Congress Monitor Build Handoff

Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup) Filed: 2026-04-29T07:41:13.297Z Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #61647) Resolved official: Diana DeGette (entity #11207) Ingest result: 35 facts · 34 sources · 1 contradictions · 5 voting_records · 4 skipped

Briefing Sent

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.

Result

{ "target_official": { "name": "Diana DeGette", "bioguide_id": "D000197" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "Career total receipts (1995-2024): $14,088,557 raised; $13,838,799 spent; $348,840 cash on hand as of 12/31/2024.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributing industry over career (1995-2024): Health Professionals at $1,400,413, followed by Lawyers/Law Firms at $1,334,988, and Pharmaceuticals/Health Products at $1,139,759.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" }, { "fact_text": "2023-2024 cycle: PAC contributions accounted for 61.92% of fundraising ($496,600); large individual contributions were 34.17%; small individual contributions (<$200) were only 3.90%.", "date_occurred": "2024-06-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributor in 2023-2024 cycle: DaVita Inc at $21,500, followed by Brownstein, Hyatt et al at $18,300, and Sean N Parker Foundation at $13,200.", "date_occurred": "2024-06-30", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Total pro-Israel lobby career contributions (PACs + lobby donors): $457,637, including $95,230 from pro-Israel PACs.", "date_occurred": "2025-04-20", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.trackaipac.com/congress" }, { "fact_text": "FEC Form 3 Post-General filing (C00311639) covering 10/17/2024 through 11/25/2024: net contributions of $64,910 for the period, cycle-to-date net contributions of $1,071,714.17.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-04", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00311639/1853104/" }, { "fact_text": "Operates a Leadership PAC: Individuals Dedicated to Ethics & Science, which raised $66,000 from individual donors of $200 or more.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2024&strID=C00416060" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "American Assn for Justice", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "Career: $150,000 via American Assn for Justice PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "NCTA The Internet & Television Assn", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "Career: $125,495 via NCTA The Internet & Television Assn PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "Career: $125,000 via International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" }, { "donor_entity_name": "National Assn of Realtors", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "Career: $122,000 via National Assn of Realtors PAC", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=CAREER" } ] }, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "Unable to identify a verifiable window where Rep. DeGette was demonstrably silent on a specific topic while actively commenting on adjacent issues, with primary-source evidence of both the silence and the adjacent activity." }, "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Rep. DeGette co-chairs the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and has described herself as a fierce defender of abortion rights, pledging to protect reproductive freedom.", "claim_date": "2023-04-12", "claim_type": "platform", "source_url": "https://degette.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/degette-others-call-house-committee-hearing-judges-decision-revoke-fda" }, { "claim_text": "DeGette's 2023-2024 campaign received $95,500 in PAC contributions from the Pharmaceuticals/Health Products industry, her second-largest sector donor that cycle.", "claim_date": "2024-06-30", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006134&cycle=2024" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "statement_vs_disclosure", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "DeGette positions herself as a leading defender of reproductive rights, yet her campaign accepted $95,500 from pharmaceutical PACs in a single cycle — an industry with direct financial stakes in abortion medication and reproductive health regulation. While not a direct policy conflict, the funding pattern creates a perceived dual loyalty when the FDA, drug pricing, and reproductive drug access come before her Energy and Commerce Committee." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R. 4639", "title": "Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-17", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024136", "why_it_matters": "DeGette voted yes for this privacy bill prohibiting law enforcement from buying data from data brokers to circumvent the Fourth Amendment, while a majority of House Democrats voted no. The bill passed 219-199. One of only 25 times (2.5%) she broke with her party in the 118th Congress — and one of the most substantively significant party defections on her record.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 7217", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act (Standalone Israel Aid)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2024-02-06", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202438", "why_it_matters": "DeGette voted against a standalone $17.6 billion Israel aid bill, publicly citing its failure to include Ukraine aid, Gaza humanitarian assistance, and its offset via IRS funding cuts. While most House Democrats also voted no, her vote put her at odds with pro-Israel donors who have given her $457,637 over her career, creating cross-pressure visible in the public record.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res. 894", "title": "Strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world", "vote": "abstain", "vote_date": "2023-12-05", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023697", "why_it_matters": "DeGette voted 'present' on this antisemitism condemnation resolution, rather than the 'yea' supported by 311 bipartisan members. She stated she condemned antisemitism but objected to the resolution's language. In a district with a significant Jewish constituency, this abstention created a cross-pressure between progressive activists critical of the resolution's framing of campus protests and pro-Israel constituents and donors.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 29", "title": "Laken Riley Act", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-07", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523", "why_it_matters": "DeGette voted nay while 48 House Democrats crossed the aisle to pass this immigration detention bill. Her district is 27.9% Hispanic with a significant immigrant population (14.3% foreign-born) — constituents directly affected by expanded ICE detention authority. Her vote aligned with constituent demographic interests while the bill passed 264-159 with strong bipartisan support.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 5009", "title": "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-12-10", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5009", "why_it_matters": "DeGette voted nay_unverified against the NDAA citing provisions that 'force the United States to provide further weapons, including offensive weapons, to Netanyahu.' This vote defected from pro-Israel donor interests ($457,637 career total) while aligning with progressive constituents who have increasingly pressured her on military aid to Israel. 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