Receipt summary — not a verdict

This member's profile: HIGH — 1.7% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; 100% on pinned Israel/aid votes since 2024. Correlation ≠ causation — the filings are still real.

Cliff Bentz

Rep. OR-2

Principal committee C00725465 · Schedule A →

HIGH

PAC dependency

1.7%

Share of PAC dollars from tagged committees (2024 cycle).

Tagged / total PAC

$10,000 / $575,843

Numerator and denominator for the dependency ratio — every line links to FEC.

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 72% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$10,000	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Post–Oct 7 delta

PAC dependency ratio before vs after 7 Oct 2023 (PAS2 transaction dates, 2024 cycle).

0.0%

Pre–Oct 7

2.6%

Post–Oct 7

+2.6pp

Change

Influence stack

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Default ON: direct PAC + documented IE. LDA and FARA live in separate sections — we never merge buckets.

Direct PACOn
Objective
FEC committee → candidate contributions (PAS2 bulk). Default ON.
LDA lobbying
Fuzzy match
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings — confidence-scored member links. Separate bucket.
Open →
FARA foreign gov
Separate tab
Foreign-agent registration spend — never merged with domestic PAC totals.
Open →

Share card

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/B000668.png

Influence breakdown

PAC dependency2

Pinned vote alignment100

Influence Mixer

Argue with the formula like a drunk poli-sci major

Your priors move, the FEC filings don't.

Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Cliff Bentz. The filings are fixed; your priors are adjustable — like Congress, but honest about it. Top-level split stays 55% electoral / 45% legislative.

Electoral — PAC dependencyElectoral — primary / IE pressureLegislative — pinned vote alignmentLegislative — committee / arms relevance

Live composite (monkey-adjusted)

HIGH

Schedule A earmarked conduit (tagged PACs)

FEC bulk itcont earmarks via tagged committees (2024 cycle) — semi-objective bucket; never merged into PAC dependency %.

$750 · 2 sample lines indexed

$500 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$250 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC

LD-203 lobbyist conduit contributions

Registrant/lobbyist-hosted contributions to committees honoring this member — lda.gov LD-203 filings since 2023. Separate bucket from FEC Schedule A PAC receipts above.

$10,000 across 2 itemized lines · American Israel Public Affairs Committee

$5,000 · 2024-10-25 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCLIFF BENTZ FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-05-20 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCLIFF BENTZ FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →

Pinned votes

H.R. 815 Israel supplemental — HouseYeaRoll call →
NDAA FY2024 conference — HouseYeaRoll call →
H.R. 815 rule — HouseYeaRoll call →
Further Consolidated Approps — HouseYeaRoll call →

LDA — bills you voted on that registrants lobbied

Fuzzy overlap from lda.gov filing text — separate legal bucket from PAC $. Not LD-203 conduit data.

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE lobbied on H.R. 815lda.gov →
J STREET lobbied on H.R. 815lda.gov →

Severity is an editorial composite from public records.See the math →