Act.

How it would reach them: The law lets banks issue payment stablecoins through subsidiaries and also licenses nonbank issuers that compete with bank deposits and payments; it reaches banks on both sides.
Timing: Votes June 2025; bank PAC contributions 2025-03-10 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on S.J.Res. 18, disapproving the CFPB rule on overdraft lending at very large financial institutions (roll call 153, March 27, 2025, 52-48), and on S.J.Res. 13, disapproving the OCC rule on bank-merger application review (roll call 237, May 7, 2025, 52-47).

How it would reach them: The overdraft rule applied to the largest banks and would have capped or repriced their overdraft fees; voiding it keeps that fee income for banks of that size, which include Huntington, Fifth Third, KeyCorp, PNC, JPMorgan and U.S. Bancorp among these donors. Voiding the OCC merger-review rule reaches national banks that plan acquisitions.
Timing: Votes March 27 and May 7, 2025; bank PAC contributions from March 2025 to June 2026.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Mixed Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on S.J.Res. 28, disapproving the CFPB rule defining larger participants in the market for general-use digital consumer payment applications (roll call 106, March 5, 2025, 51-47).

How it would reach them: The rule would have put large payment apps under CFPB supervision like banks; voiding it lightens rules on nonbank competitors of the banks and card issuers while also sparing payment processors such as Global Payments and Worldpay among these donors.
Timing: Vote March 5, 2025.

Source: senate.gov
Oil, gas, pipeline and coal PACs (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Williams, Koch and others) · $114K · 3 alignments
$114,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Oil and gas producers, refiners, pipeline operators, coal producers and their trade groups. Several of the same companies (Chevron, API, Devon, Valero, Occidental, Koch) are among SLF PAC's largest corporate donors.
$114,000 net from 25 PACs in 42 contributions (2025-03-10 to 2026-06-30), after $2,500 refunded to the American Petroleum Institute's PAC; $33,000 came through joint fundraising committees. Largest: Chevron $10,000; Williams Companies $10,000; ExxonMobil $10,000; Enbridge $7,500; Koch $7,500; American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers $7,500; Continental Resources $5,000; Devon Energy $5,000. People listing Devon Energy gave $10,500. Marathon Petroleum has its own entry.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Chevron's Q2 2026 in-house filing lists H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, all provisions, alongside offshore leasing and Congressional Review Act resolutions.
  Source: lda.gov
- API's Q2 2026 filing lists H.R. 9340 among energy bills and EPA oil and gas rules.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, all provisions (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Petroleum Institute: H.R. 9340 and EPA oil and gas methane and reporting rules (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (all provisions); power for AI data centers; behind-the-meter, co-located generation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: Year-round E15: H.R. 1346 / S. 593 (all provisions) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: energy provisions (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Chevron: Permitting: H.R. 4776 SPEED Act, H.R. 3898 PERMIT Act, H.R. 8308 CERTAIN Act, H.R. 3668 pipeline review coordination (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ExxonMobil: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21): energy tax credits, international tax, C-SALT, corporate rate, TCJA extensions; S. Con. Res. 7 budget resolution (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ExxonMobil: H.R. 4776, SPEED Act (all provisions); Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 provisions; drilling permit process (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ExxonMobil: Carbon capture and storage, Class VI well permitting and state primacy; hydrogen; direct air capture (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: ExxonMobil: EPA reconsideration of methane regulations and proposal to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Williams Companies: PHMSA (pipeline safety) reauthorization (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Williams Companies: Energy infrastructure modernization and permitting; LNG; hydrogen (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Williams Companies: Tax limitations (no bill named) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Enbridge: H.R. 4776, SPEED Act; H.R. 3668 Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act; H.R. 7023 Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act; S. 1456 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Enbridge: Pipeline safety: H.R. 7655 Pipeline Safety, Modernization and Expansion Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Enbridge: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 35, disapproving EPA's rule implementing the methane waste emissions charge on oil and gas facilities, Senate roll call 97, February 27, 2025 (52-47).

How it would reach them: The charge applied per ton of methane above a threshold at large oil and gas production, processing, pipeline and storage facilities; the resolution voided the rule that implemented it. It reaches Chevron, ExxonMobil, Devon, Williams, Enbridge, Energy Transfer, TC Energy and every other covered operator.
Timing: Vote February 27, 2025; these PACs' contributions run 2025-03-10 to 2026-06-30.

Source: senate.gov

For their interests Industry

We made sure that this legislation gave job creators the freedom to immediately expense investments in new factories

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: Permanent full expensing and the retained 21 percent corporate rate apply to drilling, pipeline and refinery capital spending as to any C-corporation's; the law's energy provisions are listed by the industry's filings.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; contributions 2025-03-10 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov

Mixed Industry

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026).

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. Chevron and API list the bill without a position. Gas producers sell into new generation built for large loads; a standard billing those loads for upgrades changes project costs without restricting fuel choice.
Timing: S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; the filings cover April to June 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com · lda.gov · lda.gov
Blackstone, KKR and Apollo employees (private equity) · $112K · 3 alignments
$112,341 as filed · campaign committee · Out of state

Alternative asset managers. Blackstone's subsidiary QTS Data Centers is building a $1.5 billion, four-building data center campus in New Albany, Ohio.
People listing Blackstone gave $41,000 (9 entries, 2025-02-05 to 2026-04-17); KKR $34,340.91 (11, 2025-06-02 to 2026-05-03, including one entry listing KKR Financial); Apollo $37,000 (6, 2026-01-06 to 2026-04-30, across three spellings, one of which reads only "Apollo"). The industry's trade PACs, the American Investment Council and the Small Business Investor Alliance, gave $10,000 each. Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone gave $17 million to SLF PAC in 2025-2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · kirkland.com · constructiondive.com · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · wvxu.org · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Carried interest and retirement-plan access: Blackstone's outside firm S2R LLC reported "carried interest and 401k rules pertaining to high-yielding alternative investments" with no specific legislation in Q1 2025 and with H.R. 1 named in Q2 2025; Forbes-Tate reported tax incentives in the law for Blackstone in Q2 and Q3 2025.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Data-center power costs: QTS's New Albany campus is a large-load customer of the kind the Ratepayer Protection Act defines (100 megawatts or more at one site).
  Sources: constructiondive.com · govinfo.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Carried interest and 401(k) access to alternative investments (Blackstone via S2R LLC, Q1 and Q2 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Tax incentives in the reconciliation law and energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (Blackstone via Forbes-Tate, Q2-Q3 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The final law left the capital-gains treatment of carried interest unchanged, which Kirkland & Ellis lists among its omissions. Blackstone lobbied carried interest in Q1 2025 without naming a bill and named H.R. 1 in Q2 2025, while the bill was pending. The outcome preserves the rate fund managers pay on their share of fund profits; it reaches KKR and Apollo the same way.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; contributions dated 2025-02-05 to 2026-05-03.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · kirkland.com · lda.gov · lda.gov

Cuts against their interests Direct

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026; asked unanimous consent to pass it on September 17, 2026, and Sen. Heinrich objected.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. QTS's New Albany campus falls inside that definition, so if Ohio adopted the standard the upgrade costs now spread across the serving utility's other customers would be billed to the campus. KKR and Apollo were not checked for data-center holdings.
Timing: S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; the unanimous-consent request was September 17, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · constructiondive.com · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com

Cuts against their interests Industry

They haven't been as forthcoming about the benefits that will come in terms of local jobs and construction worker jobs and reduced property taxes, and they haven't offered things like paying the energy bills for local communities, for the power plants they build

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Said in a late-July 2026 interview with the Statehouse News Bureau that data centers had "earned that backlash"; the Bureau reports he now says Ohio's sales-and-use tax break for data-center construction, which he backed as lieutenant governor, should no longer be awarded.

How it would reach them: Ending new awards of the state sales-and-use tax exemption raises the cost of building new data centers in Ohio; it reaches QTS's future phases and other new projects, not certified ones. The tax-break view is the Bureau's paraphrase; the quoted sentence is his.
Timing: Interview late July 2026, reported August 17, 2026.

Sources: wvxu.org · wvxu.org
Defense and aerospace contractor PACs (GE Aerospace, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and others) · $100K · 3 alignments
$99,500 as filed · PAC

Defense and aerospace manufacturers. GE Aerospace develops and tests military jet engines at its Cincinnati-area operations; the others build aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, satellites and components.
$99,500 from 17 defense and aerospace PACs in 34 contributions (2025-03-19 to 2026-06-17), $16,000 of it through joint fundraising committees: GE Aerospace $10,000 (2025-06-04 to 2025-09-10); General Dynamics $10,000 ($7,000 direct and $3,000 through the 2025 Senators Classic Committee, 2025-03-19 to 2025-06-30); Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada, TransDigm and Honeywell $10,000 each; Lockheed Martin $7,000; SpaceX, Rheinmetall, Radiance Technologies and Boeing $5,000 each; smaller sums from Textron, Anduril, L3Harris, Howmet, AeroVironment and RTX. People listing TransDigm as employer gave $19,000 and Radiance Technologies $14,355.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.senate.gov · husted.senate.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- GE Aerospace's outside firms report defense authorization and appropriations work: Harbinger Strategies names the FY2026 NDAA (H.R. 3838/S. 2296) on "issues related to military engine and component programs" in Q2 and Q3 2025; Crossroads Strategies names S. 2296 and the FY2026 defense appropriations bill; Mehlman Consulting reports the adaptive engine. General Dynamics reported $3.0 million to $3.75 million per quarter on FY2025 and FY2026 defense authorization and appropriations.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: GE Aerospace: FY2026 NDAA (H.R. 3838/S. 2296), military engine and component programs (Harbinger Strategies, Q2-Q3 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: GE Aerospace: FY2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 4016), military engine programs (Harbinger Q3 2025; Crossroads Q3 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: GE Aerospace: the adaptive engine (Mehlman Consulting, Q1-Q3 2025) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: General Dynamics: FY2025 and FY2026 defense authorization and appropriations (2025 in-house LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of S. 2296, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, Senate roll call 570, October 9, 2025 (77-20).

