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lube up the dealmaking process.
The big winners were apparently
Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep.
Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), who used
their perches on the the House Financial Services Committee to take
home “$611,341 and $530,963,
respectively.” But the freshmen
did really well across the board
— Lee’s dive into the committee
members’ FEC filings found that
the “11 freshman lawmakers who
serve on the House panel raised
an average of $322,012 during the
second quarter — $100,000 more
than the $221,633 average hauled
in by all House freshmen.”
As you might expect, GOP
freshmen on the committee outpaced their Democratic counterparts in the race to suck down
Wall Street boodle. But the Democrats didn’t do too shabby!
Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), for
example, raised $251,687 during
the filing period thanks, in part,
to donations from the PACs of
Credit Suisse Securities, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)
pulled in $395,593, including
thousands of dollars in donations from the PACs of Morgan
Stanley, the American Bankers
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Association, Mastercard International and Goldman [Sachs].
Both Rep. Joyce Beatty (DOhio) and Murphy received
cash from the PACs of the ABA,
Bank of America and Citigroup,
while Democratic Reps. Dan
Kildee of Michigan and John
Delaney of Maryland raised )