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Two views into the gap between PAC dollars in and votes out. Members ranks (member, industry) cells by how far the member's Yes-rate diverges from the median for their own party in the same chamber. Bills ranks bills by revealed-preference subterfuge — industries lobbying to pass the bill while not appearing in its stated subject tags.Methodology →

#MemberIndustryPAC $Yes / nParty Δ (95% CI)Chamber ΔConfidence
726Cindy Hyde-Smith
R-MS · Senate
Health insurance$50k19% (27)+0[-11, +18]-33vs 53%CI ∋ 0
727Chuck Edwards
R-NC · House
Banking$50k86% (22)+0[-19, +9]+8vs 78%CI ∋ 0
728Cindy Hyde-Smith
R-MS · Senate
Lawyers & lobbyists$100k50% (6)low-n party-16vs 67%Preliminary
729Cindy Hyde-Smith
R-MS · Senate
Banking$50k73% (45)+0[-14, +11]+3vs 70%CI ∋ 0
730Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Labor unions$50k43% (7)+0[-27, +32]-28vs 71%CI ∋ 0
731Cindy Hyde-Smith
R-MS · Senate
Electric utilities$50k73% (62)+0[-13, +9]+1vs 72%CI ∋ 0
732Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Oil & gas$100k81% (47)+0[-13, +9]+0vs 81%CI ∋ 0
733Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Hospitals & healthcare$100k75% (8)+0[-34, +18]+0vs 75%CI ∋ 0
734Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Agriculture$100k76% (17)+0[-23, +14]+0vs 76%CI ∋ 0
735Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Renewable energy$50k85% (26)+0[-18, +9]+8vs 77%CI ∋ 0
736Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Auto$50k100% (6)+0[-39, +0]+0vs 100%CI ∋ 0
737Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Transportation$50k88% (8)+0[-35, +10]+0vs 88%CI ∋ 0
738Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Electric utilities$50k83% (40)+0[-15, +8]+3vs 80%CI ∋ 0
739Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Pharmaceutical$50k71% (24)+0[-20, +14]+17vs 54%CI ∋ 0
740Claudia Tenney
R-NY · House
Lawyers & lobbyists$50k82% (17)+0[-23, +12]+11vs 71%CI ∋ 0
741Cliff Bentz
R-OR · House
Health insurance$300k67% (18)+0[-23, +17]+6vs 61%CI ∋ 0
742Darin LaHood
R-IL · House
Transportation$2.1M88% (8)+0[-35, +10]+0vs 88%CI ∋ 0
743Dale Strong
R-AL · House
Banking$160k86% (22)+0[-19, +9]+8vs 78%CI ∋ 0
744Dale Strong
R-AL · House
Tech$85k87% (30)+0[-17, +8]+4vs 83%CI ∋ 0
745Dale Strong
R-AL · House
Transportation$80k88% (8)+0[-35, +10]+0vs 88%CI ∋ 0
746Cliff Bentz
R-OR · House
Construction$190k70% (20)+0[-22, +16]+5vs 65%CI ∋ 0
747Cliff Bentz
R-OR · House
Real estate$70k83% (6)+0[-39, +14]+0vs 83%CI ∋ 0
748Cory Booker
D-NJ · Senate
Oil & gas$100k41% (177)low-n party-23vs 64%Preliminary
749Cynthia Lummis
R-WY · Senate
Food & beverage$50k33% (9)+0[-21, +32]-34vs 67%CI ∋ 0
750Darin LaHood
R-IL · House
Health insurance$184k67% (18)+0[-23, +17]+6vs 61%CI ∋ 0

Members tab — Party Δ (primary) = member's Yes% − party median Yes% on the same industry's bills (same chamber, same cycle), with Wilson 95% confidence bounds. Chamber Δ (secondary, dim) = member's Yes% − chamber median Yes%. Chamber Δ is partisan-biased when the chamber has a partisan majority; shown for context but ranking uses Party Δ.

Sorting: rows are ranked by the lower bound of |Party Δ| at 95% confidence — i.e. the minimum deviation we can claim given the sample size. When the confidence interval on Party Δ crosses zero, the row is marked CI ∋ 0: the direction of the deviation is not confidently signed and the row ranks below all cells with a confidently-signed deviation. This kills the small-sample noise floor that point-estimate ranking lets through.

Confidence column: CI ∋ 0 means direction not confidently signed (Wilson CI on the deviation crosses zero). Preliminary means the direction IS signed but the cell does not pass Benjamini-Hochberg FDR correction across all leaderboard cells — could be a false positive from running ~1500 tests; treat as suggestive. A severity label (Slight / Moderate / High / Extreme) means the cell is BOTH confidently signed AND passes FDR — the rigorous-stats-claim tier.

Min 5 votes per cell, ≥$1 in industry PAC dollars. Min 5 same-party members in the pool for Party Δ; rows below that floor show "low-n party" and rank by Chamber Δ. See docs/audits/mvg-partisan-median-artifact-2026-05-14.md (party-conditional fix) and docs/audits/mvg-wilson-ci-2026-05-15.md (Wilson CI rigor) for the methodology audits.

Bills tab: subterfuge_score = Σ over unstated supporters of (1 + log₁₀(filings)). See methodology for the full audit.