How it would reach them: The act authorizes the programs both companies lobbied under this bill number; the engine and platform lines it authorizes are the contracts GE Aerospace and General Dynamics compete for. Authorization sets ceilings; the money itself moves in the appropriations bills.
Timing: Vote October 9, 2025; GE Aerospace PAC contributions 2025-06-04 to 2025-09-10 and General Dynamics 2025-03-19 to 2025-06-30, all before the vote.

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Direct

This contract is a significant achievement for GE Aerospace and our nation's military.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Toured GE Aerospace's Cincinnati headquarters with the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment on August 18, 2026 and described the company's engine contract for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile as a national achievement.

How it would reach them: A public endorsement of a specific contract award to the company; it changes no funding by itself.
Timing: Statement August 18, 2026; GE Aerospace PAC contribution 2025-09-10.

Source: husted.senate.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 4784, the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, Senate roll call 195, July 14, 2026 (cloture rejected 50-46).

How it would reach them: The vote sought to begin debate on the FY2027 authorization, which sets ceilings for the programs these contractors hold; cloture failed and the bill did not proceed that day.
Timing: Vote July 14, 2026; defense PAC contributions 2025-03-19 to 2026-06-17.

Source: senate.gov
Farm, ethanol and sugar groups (PACs) · $85K · 1 alignment
$85,000 as filed · PAC

Commodity and farm groups, including the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association, the Ohio Cattlemen's Association and the Ohio Farm Bureau, national livestock and poultry groups, and sugar-beet and cane cooperatives.
$85,000 from 23 PACs in 30 contributions (2025-03-28 to 2026-06-30). Largest: Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association $10,000; National Cattlemen's Beef Association $10,000; Ohio Cattlemen's Association $10,000; Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative $7,000; National Chicken Council $5,000; American Crystal Sugar $5,000; American Sugar Cane League Of Usa $5,000; National Pork Producers (Pork PAC) $5,000; Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Agriculture For Good Government $5,000; Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Sugar $4,000.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- Year-round E15 sales, farm-bill programs and the sugar program; the specific bills each lobbied are listed under agenda where the LDA lane found them.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: National Corn Growers Association: Year-round E15: H.R. 1346 / S. 593, Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · ncga.com · agnavigator.com
- Supports: National Corn Growers Association: Farm bill: H.R. 7567 Farm, Food, and National Security Act (commodity and conservation programs; mandatory base acre update) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: National Corn Growers Association: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act and its implementation (budget reconciliation) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Opposes: National Corn Growers Association: Tariffs on agricultural products (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Renewable Fuels Association: Year-round E15: Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 (H.R. 1346 / S. 593); House passed H.R. 1346 218-203 on May 13, 2026 (federal)
  Sources: ethanolrfa.org · marshall.senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Renewable Fuels Association: Renewable Fuel Standard implementation and small refinery waivers (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Renewable Fuels Association: Section 45Z clean fuel production credit (extended and revised in H.R. 1), 45Q carbon capture credit, 40B sustainable aviation fuel credit (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Renewable Fuels Association: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (renewable fuels policy) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

He appreciates that Administrator Zeldin's decision to allow nationwide E-15 sales has helped lower prices. However, he wants a clear path forward to keep Ohio refineries operational and will continue advocating for a permanent E15 market for Ohio farmers.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Supports year-round E15 while asking for a path that keeps Ohio refineries operating, per his office's statement of April 4, 2026.

How it would reach them: A permanent year-round E15 market raises ethanol demand, which reaches Ohio corn growers directly; the statement pairs it with keeping refineries operating, which is the refiners' side of the same rule.
Timing: Statement April 4, 2026; Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers PAC contributions 2025-04-07 to 2026-05-20.

Sources: newsbreak.com · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Retailers, grocers and restaurant companies (PACs) · $84K · 1 alignment
$84,000 as filed · PAC

Retailers and restaurant companies, including Kroger and Wendy's (whose PACs file from Cincinnati and Dublin, Ohio), Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe's, restaurant chains and franchisees, and their trade groups (the National Restaurant Association, NACS for convenience stores, the National Retail Federation).
$84,000 from 15 PACs in 29 contributions (2025-03-12 to 2026-06-30). Largest: Kroger $10,000; Wendy's $10,000; National Restaurant Association $10,000; Walmart $10,000; Home Depot $10,000; Lowe's Companies $5,000; McDonald's $5,000; National Association Of Convenience Stores $5,000; Association Of Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisees $5,000; Tractor Supply $4,500.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · puco.ohio.gov

Interests on record
- Tip and overtime income taxes, card swipe fees and tariffs on imported goods; the specific bills each lobbied are listed under agenda where the LDA lane found them.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
- Walmart signed the AEP Ohio settlement that PUCO adopted for data-center cost allocation (October 23, 2024 filing).
  Source: puco.ohio.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: AEP Ohio data-center tariff settlement (PUCO case 24-508-EL-ATA): Walmart was a signatory to the adopted settlement (Ohio)
  Source: puco.ohio.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The law created a deduction for qualified tip income and for overtime pay; restaurant employers and their workers are the main group the tip deduction reaches, and the corporate provisions reach the retailers as C-corporations.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; retail and restaurant PAC contributions 2025-03-12 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov
Leslie H. Wexner (L Brands) · $80K · 0 alignments

$79,900 as filed · campaign committee · In state

Founder and chairman emeritus of L Brands, as filed on his 2022 and 2023 Ohio contributions ('founder, L Brands' on the 2025 federal one); earlier Ohio filings list The Limited and Limited Brands.
$3,500 to Husted for Senate on July 3, 2025 (special primary, Schedule A line 11; filed as founder, L Brands, New Albany, Ohio); no refund to him appears on the campaign's reports through June 30, 2026. Before that, $76,400 to Jon Husted for Ohio, his state committee, in 17 contributions from July 20, 2001 to June 30, 2023, per the Ohio Secretary of State's yearly contribution files; the largest is $15,400 on June 30, 2023. The amount field is those two sums together. Separately, Mike DeWine for Ohio received $36,992.35 from him in three rows: $10,000 (Dec. 11, 2015, office filed as attorney general), $13,292.35 (Oct. 13, 2020) and $13,700 (Aug. 29, 2022), the last two filed to DeWine's governor committee while Husted was lieutenant governor; that sum is not in the amount.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov · www6.ohiosos.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Technology, chip and data-center companies (Google, Intel, Amazon, Microsoft and others; PACs and employees) · $75K · 4 alignments
$74,750 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Cloud, chip and AI companies. Google, Amazon Data Services and Microsoft were parties to AEP Ohio's data-center tariff case at PUCO. Intel is building the chip plant in Licking County, Ohio that his campaign site credits him with helping bring in, and the federal government took an equity stake in Intel in August 2025.
PACs $42,500 in 18 contributions (2025-04-29 to 2026-06-23): Google $10,000; Intel $10,000; Amazon $6,500; Dell $3,500; Cisco $3,500; Microsoft $3,500; Americans For Responsible Innovation Ltd. $3,000; Qualcomm $2,500. People listing Palantir gave $14,000, Anthropic $7,500, Microsoft $6,250 and Google $4,500. Oracle has its own entry.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · puco.ohio.gov · wvxu.org · web.archive.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com

Interests on record
- Data-center power costs: Google ("H.R. XX, Ratepayer Protection Act"), Microsoft (through Tiber Creek Group), Intel and the Data Center Coalition list the Ratepayer Protection Act on Q2 2026 LDA filings.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- In Ohio, Microsoft, Amazon Data Services, Google and the Data Center Coalition signed the October 10, 2024 settlement at PUCO that competed with AEP Ohio's data-center tariff; PUCO adopted AEP Ohio's version on July 9, 2025.
  Source: puco.ohio.gov
- Intel: CHIPS and Science Act implementation and export controls appear on its Q2 2026 filing alongside H.R. 9340.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (Google, Microsoft, Intel, Data Center Coalition; Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Opposes: AEP Ohio data-center tariff, PUCO case 24-508-EL-ATA: Microsoft, Amazon Data Services, Google and the Data Center Coalition filed the competing settlement (Ohio)
  Source: puco.ohio.gov
- Lobbies on: Intel: CHIPS and Science Act implementation (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Microsoft: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: Large-load electricity tariffs that charge data centers the full cost of service (Microsoft "Community-First AI Infrastructure" plan) (federal)
  Source: geekwire.com
- Lobbies on: Microsoft: H.R. 1990, American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2025 (Section 174 R&D expensing) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Microsoft: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act tax provisions (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Amazon: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21): renewable energy tax credits, international and corporate tax (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Amazon: Credit Card Competition Act (H.R. 3881 / S. 1838 in 2025; S. 3623 / H.R. 7035 in 2026) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Amazon: H.R. 4776, SPEED Act (NEPA permitting); grid reliability; FY2026 Energy and Water appropriations (H.R. 4553 / S. 3293) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Amazon: Data center energy and renewable electricity (Climate Pledge) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Intel: CHIPS and Science Act (P.L. 117-167) funding and implementation; federal incentives and government investment in semiconductor manufacturing (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Intel: One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21): Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (Section 48D), R&D tax treatment, FDII (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Intel: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Intel: FY2026 NDAA (S. 1071, P.L. 119-60) and FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800 / S. 4784); DoD microelectronics programs (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Meta: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Mixed Direct

