Lots can be learned from the Center for Responsive Politics' new report on Congress' newest members.

The Washington-based non-profit website offers online campaign databases about every member of Congress, breaking down donations and expenditures and ferreting out details about industry and lobbyist support, Barb Barrett reports.

The group released data today on North Carolina's newest senator, Kay Hagan, who was sworn in Tuesday.

Among the tidbits:

* The website ActBlue was Hagan's top donor. Donations linked to the Democratic website amounted to $1.2 million among Hagan's itemized donations.

* Nearly 40 percent of Hagan's financial support came from out of state. Two states rang up more than $500,000 for her: North Carolina and California. Within North Carolina, her top geographical support came from the Triad — not surprising since Hagan is from Greensboro.

* Hagan received $10,000 each from political action committees representing such groups as steelworkers, airline pilots, teachers, firefighters and Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu, Tom Carper, Patrick Leahy and Richard Durbin.

Details on Hagan (and all the other new House and Senate members) are available here.

One of North Carolina's most influential lobbying groups gave $23,250 to Sen. Kay Hagan's election campaign, according to new data out from the Center for Responsive Politics.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, a law firm based in Winston-Salem, was the No. 4 donor to her campaign, behind the ideological organizations of Act Blue, EMILY's List and MoveOn.org, Barb Barrett reports.

Womble Carlyle has been slowly building its Washington presence in the past few years and has snagged lobbyists from the likes of Jesse Helms' and Brad Miller's offices. Last year, the law firm began representing Blackwater, the private security contractor based in Moyock.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Womble Carlyle's political action committee donated $1,000 to Hagan's campaign. Individuals affiliated with the law firm gave the rest.

Among Womble Carlyle's other clients are the Iredell Memorial Hospital, Friends of the North Carolina Museum, the N.C. Military Foundation, SAS Institute, the Specialty Tobacco Council and Wake and Mecklenburg counties.