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U.S. Representative · CA · District 35

Norma J. Torres

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

0% of the money Torres raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 3% of the House.

Torres raised $943K across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $303K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

0%from small donors
Small donors
0%$0.0M
Large donors
15%$0.1M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
84%$0.8M
Other
1%$0.0M

Against the house

How Torres compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
0%vs 5% house median
PAC share
84%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Torres

The organizations behind the money.

Torres's largest organized backing comes from AIPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Torres

AIPAC

$204K

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby that both gives directly and bundles individual donations; its super PAC (United Democracy Project) runs large independent campaigns in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

59% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.7M to 359 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.

Upspac$10K

United Parcel Service's PAC, funded by UPS employees.

Who it funds, across Congress

43% Democrats · 57% Republicans · $1.5M to 272 members

Machinist Non-Partisan Political League$10K

The political arm of the Machinists union (IAM), representing aerospace, airline, and manufacturing workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

98% Democrats · 1% Republicans · $2.0M to 230 members

Liuna PAC$10K

The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) political fund, representing construction laborers.

Who it funds, across Congress

91% Democrats · 9% Republicans · $1.6M to 223 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $275 to elect Democrats.

The Nea Fund For Children & Public Education$10K

The National Education Association's political fund, one of the largest labor PACs, representing public-school teachers.

Who it funds, across Congress

98% Democrats · 2% Republicans · $1.5M to 238 members

The same money, by industry

Which industries have a stake.

The same organized money, grouped by the industry of the organization that moved it. It shows the interests behind Torres's backing, not just the individual groups.

$204KPro-Israel
$153KLabor
$44KTech
$42KFinance
$40KHealth

Plus $103K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 136 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2023–2024 cycle. This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.

Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans, and other money in its base, and can read higher than figures that divide only by individual money.

PAC figures are contributions to Torres's campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee's name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.

84%want dark money disclosed

Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.

Where Torres stands