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026; asked unanimous consent to pass it on September 17, 2026, and Sen. Heinrich objected.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. Google, Amazon and Microsoft operate campuses of that size, so in a state that adopted the standard the full incremental grid cost would be billed to them. In Ohio they signed the settlement that competed with AEP Ohio's tariff, which took a similar approach at the state level. Nationally, the White House's March 4, 2026 Ratepayer Protection Pledge asks hyperscalers to pay for the grid upgrades their data centers need, and Husted attended the event; which of these companies signed was not established from an opened page. Their LDA filings list the bill without a stated position.
Timing: Pledge event March 4, 2026; S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; tech PAC contributions 2025-04-29 to 2026-06-23.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com · lda.gov · lda.gov · puco.ohio.gov · husted.senate.gov · whitehouse.gov

Cuts against their interests Direct

They haven't been as forthcoming about the benefits that will come in terms of local jobs and construction worker jobs and reduced property taxes, and they haven't offered things like paying the energy bills for local communities, for the power plants they build.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Said in a late-July 2026 interview with the Statehouse News Bureau that data centers had "earned that backlash"; the Bureau reports he now says Ohio's sales-and-use tax break for data-center construction, which he backed as lieutenant governor, should no longer be awarded.

How it would reach them: Ending new awards of the state sales-and-use tax exemption raises the cost of building new data centers in Ohio; it reaches Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other developers of future Ohio campuses, not those already certified. The tax-break view is the Bureau's paraphrase; the quoted sentence is his.
Timing: Interview late July 2026, reported August 17, 2026; tech PAC contributions ran to June 2026.

Sources: wvxu.org · wvxu.org

Mixed Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on the Blackburn amendment (S.Amdt. 2814) to strike the H.R. 1 section tying federal funds to a pause in state AI regulation, roll call 363, July 1, 2025 (agreed 99-1).

How it would reach them: Striking the section left states free to regulate AI without losing the tied federal funds; nearly every senator voted the same way, so the vote does not separate him from the chamber.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025.

Source: senate.gov

Mixed Direct

Without clear guardrails, future administrations could use taxpayer-funded investments to influence private companies and advance political agendas.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced the INVEST Act (S. 4798) on June 16, 2026, to require that federal ownership stakes in private companies, such as those taken in chipmakers, be temporary.

How it would reach them: The federal government took an equity stake in Intel in August 2025; a requirement that such stakes be temporary sets a path for the government to sell its Intel shares. Intel's own position on the bill was not found.
Timing: Bill June 16, 2026; Intel PAC contributions 2025-08-22 and 2026-05-29.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com
Electric utilities and power generators (PACs) · $71K · 3 alignments
$71,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Investor-owned utilities (American Electric Power, whose AEP Ohio subsidiary proposed the data-center tariff PUCO approved in July 2025; Duke Energy; NiSource; Southern Company; Entergy), a competitive generator (Vistra), nuclear suppliers (Babcock & Wilcox, BWX Technologies), the Nuclear Energy Institute, solar and fuel-cell companies (First Solar, Bloom Energy, Sunrun) and the rural electric cooperatives' association. AEP's and NiSource's PACs file from Columbus.
$71,000 from 17 utility, generator and nuclear-supply PACs in 31 contributions (2025-03-06 to 2026-06-30), $10,000 of it through joint fundraising committees: American Electric Power $10,000; Duke Energy $10,000; Southern Company $8,000; NiSource $7,500; Entergy $5,000; Vistra $5,000; Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises $5,000; First Solar $5,000; Bloom Energy $3,500; Sunrun $2,500.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · puco.ohio.gov · aep.com · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- Who pays for grid upgrades to serve large new loads: AEP, Duke, Southern Company, Entergy, the Edison Electric Institute and NRECA each list H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, on their Q2 2026 LDA filings; Entergy's adds "large load data centers, and grid buildout". FirstEnergy's lists it among "all provisions" bills.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- In Ohio, AEP Ohio's data-center tariff, approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on July 9, 2025, requires large new data centers to pay for at least 85 percent of the capacity they subscribe to for up to 12 years; the settlement AEP Ohio filed with PUCO staff and the Ohio Consumers' Counsel was adopted over a competing one filed by Microsoft, the Data Center Coalition, Amazon Data Services, Google and Constellation Energy.
  Sources: puco.ohio.gov · aep.com
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (AEP, Duke, Southern, Entergy, EEI, NRECA, FirstEnergy; Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: AEP Ohio data-center tariff, PUCO case 24-508-EL-ATA: AEP Ohio proposed and settled for minimum-demand obligations on new data centers (adopted July 9, 2025) (Ohio)
  Sources: puco.ohio.gov · aep.com
- Opposes: Constellation Energy: joined the competing data-center settlement filed at PUCO on October 10, 2024 with Microsoft, Amazon, Google and the Data Center Coalition (Ohio)
  Source: puco.ohio.gov
- Lobbies on: Nuclear REFUEL Act (S. 2082): the Nuclear Energy Institute and Entergy are among 2025 filers naming the bill (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: American Electric Power: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (listed among energy bills lobbied) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: American Electric Power: Data center issues, load growth, resource adequacy and draft interconnection-queue legislation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: American Electric Power: AEP Ohio data center tariff (large new data centers pay for at least 85% of subscribed energy for up to 12 years), adopted by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (Ohio)
  Source: aep.com
- Lobbies on: American Electric Power: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21): energy tax provisions, then implementation of Section 45U nuclear credit and 48E/45Y new-nuclear guidance (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Southern Company: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Southern Company: Transmission cost allocation and grid bills: H.R. 6336 Fair Allocation of Interstate Rates Act, S. 3852 GRID Act, S. 3947 REWIRE Act, H.R. 6633 High-Capacity Grid Act; FERC Order 1920 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Southern Company: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, then its implementation; budget reconciliation generally (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Southern Company: Nuclear: used fuel management, Yucca Mountain, consent-based siting, AP1000, HALEU fuel, subsequent license renewal, ADVANCE Act implementation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Entergy: Nuclear REFUEL Act, H.R. 3978 / S. 2082 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Entergy: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act ("Provisions related to the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, large load data centers, and grid buildout") (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Entergy: Data center and grid bills: S. 3585 / H.R. 8400 DATA Act, S. 3852 GRID Act, S. 3947 REWIRE Act, S. 465 / H.R. 1047 GRID Power Act, H.R. 6336 FAIR Act (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Entergy: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: corporate tax rates, IRA credits, corporate AMT and 45V; later 45Q implementation (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026; asked unanimous consent to pass it on September 17, 2026, and Sen. Heinrich objected.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. For a utility the standard changes who pays for the upgrades rather than whether they are built: the cost would be billed to the large customer instead of spread across residential and business rates. It follows the approach AEP Ohio already took at PUCO for data centers. The utilities' LDA filings list the bill without a stated position.
Timing: S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; utility PAC contributions 2025-03-06 to 2026-06-30; PUCO order July 9, 2025.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com · lda.gov · puco.ohio.gov · aep.com

For their interests Industry

The Nuclear REFUEL Act would inject additional sustainable energy options into our economy by expanding clean nuclear energy production here at home.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 2082, the Nuclear REFUEL Act (introduced June 12, 2025; reported without amendment October 29, 2025).

How it would reach them: The bill takes non-separating spent-fuel reprocessing equipment out of the Atomic Energy Act's production-facility definition. It reaches fuel-recycling developers and, through fuel supply, reactor owners such as Entergy, Southern Company, Duke and Vistra; it sets no rate and funds nothing.
Timing: Bill June 12, 2025; utility PAC contributions 2025-03-06 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.senate.gov

Mixed Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Shaheen amendment (S.Amdt. 2564) to repeal H.R. 1's termination of clean energy credits, roll call 366, July 1, 2025 (rejected 49-51), then Yea on passage (roll call 372).

