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Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-04-27T05:20:17.950Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #56361)
Resolved official: Brittany Pettersen (entity #10965)
Ingest result: 42 facts · 41 sources · 3 contradictions · 10 voting_records · 6 skipped
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
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"date_occurred": "2024-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878"
},
{
"fact_text": "The Securities & Investment industry was the top contributing industry at $317,288 ($161,288 individual + $156,000 PAC). The Insurance industry contributed $135,398 ($1,398 individual + $134,000 PAC). Commercial Banks contributed $102,610 ($4,110 individual + $98,500 PAC). Pettersen serves on the House Financial Services Committee.",
"date_occurred": "2024-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878"
},
{
"fact_text": "The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was the single largest organizational contributor at $34,610 ($24,610 individual + $10,000 PAC) in the 2023-2024 cycle. Across her career, AIPAC contributions total at least $140,000, making it her top donor.",
"date_occurred": "2024-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878"
},
{
"fact_text": "In the 2025-2026 cycle, Pettersen raised $1,099,933 with $585,250 from other committee contributions (PACs). Top organizational donors through the platform Democracy Engine included BlackRock PAC ($180,000), American Bankers Association PAC ($90,000), National Automobile Dealers Association PAC ($90,000), and National Multifamily Housing Council PAC ($90,000).",
"date_occurred": "2025-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/P000620"
},
{
"fact_text": "Pettersen's 2025-2026 cycle PAC donors also include Regions Financial Corporation PAC ($90,000), Ally Financial Inc. Advocacy PAC ($90,000), Citigroup PAC ($54,000), UBS Americas PAC ($45,000), PricewaterhouseCoopers PAC ($45,000), Deloitte PAC ($45,000), Prudential Financial PAC ($42,000), and AFLAC PAC ($42,000).",
"date_occurred": "2025-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/P000620"
},
{
"fact_text": "Coinbase contributed $20,021 ($18,021 individual + $2,000 PAC) and Andreessen Horowitz contributed $19,800, all from individuals, reflecting cryptocurrency and venture capital sector support for Pettersen, who serves on the Financial Services Committee.",
"date_occurred": "2024-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878"
},
{
"fact_text": "PAC in the Saddle is Pettersen's leadership PAC, registered in Lakewood, CO. It is classified as a Democratic leadership PAC.",
"date_occurred": "2024-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/pac-in-the-saddle/C00829408/summary/2024"
},
{
"fact_text": "Quiver Quantitative estimates Pettersen's net worth at approximately $128K based on financial disclosure statements. Her household income from her congressional salary ($174,000/year) and her husband's position as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development places her in a high-six-figure household income bracket.",
"date_occurred": "2025-10-15",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com/congressmember/Brittany-Pettersen-P000620"
},
{
"fact_text": "Pettersen disclosed $292.2K in fundraising in Q3 2025, ranking 326th among all Congressional reports filed that quarter.",
"date_occurred": "2025-10-15",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Fundraising+Update:+Representative+Brittany+Pettersen+just+disclosed+$292.2K+of+new+fundraising"
}
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"donor_entity_name": "AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE",
"relationship_type": "pac_donor",
"description": "2023-2024 cycle: $10,000 PAC + $24,610 individual = $34,610 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215); career total exceeds $140,000",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878"
},
{
"donor_entity_name": "BLACKROCK FUNDS SERVICES GROUP LLC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (BLACKROCK PAC)",
"relationship_type": "pac_donor",
"description": "2025-2026 cycle: $180,000 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215)",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/P000620"
},
{
"donor_entity_name": "AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC)",
"relationship_type": "pac_donor",
"description": "2025-2026 cycle: $90,000 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215)",
"confidence": "primary",
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"donor_entity_name": "NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE",
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"description": "2025-2026 cycle: $90,000 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215)",
"confidence": "primary",
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"donor_entity_name": "NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE",
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"description": "2025-2026 cycle: $90,000 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215)",
"confidence": "primary",
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"donor_entity_name": "CITIGROUP INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE - FEDERAL (CITIGROUP PAC-FEDERAL)",
"relationship_type": "pac_donor",
"description": "2025-2026 cycle: $54,000 via Brittany Pettersen for Colorado (C00637215)",
