of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the top 5% of House Republicans
54% of 35 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for House Republicans is 17%. Ranks 5th of 216, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Steil sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked among House Republicans. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
0
At a glance
6 measures against House Republicans. 19% of Steil’s statements claim credit, in the bottom tenth of House Republicans (average 37%). 52% of Steil’s statements discuss policy, in the bottom tenth of House Republicans (average 68%).
The measures on which Steil sits furthest from the middle of House Republicans, 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
54%
House Republicans average 17% · ranks 5th of 216
Credit claiming
19%
House Republicans average 37% · ranks 206th of 221
Policy discussion
52%
House Republicans average 68% · ranks 201st of 221
Raised, 2026
$6.4M
House Republicans’ median $2.2M · ranks 28th of 220
Attendance
99.2%
House Republicans average 96.3% · ranks 40th of 221 · 674 roll calls
CSIP ideology
+0.89
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.01
Peer group: House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Steil, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Steil is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Steil claims credit less than 92% of House Republicans. Credit claiming in 19% of 1,443 statements, against 37% for the average House Republican; 206th of 221.
An AI model reads each of Steil’s 1,443 statements in the 119th Congress (1,129 posts on X, 172 Congressional Record speeches, 82 newsletters, 60 press releases) 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 Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the 119th Congress
Steil
House Republicans, average of 221
0%20%40%60%80%
Steil
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion752 statements
52%
68%
201st of 221
Credit claiming276 statements
19%
37%
206th of 221
Policy criticism185 statements
13%
15%
134th of 221
Bipartisanship72 statements
5%
9%
154th of 221
Personal attacks17 statements
1%
2%
112th of 221
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Steil's share of statements in each category against the House Republicans average.
Row
Steil
Peers
Policy discussion
52%
68%
Credit claiming
19%
37%
Policy criticism
13%
15%
Bipartisanship
5%
9%
Personal attacks
1%
2%
1,443
statements classified
1,129 posts on X, 172 Congressional Record speeches, 82 newsletters, 60 press releases.
posts on X
Congressional Record speeches
newsletters
press releases
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Steil's statements by source
Part
Value
posts on X
1,129
Congressional Record speeches
172
newsletters
82
press releases
60
+ − How to read the bars
The thick bar is Steil; the thin grey bar is the average House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Steil does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Steil used extreme labels in 1.0% of statements, 34% of the peer average. 15 statements, most often aimed at radical left; peers 3.0%.
“radical”8
“woke”3
“communist”1
“extreme”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
radical left3
left2
Defund the police1
Democrat leadership1
Democratic Party1
+ − 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 119th Congress
+ Show the data
Monthly rates for Steil, each row shaded against its own peak, with statement volume. Months with fewer than 10 statements are left blank.
Column
Statements
Personal attacks
Policy criticism
Policy discussion
Bipartisanship
Credit claiming
Extreme labels
Jan ’25
48
0.0%
16.7%
43.8%
0.0%
14.6%
0.0%
Feb ’25
52
0.0%
23.1%
61.5%
13.5%
32.7%
1.9%
Mar ’25
54
0.0%
18.5%
61.1%
11.1%
29.6%
0.0%
Apr ’25
69
1.5%
15.9%
44.9%
7.2%
24.6%
0.0%
May ’25
52
0.0%
15.4%
44.2%
3.9%
17.3%
0.0%
Jun ’25
59
1.7%
10.2%
59.3%
1.7%
27.1%
1.7%
Jul ’25
66
0.0%
10.6%
65.1%
7.6%
31.8%
1.5%
Aug ’25
40
0.0%
7.5%
55.0%
7.5%
22.5%
0.0%
Sep ’25
58
0.0%
19.0%
53.4%
1.7%
22.4%
0.0%
Oct ’25
56
0.0%
28.6%
58.9%
3.6%
23.2%
3.6%
Nov ’25
61
0.0%
24.6%
45.9%
13.1%
22.9%
0.0%
Dec ’25
45
0.0%
15.6%
64.4%
4.4%
33.3%
0.0%
Jan ’26
92
0.0%
4.3%
48.9%
5.4%
18.5%
0.0%
Feb ’26
115
0.0%
13.0%
38.3%
4.3%
13.0%
1.7%
Mar ’26
70
4.3%
15.7%
50.0%
4.3%
15.7%
1.4%
Apr ’26
94
3.2%
8.5%
67.0%
2.1%
14.9%
1.1%
May ’26
93
1.1%
12.9%
47.3%
8.6%
16.1%
0.0%
Jun ’26
52
1.9%
15.4%
38.5%
0.0%
17.3%
0.0%
Jul ’26
122
0.0%
8.2%
45.9%
4.1%
17.2%
0.8%
Aug ’26
51
9.8%
2.0%
68.6%
0.0%
7.8%
2.0%
Sep ’26
63
3.2%
3.2%
49.2%
1.6%
1.6%
6.3%
Oct ’26
31
0.0%
0.0%
58.1%
3.2%
6.5%
0.0%
+ − 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 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%.
