The lawmaker with the most money invested in companies with DOD contracts is Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), with a stake somewhere between $28,872,067 and $38,209,020. Among Southern lawmakers, the leader is Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.), who holds between $9,232,037 and $37,105,000 in DOD-related investments. Other Southerners among the top 10 DOD-invested lawmakers are Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) at $2 million, Rep. Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas) at $1,163,231, and Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), between $1,000,001 and $5 million.

Kerry holds a special responsibility for war oversight as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Members of that committee and the Armed Services Committee had between $32 million and $44 million invested in companies with DOD contracts, and between $3 million and $5.1 million invested in firms engaged directly in war-related work such as weapons manufacturing.

Facing South: Key lawmakers profiting from war

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