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Republican · New York Senate, district 17

Serving since Jan 1, 2025NY 2025–26 session

Portrait of Steve Chan, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
8.6%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the bottom 5% of the New York Senate

8.6% of 35 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the New York Senate is 44%. Ranks 61st of 62, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Chan sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the New York Senate. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.

At a glance

6 measures against the New York Senate. Chan reported $155.0K in the 2026 cycle, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K). Chan voted against the majority of New York Senate Republicans 172 times; party unity 89%, in the bottom quarter of the New York Senate (average 93.2%).

The measures on which Chan sits furthest from the middle of the New York Senate, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Out of committee

8.6%

New York Senate average 44% · ranks 61st of 62

Itemized, 2026

$155.0K

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 202nd of 936

Party unity

89%

New York Senate average 93.2% · ranks 48th of 62 · 172 votes against the majority of New York Senate Republicans

Attendance

99.6%

New York Senate average 94.5% · ranks 22nd of 62 · 3,522 roll calls

CSIP ideology

+0.32

More liberal than 56% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.04

From New York, 2026

96%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 407th of 860 State Senate Republicans

Peer group: New York Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Chan, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Chan is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Chan says

Chan talks about policy less than 98% of State Senate Republicans. Policy discussion in 0% of 3 statements, against 37% for the average State Senate Republican; 352nd of 355.

An AI model reads each of Chan’s 3 statements in the NY 2025–26 session (3 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the NY 2025–26 session

0%80%
Chan
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
273rd of 355
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
331st of 355
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
37%
352nd of 355
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
311th of 355
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
15%
342nd of 355
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Chan's share of statements in each category against the State Senate Republicans average.
RowChanPeers
Personal attacks0%2%
Policy criticism0%9%
Policy discussion0%37%
Bipartisanship0%2%
Credit claiming0%15%
3

statements classified

3 posts on X.

posts on X: 3 (100.0%)posts on X 3
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Chan's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X3
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Chan; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Chan does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Chan used no extreme labels in 3 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

What an extreme label is

Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.

Month by month

Share of statements per month, the NY 2025–26 session

No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.

How to read the strips

Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the NY 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 22 months are hatched here; 20 of them have no statements.

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

No statements in this category in this window.

All 3 statements

Newest first, the NY 2025–26 session

The full feed

Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 3 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the NY 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Chan sits at +0.32 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 56% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.28 to +0.37, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,462 donors and 299 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.32

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.28 to +0.37. From 1,462 donors and 299 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Chan +0.3State Senate Republicans +0.4New York Senate −0.5All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Chan, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Chan’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Chan sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Chan +0.3New York Senatemedian −0.5All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Chan's CSIP score of +0.32 placed against State Senate Republicans, New York Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Chan
State Senate Republicans1083+0.444%
New York Senate62−0.581%
All State Senate1909+0.168%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Chan in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Chan.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Chan reported $155.0K in the 2026 cycle, 3.4 times the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 96% of itemized individual money came from New York.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$155.0K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 729 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)98 squares$151.5K
  • PACs and other committees2 squares$3,500
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Sources of Chan's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$151.5K97.7%
PACs and other committees$3,5002.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $214.1K$214.1K20242026 cycle: $155.0K$155.0K2026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Chan's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$214.1K
2026 cycle$155.0K

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 96% came from New York.

  1. New York$145.6K
  2. Maryland$3,082
  3. New Jersey$1,631
  4. Nevada$1,041
  5. Pennsylvania$104

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: $145.6KNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: $1,041NVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: $104PANew Jersey: $1,631NJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: $3,082MDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Chan's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
New York$145.6K
Maryland$3,082
New Jersey$1,631
Nevada$1,041
Pennsylvania$104
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
729

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

96%

from New York

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is New York. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIREE$29.3K 156 donors
  2. MANAGER$11.7K 31 donors
  3. RETIRED$10.3K 77 donors
  4. PHYSICIAN$9,196 13 donors
  5. HOUSEWIFE$7,150 62 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. ORTT FOR STATE SENATE$2,500
  2. LAWPAC OF NEW YORK$1,000

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. HOUSEWIFE$7,050 61 donors
  2. RENDR$3,347 7 donors
  3. ABI HEALTH CARE$1,550 5 donors
  4. NYS SENATE$975 5 donors
  5. NYPD$900 6 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Chan voted with the majority of New York Senate Republicans on 89% of party-line votes and missed 0.3% of 3,522 roll calls. New York Senate on average: 93.2% party unity, 94.5% attendance. Across all roll calls, Chan voted against the majority of New York Senate Republicans 172 times.