In Steil’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Oct 8, 2026 · Posts on X · policy discussion; bipartisanship; Government Operations and Politics; Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues; Crime and Law Enforcement · Source
Credit claiming
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Oct 16, 2026 · Posts on X · policy discussion; credit claiming; Health; Armed Forces and National Security · Source
Extreme label
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to vote for this important resolution. A lot has been said here on the floor, so let's try to re- encapsulate what has been discussed. It was just referenced about the importance of the price of groceries and…
Sep 1, 2026 · Congressional Record · policy discussion; Agriculture and Food; Energy; Environmental Protection; Government Operations and Politics; Immigration; Taxation; extreme label “extreme, radical” aimed at noncitizen voting, radical left · Source
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.
·Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · target: Milwaukee manSource ↗
·Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · Crime and Law Enforcement · target: Demaryl HowardSource ↗
·Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · target: Phillip DanielsSource ↗
·Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Crime and Law Enforcement · Health · target: DanielsSource ↗
·Posts on X
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
personal attacks · policy discussion · Health · target: DanielsSource ↗
All 1,443 statements
Newest first, the 119th Congress
+ − 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: 1,129 posts on X, 172 Congressional Record speeches, 82 newsletters, 60 press releases.
Government Operations and Politics is what Steil talks about most: 40% of policy statements, 2.2 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.65 on a 0–1 scale (House Republicans average 0.64; 96th of 221).
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 Steil talks about. The bills Steil sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Steil talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the 119th Congress
Steil
House Republicans average
0%11%22%33%44%
Steil
Peers
Government Operations and Politics300 statements
40%
19%
Finance and Financial Sector164 statements
22%
3%
Economics and Public Finance120 statements
16%
19%
Health93 statements
12%
15%
Armed Forces and National Security86 statements
11%
24%
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Policy areas Steil talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the House Republicans average.
Row
Steil
Peers
Government Operations and Politics
40%
19%
Finance and Financial Sector
22%
3%
Economics and Public Finance
16%
19%
Health
12%
15%
Armed Forces and National Security
11%
24%
+ − How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Steil’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for House 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 44%. Grey ticks are the House Republicans averages.
Statements
Bills
House Republicans
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Steil's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
Area
Talks about
House Republicans, talks about
Legislates on
House Republicans, legislates on
Government Operations and Politics
40%
19%
34%
12%
Finance and Financial Sector
22%
3%
18%
5%
Economics and Public Finance
16%
19%
1%
2%
Health
12%
15%
8%
11%
Armed Forces and National Security
11%
24%
7%
8%
0.65
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
House Republicans average 0.64. Ranks 96th of 221.
+ − What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Steil legislates on exactly the areas Steil 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 Steil sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Steil sits at +0.89 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 69% of House Republicans. Approximate range +0.87 to +0.90, which understates the uncertainty; from 3,716 donors and 3,832 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”.
+0.89
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.87 to +0.90. From 3,716 donors and 3,832 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Steil, 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 Steil’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 Steil sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
House Republicans221 · median +1.0
All House439 · median +0.3
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Steil's CSIP score of +0.89 placed against House Republicans, All House.
Group
Officials
Median
Share left of Steil
House Republicans
221
+1.0
31%
All House
439
+0.3
65%
+ − 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 Steil 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 Steil.
Steil raised $6.4M in the 2026 cycle, 3.0 times the House Republicans’ median of $2.2M. 19% of individual money came in gifts of $200 or less. 36% of itemized individual money came from Wisconsin.
