Receipt summary — not a verdict

This member's profile: LOW — 1.2% of PAC dollars from tagged committees. Correlation ≠ causation — the filings are still real.

Laura Friedman

Rep. CA-30

Principal committee C00831321 · Schedule A →

LOW

PAC dependency

1.2%

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

Tagged / total PAC

$7,100 / $605,139

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

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 58% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$6,000	Receipts · Committee
JStreetPAC	C00441949	$1,100	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

1.3%

Post–Oct 7

+1.3pp

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 →

Share card

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/F000483.png

Influence breakdown

PAC dependency1

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 Laura Friedman. 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)

LOW

Schedule A earmarked conduit (tagged PACs)

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

$3,750 · 8 sample lines indexed

$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$500 · JStreetPAC
EARMARKED FOR LAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESS
$500 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$500 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$500 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$250 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$250 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$250 · JStreetPAC
EARMARKED FOR LAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESS

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.

$12,500 across 4 itemized lines · American Israel Public Affairs Committee, J Street

$5,000 · 2026-04-16 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeLAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$2,500 · 2025-11-06 · J StreetLAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$4,000 · 2024-10-03 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeLAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$1,000 · 2024-09-16 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeLAURA FRIEDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →

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