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Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-04-27T05:54:17.362Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #56370)
Resolved official: Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (entity #11166)
Ingest result: 34 facts · 35 sources · 2 silences · 4 contradictions · 5 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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"fact_text": "Chuck Fleischmann's campaign committee raised $10,108,879 across his career (2009-2024), with $2,906,029 cash on hand as of July 12, 2024.",
"date_occurred": "2024-07-12",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00030815&newMem=N"
},
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"fact_text": "General Contractors was the top contributing industry at $475,068, followed by Leadership PACs at $463,099, Real Estate at $432,700, Electric Utilities at $430,550, and Health Professionals at $416,165.",
"date_occurred": "2024-09-18",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00030815&newMem=N"
},
{
"fact_text": "McKee Foods was the single largest organizational contributor at $199,225 (all individual). DeRoyal Industries contributed $162,400, Wright Brothers Construction $120,600, Bechtel Group $114,400 ($72,900 individual + $41,500 PAC), and Unum Group $101,500 ($47,500 individual + $54,000 PAC).",
"date_occurred": "2024-09-18",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00030815&newMem=N"
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"fact_text": "Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the top contributor for the 2023-2024 cycle at $35,050 (all individual), reflecting Fleischmann's role as Chairman of Energy and Water Appropriations overseeing the lab's $3 billion annual federal funding.",
"date_occurred": "2024-09-18",
"confidence": "primary",
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"fact_text": "NuScale Power contributed $19,300, General Atomics $14,200 ($4,200 individual + $10,000 PAC), and other nuclear/defense contractors including Fluor Corp, Bechtel, and SpaceX PAC contributed substantially — all sectors Fleischmann oversees as Energy and Water Appropriations chair.",
"date_occurred": "2025-12-31",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://congressmachine.com/member/F000459"
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"fact_text": "OpenSecrets estimated Fleischmann's net worth at $3,340,555 to $8,575,548 (2018), ranking 66th in Congress. Ballotpedia listed his net worth at $2,528,000. He disclosed a trade of Invesco Capital Management LLC valued at $15K-$50K on May 13, 2025.",
"date_occurred": "2025-05-13",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/chuck-fleischmann/other-data?cid=N00030815&cycle=2024&type=I"
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"fact_text": "Fleischmann was flagged by Business Insider as one of 78 members of Congress who violated the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements for late reporting of stock trades.",
"date_occurred": "2023-01-03",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/78-congress-members-violated-stock-act-stop-insider-trading-conflicts-2023-1"
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{
"fact_text": "In Q1 2026, Fleischmann raised $505,800, with 75.5% from individual donors. His joint fundraising committee channels additional contributions. Nooga PAC is his leadership PAC.",
"date_occurred": "2026-04-14",
"confidence": "primary",
"source_url": "https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Press+Release:+Rep.+Chuck+Fleischmann+Addresses+National+Lab+Research+SLAM+Competition+Finalists"
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"donor_entity_name": "GENERAL ATOMICS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE",
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"description": "2024 cycle: $10,000 PAC via Chuck Fleischmann for Congress; nuclear/defense contractor with interests before Energy & Water Appropriations subcommittee Fleischmann chairs",
"confidence": "primary",
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"donor_entity_name": "FEDEX CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (FEDEXPAC)",
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"description": "2026 cycle: $20,000 via Chuck Fleischmann for Congress (C00461822)",
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"description": "2026 cycle: $12,000 via Chuck Fleischmann for Congress (C00461822); contractor at Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear facility in Fleischmann's district",
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"topic": "In-person town hall meetings and direct constituent engagement",
"expected_position": "As an eight-term congressman representing a district with significant poverty (9.4-13.3%) and rural communities lacking hospitals, Fleischmann would be expected to hold regular in-person town halls where constituents can ask unscripted questions.",
"window_start": "2025-01-03",
"window_end": "2026-04-01",
"evidence_summary": "Fleischmann told the Chattanooga Times Free Press his answer to whether he would hold a town hall is 'never,' calling them 'rowdy leftist mobs' and 'shout fests.' He has also refused to participate in debates with general election opponents for years. Constituents organized an 'empty chair' town hall in Hixson, a protest in Red Bank with nearly 300 attendees demanding answers on DOGE and Medicaid cuts, and an op-ed in the Cleveland Banner noted he 'refuses to hold town halls in Bradley or Polk' counties. His office claimed he conducts virtual town halls and meets with chambers of commerce, but constituents called these inadequate substitutes.",
"primary_url": "https://www.local3news.com/local-news/rep-chuck-fleischmann-will-never-hold-a-town-hall-meeting/article_c63b30c0-63ff-4e5e-b51e-0f854dd84c54.html"