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.
$6.4M
raised in the 2026 cycle
From 996 itemized donors. House Republicans’ median $2.2M.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of 2026-cycle receipts, from FEC summary totals.
Itemized individual (over $200)23 squares$1.5M
Unitemized individual (gifts of $200 or less)5 squares$333.6K
PACs and other committees30 squares$1.9M
Party committees$1,000
Remainder not broken out in the FEC summary (transfers, loans, refunds)42 squares$2.7M
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Sources of Steil's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
Source
Amount
Share
Itemized individual (over $200)
$1.5M
22.8%
Unitemized individual (gifts of $200 or less)
$333.6K
5.2%
PACs and other committees
$1.9M
30.2%
Party committees
$1,000
0.0%
Remainder not broken out in the FEC summary (transfers, loans, refunds)
$2.7M
41.7%
+ − 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. The small-donor share understates small giving when a campaign itemizes gifts made through ActBlue or WinRed.
Receipts by cycle
Total receipts, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the House Republicans’ median for 2026.
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Steil's receipts by cycle against the 2026 House Republicans median.
Item
Value
2020 cycle
$3.5M
2022 cycle
$3.6M
2024 cycle
$5.6M
2026 cycle
$6.4M
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 36% came from Wisconsin.
Wisconsin$451.5K
California$148.6K
New York$113.7K
Texas$68.8K
Virginia$63.5K
Small donations
Gifts of $200 or less as a share of individual money, by cycle. The thin grey bar is the 2026 House Republicans’ median.
Steil
Median
0%20%40%60%
Steil
Median
2026
19%
9%
2024
12%
9%
2022
10%
9%
2020
12%
9%
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Small-donor share by cycle against the House Republicans median
Row
Steil
Median
2026 cycle
19%
9%
2024 cycle
12%
9%
2022 cycle
10%
9%
2020 cycle
12%
9%
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
Itemized dollars$25$451.5Kno data
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Steil's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
State
Value
Wisconsin
$451.5K
California
$148.6K
New York
$113.7K
Texas
$68.8K
Virginia
$63.5K
Florida
$62.7K
District of Columbia
$61.0K
Illinois
$46.8K
Maryland
$23.9K
Nevada
$15.8K
Utah
$14.3K
Massachusetts
$14.2K
Michigan
$13.7K
Nebraska
$13.4K
Washington
$12.1K
Connecticut
$11.1K
Minnesota
$10.6K
Arizona
$10.3K
New Jersey
$9,572
Arkansas
$9,289
Louisiana
$8,362
Oregon
$7,250
Ohio
$6,980
Pennsylvania
$6,251
Tennessee
$5,471
South Carolina
$5,192
Georgia
$5,043
Missouri
$4,500
Kansas
$4,084
Colorado
$2,500
Delaware
$2,000
Indiana
$1,810
Iowa
$1,000
Maine
$415
Oklahoma
$353
Wyoming
$344
New Hampshire
$247
New Mexico
$25
Alaska
No data
Vermont
No data
Idaho
No data
Montana
No data
North Dakota
No data
Rhode Island
No data
South Dakota
No data
Kentucky
No data
West Virginia
No data
North Carolina
No data
Mississippi
No data
Alabama
No data
Hawaii
No data
996
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
36%
from Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Donors’ ideology
Distribution of itemized donors’ own CSIP scores
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Ideology of Steil's itemized donors in 2026, from −1.00 to +1.50: 8.0% between −0.25 and 0.00, 5.9% between +0.25 and +0.50, 7.5% between +0.50 and +0.75, 52% between +0.75 and +1.00, 17% between +1.00 and +1.25.
