SWAMP Power Rankings

The lists of organizations in Biden's Basement's SWAMP power rankings represent the organizations with the most appointee data in each category.

Business/Consultant

Name
Appointees
McKinsey & Co.
23
Amazon
17
RAND Corporation
16
WestExec Advisors
16
Albright Capital Management / Albright Stonebridge / Dentons Global Advisors
13
The Boeing Company
12
Deloitte LLP
11
Airbnb
10
SKDK
10
Atlantic Council
9

Education

Name
Appointees
Harvard University
61
Georgetown University
53
Columbia University
26
University of California
26
George Washington University
25
Yale University
25
New York University
22
Johns Hopkins University
21
University of Michigan
20
University of Pennsylvania
17

Financial

Name
Appointees
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.
15
JP Morgan Chase
14
Goldman Sachs & Company
12
Morgan Stanley
11
Blackstone Group, Inc.
7
Capital One Financial Corporation
7
Bank of America Corporation
6
AARP Defined Benefit Pension
4
Citigroup
4
Gates Ventures
4

Government

Name
Appointees
State of California
27
District of Columbia
20
California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS
18
New York City
15
New York State
14
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
11
Commonwealth of Virginia
10
State of Maryland
9
State of Rhode Island
9
City of Boston
8

Law Firms

Name
Appointees
Covington and Burling
14
WilmerHale
12
Latham & Watkins LLP
8
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
7
Boies Schiller
6
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
6
Sidley Austin LLP
6
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
4
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
4
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
4

Media

Name
Appointees
NBC Universal
10
CNN
7
Comcast Corporation
5
Turner Broadcasting System
5
CBS Entertainment Group
4
Discovery, Inc.
4
New York Times Company
4
ABC News
3
Charter Communications Inc.
3
Netflix, Inc.
3

Non-Profits

Name
Appointees
Center for American Progress
43
Brookings Institution
31
National Security Action
22
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
16
Council on Foreign Relations
16
The Aspen Institute, Inc.
15
New Venture Fund
14
Center for a New American Security
13
Center for Strategic and International Studies
13
Obama Foundation
13

Political

Name
Appointees
Biden for President
98
Democratic Party
95
59th Presidential Inaugural Committee
49
Kamala Harris Campaigns
14
Warren for President
13
Pete for America
8
Beto for America
6
Democratic National Committee Services Corporation
5
Mike Bloomberg 2020
5
Organization Together 2020
5

Technology

Name
Appointees
Microsoft
26
Facebook / Meta
21
Google / Alphabet
21
Lyft, Inc
15
Uber
12
Apple
11
Twitter
7
Cisco Systems, Inc.
6
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
4
Danaher Corporation
3

Unions

Name
Appointees
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
10
AFL-CIO
6
National Education Association
6
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
4
American Geophysical Union
3
United Mine Workers of America
3
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
2
Communications Workers of America
2
Laborers International Union of North America
2
Texas AFT
2

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