From OpenSecrets.org:
Just like many Americans, our elected officials like to play it safe with their investments, betting largely on blue chip companies across diverse industry groups. The chart below shows the most common assets among all members of Congress who served during all or part of 2009, ranked by the number of members invested in them, with breakdowns by party.
Rank | Organization |
Total Investors | Democrat Investors | Republican Investors |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | General Electric | 106 | 52 | 54 |
2 | Procter & Gamble | 78 | 35 | 43 |
3 | Cisco Systems | 73 | 34 | 39 |
3 | Bank of America | 73 | 35 | 38 |
5 | Microsoft Corp | 70 | 33 | 37 |
6 | AT&T Inc | 65 | 25 | 40 |
7 | Pfizer Inc | 63 | 31 | 32 |
8 | Intel Corp | 53 | 25 | 28 |
9 | Johnson & Johnson | 52 | 20 | 31 |
9 | Coca-Cola Co | 52 | 24 | 28 |
11 | Exxon Mobil | 51 | 15 | 36 |
11 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 51 | 21 | 30 |
13 | IBM Corp | 50 | 18 | 31 |
13 | Verizon Communications | 50 | 22 | 28 |
13 | Wells Fargo | 50 | 23 | 26 |
16 | PepsiCo Inc | 49 | 25 | 24 |
17 | Apple Inc | 47 | 21 | 26 |
18 | Hewlett-Packard | 43 | 18 | 25 |
19 | Home Depot | 41 | 19 | 22 |
20 | Walt Disney Co | 39 | 21 | 18 |
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