SCORECARD · STEVE DAINES in office since 2021-01-03

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35/100

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 6

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.

other candidates' committees

Interested donors: Stand For America PAC

Stand For America PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: other candidates' committees
corporate pacs, industry unlisted

Interested donors: Vmware, Inc. Political Action Committee (Vmware PAC), Protective Life Corp P. A. C., Relx PAC, Corecivic, Inc. Political Action Committee (Corecivic PAC), Lhc Group, Inc PAC, Rpm International Inc. Manufacturing In America PAC Dba Rpm, Applied Materials Inc. Political Action Committee, Televisaunivision, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee, Amedisys PAC, Amsted Industries Incorporated PAC (Amsted PAC), Mmc Corp PAC, Delaware North Companies, Inc. Political Action Committee, Performance Contacting Group Employee Owners PAC, Assured Guaranty Municpal Corp. PAC, Canopy Growth Employees Political Forum PAC, Fair Isaac Corporation Political Action Committee (Fico PAC), Healthequity, Inc Purple Political Action Committee (Healthequity Purple Political Action

Vmware, Inc. Political Action Committee (Vmware PAC), Protective Life Corp P. A. C., Relx PAC, Corecivic, Inc. Political Action Committee (Corecivic PAC), Lhc Group, Inc PAC, Rpm International Inc. Manufacturing In America PAC Dba Rpm, Applied Materials Inc. Political Action Committee, Televisaunivision, Inc. Employee Political Action Committee, Amedisys PAC, Amsted Industries Incorporated PAC (Amsted PAC), Mmc Corp PAC, Delaware North Companies, Inc. Political Action Committee, Performance Contacting Group Employee Owners PAC, Assured Guaranty Municpal Corp. PAC, Canopy Growth Employees Political Forum PAC, Fair Isaac Corporation Political Action Committee (Fico PAC), Healthequity, Inc Purple Political Action Committee (Healthequity Purple Political Action (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $7,000 (2024), $6,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $8,000 (2026)) — interest area: corporate pacs, industry unlisted
ideological & single-issue

Interested donors: Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Political Action Committee, Susan B Anthony List Inc. Candidate Fund

Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Political Action Committee, Susan B Anthony List Inc. Candidate Fund (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2024)) — interest area: ideological & single-issue
colleagues' leadership pacs

Interested donors: Florida Leads, Bluegrass Committee, The Hawkeye PAC, Freedom Fund, Dirigo PAC, Heartland Values PAC, Making A Responsible Stand For Households In America (Marsha PAC), Arkansas For Leadership PAC (Arkpac), Denali Leadership PAC, Common Values PAC, Free State PAC, Wild And Wonderful PAC, Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys PAC - Lank PAC, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC, Badlands PAC, Strong Country For Today And Tomorrow, Jobs Opportunity And New Ideas PAC, True North PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, Common Sense For America PAC, Let'S Get To Work PAC, Steer PAC, PAC For America, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC (Timpac), Building A National Knowledgeable Security PAC, Building Up Democracy'S Dream, Pennsylvania Honor, Best At Bringing Entrepreneurial Results Never Imagined Or Envisioned PAC

Florida Leads, Bluegrass Committee, The Hawkeye PAC, Freedom Fund, Dirigo PAC, Heartland Values PAC, Making A Responsible Stand For Households In America (Marsha PAC), Arkansas For Leadership PAC (Arkpac), Denali Leadership PAC, Common Values PAC, Free State PAC, Wild And Wonderful PAC, Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys PAC - Lank PAC, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC, Badlands PAC, Strong Country For Today And Tomorrow, Jobs Opportunity And New Ideas PAC, True North PAC, Together Holding Our Majority PAC, Common Sense For America PAC, Let'S Get To Work PAC, Steer PAC, PAC For America, Tomorrow Is Meaningful PAC (Timpac), Building A National Knowledgeable Security PAC, Building Up Democracy'S Dream, Pennsylvania Honor, Best At Bringing Entrepreneurial Results Never Imagined Or Envisioned PAC (amounts: $7,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs
other / unclassified

Interested donors: American Bakers Association American Bakers PAC, Acpac Aca International PAC, American Sportfishing Association Political Action Committee, Office Of The Commissioner Of Major League Baseball PAC, Sun PAC, Specialty Equipment Market Association PAC, Federation Of Exchange Accomodators 1031 PAC, Fs PAC, Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Structured Finance Coalition PAC (Structured Finance PAC)

American Bakers Association American Bakers PAC, Acpac Aca International PAC, American Sportfishing Association Political Action Committee, Office Of The Commissioner Of Major League Baseball PAC, Sun PAC, Specialty Equipment Market Association PAC, Federation Of Exchange Accomodators 1031 PAC, Fs PAC, Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PAC, Structured Finance Coalition PAC (Structured Finance PAC) (amounts: $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $8,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $8,500 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other / unclassified
crypto & fintech

Interested donors: H&R Block Inc. Political Action Committee (Blockpac)

H&R Block Inc. Political Action Committee (Blockpac) (amounts: $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: crypto & fintech

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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

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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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