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About the Data: The Mother Jones 400 ranks all donations from individuals and their immediate families during the 1999-2000 election cycle to candidates for federal office, their political parties, and political action committees. Data from the Federal Election Commission was compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C. Mother Jones then checked each contribution, identified donors and their spouses, and grouped donors by industry.
The list and stories provided online have been updated to reflect last-minute donations reported by the FEC through February 1, 2001. Rankings and totals in the March/April issue of Mother Jones magazine reflect federal data only through January 3, 2001.
Totals for individual donors include contributions from spouses and dependent children. Totals for industry giving include contributions not only from individual donors, but also from corporations, trade associations, and political action committees. Donors are identified as Republican or Democrat if they gave 75 percent or more of their contributions to a single party and its candidates.
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