How it would reach them: The law phases out the technology-neutral production and investment credits for new wind and solar projects while keeping them longer for nuclear, storage and other sources. That reaches First Solar and Sunrun's customers against their interest, and the nuclear-heavy fleets of Duke, Southern, Entergy and Vistra less.
Timing: Votes July 1, 2025; utility PAC contributions 2025-03-06 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov
Health insurer and Medicaid managed-care PACs (aggregate) · $63K · 4 alignments
$63,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Corporate and trade-association PACs of health insurers and Medicaid managed-care plans, filed on line 11C of Husted for Senate's reports. CareSource (Dayton), Centene's Buckeye Community Health Plan, Molina and Elevance's Anthem are Ohio Medicaid managed-care plans.
$63,000 from 12 health-insurer PACs in 23 contributions dated 2025-03-31 to 2026-06-30, from Husted for Senate's FEC reports: Centene, Cigna, Elevance and Humana $10,000 each; Blue Cross Blue Shield Association $7,500; Molina and UnitedHealth $3,000 each; AHIP, GuideWell and CareSource $2,500 each; Cambia and Sidecar $1,000 each. American Journal News's $679,000 (February 4, 2026) is a career-long figure mixing state and federal giving and is not a filed federal total.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · americanjournalnews.com · tiffinohio.net · legis1.com · lda.senate.gov · lda.senate.gov · acasignups.net

Interests on record
- Elevance Health's 2026 LDA filings list "ACA Exchanges & Enrollment" and "Enhanced Premium Tax Credits" under both its insurance and health issue codes, with $1.72 million to $2.29 million in quarterly lobbying expenses.
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- AHIP's 2026 LDA filings ($5.32 million in Q1, $3.01 million in Q2) list H.R. 1's Medicaid eligibility and state-financing provisions, marketplace coverage and enrollment, and pharmacy benefit manager regulation.
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Ohio's 2026 individual-market rate changes as filed: Buckeye Community/Ambetter +27.3 percent, UnitedHealthcare +30.3 percent, Paramount +36.63 percent, weighted average +19.8 percent.
  Sources: acasignups.net · tiffinohio.net
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Elevance Health: "ACA Exchanges & Enrollment" and "Enhanced Premium Tax Credits" (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: AHIP: H.R. 1's Medicaid eligibility and state-financing provisions, marketplace coverage and enrollment, PBM regulation (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: Centene: individual market, Medicare Advantage, prior authorization, S. 1105 (No UPCODE Act), S. 2355 (Patients Deserve Price Tags Act) (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Ossoff motion to commit S. 2 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions on insurer denials of care (roll call 141, rejected 47-50) and Nay on the Warnock motion on loss of Medicaid coverage by eligible beneficiaries (roll call 147, rejected 46-52), June 4, 2026.

How it would reach them: The motions would have sent the bill back with instructions to investigate insurers that deny or delay care and to publish data on Medicaid disenrollment; the Nay votes left both instructions out. The subject of the first is the insurers themselves; the second reaches the managed-care plans that lose members when eligible people are disenrolled.
Timing: Votes June 4, 2026; insurer PAC contributions are dated 2025-03-31 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · tiffinohio.net

Mixed Direct

American health care is not underfunded; it is under-accountable.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on cloture on S. 3385, a three-year extension of the enhanced premium tax credit (roll call 644, December 11, 2025, rejected 51-48), and Yea on cloture on S. 3386, the Republican alternative (roll call 643); proposed a "fraud, freeze and fix" approach in a November 20, 2025 floor speech and introduced the Accountability for Better Care Act, a two-year extension, on December 9, 2025.

How it would reach them: The enhanced credits set what marketplace enrollees pay, and so how many stay enrolled with Elevance, Centene's Ambetter and the other exchange insurers; the credits expired at the end of 2025 after the Nay vote. His own bill would have restored them for two years with a minimum payment, which would keep enrollment above the no-extension case and below the three-year case. The insurers' filings list the credits as an issue without stating a position.
Timing: Floor speech November 20, 2025; bill December 9, 2025; votes December 11, 2025. Insurer PAC contributions are dated 2025-03-31 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · lda.senate.gov

Cuts against their interests Industry

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The law's Medicaid eligibility and work-requirement provisions reduce enrollment in the managed-care plans these PACs belong to; the Congressional Budget Office figure cited by Ohio Capital Journal is 10 million more uninsured by 2034, 440,000 of them in Ohio. Ohio must also change or end its health insuring corporation franchise fee, a provider tax on managed-care plans, by July 1, 2027. AHIP lobbied the bill.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; insurer PAC contributions are dated 2025-03-31 to 2026-06-30.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · ohiocapitaljournal.com · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Industry

My bill creates incentives for real competition in health care to reduce costs for patients.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act (S. 4027) on March 10, 2026, to ban anticompetitive clauses in contracts between payers and hospitals and other providers.

How it would reach them: The bill text bars a health plan from agreeing with a provider to terms that restrict the plan from directing or steering enrollees to other providers or tiering providers by cost or quality. Such terms are ones providers negotiate into contracts with insurers; barring them widens the insurers' network-design options. No insurer statement on this bill was opened.
Timing: Bill March 10, 2026; insurer PAC contributions from March 2025 to June 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov
Marathon Petroleum (employees and PAC) · $50K · 4 alignments
$50,000 as filed · campaign committee · In state

A Findlay, Ohio refiner and fuel marketer with 13 refineries, including the 100,000-barrel-per-day Canton, Ohio refinery, and a controlling interest in the MPLX pipeline partnership; 2024 revenue $140.4 billion.
$45,000 in 26 contributions from people listing Marathon Petroleum as employer (2025-07-23 to 2025-08-12; $41,500 of it through Team Husted), plus $5,000 from Marathon Petroleum Corporation Employees PAC on 2025-08-26, its only contribution on the reports.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.senate.gov · lda.senate.gov

Interests on record
- Its own 2025-2026 LDA filings ($480,000 to $1,140,000 per quarter) list the Renewable Fuel Standard volumes and small-refinery exemptions, Reid Vapor Pressure requirements for E15 and H.R. 1346 (Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act), H.R. 1's clean fuel production credit, LIFO accounting, corporate rate and bonus depreciation, H.J.Res. 88 on California's vehicle rules, permitting reform, pipeline safety reauthorization, and freight rail competition (S. 2104).
  Sources: lda.senate.gov · lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Renewable Fuel Standard volumes and small-refinery exemptions; Reid Vapor Pressure for E15 and H.R. 1346 (Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act) (2025-2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: H.R. 1: clean fuel production credit, LIFO, corporate rate, bonus depreciation (2025 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: H.J.Res. 88, California's Advanced Clean Cars II waiver (Q2 2025 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: Permitting reform, pipeline safety reauthorization, freight rail competition (S. 2104) (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 88, disapproving EPA's waiver for California's Advanced Clean Cars II rule, Senate roll call 277, May 22, 2025 (51-44).

How it would reach them: Marathon listed H.J.Res. 88 in its Q2 2025 filing. Ending the waiver removes the 2035 zero-emission sales requirement in California and the states that adopted it, which keeps gasoline demand in those markets higher than the rule would have; that reaches every refiner selling into them, Marathon among them.
Timing: Vote May 22, 2025; contributions dated 2025-07-23 to 2025-08-12 (employees) and 2025-08-26 (PAC).

Sources: senate.gov · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Direct

We made sure that this legislation gave job creators the freedom to immediately expense investments in new factories

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: Marathon lobbied the bill's clean fuel production credit, LIFO treatment, corporate rate and bonus depreciation. Permanent full expensing and the retained 21 percent rate apply to its refinery capital spending and taxable income as they do to any C-corporation; the clean fuel production credit reaches producers of qualifying fuels.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025, before the contributions (2025-07-23 to 2025-08-12).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · lda.senate.gov

Mixed Direct

He appreciates that Administrator Zeldin's decision to allow nationwide E-15 sales has helped lower prices. However, he wants a clear path forward to keep Ohio refineries operational and will continue advocating for a permanent E15 market for Ohio farmers.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Supports year-round E15 while asking for a path that keeps Ohio refineries operating, per his office's statement of April 4, 2026.

How it would reach them: A permanent E15 market displaces some gasoline blendstock with ethanol, which reduces refiner volumes at the margin; a path that keeps Ohio refineries operating is the refiners' side of the same negotiation. Marathon's filings list the E15 vapor-pressure issue without stating which outcome it seeks.
Timing: Statement April 4, 2026.

Sources: newsbreak.com · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 35, disapproving EPA's methane waste emissions charge rule, Senate roll call 97, February 27, 2025 (52-47).

How it would reach them: The charge applied to large oil and gas production, processing and transmission facilities; MPLX, Marathon's pipeline and processing partnership, operates facilities of those kinds. The resolution reaches every covered operator.
Timing: Vote February 27, 2025, before the contributions (2025-07-23 to 2025-08-12).

Sources: senate.gov · en.wikipedia.org
Hospital systems: Kettering Health employees and hospital PACs · $46K · 3 alignments
$45,750 as filed · campaign committee · In state

A nonprofit, faith-based health system headquartered in Kettering, Ohio, with 15 medical centers, more than 120 outpatient facilities and more than 15,000 employees in western Ohio.
People listing Kettering Health as employer gave $22,250 in 12 contributions (2025-07-21 to 2026-03-02), of which $7,500 was refunded to contributors of the same name, leaving $14,750. Hospital PACs gave $31,000: Memorial Health (Marietta) $10,000, the American Hospital Association $10,000 ($1,000 of it through the 2025 Senators Classic Committee), OhioHealth $6,000 through Team Husted, the Federation of American Hospitals and LifePoint $2,000 each, and America's Essential Hospitals $1,000.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · ketteringhealth.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com · ohiocapitaljournal.com · husted.senate.gov · cms.gov · kff.org

Interests on record
- Medicaid hospital payments: the Ohio Hospital Association told the legislature in May 2025 that half of Ohio hospitals had operating losses since 2022, and thanked the senators for the $50 billion rural health fund and the extension of Ohio's Medicaid supplemental payment program through 2028.
  Source: ohiocapitaljournal.com
- State-directed payment limits: KFF estimates about $60 billion in federal Medicaid spending for hospital services in 37 states would likely exceed the reconciliation law's new limits once fully implemented; Ohio Capital Journal reports Ohio among them.
  Sources: kff.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com
What they lobby for
- Supports: Ohio Hospital Association and four rural systems: thanked the senators for the rural health fund and the extension of Ohio's Medicaid supplemental payment program through 2028 (H.R. 1) (federal)
  Sources: husted.senate.gov · limaohio.com
The candidate's positions

Mixed Industry

This package is sending more Medicaid dollars and more support to rural hospitals in Ohio than ever before.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The law funds a $50 billion rural health program over five years; Ohio's first-year award is $202,030,262 (CMS, December 29, 2025), and the senators' July 2, 2025 release puts the Ohio amount they secured at $1.3 billion. It extends Ohio's supplemental payment program through 2028. It also caps provider taxes and state-directed payments from 2028 and reduces Medicaid and marketplace enrollment, which reduces what hospitals are paid for the same patients. Kettering Health is not a rural system, so the rural fund reaches it only through the share CMS distributes at discretion.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; Kettering employee contributions 2025-07-21 to 2026-03-02; hospital PAC contributions 2025-03-18 to 2026-06-15.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · husted.senate.gov · cms.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com

Cuts against their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Kim amendment (S.Amdt. 2817) to strike the provision limiting certain Medicaid payments, roll call 361, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: Keeping the limits reduces the state-directed payments hospitals receive from Ohio Medicaid once they phase in; the Ohio Hospital Association praised other provisions and declined to say whether the law as a whole costs its members money.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; contributions 2025-07-21 to 2026-03-02 (employees) and 2025-03-18 to 2026-06-15 (PACs).

