Policy discussion
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159
votes against the majority of New York Senate Republicans
Party unity 79%, in the bottom tenth of the New York Senate (average 93.2%). 3,522 roll calls in the NY 2025–26 session.
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 Murray voted with the majority of New York Senate Republicans; it is ranked within the New York Senate. The count covers every roll call where Murray voted opposite that majority.
At a glance
6 measures against the New York Senate. Murray missed 24% of 3,522 roll calls, attendance in the bottom tenth of the New York Senate (average 94.5%). 37% of the 103 bills Murray sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom half of the New York Senate.
The measures on which Murray 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.
Party unity
79%
New York Senate average 93.2% · ranks 57th of 62 · 159 votes against the majority of New York Senate Republicans
Attendance
76%
New York Senate average 94.5% · ranks 57th of 62 · 3,522 roll calls
Out of committee
37%
New York Senate average 44% · ranks 43rd of 62
From New York, 2026
100%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 281st of 860 State Senate Republicans
CSIP ideology
+0.30
More liberal than 59% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.03
Itemized, 2026
$59.5K
State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 421st of 936
Peer group: New York Senate. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Murray, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Murray is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Murray says
Murray claims credit less than 96% of State Senate Republicans. Credit claiming in 0% of 7 statements, against 15% for the average State Senate Republican; 342nd of 355.
An AI model reads each of Murray’s 7 statements in the NY 2025–26 session (7 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%
Murray
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion4 statements
57%
37%
57th of 355
Policy criticism3 statements
43%
9%
2nd of 355
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
273rd of 355
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
311th of 355
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
15%
342nd of 355
Show the data
| Row | Murray | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 57% | 37% |
| Policy criticism | 43% | 9% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 2% |
| Bipartisanship | 0% | 2% |
| Credit claiming | 0% | 15% |
7
statements classified
7 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 7 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Murray; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Murray does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Murray used no extreme labels in 7 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; 17 of them have no statements.
In Murray’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Policy criticism
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Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each 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 7 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: 7 posts on X.
Policy
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues is what Murray talks about most: 25% of policy statements, 5.0 times the peer share. Peers give it 5.0%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Murray talks about. The bills Murray sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Murray talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the NY 2025–26 session
0%36%
Murray
Peers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues1 statements
25%
5%
Education1 statements
25%
14%
Energy1 statements
25%
6%
Government Operations and Politics1 statements
25%
17%
Transportation and Public Works1 statements
25%
6%
Show the data
| Row | Murray | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 25% | 5% |
| Education | 25% | 14% |
| Energy | 25% | 6% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 25% | 17% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 25% | 6% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Murray’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 36%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 25% | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Education | 25% | 14% | 6% | 10% |
| Energy | 25% | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 25% | 17% | 6% | 12% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 25% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Murray legislates on exactly the areas Murray talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Murray sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Murray sits at +0.30 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 59% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.27 to +0.34, which understates the uncertainty; from 418 donors and 528 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”.
+0.30
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.27 to +0.34. From 418 donors and 528 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Murray, 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 Murray’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 Murray sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Republicans1,083 · median +0.4
New York Senate62 · median −0.5
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Murray |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 41% |
| New York Senate | 62 | −0.5 | 77% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 66% |
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 Murray 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 Murray.
Money
Murray reported $59.5K in the 2026 cycle, above the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% 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.
$59.5K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 224 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.
- Individuals (itemized)58 squares$34.3K
- PACs and other committees42 squares$25.0K
- Party committees$250
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $34.3K | 57.6% |
| PACs and other committees | $25.0K | 41.9% |
| Party committees | $250 | 0.4% |
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, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 cycle | $66.4K |
| 2024 cycle | $67.7K |
| 2026 cycle | $59.5K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from New York.
- New York$34.2K
- Florida$75
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
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| New York | $34.2K |
| Florida | $75 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
224
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
100%
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.