Item
Value
CSIP −1.00 to −0.75
0.3%
CSIP −0.75 to −0.50
1.6%
CSIP −0.50 to −0.25
2.7%
CSIP −0.25 to 0.00
8.0%
CSIP 0.00 to +0.25
4.2%
CSIP +0.25 to +0.50
5.9%
CSIP +0.50 to +0.75
7.5%
CSIP +0.75 to +1.00
52%
CSIP +1.00 to +1.25
17%
CSIP +1.25 to +1.50
0.1%
+ − How to read the columns
Donors who give to many candidates get their own CSIP score. Each column is the share of Steil’s itemized money from donors in that part of the scale, blue left of 0 and red right of 0, deeper further out; Steil’s own score is +0.89.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
RETIRED$306.8K 464 donors
CEO$103.1K 43 donors
ATTORNEY$57.7K 34 donors
PARTNER$47.2K 15 donors
PRESIDENT$44.7K 29 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
ABBOTT LABORATORIES EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$10.0K
ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION EMPLOYEE'S POLITICAL ACTION COMM$10.0K
AMERICA'S FIRST PAC$10.0K
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$10.0K
AMERICAN RESORT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION RESORT OWNERS COALITION PAC (ARDA-ROC PAC)$10.0K
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
COINBASE$31.5K 6 donors
CAPITAL GROUP$25.2K 5 donors
KKR$21.0K 5 donors
NASDAQ$20.3K 8 donors
BLACKROCK$15.9K 7 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Steil voted with the majority of House Republicans on 98.7% of party-line votes and missed 0.7% of 674 roll calls. House Republicans on average: 97.1% party unity, 96.3% attendance. Across all roll calls, Steil voted against the majority of House Republicans 9 times.
674 roll calls Steil could vote on in the 119th Congress, compared with House Republicans. 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 Steil voted with the majority of House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
9
votes against the majority of House Republicans
Party unity 98.7%, House Republicans average 97.1%, ranks 74th of 221. 674 roll calls in the 119th Congress.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Steil, the thin grey bar the House Republicans average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
Steil
House Republicans, average of 221
80%90%100%
Steil
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.2%
96.3%
40th of 221
Party unity
98.7%
97.1%
74th of 221
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Steil's attendance and party unity against House Republicans.
Row
Steil
Peers
Attendance
99.2%
96.3%
Party unity
98.7%
97.1%
+ − 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 119th Congress
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
Yea
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
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
With 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
+ − 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 Steil most 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.
Steil sponsored 35 bills in the 119th Congress; none became law. Cosponsored 121 others. 54% of sponsored bills got out of committee (House Republicans average 17%; 5th of 216).
The bills Steil 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.
Bills by stage
Counts for the 119th Congress
Sponsored
Cosponsored
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Bills Steil sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
Role
Introduced
In committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both chambers
Became law
Sponsored
35
35
12
0
0
Cosponsored
121
121
22
4
4
+ − How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Steil sponsored, ochre blocks bills Steil cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
54%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
House Republicans average 17%. Ranks 5th of 216.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Steil, by number of shared bills in the 119th Congress; the square shows their party.
Democrat
Republican
Scott Fitzgerald26
Derrick Van Orden20
Tony Wied20
Glenn Grothman19
Thomas Tiffany17
+ − 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 Steil’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Jul 9, 2026
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Jun 23, 2026
A site that changed 51 times in 90 days. Steil’s official site had 39 pages when last crawled on Oct 25, 2026. The lab last catalogued the images Steil posted on Oct 25, 2026.
The lab crawls Steil’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 Steil posts with a vision model.
“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.
A group of four adults pose together for a photograph in a warmly lit indoor community hall. Other people and wooden fixtures are visible in the background. There is no prominent text.View post ↗
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A group of men pose together for a photo in a brightly lit indoor gathering hall. Some wear baseball caps, and one man is seated in front. Text appears on several hats and items of clothing.View post ↗
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Several people are talking in a brightly lit indoor gathering space. Three men are prominent in the foreground, with other people visible behind them. There is text in the image.View post ↗
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A screenshot of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel news article about Wisconsin authorities prosecuting a major cocaine seizure. It shows the publication name, a headline, an author portrait and byline, and article paragraphs.View post ↗
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A blue-and-white informational poster about Medicare open enrollment, with a calendar graphic and a logo in the upper-right corner. Text appears throughout the poster.View post ↗
+ − 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.
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 Steil is most unusual among House Republicans, 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 …”).
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 (Congress)Sep 30, 202628 days agoVoteview roll calls, 113th Congress (2013) on.
Campaign money (FEC)Oct 22, 20266 days agoFEC committee financial summaries (totals, small donations) and itemized contributions (donor counts, states, employers), cycles 2020-2026; 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.
ImagesOct 28, 2026todayImages in members' tweets with vision-model descriptions.
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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