Receipt summary — not a verdict

This member's profile: LOW — 1.1% of PAC dollars from tagged committees. Correlation ≠ causation — the filings are still real.

Craig A. Goldman

Rep. TX-12

Principal committee C00855528 · Schedule A →

LOW

PAC dependency

1.1%

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

Tagged / total PAC

$24,885 / $2,334,300

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

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 54% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$24,885	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Margin test 🍌

Tagged PAC $24,885 · 2024 general margin 91,410 votes (0.27×)

Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives →

Post–Oct 7 delta

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

0.0%

Pre–Oct 7

1.1%

Post–Oct 7

+1.1pp

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/G000601.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 Craig A. Goldman. 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 %.

$20,250 · 27 sample lines indexed

$2,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC
$1,000 · 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.

$32,500 across 7 itemized lines · American Israel Public Affairs Committee, J Street

$5,000 · 2026-02-05 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCRAIG GOLDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2025-09-02 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeDAN GOLDMAN FOR NEW YORKLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-09-16 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeDAN GOLDMAN FOR NEW YORKLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-04-30 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCRAIG GOLDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-04-12 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeDAN GOLDMAN FOR NEW YORKLD-203 filing →
$2,500 · 2024-03-19 · J StreetDAN GOLDMAN FOR NEW YORKLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-02-20 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCRAIG GOLDMAN FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →

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