Sources: senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · ohiocapitaljournal.com · kff.org

Cuts against their interests Industry

My bill creates incentives for real competition in health care to reduce costs for patients.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act (S. 4027) on March 10, 2026, to ban anticompetitive clauses in contracts between payers and hospitals and other providers.

How it would reach them: The bill text bars health plans from agreeing to provider terms that stop the plan from steering enrollees elsewhere; it reaches hospital systems that negotiate such terms, with a state option to grandfather certain 2019-2020 agreements. No hospital statement on this bill was opened.
Timing: Bill March 10, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov
Automakers and auto-parts makers (PACs) · $46K · 2 alignments
$45,500 as filed · PAC

Automakers (Ford, General Motors, Toyota), their trade group the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the Automotive Free International Trade PAC and tire makers including Goodyear, whose PAC files from Akron.
$45,500 from 8 PACs in 14 contributions (2025-05-14 to 2026-06-29). Largest: Ford $10,000; General Motors $10,000; Goodyear Good Gov'T Fund $5,000; Alliance For Automotive Innovation $5,000; Automotive Free International Trade $5,000; Specialty Equipment Market Association & Performance Racing $5,000; Bridgestone Americas $3,000; Toyota Motor North America $2,500.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Vehicle emissions and fuel-economy rules, clean-vehicle credits and tariffs on imported parts; the specific bills each lobbied are listed under agenda where the LDA lane found them.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 88, H.J.Res. 87 and H.J.Res. 89, disapproving EPA waivers for California's vehicle and engine rules, Senate roll calls 277, 279 and 281, May 22, 2025.

How it would reach them: Ending the waivers removed the rising zero-emission sales requirements the adopting states had set for automakers; that reaches every manufacturer selling in those states.
Timing: Votes May 22, 2025; automaker PAC contributions 2025-05-14 to 2026-06-29.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov

For their interests Direct

Ohioans shouldn’t be forced to follow California’s lead when it comes to policies that make everyday life more expensive and less convenient.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced S.J.Res. 208 on August 5, 2026 to overturn EPA's waiver for California's Advanced Clean Cars I program, and cosponsored S.J.Res. 205-207.

How it would reach them: The resolution targets the older California vehicle program still in force after the 2025 disapprovals; it reaches every automaker selling in the adopting states.
Timing: Resolution August 5, 2026, after the automaker PAC contributions.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov
Centene Corporation (PAC and employees) · $38K · 3 alignments
$38,198 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The largest Medicaid managed-care insurer in the United States; it owns Buckeye Community Health Plan in Ohio and sells Ambetter marketplace plans. In 2021 it paid Ohio $88.3 million to settle claims over its pharmacy-benefit billing to Ohio Medicaid without admitting wrongdoing; the state resumed its managed-care contract two months later.
Centene Corporation PAC $10,000 in 3 contributions given directly to Husted for Senate (2025-06-04 to 2025-06-30), plus $28,198.36 in 21 contributions from people listing Centene as employer (2025-06-11 to 2025-07-01) routed through the Team Husted joint fundraising committee, from Husted for Senate's FEC reports. Ohio Capital Journal counts at least $75,000 from Centene across his state and federal career.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · lda.senate.gov · investors.centene.com

Interests on record
- Its 2026 LDA filings ($1.03 million Q1, $1.46 million Q2) list the individual insurance market, health insurance access and affordability, Medicare Advantage, prior authorization, S. 1105 (No UPCODE Act) and S. 2355 (Patients Deserve Price Tags Act).
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- On July 1, 2025 it withdrew its 2025 earnings guidance, citing marketplace growth "lower than expected" and a preliminary $1.8 billion cut to expected risk-adjustment revenue.
  Source: investors.centene.com
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Individual insurance market, health insurance access and affordability, Medicare Advantage, prior authorization (2026 LDA filings, $1.03 million Q1, $1.46 million Q2) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Lobbies on: S. 1105, the No UPCODE Act, and S. 2355, the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
- Supports: Ohio Medicaid managed-care contract held through Buckeye Community Health Plan (state venue) (Ohio)
  Source: ohiocapitaljournal.com
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Warnock motion to commit S. 2 with instructions to investigate loss of Medicaid coverage by eligible beneficiaries (roll call 147, June 4, 2026) and Nay on the Ossoff motion on insurer denials (roll call 141).

How it would reach them: A Medicaid managed-care plan is paid per enrolled member, so an investigation and public data on wrongful disenrollment would bear on the plan's membership and on the state contract process it depends on; the Nay votes left the instruction out.
Timing: Votes June 4, 2026; PAC and employee contributions dated 2025-06-04 to 2025-07-01.

Sources: senate.gov · senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com

Mixed Direct

Requiring everyone receiving a premium tax credit to pay a small amount — at least a small amount — toward their health care insurance will help realign the incentives and reduce fraud

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on cloture on S. 3385, the three-year enhanced premium tax credit extension (December 11, 2025), and introduced the Accountability for Better Care Act on December 9, 2025, a two-year extension with a minimum payment.

How it would reach them: Centene's Ambetter plans sell on the exchanges the credits subsidize; the credits expired after the Nay vote, and his own bill would restore them for two years with a minimum payment. The first reduces the subsidized pool Ambetter draws from; the second would enlarge it again, for a shorter period than the bill he opposed.
Timing: Bill December 9 and vote December 11, 2025, after the PAC (2025-06-04 to 2025-06-30) and employee (2025-06-11 to 2025-07-01) contributions.

Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · senate.gov · husted.senate.gov · investors.centene.com

Cuts against their interests Direct

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: Medicaid eligibility and work-requirement provisions reduce enrollment in Medicaid managed-care plans, Centene's main business; Ohio's health insuring corporation franchise fee, a provider tax collected from such plans to draw federal match, must be changed or ended by July 1, 2027, with the Health Policy Institute of Ohio estimating $640 million a year in state revenue and $1.5 billion in federal match at stake.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025, days after the PAC contributions (2025-06-04 to 2025-06-30).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · ohiocapitaljournal.com
Embassy Healthcare employees (nursing-home operator) · $33K · 2 alignments
$33,400 as filed · campaign committee · In state

A Beachwood, Ohio operator of skilled nursing, assisted living and long-term care facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia; its Embassy of Euclid facility is a 75-bed Medicare- and Medicaid-certified for-profit nursing home.
$33,400 in 5 itemized entries from people listing Embassy Healthcare (or Embassy Health Care) as employer, dated 2025-04-10 to 2025-05-12, on Husted for Senate's July 2025 report. The FEC's processed by-employer aggregate read $26,800 in 12; it splits and counts entries differently.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · embassyhealthcare.net · carelistings.com · aarp.org · lda.senate.gov

Interests on record
- The federal nursing-home minimum staffing rule finalized in 2024 (a registered nurse on site at all times, 3.48 nursing hours per resident day) and Medicaid financing; the American Health Care Association's 2025 LDA filings list "SNF Minimum Staffing" and H.R. 1.
  Sources: aarp.org · lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: American Health Care Association (trade group): "SNF Minimum Staffing" and H.R. 1 (2025 LDA filings); AHCA PAC gave Husted $1,000 directly and $1,000 through Team Husted (federal)
  Sources: lda.senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

Mixed Industry

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The law bars enforcement of the staffing rule until October 2034, which removes a hiring requirement that fewer than one in five facilities met in late 2023; it applies to every certified nursing home, Embassy's included. The same law narrows Medicaid retroactive coverage from three months to one or two and phases in limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments from 2028, which reduce the Medicaid revenue nursing homes are paid from.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; contributions dated 2025-04-10 to 2025-05-12.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · aarp.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com

Cuts against their interests Industry

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on the Kim amendment (S.Amdt. 2817) to strike the provision limiting certain Medicaid payments, roll call 361, July 1, 2025 (rejected 48-52).

How it would reach them: The amendment would have removed the caps on state-directed Medicaid payments; the Nay vote kept them. KFF, as reported by Ohio Capital Journal, estimates the limits reduce federal hospital and provider payments once they phase in from January 2028; nursing homes paid through Ohio Medicaid are inside that stream.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; contributions dated 2025-04-10 to 2025-05-12.

