SCORECARD · ROBERT BRESNAHAN in office since 2025-01-03

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76/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
70
Connection density20%
69
Donor influence10%
78
Fact density10%
85
Constituency deviation5%
53
Voting misalignment5%
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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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Vote-vs-platform contradictions 2

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

66.7% of 3 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House passage, May 22 and July 3, 2025
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Bresnahan called himself 'one of the last holdouts on the bill' but voted yea, claiming the bill 'protects and strengthens Medicaid by cracking down on the fraud, waste and abuse.' The nonpartisan CBO projected the bill would cut $793 billion to $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade and add $3.4 trillion to deficits. His PA-08 district has over 200,000 Medicaid recipients (approximately 25% of constituents), 10.4% poverty, and a median household income of $67,979. Pennsylvania Governor's office estimates 21,000+ of his constituents would lose health coverage and 11,500 would lose SNAP. This directly broke his repeated written pledges not to support any bill cutting Medicaid benefits. His vote was party-aligned (215-214-1, with only one Republican opposing). The CWA gave him a 0% score, citing this vote as 'deep and damaging cuts to vital programs like Medicaid.' Bresnahan sold $130,000 in Medicaid-managed-care company stock one week before the vote.
  • H.Con.Res. 14 ↗ YEA 2025-02-25
    FY 2025 Budget Resolution (Reconciliation Framework, February 2025)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Bresnahan voted yea on the budget resolution that set the framework for the OBBBA. He claimed the resolution 'does not mention the Medicaid program once' and was 'just a procedural step.' The CWA opposed the resolution and gave Bresnahan a 0% score for voting against working people. The resolution required trillions in mandatory savings from the committees that oversee Medicaid and SNAP, directly enabling the subsequent OBBBA cuts. Bresnahan said he was 'prepared to make my priorities known throughout this process' and would fight 'opposing gutting Medicaid' — then voted for the final OBBBA cuts four months later.
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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 60
    Bresnahan represents the poorest district in Pennsylvania yet owns a secret $1-1.5 million personal helicopter he failed to disclose — a striking disconnect between his campaign persona as a blue-collar advocate and his personal wealth (estimated at $48-69 million). An ethics complaint was filed and his office refused to answer detailed questions.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 50
    Bresnahan sold $130,000 in stock of the four largest Medicaid-managed care companies (Centene, Elevance Health, UnitedHealth, CVS Health) on May 15, 2025 — just days before voting to cut $1 trillion from Medicaid on May 22. The timing — dump Medicaid stocks, then vote to cut Medicaid — created the appearance of using legislative knowledge for personal financial benefit. He attributed the trades to his advisor but refused to instruct the advisor to stop trading.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 50
    Bresnahan campaigned on banning congressional stock trading and introducing the TRUST Act, yet became the second-most active stock trader in Congress — executing 626 trades worth $7.24 million — including in companies directly related to his committee work. He claimed he would establish a blind trust but hadn't done so as of August 2025. His bill has zero cosponsors.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Bresnahan's repeated, unambiguous pledges — 'If a bill is put in front of me that guts the benefits my neighbors rely on, I will not vote for it' — were directly contradicted by his yea vote on the OBBBA. The CBO projected $793 billion to $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Over 21,000 of his own constituents were projected to lose health coverage. The Republican-Herald editorial board called this a clear broken promise.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

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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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