Medical device makers dropped at least $623,250 on the 2011-2012 election cycle, according to a MassDevice examination of a federal database that tracks corporate donations to legislators and political actions committees, known as PACs.
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) alone accounted for more than 45 percent of the donations, spending a total of $282,000 — nearly $100,000 to individual members of Congress and the rest to various PACs, according to the Federal Election Commission’s online database.