Evidence Casebook

Data Coverage

Profile completeness: 42%

Caveats

• Lobbying disclosure (LD-2) filings have not been ingested — signals depending on this data are absent.
• Bill-to-vote crosswalk are partially available — related signals may undercount.
• FEC spending/disbursements returned no records after repeated attempts.
• Independent expenditures returned no records after repeated attempts.

Unavailable Data

The following data sources were not available for this politician: Lobbying disclosure (LD-2) filings.

Finance & Banking, Agriculture & Food, Energy & Environment appear in both lobbying filings and campaign contributions — $20,766 in overlapping funding across 145 lobbying filings.

16 voted bills had coordinated lobbying pressure — Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023, Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act, Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2024 were lobbied by up to 434 independent firms.

Outlier among House Republican (n=301) on Top contributor share, Funding HHI — max deviation 3.8 sigma from peer average.

Lobby-donate overlap: 1 client-employer overlap and 15 dual-path registrants — $39,549 in overlapping contributions.

Florida Sugar Cane League, FEDERAL SOLUTIONS, LLC, Fourth Street Advocacy (Corsa Potomac, Llc) are heavily concentrated — top client accounts for 84%+ of revenue (HHI 8649).

$44,964 in contributions landed within 30 days of 59 congressional votes.

John Porter gave $17,500 — 2.2× the typical top donor.

Voted against party majority alongside cross-party defectors in 8 roll calls.

John Porter accounts for 39% of contributions.

Votes with Republicans 95% of the time — 14 breaks from the majority across 297 roll calls.

8% abstention rate on lobbied bills vs 3% overall — 5pp differential across 37 lobbied-bill votes.

votes appear in Technology & Communications, Transportation without matching funding.