SCORECARD · SAM GRAVES in office since 2025-01-03

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43/100

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 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.

ideological & single-issue

Interested donors: Black & Veatch Political Action Committee (Black & Veatch Pa

Black & Veatch Political Action Committee (Black & Veatch Pa (amounts: $6,000 (2024)) — interest area: ideological & single-issue
other / unclassified

Interested donors: American Waterways Operators-PAC, United Postmasters And Managers Of America Political Fund, American Traffic Safety Services Association PAC, National Association Of Surety Bond Producers PAC (Suretypac), National Air Carrier Association PAC, Sigma PAC, Atu-Cope Special Holding Account, Taxicab Limousine & Paratransit Association Political Action Committee (Tlpa PAC), Husch Blackwell Political Action Committee

American Waterways Operators-PAC, United Postmasters And Managers Of America Political Fund, American Traffic Safety Services Association PAC, National Association Of Surety Bond Producers PAC (Suretypac), National Air Carrier Association PAC, Sigma PAC, Atu-Cope Special Holding Account, Taxicab Limousine & Paratransit Association Political Action Committee (Tlpa PAC), Husch Blackwell Political Action Committee (amounts: $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $6,500 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other / unclassified
corporate pacs, industry unlisted

Interested donors: Shield Ai PAC, Evergy Employee Power PAC (Fka Kcpl), Vulcan Materials Co. P. A. C., Cubic Corporation Employees PAC, Jm Family Enterprises, Inc PAC, Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee (Sf) Inc., Wsp USA Inc. PAC, Genesee & Wyoming Inc. PAC, Siemens Corporation PAC, Peraton PAC, Mr. Smith PAC, Saltchuk Resources Inc. PAC, American Commercial Barge Line PAC, Polsinelli PAC, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Political Action Committee, Woolpert, Inc Political Action Committee, Heidelberg Materials Us, Inc. PAC, Commercial Metals Company PAC (Cmc PAC), Brightline Holdings LLC PAC (Brightline PAC), Garmin International Inc Political Action Committee, Employees Of Quanta Services Inc., Neology Inc Employee Political Action Committee (Neopac), Shift5 Political Action Committee, Spire PAC, Olsson Inc PAC, Ch Robinson Worldwide PAC, Hallmark Cards, Inc. PAC (Hallpac), Transcanada USA Services PAC

Shield Ai PAC, Evergy Employee Power PAC (Fka Kcpl), Vulcan Materials Co. P. A. C., Cubic Corporation Employees PAC, Jm Family Enterprises, Inc PAC, Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee (Sf) Inc., Wsp USA Inc. PAC, Genesee & Wyoming Inc. PAC, Siemens Corporation PAC, Peraton PAC, Mr. Smith PAC, Saltchuk Resources Inc. PAC, American Commercial Barge Line PAC, Polsinelli PAC, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Political Action Committee, Woolpert, Inc Political Action Committee, Heidelberg Materials Us, Inc. PAC, Commercial Metals Company PAC (Cmc PAC), Brightline Holdings LLC PAC (Brightline PAC), Garmin International Inc Political Action Committee, Employees Of Quanta Services Inc., Neology Inc Employee Political Action Committee (Neopac), Shift5 Political Action Committee, Spire PAC, Olsson Inc PAC, Ch Robinson Worldwide PAC, Hallmark Cards, Inc. PAC (Hallpac), Transcanada USA Services PAC (amounts: $8,300 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $6,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $6,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $7,500 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $8,500 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $6,600 (2024), $6,000 (2024), $6,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
law & lobbying firms

Interested donors: Honeywell International PAC, Cozen O'Connor Political Action Committee, Squire Patton Boggs PAC (Squire Patton Boggs PAC), American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC

Honeywell International PAC, Cozen O'Connor Political Action Committee, Squire Patton Boggs PAC (Squire Patton Boggs PAC), American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC (amounts: $9,000 (2026), $7,500 (2024), $8,500 (2024), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: law & lobbying firms
other candidates' committees

Interested donors: Airlines For America PAC, Huck PAC, Sam Graves Victory Fund

Airlines For America PAC, Huck PAC, Sam Graves Victory Fund (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $26,069 (2026)) — interest area: other candidates' committees
colleagues' leadership pacs

Interested donors: Road To Freedom Campaign Committee, Show Me Political Action Committee, Bill PAC, Majority Committee PAC-Mc PAC, Eye Of The Tiger PAC, Jobs Freedom And Security PAC, Mr. Southern Missourian In The House PAC, Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans (Emmer PAC)

Road To Freedom Campaign Committee, Show Me Political Action Committee, Bill PAC, Majority Committee PAC-Mc PAC, Eye Of The Tiger PAC, Jobs Freedom And Security PAC, Mr. Southern Missourian In The House PAC, Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans (Emmer PAC) (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $7,500 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
party committees

Interested donors: Sam Graves Victory Fund

Sam Graves Victory Fund (amounts: $26,069 (2026)) — interest area: party committees

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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 1878 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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