3,522 roll calls Chan could vote on in the NY 2025–26 session, compared with New York Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Chan voted with the majority of New York Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

172

votes against the majority of New York Senate Republicans

Party unity 89%, New York Senate average 93.2%, ranks 48th of 62. 3,522 roll calls in the NY 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Chan, the thin grey bar the New York Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Chan
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.6%
94.5%
22nd of 62
Party unity
89%
93.2%
48th of 62
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Chan's attendance and party unity against New York Senate.
RowChanPeers
Attendance99.6%94.5%
Party unity89%93.2%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the NY 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Jun 4, 2026
R 2355
Establishes a plan setting forth an itemized list of grantees for a certain appropriation for the 2026-27 state fiscal year for additional grants in aid to certain school districts, public libraries
Floor Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 38–0 · R 15–7Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 15 yea, 7 nayparty crossover
Jun 4, 2026
A 11538
Extends the expansion of eligibility for World Trade Center death and disability benefits for members of New York's organized militia
Floor Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 38–0 · R 22–0Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 22 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jun 4, 2026
S 1004
Relates to determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial
Floor Vote - Version: B
NayWith majoritypassD 38–0 · R 8–14Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 8 yea, 14 nayparty crossover
Jun 4, 2026
A 329
Relates to setting integrated behavioral health services
Floor Vote - Version: C
YeaWith majoritypassD 38–0 · R 22–0Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 22 yea, 0 naybecame law
Jun 4, 2026
S 10223
Authorizes the South End Children's Cafe to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption with the city of Albany assessor
Floor Vote - Version: A
YeaWith majoritypassD 37–1 · R 21–1Democrats 37 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 21 yea, 1 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Chan most often

  1. Jim TediscoR3,510 shared votes92%
  2. Dan StecR3,478 shared votes92%
  3. Bill WeberR3,510 shared votes92%
  4. Mario MatteraR3,474 shared votes92%
  5. Joe GriffoR3,361 shared votes91%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Chan least often

  1. James SkoufisD3,510 shared votes73%
  2. Monica MartinezD3,490 shared votes75%
  3. Pete HarckhamD3,510 shared votes76%
  4. Jessica Scarcella-SpantonD3,492 shared votes76%
  5. Jabari BrisportD3,510 shared votes76%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

NY 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Chan sponsored 35 bills in the NY 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 418 others. 8.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New York Senate average 44%; 61st of 62).

The bills Chan sponsored and cosponsored in the NY 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the NY 2025–26 session

Sponsored35 billsSponsored, Introduced: 3535Sponsored, In committee: 3535Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 33Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored418 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 418418Cosponsored, In committee: 418418Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 286286Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 77Cosponsored, Became law: 55IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Chan sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored3535300
Cosponsored41841828675
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Chan sponsored, ochre blocks bills Chan cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

8.6%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

New York Senate average 44%. Ranks 61st of 62.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Chan, by number of shared bills in the NY 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Steve Rhoads78
  2. Mario Mattera76
  3. George Borrello69
  4. Tony Palumbo66
  5. Peter Oberacker66
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Chan’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
J 2374Mourning and acknowledging September 11, 2026, as the 25th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United StatesCosponsorSep 10, 2026In committeeUnassignedREFERRED TO FINANCE Sep 10, 2026
S 10692Relates to the disclosure of artificial intelligence use in floor statements and debate by members of the legislatureSponsorSep 9, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)REFERRED TO RULES Sep 9, 2026
S 10691Enacts "Jacob Freytes' law"SponsorSep 4, 2026In committeeCrime and Law Enforcement(model)REFERRED TO RULES Sep 4, 2026
S 10647Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Efrain BarretoSponsorJun 2, 2026In committeeTransportation and Public Works(model)REFERRED TO RULES Jun 2, 2026
S 10632Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimesCosponsorJun 1, 2026Passed one chamberCrime and Law Enforcement(model)REFERRED TO CODES Jun 4, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Chan’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Chan’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Chan posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Chan posted

No images from Chan’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

79 turns, Jan 8, 2025 to Jun 4, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Chan is most unusual among New York Senate, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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