Sources: senate.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com
RDV Corporation employees (DeVos family office) · $26K · 1 alignment
$26,400 as filed · campaign committee · Out of state

A Grand Rapids, Michigan family office and investment firm, established in 1991, that describes its mission as supporting the DeVos family through family-office, private-equity, philanthropy and domestic services. In their public capacities, Betsy DeVos chaired the American Federation for Children and served as U.S. Secretary of Education (2017-2021), and Dick DeVos co-chaired Michigan's 2000 ballot campaign for school vouchers and tuition tax credits.
$26,400 in 4 itemized entries from people listing RDV Corporation, all dated 2025-06-30, on Husted for Senate's July 2025 report.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · rdvcareers.com · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · edchoice.org

Interests on record
- Public advocacy for school vouchers and scholarship tax credits; the American Federation for Children promotes vouchers and tax-credit scholarship programs.
  Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
What they lobby for
- Supports: Federal scholarship tax credit (the family's public advocacy for vouchers and tax-credit scholarships) (federal)
  Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

This creates a school choice tax credit that will help create more scholarship opportunities for parents and children

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Nay on Hirono Amendment No. 2382 (S.Amdt. 2382 to S.Amdt. 2360 to H.R. 1), to eliminate the scholarship-granting-organization tax credit, roll call 358, July 1, 2025 (rejected 50-50), then Yea on passage.

How it would reach them: The credit lets an individual take up to $1,700 a year off federal tax for gifts to scholarship-granting organizations starting January 1, 2027, in states that opt in, with no cap on total contributions. It reaches donors to those organizations and the private schools their students attend; it does not reach RDV Corporation's business. The link is to the family's public policy advocacy, which is why it is marked sector rather than direct.
Timing: Votes July 1, 2025; contributions dated 2025-06-30, the day before.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov · edchoice.org
Investment, life-insurance and annuity PACs (BlackRock, American Council of Life Insurers, Morgan Stanley, Thrivent, Sammons) · $24K · 0 alignments
$24,000 as filed · PAC

An asset manager (BlackRock), a securities firm (Morgan Stanley), the life insurers' trade group (ACLI) and two annuity and life insurers (Thrivent, Sammons).
Direct contributions to Husted for Senate: BlackRock PAC $7,500 (three, June 2025 to May 2026); American Council of Life Insurers PAC $7,500 (five, May 2025 to June 2026); Morgan Stanley PAC $5,000 (Dec. 2025, May 2026); Thrivent Financial PAC $2,500 (April 22, 2026); Sammons Enterprises PAC $1,500 (April 21, 2026).

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- ACLI's Q2 2026 LDA filing lists retirement-plan bills including H.R. 1013/S. 424 (403(b) plans investing in collective investment trusts) and H.R. 2607/S. 928 (PARSA), plus electronic delivery of plan documents.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: ACLI: H.R. 1013/S. 424 Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act; H.R. 2607/S. 928 PARSA (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Cleveland-Cliffs (PAC and employees) · $21K · 2 alignments
$21,000 as filed · PAC · In state

A Cleveland-based steelmaker and iron-ore producer with mills in Ohio; steel mills are large single-site electricity customers.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. PAC $10,000 (2025-03-12 to 2026-05-18; $9,000 of it through Team Husted) and $11,000 in 13 contributions from people listing Cleveland-Cliffs (2026-05-08 to 2026-06-04).

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov

Interests on record
- Its Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing lists the Ratepayer Protection Act, H.R. 9340, and says it "Engaged in response to the definition of 'Large Load Customer'".
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Seeks changes to: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act: engaged on the definition of "Large Load Customer" (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: H.R. 161, the New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act: lobbied in support, so that plant changes trigger NSR only when a source's maximum achievable hourly emission rate rises (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Supports: H.R. 4218, the CLEAR Act (feasibility factors in air-quality standards, 10-year NAAQS review cycle): lobbied in support (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: EPA's integrated iron and steel, taconite, coke-oven and lime air-toxics rules (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Mixed Direct

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. The bill's threshold covers "a data center or other" single-site customer, so a steel mill of that size could fall inside it; Cleveland-Cliffs engaged on the definition. The filing does not say whether it sought to narrow or widen it.
Timing: Contributions 2026-05-08 to 2026-06-04; S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; the filing covers April to June 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov · republicanleader.senate.gov · rollcall.com · lda.gov

For their interests Direct

Permitting reform is affordability.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced S. 5363, the New Source Review Permitting Improvement Act, with Sen. Lummis on August 7, 2026, and cosponsored S. 4944, the American Energy and Mineral Infrastructure Act.

How it would reach them: S. 5363 amends the Clean Air Act so a change at an existing plant counts as a modification only if its maximum achievable hourly emission rate rises above the highest rate of the prior ten years, and excludes efficiency, safety and reliability projects. That is the test Cleveland-Cliffs lobbied for in the House bill of the same name; it reaches every major stationary source, integrated steel mills among them.
Timing: Cliffs' filing covers April to June 2026; its contributions 2025-03-12 to 2026-06-04; S. 5363 introduced August 7, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov
Union PACs (Carpenters, Fire Fighters, Elevator Constructors, Teamsters DRIVE, Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen) · $20K · 1 alignment
$19,500 as filed · PAC

Political committees of five national unions: carpenters, firefighters, elevator constructors, the Teamsters and the Teamsters-affiliated locomotive engineers and trainmen.
Direct contributions to Husted for Senate: Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee $5,000 (June 2, 2025); IAFF FIREPAC $5,000 (May 2025, May 2026); National Elevator Constructors PAC $4,500 (March and Nov. 2025); Teamsters DRIVE $4,000 (April and Aug. 2025); Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen PAC Fund $1,000 (April 17, 2026).

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- The Teamsters' 2026 LDA filings list S. 3903/H.R. 928, the Railway Safety Act of 2026, among rail issues; the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen endorsed the bill in his introduction release.
  Sources: lda.gov · husted.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Teamsters: S. 3903/H.R. 928, Railway Safety Act of 2026 (Q1 and Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Supports: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen: pass the Railway Safety Act of 2026 (statement in the sponsor's release) (federal)
  Source: husted.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

By using a balanced, data-driven approach to advancing rail safety, my bill would protect Ohio's communities while supporting the freight rail industry across the country.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced S. 3903 (official title Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2026; released as the Railway Safety Act of 2026) with Sen. Cantwell and others on Feb. 24, 2026.

How it would reach them: The bill sets freight-rail safety rules (inspections, penalties, hazardous-materials notification) that apply to the railroads where BLET and Teamsters members work; BLET's president is quoted endorsing it in the release, and the Teamsters list it on their filings.
Timing: Introduced Feb. 24, 2026; the BLET PAC gift April 17, 2026; the Teamsters DRIVE gifts April and Aug. 2025, before the bill.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Law-firm PACs (Squire Patton Boggs, McGuireWoods, Covington & Burling) · $17K · 0 alignments
$17,000 as filed · PAC

PACs of three national law and lobbying firms; Squire Patton Boggs has a large Ohio practice.
Squire Patton Boggs PAC $5,000 direct (March 2025, June 2026); McGuireWoods Federal PAC Fund $2,500 direct plus $4,500 through joint fundraising committees (March 2025 to May 2026); Covington and Burling PAC $2,500 direct plus $2,500 through a joint fundraising committee (May and June 2026). Amounts through joint committees are the memo entries on Husted for Senate's reports.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

Interests on record
- The firms lobby for many clients; their PACs state no single agenda.
  Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
National Automobile Dealers Association PAC (and Ohio dealer employees) · $17K · 2 alignments
$17,000 as filed · PAC

The trade association of franchised new-car dealers. Its 2025 filings ($1.1 million to $1.6 million per quarter) list the FTC vehicle-shopping rule, alternative-fuel vehicle bills, the CARS Act, right-to-repair, LIFO relief and the heavy-truck excise tax; the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association's filings list H.R. 1's auto loan interest deduction.
NADA PAC $10,000 (2025-05-29 to 2025-06-17; $8,000 direct and $2,000 through the 2025 Senators Classic Committee). People listing Preston Superstore, an Ohio dealer group, gave $21,000 in 2 entries, of which $14,000 was refunded, leaving $7,000.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.senate.gov · nada.org · senate.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Vehicle emissions mandates, consumer-credit rules for dealer financing, and tax treatment of vehicle purchases.
  Source: lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: H.J.Res. 88, ending the California Advanced Clean Cars II waiver: NADA applauded Senate passage (federal)
  Source: nada.org
- Supports: H.R. 2424, repeal of the federal excise tax on heavy trucks and trailers; LIFO inventory relief (2025 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: H.R. 1566/S. 1379, the REPAIR Act (right to repair) (2025 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Proposals to cap consumer-credit interest rates and to alter vehicle sales, advertising and financing (2025 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: NIADA: H.R. 1 auto loan interest deduction and clean-vehicle credits (Q2 2025) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 88, disapproving EPA's waiver for California's Advanced Clean Cars II rule, Senate roll call 277, May 22, 2025.

How it would reach them: NADA issued a statement the same day applauding the Senate for passing legislation that "stops California regulators from banning gas and hybrid vehicles in twelve states." Ending the waiver removes the requirement that dealers in those states sell an increasing share of zero-emission vehicles; Ohio did not adopt the California rule, so Ohio dealers are reached only through the national product mix.
Timing: Vote May 22, 2025; NADA PAC contribution 2025-06-17.