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}, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "Unable to identify a specific topic where Brittany Pettersen was conspicuously silent while demonstrably active on adjacent issues within a defined window, supported by primary-source evidence of that adjacent activity. She has been among the most responsive members in terms of holding in-person town halls and issuing statements on major issues." }, "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Pettersen voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, stating through tears: 'It's hard for me to hold back tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is... he doesn't care about us, and he never has. He only values the 33 billionaires in our country and big corporations who will be on the receiving end of the largest transfer of wealth in U.S. history on the backs of middle-class families.'", "claim_date": "2025-07-03", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1196" }, { "claim_text": "Pettersen serves on the House Financial Services Committee and accepts massive corporate PAC contributions from the very industries she oversees: Securities & Investment ($317K), Insurance ($135K), Commercial Banks ($103K), and Real Estate ($107K) in the 2023-2024 cycle alone, with 51.45% of her total campaign funds coming from PACs.", "claim_date": "2024-12-31", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/person/summary?cid=N00040878" }, { "claim_text": "Pettersen voted against the House GOP Israel-only supplemental appropriations bill on February 6, 2024, calling it a 'partisan bill' that 'does not meet the needs of our country or our global obligations' and 'provides no humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians.' She was one of only a handful of Democrats to oppose standalone Israel aid.", "claim_date": "2024-02-06", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=569" }, { "claim_text": "Pettersen voted for H.R. 8034, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act on April 20, 2024, authorizing $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel without conditions. Pro-Palestinian groups CODEPINK Denver-Boulder protested outside her Lakewood office on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, specifically calling her out for 'allegiance to Israel over her constituents' and noting she has taken at least $140,000 from AIPAC.", "claim_date": "2024-04-20", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://www.codepink.org/codepink_denver_boulder_and_allies_call_out_representative_brittany_pettersens_allegiance_to_israel_over_her_constituents" }, { "claim_text": "Pettersen champions affordable housing and renter protections as Vice Ranking Member of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee. She has introduced multiple bills to address the affordable housing crisis and spoken emotionally about her mother's struggles with addiction and low-wage work.", "claim_date": "2025-03-01", "claim_type": "platform", "source_url": "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1196" }, { "claim_text": "Pettersen accepted $90,000 from the National Multifamily Housing Council PAC and $90,000 from the National Automobile Dealers Association PAC in the 2025-2026 cycle — entities whose lobbying interests include opposing rent control legislation and tenant protections.", "claim_date": "2025-12-31", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/P000620" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Pettersen delivered an emotional floor speech condemning the OBBB as a 'transfer of wealth' to 'billionaires and big corporations' while simultaneously accepting over 50% of her campaign funds from corporate PACs — including $317K from securities & investment firms, $135K from insurance PACs, and $103K from commercial banks — all industries that benefit from the very tax and regulatory policies she decries." }, { "claim_a_idx": 2, "claim_b_idx": 3, "type": "reversal", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "Pettersen voted against a standalone GOP Israel aid bill in February 2024 citing lack of humanitarian assistance for Palestinians, then voted two months later for a $26.38 billion Israel military aid package after being the House's top AIPAC recipient — a reversal that anti-war activists attribute to financial influence from pro-Israel donors who have given her over $140,000." }, { "claim_a_idx": 4, "claim_b_idx": 5, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "Pettersen champions affordable housing and renter protections while accepting $90,000 from the National Multifamily Housing Council PAC, which lobbies against rent control and tenant protection measures — creating a direct tension between her populist housing rhetoric and her reliance on real estate industry donors." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.Con.Res.14", "title": "House Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-02-25", "roll_call_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/house-democrats-budget-vote-absences/", "why_it_matters": "Four weeks after giving birth to her son Sam, Pettersen flew back to D.C. with her newborn cradled in a light-blue swaddle to cast this vote — one of several Democrats whose dramatic returns forced Republicans to scramble on a vote that passed 217-215.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 1 (119th)", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1196", "why_it_matters": "Delivered a tearful floor speech condemning the bill as a 'disastrous budget bill' that would devastate addiction treatment services that 'saved my mom's life.' Called out billionaires and corporations for benefiting from 'the largest transfer of wealth in U.S. history on the backs of middle-class families.' Earned a 100% AFL-CIO score for this vote.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 3746", "title": "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-05-31", "roll_call_url": "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=206", "why_it_matters": "Voted with 'resolve, but also frustration' to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever U.S. default, which she warned would 'cost more than 10,000 jobs in Colorado alone.' Simultaneously introduced an amendment to reverse Trump-era tax cuts for millionaires, which Republicans refused to debate.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://www.ukrainiansofcolorado.org/post/ukrainians-of-colorado-met-with-congresswoman-brittany-pettersen", "why_it_matters": "Ukrainian constituents confirmed she 'voted 100% yes for all pro-Ukrainian bills' and had 'fully supported military and financial aid to Ukraine.' Earned an 'A' grade from Republicans for Ukraine. Also supported Ukraine lend-lease in 2022.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 8034", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://www.codepink.org/codepink_denver_boulder_and_allies_call_out_representative_brittany_pettersens_allegiance_to_israel_over_her_constituents", "why_it_matters": "Voted to authorize $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel, reversing her February 6 opposition to standalone Israel aid. CODEPINK and Denver Anti-War Action protested outside her Lakewood office, accusing her of 'complicity in genocide' — a politically charged vote for the House's top AIPAC recipient.", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 29", "title": "Laken Riley Act", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2025/01/08/colorado-democrats-vote-in-lockstep-against-laken-riley-act/", "why_it_matters": "All five Colorado House Democrats — DeGette, Crow, Pettersen, and Neguse — voted against the bill mandating ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of theft. Bill passed 264-159 with 48 Democratic votes in favor.