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"topic": "Trump administration tariffs and their impact on Tennessee manufacturers",
"expected_position": "As a congressman representing a district that includes Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant (4,500+ employees), McKee Foods (3,500+ employees), and a heavy manufacturing base, Fleischmann would be expected to speak out on broad tariffs that the Yale Budget Lab projected would cost the average U.S. household $2,100 per year and threaten auto industry jobs.",
"window_start": "2025-03-01",
"window_end": "2025-09-01",
"evidence_summary": "During this period, Fleischmann was actively issuing press releases on appropriations bills, energy policy, nuclear energy, and border security. However, as the Chattanooga Times Free Press documented, he was silent on tariffs while the VW Chattanooga plant announced cost-cutting measures and while local CEOs warned of tariff damage. The editorial board noted his 'inaction' on tariffs and wrote that 'Congress — Fleischmann among them — has abdicated its authority.'",
"primary_url": "http://ellington.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/02/opinion-fleischmann-fears-his-constituents/"
}
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann campaigned throughout his career as a fiscal conservative, voting for $1.6 trillion in spending cuts in his first year, supporting balanced budgets, and declaring he would 'reverse Washington's dangerous debt culture.'",
"claim_date": "2024-11-05",
"claim_type": "platform",
"source_url": "https://fleischmann.house.gov/about"
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann voted for H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on July 3, 2025, which the Congressional Budget Office projected would add approximately $2.4 trillion to the national deficit over 10 years. Fleischmann celebrated the bill as delivering 'the largest, permanent tax cut for families and Working-Class and Middle-Class Americans' and getting 'our country back on a path toward fiscal sanity.'",
"claim_date": "2025-07-03",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://www.chattanoogan.com/2025/7/3/505656/Fleischmann-Applauds-Passage-Of-The.aspx"
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann voted against H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, opposing the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that funded roads, bridges, broadband, and the Chickamauga Lock project in his own district.",
"claim_date": "2021-11-05",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021369"
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann touted securing 'full funding for Chickamauga Lock' and strong support for Oak Ridge National Laboratory projects through his Appropriations role — projects funded via the very types of infrastructure and appropriations bills he opposed when they were part of larger Democratic-led packages.",
"claim_date": "2020-12-21",
"claim_type": "statement",
"source_url": "https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/fleischmann-secures-critical-funding-east-tennessee"
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann voted to object to the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results on January 6, 2021, after amplifying Trump's lies about election fraud, signing the Texas amicus brief, and stating he would 'support efforts by my colleagues in the House and Senate to object during the electoral certification.'",
"claim_date": "2021-01-06",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/fleischmann-statement-vote-during-electoral-certification-process"
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"claim_text": "Hours after the Capitol insurrection on January 6, Fleischmann released a statement calling the violence 'an affront to our Republic' and saying 'it is time to come together as a nation and seek to heal our divisions.' He then voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 attack and against impeaching Trump.",
"claim_date": "2021-05-19",
"claim_type": "vote",
"source_url": "https://accountability.gop/profile/rep-charles-j-chuck-fleischmann/"
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"claim_text": "Fleischmann defended Medicaid work requirements in the OBBB, telling NewsChannel 9 that the bill was 'tightening up' requirements and 'not hurting people,' claiming 'I want poor people to move up.'",
"claim_date": "2025-05-26",
"claim_type": "statement",
"source_url": "https://tennesseestar.com/policy/congressman-fleischmann-explains-tightening-up-medicaid-requirements-not-hurting-people-after-house-passes-big-beautiful-bill/tpappert/2025/05/26/"
},
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"claim_text": "The Tennessee Lookout projected 68,000 Tennesseans would lose health insurance due to the OBBB's Medicaid changes, and nearly 700,000 face hurdles to food assistance. Fleischmann's district has a 9.4-13.3% poverty rate and 10.2% of residents without a high school diploma.",
"claim_date": "2025-09-02",
"claim_type": "disclosure",
"source_url": "http://ellington.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/02/opinion-fleischmann-fears-his-constituents/"
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"severity": "high",
"narrative": "Fleischmann built his career on fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets, yet voted for the OBBB which the CBO projected would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit — while calling it a path 'toward fiscal sanity,' a term that contradicts the bill's actual deficit impact."
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"severity": "high",
"narrative": "Fleischmann voted against the bipartisan infrastructure law, yet touts the very projects it funds — including the Chickamauga Lock — as personal achievements, mirroring the 'Voted No, Took the Dough' pattern documented among House Republicans."
