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Steve Daines

U.S. Senator · Montana · Republican

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From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 4, 2026 · How we measure

Money and votes

2025–26 cycle · through Aug 19, 2026Method

106 PACs of the 240 that gave

Of the 240 PACs that gave to Daines and have a lobbying organization behind them, 106 belong to organizations that lobbied on bills he faced a vote on, cosponsored or sponsored.

44% · Senate median: 41%

132 bills

Those PACs’ organizations lobbied on 132 bills. Daines voted Yea on 13, Nay on 1, and sponsored or cosponsored 118 with no recorded vote.

$348K of $1M

Those 106 PACs gave Daines $348K, 33% of all the PAC money he received.

Senate median: 29%

PAC money only. Individuals and transfers bring the campaign’s total to $4.8M.

A filing shows that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took. The PAC gives the money; the organization behind it does the lobbying.

Top three bills by gifts from PACs whose organizations lobbied

  1. S. 213 Main Street Tax Certainty Act $62K16 PACs

    Sponsor

    No recorded vote

  2. S. 1404 Combating Organized Retail Crime Act $44.5K15 PACs

    Cosponsor

    No recorded vote

    Apr 10, 2025

  3. S. 1639 American Innovation and Jobs Act $31K8 PACs

    Cosponsor

    No recorded vote

    May 7, 2025

Top 3 of 145 bills by gifts from PACs whose organizations lobbied, 13 broad must-pass bills among them

Who funds Daines 324 PACs

  1. ConocophillipsCorporate PAC · funds 57 other members87% to Republicans
  2. Northeast Senate Victory CommitteeMember’s leadership PAC · funds 18 other members100% to Republicans
  3. CapitoMember’s leadership PAC · funds 17 other members100% to Republicans

All 145 bills with each PAC’s gift and filing, the amounts and lobbying spend of the top PACs, money by cycle Pro

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Campaign totals from Daines’ own reports

FEC H2MT01060 · FEC S2MT00096

$4.8M

raised this cycle · 28% PACs and other committees, 29% individuals (11% of the total in gifts of $200 or less), 43% transfers and other

$2.6M

cash on hand, 54% of what he raised

Gifts from the PACs’ FEC reports through Aug 19, 2026; lobbying from LDA filings through Q3 2026; votes from Voteview. Broad must-pass bills sort below narrow ones and do not set the money-bar scale.

Broad must-pass bills are left out of the figures above; 73 more PACs belong to organizations that lobbied only on those.

84 of Daines’ PACs have no federal lobbying on record or no organization Oathstar could match.

Filings lag, so recent gifts can take weeks to appear. Daines’ leadership PAC (Big Sky Opportunity PAC) is reported separately.