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 21", "title": "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-23", "roll_call_url": "https://sbaprolife.org/scorecard/legislator/p000620/brittany-pettersen", "why_it_matters": "Voted against legislation imposing criminal penalties on healthcare practitioners in failed abortion cases. EMILY's List endorsed her reelection citing her strong abortion rights record. Rated 0% by SBA Pro-Life America.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 22", "title": "SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-04-10", "roll_call_url": "https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/brittany-pettersen", "why_it_matters": "Voted against requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. The AFL-CIO opposed the bill as creating 'duplicative and burdensome barriers for Americans to access their constitutional right to vote.' Only 4 Democrats voted yes.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 2550", "title": "Protecting America's Workforce Act (Restoring Collective Bargaining Rights)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-12-11", "roll_call_url": "https://aflcio.org/scorecard/legislators/brittany-pettersen", "why_it_matters": "Supported legislation restoring collective bargaining rights for over a million federal workers — a key labor priority earning her a 100% lifetime AFL-CIO score, distinguishing her from more centrist New Democrat colleagues.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 2924", "title": "Resolution to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents (Discharge Petition)", "vote": "sponsor", "vote_date": "2025-03-24", "roll_call_url": "https://www.wral.com/news/national/2025/03/24/how-bipartisan-lawmakers-are-pushing-congress-to-update-its-voting-rules-for-new-parents/", "why_it_matters": "Co-led a bipartisan discharge petition with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to allow proxy voting for new parents for 12 weeks after childbirth. Forced congressional debate on parental accommodations after Pettersen's own post-birth experience missing votes.", "category": "party_defection" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Colorado's 7th Congressional District encompasses the western Denver metropolitan area (Golden, Lakewood, Arvada, Broomfield) and extends through central Colorado including Jefferson, Park, Teller, Lake, Chaffee, Fremont, and Custer counties. Once located only in the northeast part of the state, the district now spans the Denver suburbs to mountain communities. It has a population of approximately 728,241 with a median household income of $104,378 — nearly triple the national median. The district is 79.6% White, 15.5% Hispanic, 99.4% urban, and highly educated (49.6% hold a bachelor's degree). With a Cook PVI of D+8, it leans Democratic though less so than during the Perlmutter era. The economy is anchored by healthcare, advanced manufacturing, aerospace (Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace), technology (Trimble, Oracle), and brewing (Molson Coors). The district has a poverty rate of just 4%, a homeownership rate of 70.1%, and a median age of 41.3 — older than the national average.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "Lockheed Martin (Waterton Canyon Campus)", "employees": 2300, "source_url": "https://denverrelocationguide.com/2024/top-private-employers-in-colorado-springs/" }, { "name": "Ball Corporation (Westminster HQ)", "employees": 10416, "source_url": "https://www.jeffcobdb.com/2024/06/06/2024-list-of-jeffcos-largest-manufacturers-unveiled/" }, { "name": "Trimble Inc. (Westminster)", "employees": 4727, "source_url": "https://www.jeffcobdb.com/2025/10/22/now-available-bdbs-2025-jeffco-manufacturers-ranking/" }, { "name": "Molson Coors Brewing Company (Golden)", "employees": 4000, "source_url": "https://kids.kiddle.co/Jefferson_County,_Colorado" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "62", "share": 0.17, "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=08&cd=07" }, { "naics": "44-45", "share": 0.13, "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=08&cd=07" }, { "naics": "54", "share": 0.12, "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=08&cd=07" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "Amendment 79 — Right to Abortion (State Constitution)", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "majority yes (enshrined abortion rights, repealed public funding ban)", "source_url": "https://apnews.com/article/colorado-abortion-amendment-election-2024-29ebe2b46e85446ae5eb087e3bafb59d" }, { "name": "Proposition FF — Healthy School Meals for All", "year": 2022, "result": "passed", "margin": "55% yes to 45% no", "source_url": "https://historicalelectiondata.coloradosos.gov/2022/nov/8/general/proposition-ff-statutory" }, { "name": "Proposition 122 — Decriminalize and Regulate Psychedelic Plants and Fungi", "year": 2022, "result": "passed", "margin": "52.4% yes to 47.6% no", "source_url": "https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/09/colorado-proposition-122-psilocybin-psychedelic-mushrooms-results/" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "Median household income", "value": "$104,378", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_7th_congressional_district" }, { "label": "Population (2024)", "value": "728,241", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_7th_congressional_district" }, { "label": "White alone, not Hispanic or Latino", "value": "74.9%", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_7th_congressional_district" }, { "label": "Bachelor's degree or higher", "value": "49.6%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/brittany-pettersen-P000620/district" }, { "label": "Homeownership rate", "value": "70.1%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/brittany-pettersen-P000620/district" }, { "label": "Poverty rate", "value": "4.0%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/brittany-pettersen-P000620/district" } ] } } }