2.3% of individual money in the 2026 cycle came in gifts of $200 or less; the median for House Democrats is 13%. Ranks 197th of 214, where 1st is the highest share. $2.2M raised in all.
Campaigns report every donor who gives more than $200 by name and smaller gifts only as one total; this is that small-gift total as a share of all money from individuals, from the FEC’s committee summaries, ranked among House Democrats. It understates small giving when a campaign itemizes gifts made through ActBlue or WinRed.
6 measures against House Democrats. 67% of Menendez’s statements discuss policy, in the bottom quarter of House Democrats (average 73%). 5.4% of Menendez’s statements use bipartisan language, in the bottom quarter of House Democrats (average 9.8%).
The measures on which Menendez sits furthest from the middle of House Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Attendance
House Democrats average 96.9% · ranks 10th of 217 · 674 roll calls
Small donations, 2026
House Democrats’ median 13% · ranks 197th of 214
Policy discussion
House Democrats average 73% · ranks 180th of 216
Bipartisanship
House Democrats average 9.8% · ranks 178th of 216
Personal attacks
House Democrats average 6.6% · ranks 174th of 216
CSIP ideology
Left of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.03
Peer group: House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Menendez, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Menendez is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Menendez attacks opponents personally less than 80% of House Democrats. Personal attacks in 2.0% of 2,145 statements, against 6.6% for the average House Democrat; 174th of 216.
An AI model reads each of Menendez’s 2,145 statements in the 119th Congress (1,953 posts on X, 84 press releases, 75 newsletters, 33 Congressional Record speeches) 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 House Democrats and ranked among them.
Share of statements carrying each label, the 119th Congress
| Row | Menendez | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 67% | 73% |
| Policy criticism | 28% | 28% |
| Credit claiming | 27% | 23% |
| Bipartisanship | 5% | 10% |
| Personal attacks | 2% | 7% |
statements classified
1,953 posts on X, 84 press releases, 75 newsletters, 33 Congressional Record speeches.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 1,953 |
| press releases | 84 |
| newsletters | 75 |
| Congressional Record speeches | 33 |
The thick bar is Menendez; the thin grey bar is the average House Democrats. A longer thick bar means Menendez does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Menendez used extreme labels in 0.9% of statements, below the peer average. 20 statements, most often aimed at Republicans; peers 1.9%.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
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.
Share of statements per month, the 119th Congress
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 55 | 3.6% | 32.7% | 70.9% | 7.3% | 45.5% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 82 | 2.4% | 36.6% | 72.0% | 6.1% | 31.7% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’25 | 83 | 2.4% | 42.2% | 66.3% | 7.2% | 22.9% | 3.6% |
| Apr ’25 | 94 | 2.1% | 34.0% | 69.2% | 5.3% | 21.3% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 140 | 2.1% | 42.1% | 65.0% | 6.4% | 23.6% | 1.4% |
| Jun ’25 | 103 | 0.0% | 27.2% | 55.3% | 2.9% | 11.7% | 2.9% |
| Jul ’25 | 84 | 1.2% | 36.9% | 66.7% | 3.6% | 22.6% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 58 | 0.0% | 25.9% | 55.2% | 6.9% | 34.5% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’25 | 97 | 0.0% | 28.9% | 65.0% | 10.3% | 34.0% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 132 | 0.0% | 39.4% | 64.4% | 9.1% | 21.2% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 80 | 0.0% | 40.0% | 71.3% | 6.3% | 21.3% | 0.0% |
| Dec ’25 | 105 | 4.8% | 19.1% | 66.7% | 6.7% | 28.6% | 0.9% |
| Jan ’26 | 104 | 4.8% | 13.5% | 71.2% | 1.0% | 16.4% | 1.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 135 | 5.2% | 29.6% | 61.5% | 2.2% | 25.2% | 1.5% |
| Mar ’26 | 133 | 0.8% | 28.6% | 66.9% | 7.5% | 39.1% | 0.8% |
| Apr ’26 | 137 | 4.4% | 21.2% | 75.9% | 7.3% | 38.0% | 2.9% |
| May ’26 | 98 | 2.0% | 22.4% | 66.3% | 3.1% | 33.7% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 111 | 0.9% | 26.1% | 58.6% | 3.6% | 29.7% | 1.8% |
| Jul ’26 | 86 | 2.3% | 19.8% | 65.1% | 5.8% | 23.3% | 1.2% |
| Aug ’26 | 81 | 0.0% | 11.1% | 70.4% | 1.2% | 16.1% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’26 | 75 | 0.0% | 16.0% | 80.0% | 2.7% | 24.0% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 72 | 1.4% | 8.3% | 68.1% | 4.2% | 22.2% | 0.0% |
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 119th Congress, 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%.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
Menendez and Krishnamoorthi Push for Stronger Energy Drink Safety Rules to Protect Kids WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Rob Menendez (NJ-08) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling on HHS to update…
Oct 13, 2026 · Press releases · policy criticism; policy discussion; bipartisanship; credit claiming; Health; Families; Commerce · Source
Personal attacks
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Oct 16, 2026 · Posts on X · personal attacks; policy discussion; Economics and Public Finance; Foreign Trade and International Finance; target: Republicans · Source
Extreme label
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Jul 23, 2026 · Posts on X · policy discussion; Immigration; Health; Labor and Employment; extreme label “extreme” aimed at Trump · Source
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.
Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Economics and Public Finance · Foreign Trade and International Finance · target: RepublicansSource
Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Immigration · target: Jeff Van DrewSource
Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Law · Government Operations and Politics · target: Todd BlancheSource
Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · target: TrumpSource
Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Transportation and Public Works · Economics and Public Finance · target: AdministrationSource
Newest first, the 119th Congress
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 1,953 posts on X, 84 press releases, 75 newsletters, 33 Congressional Record speeches.
Immigration is what Menendez talks about most: 26% of policy statements, 2.5 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.70 on a 0–1 scale (House Democrats average 0.67; 61st of 216).
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 Menendez talks about. The bills Menendez sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the 119th Congress
| Row | Menendez | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Immigration | 26% | 11% |
| Health | 20% | 26% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 14% | 20% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 11% | 5% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 10% | 20% |
The thick bar is the share of Menendez’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for House Democrats. 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.
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 35%. Grey ticks are the House Democrats averages.
| Area | Talks about | House Democrats, talks about | Legislates on | House Democrats, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immigration | 26% | 11% | 7% | 4% |
| Health | 20% | 26% | 14% | 16% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 14% | 20% | 7% | 11% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 11% | 5% | 7% | 3% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 10% | 20% | 1% | 1% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
House Democrats average 0.67. Ranks 61st of 216.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Menendez legislates on exactly the areas Menendez 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 Menendez sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Menendez sits at −0.97 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 55% of House Democrats. Approximate range −0.99 to −0.94, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,964 donors and 1,892 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”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range −0.99 to −0.94. From 1,964 donors and 1,892 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Menendez, 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 Menendez’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
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.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Menendez |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Democrats | 217 | −1.0 | 54% |
| All House | 439 | +0.3 | 27% |
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 Menendez 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 Menendez.
Menendez raised $2.2M in the 2026 cycle, close to the House Democrats’ median of $2.0M. 2.3% of individual money came in gifts of $200 or less. 44% of itemized individual money came from New Jersey.
Campaign money from Federal Election Commission 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.
raised in the 2026 cycle
From 735 itemized donors. House Democrats’ median $2.0M.
Each square is one percent of 2026-cycle receipts, from FEC summary totals.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Itemized individual (over $200) | $1.2M | 54.7% |
| Unitemized individual (gifts of $200 or less) | $28.6K | 1.3% |
| PACs and other committees | $886.1K | 39.6% |
| Remainder not broken out in the FEC summary (transfers, loans, refunds) | $98.6K | 4.4% |
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. The small-donor share understates small giving when a campaign itemizes gifts made through ActBlue or WinRed.
Total receipts, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the House Democrats’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 cycle | $1.8M |
| 2024 cycle | $2.4M |
| 2026 cycle | $2.2M |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 44% came from New Jersey.
Gifts of $200 or less as a share of individual money, by cycle. The thin grey bar is the 2026 House Democrats’ median.
