Michael Baumgartner
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Michael Baumgartner

U.S. Representative (WA-05)
Next election November 2026
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Committees registered to them

FEC IDCommitteeConnected organisation
C00870758VOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESSBAUMGARTNER VANGUARD SOCIETY

"Connected organisation" is the sponsoring body named in the committee's own registration — the only corporate tie the filing states outright.

Campaign totals, 2026 cycle

Candidate IDReceiptsFrom individualsFrom committees DisbursementsCash on handThrough
H4WA05234$1,738,226$1,327,829$366,950$976,007$953,78407/15/2026

Source: FEC bulk file weball26.

Money in — from other political committees, 2026 cycle

Contributing committeeTotalContributionsRecord
REPUBLICAN GOVERNANCE GROUP/TUESDAY GROUP PAC$15,00010C00433060 →
BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC)$12,0004C00235739 →
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ABC PAC)$10,0002C00010421 →
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$9,4945C00797670 →
NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PAC$8,0005C00238725 →
CITIZENS ORGANIZED POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$8,0002C00110585 →
PREMERA BLUE CROSS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE/PREMERA PAC$7,5003C00409227 →
THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$7,5006C00039578 →
BAUM PAC$7,0002C00900688 →
AMERICA'S MOUNTAIN PAC$7,0003C00883413 →
REPUBLICAN MAINSTREET PARTNERSHIP PAC$6,0006C00165159 →
WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,5005C00007948 →
TURKISH AMERICAN COALITION PAC- TAC-PAC$5,4004C00530865 →
AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,0001C00110338 →
POTLATCHDELTIC CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (POTLATCHDELTIC PAC)$5,0002C00041608 →

Top 15 of 133 committees, $405,894 total. Each links to that committee's own FEC page, where its donors are listed in turn. This counts contributions the committee actually received. Independent expenditures — money spent for or against them by groups they do not control — are a separate thing and appear below, not here.

Money out — largest payees, 2026 cycle

PayeeTotalPaymentsCommittee
BAUMGARTNER, MICHAEL JAMES$184,75812C00870758 →
PEAK FUNDRAISING PARTNERS$122,05614C00870758 →
MOORE$117,51315C00870758 →
GEN2 SOLUTIONS LLC$116,7352C00870758 →
814 CONSULTING$70,6073C00870758 →
DATAGRAPHICS$55,8406C00870758 →
PROFESSIONAL DATA SERVICES$51,04413C00870758 →
ARISTOTLE$17,3438C00870758 →

Vendors and operating costs, not political giving. See the explainer below for what this money can and cannot be used for.

Independent spending opposing them, 2026 cycle

CommitteeAmountFilingsRecord
TOGETHER FOR WORKING PEOPLE$146,9004C00926675 →
FIRE HOUSE PAC$60,44918C00948059 →

$207,349 from 2 committee(s). Groups spending to defeat them. This is money spent against this member — it is not money they received, and it is not theirs.

Outside spending, 2026 cycle

DirectionAmount (net)
Independent expenditures supporting them$0
Independent expenditures opposing them$207,354

Spent by groups acting independently of the campaign. Net of amendments, so a total can read negative when corrections outweigh new spending. Source: FEC independent expenditures.

Personal financial disclosure — the private side

FiledTypeFiled asDistrictDocument
9/4/2026Annual reportMichael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →
9/4/2026Annual reportMichael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →
9/4/2026Annual reportMichael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →
5/7/2026Annual report (original)Michael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →
5/12/2025HMichael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →
3/24/2024Candidate reportMichael James BaumgartnerWA05filing PDF →

Filed by the member themselves under the Ethics in Government Act. These cover personal assets, outside income, liabilities and stock transactions — the private side that campaign filings never show. Source: House Clerk.

