Institutional context

This member's profile: SEVERE — 58.4% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; $3,356,279 tagged IE primary pressure.

Wesley Bell

Rep. MO-1

SEVERE

PAC dependency

58.4%

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

Tagged / total PAC

$3,643,845 / $6,244,591

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

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 100% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
United Democracy Project	C00799031	$3,356,270	Receipts · Committee
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$280,975	Receipts · Committee
NORPAC	C00247403	$6,600	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Margin test

Tagged PAC support exceeded this race's victory margin.

Tagged PAC $3,643,845 vs 176,859-vote general election margin (20.6×). Correlation ≠ causation — both figures link to primary sources.

Post–Oct 7 delta

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

90.7%

Pre–Oct 7

11.3%

Post–Oct 7

-79.4pp

Change

Influence stack

Layer toggles

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 →

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/B001324.svg

PAC dependency58

Primary pressure (tagged IE)

$3,356,279

Support $3,356,279 · Oppose $0

Influence Mixer

Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Wesley Bell. Facts do not change — only the formula mix.

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Live composite

SEVERE

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