| Row | Menendez | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 cycle | 2% | 13% |
| 2024 cycle | 1% | 13% |
| 2022 cycle | 1% | 13% |
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| New Jersey | $479.0K |
| New York | $266.9K |
| District of Columbia | $72.8K |
| California | $67.4K |
| Maryland | $64.3K |
| Virginia | $29.3K |
| Florida | $19.8K |
| Connecticut | $18.8K |
| Pennsylvania | $13.3K |
| Massachusetts | $12.8K |
| Texas | $10.0K |
| Oklahoma | $7,000 |
| Indiana | $3,500 |
| Arizona | $3,500 |
| Ohio | $3,143 |
| Michigan | $1,643 |
| Nevada | $1,500 |
| Kansas | $1,500 |
| Illinois | $1,250 |
| Delaware | $1,000 |
| North Carolina | $1,000 |
| Georgia | $750 |
| Utah | $500 |
| Washington | $250 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from New Jersey
Of itemized individual dollars
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is New Jersey. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Distribution of itemized donors’ own CSIP scores
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CSIP −1.25 to −1.00 | 12% |
| CSIP −1.00 to −0.75 | 48% |
| CSIP −0.75 to −0.50 | 13% |
| CSIP −0.50 to −0.25 | 9.9% |
| CSIP −0.25 to 0.00 | 8.9% |
| CSIP 0.00 to +0.25 | 5.3% |
| CSIP +0.25 to +0.50 | 1.9% |
| CSIP +0.50 to +0.75 | 0.5% |
| CSIP +0.75 to +1.00 | 0.3% |
Donors who give to many candidates get their own CSIP score. Each column is the share of Menendez’s itemized money from donors in that part of the scale, blue left of 0 and red right of 0, deeper further out; Menendez’s own score is −0.97.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Menendez voted with the majority of House Democrats on 98.7% of party-line votes and missed none of 674 roll calls. House Democrats on average: 96.4% party unity, 96.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Menendez voted against the majority of House Democrats 19 times.
674 roll calls Menendez could vote on in the 119th Congress, compared with House Democrats. 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 Menendez voted with the majority of House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of House Democrats
Party unity 98.7%, House Democrats average 96.4%, ranks 95th of 217. 674 roll calls in the 119th Congress.
The thick bar is Menendez, the thin grey bar the House Democrats average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Menendez | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 100% | 96.9% |
| Party unity | 98.7% | 96.4% |
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.
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the 119th Congress
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | Yea | With majority | Passed | D 209–0 · R 191–14 · I 1–0Democrats 209 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 191 yea, 14 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Sep 16, 2026 | H.J.Res. 213 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision” On Passage | Nay | With majority | Passed | D 3–207 · R 210–1 · I 1–0Democrats 3 yea, 207 nay; Republicans 210 yea, 1 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Nay | With majority | Passed | D 6–206 · R 210–1 · I 1–0Democrats 6 yea, 206 nay; Republicans 210 yea, 1 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote | |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Nay | Against majority | Passed | D 139–72 · R 212–0 · I 1–0Democrats 139 yea, 72 nay; Republicans 212 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | party crossover | |
| Sep 16, 2026 | H.R. 5334 An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments | Yea | Against majority | Passed | D 58–152 · R 203–7 · I 1–0Democrats 58 yea, 152 nay; Republicans 203 yea, 7 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover |
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.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Menendez most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Menendez least often
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.
119th Congress (2025–27), loads in batches
Menendez sponsored 22 bills in the 119th Congress; none became law. Cosponsored 325 others. 4.5% of sponsored bills got out of committee (House Democrats average 4.9%; 85th of 207).
The bills Menendez sponsored and cosponsored in the 119th Congress, 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.
Counts for the 119th Congress
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 22 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cosponsored | 325 | 325 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
Ink blocks are bills Menendez sponsored, ochre blocks bills Menendez cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
House Democrats average 4.9%. Ranks 85th of 207.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Menendez, by number of shared bills in the 119th Congress; the square shows their party.
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 Menendez’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| H.R. 10851 | Socket Full of Sunshine Act | Sponsor | Oct 19, 2026 | In committee | Unassigned | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Oct 19, 2026 |
| H.Res. 1627 | Reaffirming the commitment of the House of Representatives to preserve and expand pathways to citizenship. | Cosponsor | Oct 15, 2026 | In committee | Immigration | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Oct 15, 2026 |
| H.Con.Res. 123 | Recognizing the disparity in wages paid to Latinas and the impact of that disparity on women, families, the economy, and the United States. | Cosponsor | Oct 6, 2026 | In committee | Labor and Employment | Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Oct 6, 2026 |
| H.R. 10695 | United States Submarine Cable Security Policy Act of 2026 | Cosponsor | Oct 1, 2026 | In committee | Science, Technology, Communications | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Oct 1, 2026 |
| H.R. 10705 | Stop SIM Box Scams Act | Cosponsor | Oct 1, 2026 | In committee | Science, Technology, Communications | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Oct 1, 2026 |
A site that changed 94 times in 90 days. Menendez’s official site had 30 pages when last crawled on Oct 25, 2026. The lab last catalogued the images Menendez posted on Oct 26, 2026.
The lab crawls Menendez’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 Menendez posts with a vision model.
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“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.
The latest 24, with model-written 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.
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 is the measure on which Menendez is most unusual among House Democrats, 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 …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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