SCORECARD · BRYAN STEIL accountability readout

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89/100
CRITICAL CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
95
Connection density20%
91
Donor influence10%
92
Fact density10%
74
Constituency deviation5%
75
Voting misalignment5%
1

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

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Silence on donor-funded topics 7

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 5

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

50% of 10 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 5376 ↗ NAY 2022-08-12
    Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Opposed the IRA which capped insulin at $35/month for Medicare recipients, empowered Medicare drug price negotiation, and extended ACA subsidies covering 43,000 additional Wisconsinites — then tried to claim credit for lowering drug costs in campaign materials.
  • H.R. 4346 ↗ NAY 2022-07-28
    CHIPS and Science Act
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Voted against the bipartisan semiconductor manufacturing bill that spurred job creation in southern Wisconsin. Every Wisconsin Republican in Congress opposed it. Wisconsin Democrats highlighted this vote as a failure to support local manufacturing jobs.
  • H.R. 3684 ↗ NAY 2021-11-05
    Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Opposed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package funding roads, bridges, and broadband for southeastern Wisconsin. Racine's Democratic mayor praised the benefits of the infrastructure law that Steil voted against.
  • H.R. 1319 ↗ NAY 2021-02-27
    American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Opposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief that delivered $1,400 stimulus checks, expanded child tax credits, and $5.7 billion in state and local aid to Wisconsin — including millions for the cities and counties he represents.
  • H.Res. 24 / H.Res. 37 (117th) ↗ YEA (ON OBJECTIONS) 2021-01-06
    Objections to Electoral College Certification (Arizona and Pennsylvania)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Voted to block certification of President Biden's 2020 election victory hours after the Capitol insurrection. As the current Chair of the House Administration Committee overseeing federal elections, his refusal to accept electoral results set the stage for his subsequent hiring of an election-denial staffer and ongoing promotion of debunked election integrity claims.
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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.

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Documented contradictions 4

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

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Steil publicly touted his support for lowering prescription drug costs, yet voted against the Inflation Reduction Act (which actually capped insulin prices), voted three times against insulin price caps, and refused to commit to extending ACA enhanced subsidies that kept coverage affordable for tens of thousands of his constituents.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Steil voted to certify the 2020 election but subsequently hired a former Trump campaign staffer involved in the Arizona fake elector scheme for his House Administration Committee oversight role, dismissed the staffer's election-overturning efforts as 'not terribly relevant,' and continues to promote debunked election integrity claims — a pattern that undermines his certification vote and raises questions about his commitment to election legitimacy.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Steil condemned the $1.9T American Rescue Plan as a fiscally irresponsible 'Pelosi Payoff' in 2021, yet voted in 2025 for Trump's OBBB which the CBO projected would add trillions to the deficit — a dramatically larger fiscal impact — while defending it as 'unquestionably a step in the right direction.' At his July 2025 town hall, a constituent yelled 'Thanks to you!' when Steil mentioned the national debt.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 30
    Steil broke with his party to support marriage equality — a notably bipartisan vote — but simultaneously maintains a hardline anti-abortion voting record (A+ from SBA List, calling Roe's reversal 'a great victory'), underscoring that his bipartisan impulses do not extend to reproductive rights.
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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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