- RETIRED$4,906 52 donors
- ATTORNEY$1,900 7 donors
- OWNER$1,875 9 donors
- ADMINISTRATION$575 6 donors
- CLERICAL$250 3 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- SUFFOLK COUNTY PBA PAC$4,000
- SUFFOLK AME PAC$2,400
- SUFFOLK CO CORRECTION OFFICERS ASSN PAC$2,250
- BUILDING & CONST TRADES PAC$1,750
- FRIENDS OF NEIL FOLEY$1,500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN$2,680 17 donors
- SUFFOLK COUNTY$2,165 28 donors
- NYS SENATE$475 5 donors
- SUFFOLK OTB$430 6 donors
- NYS ASSEMBLY$100 3 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Murray voted with the majority of New York Senate Republicans on 79% of party-line votes and missed 24% of 3,522 roll calls. New York Senate on average: 93.2% party unity, 94.5% attendance. Across all roll calls, Murray voted against the majority of New York Senate Republicans 159 times.
3,522 roll calls Murray 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 Murray 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.
159
votes against the majority of New York Senate Republicans
Party unity 79%, New York Senate average 93.2%, ranks 57th of 62. 3,522 roll calls in the NY 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Murray, the thin grey bar the New York Senate average. The scale runs from 70% to 100% to show the gap.
70%100%
Murray
Peers
Rank
Attendance
76%
94.5%
57th of 62
Party unity
79%
93.2%
57th of 62
Show the data
| Row | Murray | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 76% | 94.5% |
| Party unity | 79% | 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
| 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 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 38–0 · R 15–7Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 15 yea, 7 nay | party 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 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 38–0 · R 22–0Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 22 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Yea | Against majority | pass | D 38–0 · R 8–14Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 8 yea, 14 nay | party crossover | |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 38–0 · R 22–0Democrats 38 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 22 yea, 0 nay | became 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 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 37–1 · R 21–1Democrats 37 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 21 yea, 1 nay | became 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 Murray most often
- Mario MatteraR2,653 shared votes94%
- Jim TediscoR2,689 shared votes92%
- Jake AshbyR2,657 shared votes92%
- Rob RolisonR2,689 shared votes91%
- Bill WeberR2,689 shared votes91%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Murray least often
- James SkoufisD2,689 shared votes75%
- Mark WalczykR2,661 shared votes77%
- Monica MartinezD2,669 shared votes78%
- Pete HarckhamD2,689 shared votes79%
- Chris RyanD2,689 shared votes79%
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
Legislation
Murray sponsored 103 bills in the NY 2025–26 session; 2 became law. Cosponsored 646 others. 37% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New York Senate average 44%; 43rd of 62).
The bills Murray 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
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 103 | 103 | 35 | 2 | 2 |
| Cosponsored | 646 | 646 | 410 | 39 | 17 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Murray sponsored, ochre blocks bills Murray cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
37%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
New York Senate average 44%. Ranks 43rd of 62.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Murray, by number of shared bills in the NY 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Steve Rhoads185
- Tony Palumbo154
- George Borrello153
- Rob Rolison147
- Mario Mattera137
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 Murray’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| J 2374 | Mourning and acknowledging September 11, 2026, as the 25th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States | Cosponsor | Sep 10, 2026 | In committee | Unassigned | REFERRED TO FINANCE Sep 10, 2026 |
| S 10679 | Includes certain violations involving children as qualifying offenses for the purpose of imposing bail | Sponsor | Aug 14, 2026 | In committee | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | REFERRED TO RULES Aug 14, 2026 |
| S 10681 | Establishes a Medicaid fraud tip board and Medicaid fraud tip reward fund | Sponsor | Aug 14, 2026 | In committee | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | REFERRED TO RULES Aug 14, 2026 |
| S 10680 | Relates to the handling of tips received through the office of the Medicaid inspector general's Medicaid fraud hotline | Sponsor | Aug 14, 2026 | In committee | Health(model) | REFERRED TO RULES Aug 14, 2026 |
| S 10633 | Increases the distribution of revenue from extending the authorization for the hotel and motel taxes in Suffolk county | Cosponsor | Jun 1, 2026 | In committee | Taxation(model) | SUBSTITUTED BY A11552 Jun 4, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 3 times in 90 days. Murray’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Murray’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 Murray posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
3changes in 90 days
- 8
pages crawled
3changes in 90 days
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.
Social accounts
Images Murray posted
No images from Murray’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
707 turns, Jan 9, 2023 to Jun 4, 2026
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
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 Murray 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
- Profile id
- 8ff653e0-5aa6-4692-ac54-25ed36e32f97
- Open States
- ocd-person/8ff653e0-5aa6-4692-ac54-25ed36e32f97
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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