Sources: senate.gov · nada.org

For their interests Industry

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: The law lets buyers deduct up to $10,000 a year of interest on loans for new U.S.-assembled vehicles through 2028, which lowers the after-tax cost of a financed purchase at a franchised dealer. The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association's own Q2 2025 filing lists that deduction under H.R. 1; NADA's own 2025 filings do not list it. It reaches buyers first and dealers through sales volume.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025, after the PAC contributions (2025-05-29 to 2025-06-17).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · lda.gov · lda.senate.gov
Oracle Corporation (PAC and employees) · $16K · 1 alignment
$16,000 as filed · campaign committee · Out of state

A software and cloud company whose Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing lists H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, alongside "power generation for Artificial Intelligence data centers".
$14,000 in 2 entries from people listing Oracle (2025-06-30 to 2025-06-30) and $2,000 from Oracle America's PAC (2025-05-22), from Husted for Senate's reports.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · husted.senate.gov

Interests on record
- Oracle's own Q2 2026 filing lists H.R. 9340. Other Q2 2026 filings that list the bill include Microsoft (through Tiber Creek Group), Intel, the Data Center Coalition, Switch (through Cassidy & Associates) and the Information Technology Industry Council; Google's lists "H.R. XX, Ratepayer Protection Act".
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act; power generation for AI data centers (Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Oracle: H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act; power generation for AI data centers (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Oracle: GAIN AI Act of 2025 (S. 3150 and House companion): priority access to advanced AI chips for U.S. buyers; AI export controls; Remote Access Security Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Oracle: Executive orders on AI and data centers: E.O. 14179, E.O. 14318 (federal permitting of data center infrastructure), E.O. 14363 (Genesis Mission), E.O. 14409 (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Oracle: FY2026 NDAA (S. 2296 / H.R. 3838) and FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800); DoD IT procurement (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Cuts against their interests Direct

The company that is creating enormous new demands for electricity should pay the costs required to serve them.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Sponsor of S. 5028, the Ratepayer Protection Act (introduced July 16, 2026), whose House companion H.R. 9340 passed 417-3 on September 16, 2026; asked unanimous consent to pass it on September 17, 2026, and Sen. Heinrich objected.

How it would reach them: The bill amends PURPA to require state regulators to consider a standard under which a data center or other single-site customer with peak demand of 100 megawatts or more pays the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades needed to serve it. It reaches operators of campuses at or above that threshold in states that adopt the standard; it does not itself set a rate, and a state may consider and decline it. Oracle's filing pairs the bill with power generation for AI data centers; it does not say which way. If a state adopted the standard, it would bill the full incremental grid cost to the operator instead of to the utility's other customers.
Timing: S. 5028 introduced July 16, 2026; Oracle's filing covers April to June 2026; contributions dated 2025-05-22 (PAC) and 2025-06-30 to 2025-06-30 (employees), before both.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · govinfo.gov · lda.gov
Gun-rights, hunting and conservative advocacy PACs (NRA Political Victory Fund, Citizens United Political Victory Fund, Safari Club International PAC) · $15K · 1 alignment
$15,000 as filed · PAC

The NRA's PAC, the PAC of the conservative group Citizens United, and the PAC of Safari Club International, a hunting organization.
NRA Political Victory Fund $4,000 direct (March and May 2026) plus $3,500 through joint fundraising committees (May 2025, May 2026); Citizens United Political Victory Fund $5,000 direct (May 5, 2026); Safari Club International PAC $2,500 direct (April 20, 2026).

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- The NRA's Q2 2026 LDA filing lists concealed-carry permit reciprocity, court-ordered firearm-removal (risk protection) orders and firearm purchase rules, with H.R. 38 among the bills; Safari Club International's lists public lands, Endangered Species Act changes (H.R. 1897) and the EXPLORE Act's implementation.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: NRA: concealed-carry reciprocity (H.R. 38) and related firearm bills (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Safari Club International: public lands; H.R. 1897 ESA Amendments Act of 2025 (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Industry

Jon Husted is a strong supporter of our right to bear arms and will fight for policies that protect and defend our constitutional freedoms.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: His campaign's "2A Champions for Husted" coalition page says he supports the right to bear arms.

How it would reach them: A general statement of support for gun rights, matching the NRA's stated cause; it names no bill, and no Husted vote or cosponsorship on the NRA's listed bills (such as H.R. 38) was found.
Timing: Coalition page live by March 5, 2026; NRA gifts May 2025 to May 2026.

Sources: coalitions.jonhusted.com · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Brian Armstrong (Coinbase) · $12K · 2 alignments
$12,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Co-founder and chief executive of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange (Wikipedia).
$12,000 to Team Husted on April 28, 2026 (filed as CEO, Coinbase, San Francisco); the campaign's July 2026 report attributes $7,000 of it to Husted for Senate in two $3,500 memo entries.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · senate.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- Coinbase's 2025 LDA filings list S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), all provisions. The file's Fairshake entry covers Coinbase's $25 million to that super PAC.
  Source: lda.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Coinbase: S. 1582 (GENIUS Act) and H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), all provisions (2025 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.senate.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of S. 1582, the GENIUS Act, Senate roll call 318, June 17, 2025 (68-30).

How it would reach them: The law sets federal licensing rules for payment-stablecoin issuers and the exchanges that list them; Coinbase lobbied on the bill and operates in that market.
Timing: Vote June 17, 2025; his Team Husted gift April 28, 2026 (position before the gift).

Sources: senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.senate.gov

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Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, Senate roll call 234, Sept. 15, 2026; cloture failed 49-50.

How it would reach them: The bill would set registration rules for digital-asset exchanges such as Coinbase and divide oversight between the SEC and CFTC.
Timing: Gift April 28, 2026; vote Sept. 15, 2026 (gift before the vote).

Sources: senate.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.senate.gov
Michael Lisman (TransDigm Group) · $12K · 0 alignments
$12,000 as filed · campaign committee · In state

President and CEO of TransDigm Group, a Cleveland aerospace-components maker (Wikipedia).
Two direct contributions to Husted for Senate: $5,000 on July 1, 2025 (filed as co-COO; $3,500 to the special primary and $1,500 redesignated to the special general) and $7,000 on June 1, 2026 (filed as CEO). The 2026 row reads "REFUNDED $5000 ON 6/30/2026", but no matching refund appears among the campaign's July 2026 disbursements; net $7,000 if the refund cleared.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.gov

Interests on record
- TransDigm's 2026 LDA filings (Holland & Knight, Greenberg Traurig, Miller Strategies) describe "educating members regarding TransDigm Group" under defense and labor issue codes, with no bill named.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: TransDigm Group: educating members regarding the company (Q2 2026 LDA filings, defense issue code) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
CSX Corporation PAC (Good Government Fund) · $10K · 2 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

A Jacksonville, Florida Class I freight railroad operating about 21,000 route miles in the eastern United States, including Ohio. Its 2026 filings ($620,000 Q1, $310,000 Q2) list rail safety technology (air brake testing, automated track inspections, train inspection portals), the transportation reauthorization, H.R. 1's bonus depreciation and corporate rate, and the CARB zero-emission locomotive waiver.
$10,000 in 5 contributions (2025-03-31 to 2026-01-23): $6,000 direct and $4,000 through the 2025 Senators Classic Committee, from Husted for Senate's FEC reports.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · en.wikipedia.org · lda.senate.gov · husted.senate.gov · logisticsmgmt.com · lda.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Rail safety rules and their cost, tax depreciation and modal competition with trucking; its Q2 2026 filing adds the proposed Union Pacific acquisition of Norfolk Southern and the No Tax on Overtime for All Workers Act (S. 4310/H.R. 5475).
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Rail safety technology: air brake testing, automated track inspections, train inspection portals (Q1-Q2 2026) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: H.R. 1 bonus depreciation, corporate rate, business SALT, 45V and 45Z; S. 187/H.R. 574 ALIGN Act (Q1 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Union Pacific proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern (Q2 2026) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: CARB waiver on zero-emission locomotives (Q1-Q2 2026) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Opposes: Association of American Railroads (trade group): asked Congress to "reject backwards-looking, one-size-fits-all mandates" when the Railway Safety Act of 2026 was introduced (federal)
  Source: logisticsmgmt.com
- Lobbies on: CSX: H.R. 928, Railway Safety Act of 2025 (House bill carried into 2026) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: CSX: Other rail bills: H.R. 854 DERAIL Act, H.R. 971 RAIL Act, H.R. 341 Railroad Responsibility Act of 2025 (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: CSX: Union Pacific's proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
- Lobbies on: CSX: H.R. 1 budget reconciliation: bonus depreciation, corporate tax rate, business SALT, 45V and 45Z; S. 187 / H.R. 574 ALIGN Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Opposes: Association of American Railroads: Railway Safety Act of 2026 (S. 3903 / H.R. 7748; AAR's reports list S. 3903 and H.R. 928 as the "Rail Safety Act of 2026"), later folded into the House BUILD America 250 Act (H.R. 8870) (federal)
  Sources: aar.org · deseret.com · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Association of American Railroads: Two-person crew rules and hazardous-materials train safety requirements; H.R. 2515 Train Crew Choice Act (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Association of American Railroads: Surface transportation reauthorization; H.R. 8870 BUILD America 250 Act; truck size and weight; STB nominations (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
- Lobbies on: Association of American Railroads: H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act: full expensing, domestic R&D expensing, no-tax-on-overtime treatment for railroad employees, rescission of diesel-emissions funding (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

Cuts against their interests Direct

By using a balanced, data-driven approach to advancing rail safety, my bill would protect Ohio's communities while supporting the freight rail industry across the country.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Lead Republican sponsor of the Railway Safety Act of 2026, introduced February 24, 2026 with Sen. Cantwell and six others: two-person crews, hotbox detectors every 15 miles instead of 25, railcar inspection standards, hazardous-materials speed and routing rules, notice to states of hazardous cargo, and civil penalties raised from $100,000 to $10 million.

