SCORECARD · JONI ERNST in office since 2021-01-03

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34/100

LOW CAPTURE-RISK INDEX

How this number is built ↓

Silence risk25%

Contradiction risk25%

Connection density20%

Donor influence10%

Fact density10%

Constituency deviation5%

Voting misalignment5%

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

Silence on donor-funded topics 4

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.

colleagues' leadership pacs

Interested donors: Boots PAC, R Senate PAC, Raptor PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, Making A Responsible Stand For Households In America (Marsha PAC), True North PAC, Sock It To 'Em PAC, American Excellence PAC, The Peter Norbeck Leadership PAC, Build Our Future PAC, Common Sense For America PAC, Conservatives Harvesting Success PAC, Let'S Get To Work PAC, Bluegrass Committee, Republican Majority Fund, The Hawkeye PAC, Fund For America'S Future, Freedom Fund, Dirigo PAC, Heartland Values PAC, Arkansas For Leadership PAC (Arkpac), Denali Leadership PAC, Common Values PAC, Free State PAC, Continuing America'S Strength And Security PAC, Wild And Wonderful PAC, Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys PAC - Lank PAC, Dakota PAC, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC, Strategy PAC, Ann PAC, Nebraska Sandhills PAC, Big Sky Opportunity PAC, Badlands PAC, Oorah! Political Action Committee, Senate Eagle PAC, Delivers PAC, Steer PAC, PAC For America, Tennessee Eagle PAC, Alabama First PAC, Building Up Democracy'S Dream, Pennsylvania Honor, Best At Bringing Entrepreneurial Results Never Imagined Or Envisioned PAC, Jobs Opportunity Now PAC

Boots PAC, R Senate PAC, Raptor PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, Making A Responsible Stand For Households In America (Marsha PAC), True North PAC, Sock It To 'Em PAC, American Excellence PAC, The Peter Norbeck Leadership PAC, Build Our Future PAC, Common Sense For America PAC, Conservatives Harvesting Success PAC, Let'S Get To Work PAC, Bluegrass Committee, Republican Majority Fund, The Hawkeye PAC, Fund For America'S Future, Freedom Fund, Dirigo PAC, Heartland Values PAC, Arkansas For Leadership PAC (Arkpac), Denali Leadership PAC, Common Values PAC, Free State PAC, Continuing America'S Strength And Security PAC, Wild And Wonderful PAC, Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys PAC - Lank PAC, Dakota PAC, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC, Strategy PAC, Ann PAC, Nebraska Sandhills PAC, Big Sky Opportunity PAC, Badlands PAC, Oorah! Political Action Committee, Senate Eagle PAC, Delivers PAC, Steer PAC, PAC For America, Tennessee Eagle PAC, Alabama First PAC, Building Up Democracy'S Dream, Pennsylvania Honor, Best At Bringing Entrepreneurial Results Never Imagined Or Envisioned PAC, Jobs Opportunity Now PAC (amounts: $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
other / unclassified

Interested donors: Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Golf Course Superintendents Association Of America PAC, National Confectioners Association Of The United States, Inc. Political Action Committee (, Burger King Franchisee PAC, Nadco 504 PAC, Faegre Drinker Political Action Committee (Faegre Drinker Pa, Tzedek PAC, Send In The Seal PAC

Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Golf Course Superintendents Association Of America PAC, National Confectioners Association Of The United States, Inc. Political Action Committee (, Burger King Franchisee PAC, Nadco 504 PAC, Faegre Drinker Political Action Committee (Faegre Drinker Pa, Tzedek PAC, Send In The Seal PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $7,500 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $7,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: other / unclassified
corporate pacs, industry unlisted

Interested donors: Chugach Alaska Corporation PAC (Cac PAC), Vgm PAC, Accenture Inc. PAC, Fareway Stores Inc. PAC (Fas PAC), Boehringer Ingelheim PAC, Ssab Americas PAC, The Guidehouse PAC

Chugach Alaska Corporation PAC (Cac PAC), Vgm PAC, Accenture Inc. PAC, Fareway Stores Inc. PAC (Fas PAC), Boehringer Ingelheim PAC, Ssab Americas PAC, The Guidehouse PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
ideological & single-issue

Interested donors: With Honor PAC, Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Political Action Committee, Value In Electing Women PAC, Wonder Women PAC

With Honor PAC, Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Political Action Committee, Value In Electing Women PAC, Wonder Women PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,100 (2026)) — interest area: ideological & single-issue

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Vote-vs-platform contradictions 0

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

No platform-contradicting votes among 461 votes on file. 0 aligned, 0 related.

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.

Documented contradictions 0

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

No documented contradiction analyses on file.

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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