SCORECARD · JOHN JOYCE accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · PA-13 full conduct profile →
77/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
47
Contradiction risk25%
79
Connection density20%
80
Donor influence10%
85
Fact density10%
86
Constituency deviation5%
90
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 5

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 3

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

60% of 5 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Joyce voted yea on legislation the CBO projected would cut $1.02 trillion from Medicaid and add $3.4 trillion to the deficit. His district has 57,005 healthcare workers — the largest employment sector in PA-13 — and an 11% poverty rate. As a physician, his vote contradicted his professional identity as a healthcare advocate. His top donor sector (Health, $526,952) financially benefits from the bill's permanent pass-through deductions for medical practices. Only 2 Republicans voted nay.
  • H.R. 29 ↗ YEA 2025-01-07
    Laken Riley Act
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Joyce voted yea on mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of nonviolent crimes — the first bill signed into law in Trump's second term. The vote aligns with the GOP majority but matters for a district that is 98.9% native-born and 90.6% White — making it a politically costless hardline immigration vote.
  • H.R. 8035 ↗ NAY 2024-04-20
    Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] Joyce voted against $61 billion in Ukraine aid while the GOP majority voted nay (112-101). He also voted for MTG's amendments to defund Ukraine assistance and end lend-lease authority. Republicans for Ukraine gave him an 'F' grade. He had earlier voted for the 2022 Ukraine Lend-Lease Act and 2022 supplemental, then reversed — a hard pivot from the Reaganite internationalist wing to the MAGA isolationist flank.
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03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 2

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Joyce voted against the 2019 Bipartisan Budget Act on fiscal-discipline grounds, stating he was 'disappointed' in deficit spending, yet voted yea on the OBBBA — legislation the nonpartisan CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the deficit, extending the Trump tax cuts without offsetting spending reductions. The fiscal-conservative principle was applied selectively: deficit spending by a Democratic administration was objectionable, but tax cuts that added trillions under a Republican president were acceptable.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Joyce ran for Congress to address healthcare and brands himself as the only dermatologist-physician in Congress, yet voted for legislation that the CBO projected would cut $1.02 trillion from Medicaid and CHIP, threatening coverage for millions of vulnerable patients. He claimed the bill would 'strengthen Medicaid' despite independent projections to the contrary, and his health-industry donors ($526,952) — including dermatology, urology, radiology, and pharma PACs — collectively benefit from the bill's permanent tax cuts for high-income professionals.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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