Trae Stephens: The House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations and Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Emerging Th…
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Trae Stephens: The House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations and Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Emerging Th…
Elon Musk: Musk's documented pattern of declining congressional testimony invitations (2022-2024) contrasts with the inference of strategic political engagement …
Ritchie Torres: Torres's Financial Services Committee assignment (2021-present) gave him direct jurisdiction over H.R. 3633 and all crypto market legislation — creati…
Sean Casten: Prior to the NDAA vote, Casten had voted against the standalone Israel aid bill (H.R. 7217) in February 2024 and returned $50,000 to Pro-Israel Americ…
Scott Fitzgerald: Fitzgerald's 2023-2024 Finance/Insurance/Real Estate sector contributions ($609,032) exceeded his Ideology/Single-Issue sector contributions ($146,843…
Scott Fitzgerald: WI-5's manufacturing sector (19.1% of employment) likely includes food processing machinery, packaging, and equipment suppliers that benefit from Farm…
Sarah McBride: No outside opposition spending was reported against McBride in the 2024 cycle (fact 25), which is inconsistent with the inference that voter backlash …
Mary E. Miller: Miller's public framing of Ukraine funding as a 'proxy war' — language she has repeated across press releases and interviews — is indistinguishable fr…
Robert P. Bresnahan: Bresnahan's May 15, 2025 stock sale of $130,000 in Medicaid-managed-care-company stock occurred exactly 48 days before his July 3, 2025 OBBBA vote, bu…
Mazie K. Hirono: Hawaii's veteran population faces a cost-of-living premium that reduces the real value of VA healthcare and disability benefits compared to mainland s…
Mary E. Miller: As of 2025, H-2A agricultural visa applications in Illinois include at least 4,709 certifications for crop workers in counties comprising IL-15 (Adams…
Sara Jacobs: The Serving CA Super PAC, funded by Irwin Jacobs, has supported candidates (Ammar Campa-Najjar) who also opposed defense spending bills, suggesting a …
Mark Takano: The CBO's May 2023 estimate for H.R. 3746 projected that non-defense discretionary spending (including VA medical care) would be approximately $98 bil…
Mark Takano: March Air Reserve Base, the largest single employer in CA-39, would have been sensitive to a debt default that could disrupt military pay and base ope…
Mark Takano: Takano's yes vote on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 is consistent with his vote on the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act (which he oppo…
Roger F. Wicker: Senator Wicker's 2025 vote for the OBBB occurred while he was Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a position that gave him direct influen…
Robert P. Bresnahan: The 215-214-1 final vote margin on H.R. 1 (OBBBA) means Bresnahan's single vote was decisive: had he voted 'nay' (consistent with his written pledge),…
Melanie A. Stansbury: Among the 58 House members who voted nay on H.R. 8034, Stansbury is one of the few who also signed the May 2024 letter to Biden/Blinken requesting wit…
Melanie A. Stansbury: Stansbury's nay vote on H.R. 8034 on April 20, 2024 occurred 19 days after the World Central Kitchen strike on April 1, 2024, a shorter interval than …
Mary E. Miller: Mary Miller's FY2022 NDAA nay vote was one of only 27 House Republican nay votes on H.R. 4350, the same bill that authorized the National Defense Stra…
Mary E. Miller: The demographic claim of 'negligible local impact' for IL-15 is consistent with census data showing the district has the fifth-lowest foreign-born pop…
Mary E. Miller: Miller's stated opposition to the 'Ukraine proxy war' reproduces a framing predominantly promoted by anti-interventionist media outlets and Kremlin-al…
Mark Takano: CBO's May 2023 estimate for H.R.3746 projected that non-defense discretionary spending (including VA medical care) would be about $1.3 trillion over F…
Mark E. Amodei: NV-02's Hispanic population (24.1%) is concentrated in urban Washoe County (Reno/Sparks) where median household income ($85,247) is above national med…
Mark E. Amodei: H.R. 6136 combined restrictionist merit-based provisions with a DACA legalization path — Amodei's 'pro-immigration' label may refer to supporting the …
Mark Takano: Takano’s vote on the Inflation Reduction Act was consistent with the positions of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and Sierra Club, …
Mark E. Amodei: Only one major gaming or mining PAC contributed to Amodei's 2018 campaign for each $100 in contributions from defense and homeland security contractor…
Richard E. Neal: A majority of MA-1 households do not itemize deductions at all, thus receive zero direct benefit from the SALT cap increase, consistent with the claim…
Josh Gottheimer: Gottheimer's top district employers — Hackensack Meridian Health, Valley Health System, and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center — employ a combined 24,00…
Jonathan L. Jackson: The 48 Democratic defections on H.R. 12 represent a significant intra-party split; Jackson's vote placed him with the majority of House Democrats agai…