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"type": "reversal",
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"narrative": "Fleischmann amplified election fraud claims and voted to overturn the 2020 election, then condemned the resulting violence while voting against investigating its causes — earning an 'F' Democracy Score from Republican Accountability."
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"type": "statement_vs_disclosure",
"severity": "high",
"narrative": "Fleischmann claimed Medicaid work requirements would 'tighten up' without 'hurting people,' yet the Tennessee Lookout projected 68,000 Tennesseans would lose health coverage — representing a profound disconnect between his rhetoric and the bill's projected impact on his own constituents."
}
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"bill_id": "H.Res. 24 / Objection to Electoral College Certification",
"title": "Objection to Certification of 2020 Electoral College Results",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2021-01-06",
"roll_call_url": "https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/fleischmann-statement-vote-during-electoral-certification-process",
"why_it_matters": "Voted to overturn the certified 2020 election hours after the Capitol insurrection, having pre-announced his objection and signed the Texas amicus brief. Republican Accountability gave him an 'F' Democracy Score.",
"category": "against_constituent"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 1319",
"title": "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2021-02-27",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/roll-call-votes/117th-congress/1st-session/h72",
"why_it_matters": "Opposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief including $1,400 stimulus checks and expanded child tax credits — benefits that would have directly aided families in a district with 9.4-13.3% poverty.",
"category": "against_constituent"
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"title": "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2021-11-05",
"roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021369",
"why_it_matters": "One of 200 House Republicans to oppose the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, yet later touted projects funded by the law including the Chickamauga Lock — a signature 'Voted No, Took the Dough' pattern.",
"category": "against_constituent"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 8035",
"title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2024-04-20",
"roll_call_url": "https://gopforukraine.com/legislator/charles-chuck-fleischmann/",
"why_it_matters": "One of only two Tennessee House Republicans to vote for $60.8 billion in Ukraine military aid. Earned an 'A' grade from Republicans for Ukraine. Voted for every major Ukraine aid package from lend-lease forward, stating: 'If we do not take the necessary steps for Ukraine... ripple effects will end up costing not only the United States but the world a lot more.'",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 8404",
"title": "Respect for Marriage Act",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2022-12-08",
"roll_call_url": "https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/33014/90036/11812/chuck-fleischmann-voted-nay-concurrence-vote-hr-8404-respect-for-marriage-act",
"why_it_matters": "Voted against codifying federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, joining 169 House Republicans in opposition. CatholicVote flagged this as a key vote.",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 1 (119th)",
"title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2025-07-03",
"roll_call_url": "https://www.chattanoogan.com/2025/7/3/505656/Fleischmann-Applauds-Passage-Of-The.aspx",
"why_it_matters": "Supported Trump's signature reconciliation bill (218-214) that CBO projected would add $2.4 trillion to deficits. Called it 'once-in-a-generation change' and 'the largest, permanent tax cut for families.' The Tennessee Lookout projected 68,000 Tennesseans would lose health insurance. Fleischmann was booed at subsequent constituent events and his 'never' town hall stance was linked to this vote.",
"category": "donor_aligned"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 29 / S. 5",
"title": "Laken Riley Act",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2025-01-07",
"roll_call_url": "https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-rep-chuck-fleischmann-votes-pass-laken-riley-act",
"why_it_matters": "Voted for legislation mandating ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of theft offenses. Called it 'one of the first major immigration reforms Congress has passed in years.' Bill passed 264-159 with 48 Democratic votes.",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 21",
"title": "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2025-01-23",
"roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202527",
"why_it_matters": "Voted for legislation imposing criminal penalties on healthcare practitioners in failed abortion cases. Fleischmann has a 100% pro-life voting record and states 'life begins at conception.'",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 22",
"title": "SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act)",
"vote": "yea",
"vote_date": "2025-04-10",
"roll_call_url": "https://poliscore.us/legislator/F000459",
"why_it_matters": "Supported requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. PoliScore analysis notes Fleischmann 'backed bills that make it harder for many people to register and be counted in elections.'",
"category": "party_defection"
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"bill_id": "H.R. 3233",
"title": "National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack",
"vote": "nay",
"vote_date": "2021-05-19",
"roll_call_url": "https://accountability.gop/profile/rep-charles-j-chuck-fleischmann/",
"why_it_matters": "Voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack, despite having called the violence 'an affront to our Republic.' Also voted against impeaching Trump for inciting the insurrection and against holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.",
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