Institutional context
This member's profile: HIGH — 29.1% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; 0% on pinned Israel/aid votes since 2024; $319,783 tagged IE primary pressure.
Rep. KY-4
PAC dependency
29.1%
Share of PAC dollars from tagged committees (2024 cycle).
Tagged / total PAC
$319,783 / $1,100,460
Numerator and denominator for the dependency ratio — every line links to FEC.
Peer context
More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 99% of House colleagues.
Score rule: influence_formula_v1
Margin test
Tagged PAC support exceeded this race's victory margin.
Tagged PAC $319,783 vs 277,255-vote general election margin (1.2×). Correlation ≠ causation — both figures link to primary sources.
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).
84.7%
Pre–Oct 7
0.0%
Post–Oct 7
-84.7pp
Change
Influence stack
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.
FARA foreign gov
Separate tab
Foreign-agent registration spend — never merged with domestic PAC totals.
Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/M001184.svg
Primary pressure (tagged IE)
$319,783
Support $0 · Oppose $319,783
Influence Mixer
Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Thomas Massie. Facts do not change — only the formula mix.
Live composite
100
Fuzzy overlap from lda.gov filing text — separate legal bucket from PAC $. Not LD-203 conduit data.
Severity is an editorial composite from public records.See the math →