Institutional context

This member's profile: HIGH — 1.6% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; 100% on pinned Israel/aid votes since 2024.

Raul Ruiz

Rep. CA-25

HIGH

PAC dependency

1.6%

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

Tagged / total PAC

$17,703 / $1,106,040

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

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 70% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$16,253	Receipts · Committee
JStreetPAC	C00441949	$1,450	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).

0.2%

Pre–Oct 7

2.4%

Post–Oct 7

+2.2pp

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/R000599.svg

PAC dependency2

Pinned vote alignment100

Influence Mixer

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

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Live composite

HIGH

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 →