How it would reach them: Each mandate is a cost on the railroads the bill covers: crew size sets a floor on labor per train, the detector spacing and inspection standards add equipment and time, and the penalty ceiling raises exposure a hundredfold. The Association of American Railroads, CSX's trade group, called on Congress to "reject backwards-looking, one-size-fits-all mandates." CSX's own filing lists rail-safety technology as an issue without a stated position on this bill.
Timing: Bill introduced February 24, 2026, after the PAC contributions (2025-03-31 to 2026-01-23).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · logisticsmgmt.com · lda.senate.gov

For their interests Direct

Ohio's interests drove my work and support for this bill from start to finish

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 (the budget reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025), Senate roll call 372, July 1, 2025.

How it would reach them: CSX lobbied the bill's bonus depreciation and corporate rate; permanent full expensing applies to its track and equipment spending and the retained rate to its income, as for any C-corporation.
Timing: Vote July 1, 2025; PAC contributions 2025-03-31 to 2026-01-23.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · senate.gov · lda.senate.gov
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company PAC · $10K · 0 alignments
$10,000 as filed · PAC · In state

The PAC of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio.
Four direct $2,500 contributions to Husted for Senate: Feb. 26, 2025, Aug. 5, 2025, May 5, 2026 and June 19, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- Nationwide's Q2 2026 in-house LDA filing lists H.R. 7128/S. 4395 (TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026), H.R. 1586 (REPAIR Act), H.R. 5536 (disaster tax relief) and the Labor Department's rule on fiduciary duties in selecting designated investment alternatives.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: Nationwide: H.R. 7128/S. 4395 TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026; H.R. 1586 REPAIR Act (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
SBA Pro-Life America Candidate Fund · $10K · 1 alignment
$10,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The candidate fund of SBA Pro-Life America, an Arlington, Virginia group that states it works to end abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws.
Two direct $5,000 contributions to Husted for Senate (Dec. 16, 2025 and Feb. 11, 2026). Separately, nine earmarked contributions totaling $6,930 were routed through it as conduit (memo rows on the same reports); they are not added to the amount.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · sbaprolife.org · sbaprolife.org

Interests on record
- SBA Pro-Life America publishes material supporting the Hyde Amendment, the annual bar on federal funding of abortion.
  Sources: sbaprolife.org · sbaprolife.org
What they lobby for
- Supports: SBA Pro-Life America: keep the Hyde Amendment (organization web page) (federal)
  Source: sbaprolife.org
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

I'm supporting this bill to make sure American taxpayers with sincere moral and religious pro-life beliefs are never forced to fund abortion.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Cosponsored S. 186, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025 (joined April 28, 2025), which his release says would make the Hyde Amendment permanent.

How it would reach them: The bill writes the Hyde Amendment into permanent law; SBA Pro-Life America publicly backs the Hyde Amendment. It has no business stake.
Timing: Cosponsorship April 28, 2025; contributions Dec. 16, 2025 and Feb. 11, 2026 (position before the gifts).

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · sbaprolife.org · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov
Western & Southern PAC · $10K · 0 alignments

$10,000 as filed · PAC · In state

The PAC of Western & Southern, filed from Cincinnati (committee C00258228).
$12,500 given to Team Husted in four gifts ($2,500 April 24, 2025; $2,500 Aug. 18, 2025; $2,500 May 5, 2026; $5,000 May 18, 2026). Husted for Senate's reports attribute $10,000 of it to the campaign in four $2,500 memo entries; $2,500 of the May 18 gift is not attributed through June 30, 2026. The $7,500 figure in the other lane counts three of the four.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Charles R. Schwab (Charles Schwab Corporation) · $7,000 · 0 alignments

$7,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, as filed.
$7,000 attributed to Husted for Senate through One Team Senate Majority, a joint fundraising committee, all from one gift dated June 23, 2025: $3,500 to the special primary and $2,372.67 to the special general under the committee's June 30, 2025 transfer, and the remaining $1,127.33 under its Sept. 30, 2025 transfer; filed as chairman, Charles Schwab Corporation, Palm Beach, Florida. They are line-12 memo entries under One Team Senate Majority (C00897918) joint-fundraising transfers, not line-11 direct gifts. His total gift to the joint committee was not opened.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
Palmer Luckey (Anduril Industries) · $7,000 · 0 alignments

$7,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

Founder of Anduril Industries, as filed. Anduril's PAC is among the defense and aerospace PACs in this file's entry of that name.
$7,000 attributed to Husted for Senate through One Team Senate Majority, a joint fundraising committee: $3,500 dated April 1, 2025 (special primary, under the committee's June 30, 2025 transfer) and $3,500 dated March 23, 2026 (special general, under its March 31, 2026 transfer); filed as founder, Anduril Industries. They are line-12 memo entries under One Team Senate Majority (C00897918) joint-fundraising transfers, not line-11 direct gifts. His total gift to the joint committee was not opened.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov

The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
AT&T Inc. Employee Federal PAC · $6,000 · 0 alignments
$6,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The employee PAC of AT&T, the telecommunications company.
Direct contributions to Husted for Senate: $2,000 Dec. 29, 2025; $1,000 March 31, 2026; $3,000 June 30, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- AT&T's 2026 LDA filings list commercial spectrum, network security, broadband availability and permitting, universal service, S. 674/H.R. 1873 (Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act) and H.R. 1's corporate tax provisions.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: AT&T: S. 674/H.R. 1873 Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act, all provisions (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
IPAA Wildcatters Fund (Independent Petroleum Association of America) · $5,000 · 1 alignment
$5,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the trade group of independent oil and gas producers.
Two direct $2,500 contributions to Husted for Senate, June 3 and June 30, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- IPAA's 2026 LDA filings list H.J.Res. 35 and S.J.Res. 12, disapproving EPA's rule implementing the waste emissions charge on methane from petroleum and natural gas systems.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: IPAA: H.J.Res. 35 / S.J.Res. 12, disapproval of EPA's methane waste emissions charge rule (2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Voted Yea on H.J.Res. 35, disapproving EPA's rule implementing the methane waste emissions charge, Senate roll call 97, Feb. 27, 2025 (52-47).

How it would reach them: The resolution voided the rule setting how the methane charge is collected from large oil and gas facilities, the charge IPAA's producer members would pay; IPAA lists the resolution on its own filings.
Timing: Vote Feb. 27, 2025; contributions June 2026 (position before the gifts).

Sources: senate.gov · lda.gov · docquery.fec.gov
National Association of Realtors PAC · $5,000 · 0 alignments
$5,000 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of the National Association of Realtors, the real estate agents' trade association.
Direct contributions to Husted for Senate: $1,000 April 16, 2025 and $1,000 and $3,000 on Nov. 5, 2025.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov · senate.gov · senate.gov

Interests on record
- NAR's Q2 2026 filings list H.R. 6644, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, including its communications with HUD and the FHA about it, and many housing-supply bills; the filings do not state a position on H.R. 6644.
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: NAR: H.R. 6644, 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act; S. 2651 ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 (Q2 2026 LDA filings) (federal)
  Sources: lda.gov · lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
PhRMA Better Government Committee (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) · $4,500 · 0 alignments
$4,500 as filed · PAC · Out of state

The PAC of PhRMA, the brand-name drugmakers' trade association.
Direct contributions to Husted for Senate: $1,500 April 29, 2025; $1,000 March 31, 2026; $2,000 May 1, 2026.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · lda.gov

Interests on record
- PhRMA's Q2 2026 LDA filing lists H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21), Inflation Reduction Act drug-price negotiation and Part D issues, the most-favored-nation drug-pricing executive order, tariffs, S. 3345 (PBM Price Transparency and Accountability Act) and patent bills.
  Source: lda.gov
What they lobby for
- Lobbies on: PhRMA: most-favored-nation drug pricing; tariff policy; S. 3345 PBM Price Transparency and Accountability Act (Q2 2026 LDA filing) (federal)
  Source: lda.gov
The candidate's positions

None found in the records checked
AMG Vanadium (PAC) · $1,000 · 1 alignment
$1,000 as filed · PAC · In state

A spent-catalyst recycler and the largest U.S. ferrovanadium producer, per its own site; Husted's release describes the single domestic ferrovanadium producer as based in Cambridge and Zanesville, Ohio, supplying about 40 percent of U.S. demand.
AMG Vanadium PAC $1,000 on 2026-03-28, from Husted for Senate's FEC reports.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · docquery.fec.gov · husted.senate.gov · amg-v.com

Interests on record
- Federal environmental treatment of the spent petroleum-refining catalysts it recycles into vanadium alloys.
  Sources: amg-v.com · husted.senate.gov
What they lobby for
- Supports: Exclusion of spent petroleum catalyst recycling from federal environmental rules (S. 3879 and its House companion) (federal)
  Sources: husted.senate.gov · amg-v.com
The candidate's positions

For their interests Direct

We cannot allow our critical mineral recovery to be hindered by overzealous environmental regulations when our adversaries are focused on outpacing America.

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words: Introduced S. 3879, the Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act, on February 12, 2026.

How it would reach them: The bill codifies an exclusion for spent-catalyst recycling from federal environmental rules; the release names the one domestic ferrovanadium producer, in Cambridge and Zanesville, Ohio, as the operation it would keep producing. That describes AMG Vanadium's business.
Timing: PAC contribution 2026-03-28; bill introduced February 12, 2026.

Sources: husted.senate.gov · govinfo.gov · amg-v.com

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