Congress Monitor Build Handoff

Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup) Filed: 2026-05-02T21:52:13.884Z Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #74872) Resolved official: Keith Self (entity #10882) Ingest result: 26 facts · 26 sources · 1 silences · 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": "Keith Self", "bioguide_id": "S001224" },

"donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "2023-2024 election cycle: raised $724,772 total; spent $640,345; cash on hand $109,340 as of 12/31/2024. Leadership PAC: All American PAC.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Source of funds (2023-2024): Large individual contributions 64.75% ($472,499), PAC contributions 31.04% ($226,486), small individual contributions (<$200) 3.42% ($24,975), self-financing 0.78% ($5,712).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Top contributing industries (2023-2024): Retired ($111,294), Republican/Conservative ($45,592), Leadership PACs ($44,300), Real Estate ($43,500), Electronics Mfg & Equip ($26,800).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "2025-2026 cycle (through 03/31/2026): total raised $504,420.20; total contributions $500,034.97; itemized individual contributions $261,027.44; other committee contributions $150,873.45.", "date_occurred": "2026-03-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2TX00064/" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "American Israel Public Affairs Cmte", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "2024: $18,100 via campaign committee ($8,100 individuals + $10,000 PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Southwest Airlines", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "2024: $17,200 via campaign committee ($15,200 individuals + $2,000 PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "House Freedom Fund", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $13,450 via campaign committee (all individual contributions)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "American Crystal Sugar", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024: $10,000 via campaign committee (all PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/keith-self/summary?cid=N00049337&cycle=2024" } ] },

"silences": [ { "topic": "Economic impact of Trump administration tariffs on Texas 3rd Congressional District", "expected_position": "As the representative of a suburban Dallas district with major employers including Toyota North America, JPMorgan Chase, and Liberty Mutual — all sensitive to trade policy — Self would be expected to address how tariffs affect his constituents' cost of living and local business conditions.", "window_start": "2025-02-01", "window_end": "2026-04-15", "evidence_summary": "During the same window, Self was active on trade-related issues: he praised Kosovo trade in social media posts (February 2026), criticized USAID (February 2025), and discussed trade policy at Chamber of Commerce events (July 2025). He also actively cheered Trump deportation numbers during this period. However, when a global trade war escalated and Texas businesses faced tariff impacts, Self did not publicly address the local economic pain — a gap documented by local outlet TX3DNews.", "primary_url": "https://tx3dnews.com/keith-self-cheers-deportations-ignores-tariff-fallout-in-tx-3/" } ],

"contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Self tweeted at 6:50 PM on July 2, 2025 that the Senate's version of the Republican 'Big Beautiful Bill' (H.R. 1) was 'morally and fiscally bankrupt.'", "claim_date": "2025-07-02", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/03/congressional-republicans-cave-megabill-big-beautiful-00439956" }, { "claim_text": "Self voted to advance the Big Beautiful Bill at 3:20 AM on July 3, 2025 and then voted yea on final passage (Roll Call 190, H.R. 1) later that day. He subsequently released a statement praising President Trump's leadership on the bill.", "claim_date": "2025-07-03", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://dallasexpress.com/national/big-beautiful-flip-flop-texas-rep-keith-self-backs-trump-bill-after-waffling/" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "reversal", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Within approximately 9.5 hours, Self went from publicly calling the bill 'morally and fiscally bankrupt' to voting to advance it and then voting for final passage. The bill did not substantively change in that window. Self's own press release later celebrated the bill's passage, creating a stark reversal from his public condemnation." } ] },

"telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act — On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-07-03", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190", "why_it_matters": "Self publicly tweeted the bill was 'morally and fiscally bankrupt' at 6:50 PM the prior evening, then voted to advance it at 3:20 AM and to pass it hours later — a complete reversal within 24 hours. The flip came after intense pressure from President Trump and House leadership. Self had campaigned as a fiscal hawk and Freedom Caucus member demanding $1 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax cuts; the final bill added an estimated $3-4 trillion to the deficit.", "category": "reversal" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024", "vote": "nay_unverified", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8035", "why_it_matters": "Self opposed standalone Ukraine aid despite his district's significant defense and aerospace sector presence (Raytheon/RTX subsidiary Collins Aerospace in DFW metro). He also voted against the procedural rule that packaged Ukraine aid with Israel aid — noteworthy because his top donor, AIPAC ($18,100 in 2024 cycle), strongly supported the Israel component of the package. Self argued each foreign aid bill should be considered on its own merit, pitting donor-aligned Israel support against his fiscal conservative stance.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 5371", "title": "Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2025-09-19", "roll_call_url": "https://data.norwichbulletin.com/roll-call/continuing-appropriations-and-extensions-act-2026/2025-house-281/", "why_it_matters": "Self voted for a clean continuing resolution in September 2025, a notable shift from January 2024 when he voted against multiple CRs and publicly stated 'Shut down the border or shut down the government!' This position evolution on government funding bills — from Freedom Caucus holdout to supporting leadership's stopgap — tracks with his broader pattern of initial public resistance followed by eventual support under party pressure.", "category": "position_evolution" }, { "bill_id": "H.R. 3944", "title": "Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 — On Motion to Instruct Conferees", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-09-11", "roll_call_url": "https://data.norwichbulletin.com/roll-call/military-construction-veterans-affairs-and-related-agencies-appropriations-act-2026/2025-house-263/", "why_it_matters": "Self voted against instructing House conferees on the Military Construction/VA spending bill. His district has a large veteran population (Gulf War-era veterans are the largest cohort in TX-03) and he serves on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, making constituent interest in VA funding high. The nay vote aligned with the party majority but may have been driven by broader spending-cut ideology rather than veteran-specific concerns.", "category": "cross_pressure" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res. (Omar Censure)", "title": "Censuring Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — On Motion to Table", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-09-17", "roll_call_url": "https://data.norwichbulletin.com/roll-call/censuring-representative-ilhan-omar-of-minnesota-and-removing-her-from-the-committee-on-education-and-workforce-and-the-committee-on-the-budget/2025-house-276/", "why_it_matters": "Self voted against tabling (i.e., killing) the censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar, joining most Republicans. However, the resolution was ultimately tabled 214-213 with four Republicans joining Democrats. Self's vote to allow the censure to proceed is consistent with his pattern of supporting actions targeting Muslim public figures — he also called for IRS/DOJ investigations of the East Plano Islamic Center in his own district in April 2026.", "category": "party_defection" } ],

"constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "Texas's 3rd Congressional District encompasses the suburban areas north and northeast of Dallas, primarily within Collin County, including McKinney, Allen, and parts of Plano, Frisco, and Prosper. It is one of the most affluent and highly educated districts in Texas, with a median household income of $121,914 — more than triple the national median. The district is solidly Republican (Cook PVI R+25) and was represented by Sam Johnson (R) from 1991-2019, then Van Taylor (R) 2019-2023, and now Keith Self (R) since 2023. The population of approximately 846,484 is majority White (Non-Hispanic) at 58.6%, with significant Asian (14%) and Hispanic (16.4%) communities. The district's economy is anchored by professional/technical services, healthcare, retail, and a growing technology sector fueled by corporate headquarters including Toyota North America and JPMorgan Chase regional operations.", "top_employers": [ { "name": "Toyota North America (headquarters in Plano)", "employees": 5000, "source_url": "https://thestatement.bokf.com/north-dallas-suburbs-experiencing-explosive-growth/" }, { "name": "JPMorgan Chase (regional hub in Plano)", "employees": 7000, "source_url": "https://thestatement.bokf.com/north-dallas-suburbs-experiencing-explosive-growth/" }, { "name": "Liberty Mutual (regional hub in Plano)", "employees": 4000, "source_url": "https://thestatement.bokf.com/north-dallas-suburbs-experiencing-explosive-growth/" }, { "name": "Raytheon / Collins Aerospace (DFW metro)", "employees": 8000, "source_url": "https://lawin.news/collins-aerospace-boosts-dallas-fort-worths-tech-sector-with-major/" } ], "dominant_industries": [ { "naics": "54 - Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services", "share": 0.13, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" }, { "naics": "62 - Health Care and Social Assistance", "share": 0.111, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" }, { "naics": "44-45 - Retail Trade", "share": 0.108, "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" } ], "recent_ballot_measures": [ { "name": "McKinney Bond Propositions (5 propositions totaling $485.5M for infrastructure, parks, public safety)", "year": 2024, "result": "mixed", "margin": "4 of 5 propositions passed", "source_url": "https://mckinneytoday.com/mckinney-voters-approve-4-out-of-5-bond-propositions/" }, { "name": "Collin County Proposition A — Bond Issuance for Juvenile and Adult Detention Facilities", "year": 2024, "result": "passed", "margin": "approved by voters", "source_url": "https://www.ballotready.org/collin-county-proposition-a-bond-issuance-for-juvenile-and-adult-detention-facilities" } ], "demographic_anchors": [ { "label": "Median household income", "value": "$121,914 (2024)", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" }, { "label": "Poverty rate", "value": "6.16% (2024)", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" }, { "label": "Homeownership rate", "value": "73.4%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/keith-self-S001224/district" }, { "label": "Bachelor's degree or higher", "value": "50.3%", "source_url": "https://legisletter.org/legislator/keith-self-S001224/district" }, { "label": "Foreign-born population", "value": "18.5% (156k people)", "source_url": "https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-3-tx" } ] } } }