Lobbying disclosures — what registrants reported (LD-203), 2024–2026

DateFiled byTypePayeeAmountSource
2026-06-30THOMAS CAPITOL PARTNERS INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$250filing →
2026-06-30IHEARTMEDIA, INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →
2026-06-25MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →
2026-06-24BNSF RAILWAY COMPANYFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$2,000filing →
2026-06-23ERNST & YOUNG LLP (WASHINGTON COUNCIL ERNST & YOUNG)FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep. Michael Baumgartner
$2,500filing →
2026-06-20K&L GATES, LLPFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Congressman Michael Baumgartner
$750filing →
2026-06-15BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →
2026-06-15ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORSFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner; WA-5 US House
$1,000filing →
2026-06-11SOLSTICE ADVANCED MATERIALS INCFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$3,000filing →
2026-06-11NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION, INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →
2026-06-09NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WHOLESALER-DISTRIBUTORSFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Baumgartner, Michael, James
$1,000filing →
2026-06-05AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLCFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep. Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →
2026-06-04THE GIBSON GROUP, LLCFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep. Michael Baumgartner
$500filing →
2026-05-28ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC.FECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R)
$5,000filing →
2026-05-27INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE ASSOCIATIONFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$3,000filing →
2026-05-27NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$2,000filing →
2026-05-13THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS AND BROKERSFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Vote Baumgartner For Congress
$4,000filing →
2026-05-07AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATIONFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Baumgartner, Michael
$1,000filing →
2026-05-04CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLCFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Rep. Michael Baumgartner
$500filing →
2026-05-04UNION PACIFIC CORPORATIONFECAVOTE BAUMGARTNER FOR CONGRESS
honoring Michael Baumgartner
$1,000filing →

249 item(s) totalling $439,249 across 2024–2026 filings, reported by lobbying registrants and lobbyists on form LD-203. By category: FECA $438,249 (248); Honorary Expenses $1,000 (1). These are their disclosures, not this person's: twice a year, registrants must report political contributions and certain honorary payments. An entry here means a lobbying organisation reported money to a committee of theirs or to an event honouring them — it is not a payment to them personally, and it is not evidence of any arrangement. The categories are not equivalent: FECA items are ordinary campaign contributions, while inaugural, library and honorary entries are payments to separate funds that carry no contribution limits. Source: Senate Office of Public Records.

Where their PAC money came from, 2026 cycle

SectorAmountShare
Unclassified$67,50016.6%
Corporate$59,00014.5%
Party & leadership$57,50014.2%
Agriculture & food$27,0006.7%
Trade association$27,0006.7%
Transport$25,5006.3%
Ideological / single-issue$21,9945.4%
Real estate & construction$21,5005.3%

$405,894 in contributions from other political committees, classified by the donor committee's own registered name. Independent spending for or against them is not included here.

Committees they sit on

House Committee on the Judiciary, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Education and Workforce

Industries with business before their committees

SectorGiven to themTheir shareChamber averageRatio
Law & lobbying$2,0000.5%1.2%0.4x

Read this as a correlation and nothing more. A member sits on the committee that matches their district, and the industries there fund them for the same reason they are there. It is a question worth asking, not an answer.

Their ten largest PAC donors supplied 23% of all PAC money they received.

What "money in" and "money out" mean here — and what they are not

Everything in the money tables on this page is campaign money, not personal money. It belongs to a political committee, not to the person. The two are separate by law, and this page never mixes them.

TermWhat it isWhose pocket
Money in Contributions a committee received — from individuals, from other political committees (PACs), from party committees. Capped per donor per election and itemised above $200. The committee's account. Not personal income, and not taxable to the candidate.
Money out What the committee spent: staff, consultants, advertising, travel, rent, card processing, taxes, and contributions to other candidates. Mostly vendors, not politics. Paid to outside businesses and people. A payee is a supplier, not a beneficiary of a gift.
Outside spending Money spent for or against someone by groups acting independently, who may not coordinate with the campaign. Never touches the candidate's committee. They cannot direct it or refuse it.
Personal finances Salary, assets, debts, stock trades, outside income, a spouse's employment. The person's own accounts — not shown in any FEC table. It appears only in the financial-disclosure filings linked in their own section.

Can campaign money become private money? Not lawfully. Converting campaign funds to personal use is prohibited by 52 U.S.C. § 30114, and the FEC applies an "irrespective test": if the expense would exist even without the campaign — a mortgage, a country-club membership, household groceries — campaign funds cannot pay for it. Salaries to the candidate are allowed only within narrow limits, and payments to a candidate's own business must be at fair market value.

So where would private enrichment show up? Not in the tables above. It would show in the financial-disclosure filings — assets, outside income, stock transactions — or in payments from a committee to a business the person owns, which appear as ordinary payees in "money out". This page gives you both sets of records and leaves the reading to you.

Not shown, and why

How to read this page. Every number comes from a public filing and links to its source, so any row can be checked in one click. Figures are what filers reported; amendments change them, and a net figure can even read as negative when corrections outweigh new spending in a cycle.

A contribution is not evidence of wrongdoing. Giving to a campaign is legal and ordinary, and so is paying a vendor. This page records who gave, who was paid, and what the filings say. It draws no conclusion about influence and alleges no quid pro quo.

Same template for everyone. Every profile is generated by one script from the same sources for the same cycle, whatever the person's party. Where a record does not exist, the page says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as innocence.

Corrections. Every figure links to its record. If one is wrong, tell us — it gets fixed and noted.