Data Coverage votes: complete lobbying: missing bill linkage: partial finance receipts: complete finance spending: complete independent expenditures: complete
Profile completeness: 75%
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. Unavailable Data The following data sources were not available for this politician: Lobbying disclosure (LD-2) filings.
issue overlap medium score 100 Requires context Trade & Commerce, Healthcare, Finance & Banking appear in both lobbying filings and campaign contributions — $11,089 in overlapping funding across 224 lobbying filings.
Source Record Rationale Link fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829742 Contribution in overlapping issue area FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829743 Contribution in overlapping issue area FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829741 Contribution in overlapping issue area FEC receipt 40501202…
multi registrant bill pressure high score 80 Under review 9 voted bills had coordinated lobbying pressure — Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, Social Security Fairness Act of 2023, Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 were lobbied by up to 461 independent firms.
Source Record Rationale Link congress_votes senate_roll_call:118:1:334:TX:CRUZ Vote on bill with coordinated lobbying pressure Senate vote #334 congress_votes senate_roll_call:118:1:340:TX:CRUZ Vote on bill with coordinated lobbying pressure Senate vote #340 congress_votes senate_roll_call:118:2:326:TX:CRUZ Vote on bill with coordinated lobbying pressure Senate vote #326
pre vote surge medium score 77 Requires context $55,687 in contributions in the 14 days before a vote on "Motion to Invoke Cloture: John Thomas Shepherd to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas" (Mon Apr 13 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)) — 5.2x the baseline daily rate.
Source Record Rationale Link congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:2:75:TX:CRUZ Vote with pre-vote contribution surge Senate vote #75 fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830032 Contribution in pre-vote surge window FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830034 Contribution in pre-vote surge window FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830041 Contribution in pre-vote surge window
temporal proximity high score 69 Core $69,470 in contributions landed within 30 days of 71 congressional votes.
Source Record Rationale Link congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:2:106:TX:CRUZ Vote near contribution window Senate vote #106 congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:2:110:TX:CRUZ Vote near contribution window Senate vote #110 congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:2:108:TX:CRUZ Vote near contribution window Senate vote #108 congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:2:107:TX:CRUZ Vote near contribution window Senate vote #107
lobby donate overlap medium score 53 Requires context Lobby-donate overlap: 3 client-employer overlaps and 8 dual-path registrants — $13,632 in overlapping contributions.
Source Record Rationale Link fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830200 Contribution from convergent employer FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4030220261360737017 Contribution from convergent employer FEC receipt 40302202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830199 Contribution from convergent employer FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498830272 Contribution from convergent employer FEC receipt 40501202…
registrant client capture medium score 50 Under review 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).
Source Record Rationale Link lobbying_filings lda:ld2:1462f1c5-80f9-4f0f-bbc4-77f8b8445354:0 Lobbying filing from captured registrant LDA filing 1462f1c5… lobbying_filings lda:ld2:7c651ae4-0a98-48a0-829a-6c1943dd6113:0 Lobbying filing from captured registrant LDA filing 7c651ae4… lobbying_filings lda:ld2:178319a7-dc7c-4516-892b-911ec2ab1577:0 Lobbying filing from captured registrant LDA filing 178319a7…
outside spend spike low score 45 Core $180,617 in outside spending on record.
Source Record Rationale Link fec_independent_expenditures fec_independent_expenditure:sub:4112120251294494083 Outside spending row FEC expenditure 41121202… fec_independent_expenditures fec_independent_expenditure:sub:4011320261301496160 Outside spending row FEC expenditure 40113202… fec_independent_expenditures fec_independent_expenditure:sub:4012120261303130095 Outside spending row FEC expenditure 40121202… fec_independent_expenditures fec_independent_expenditure:sub:4112120251294494082 Outside spending row FEC expenditure 41121202…
bipartisan defection cluster medium score 27 Requires context Voted against party majority alongside cross-party defectors in 9 roll calls.
Source Record Rationale Link congress_votes senate_roll_call:118:1:340:TX:CRUZ Bipartisan defection vote Senate vote #340 congress_votes senate_roll_call:119:1:646:TX:CRUZ Bipartisan defection vote Senate vote #646 congress_votes senate_roll_call:118:2:328:TX:CRUZ Bipartisan defection vote Senate vote #328
vote party alignment low score 18 Core Votes with Republicans 94% of the time — 18 breaks from the majority across 314 roll calls.
Source Record Rationale Link congress_votes senate_roll_call:117:1:509:TX:CRUZ Scored vote row Senate vote #509 congress_votes senate_roll_call:117:1:511:TX:CRUZ Scored vote row Senate vote #511 congress_votes senate_roll_call:117:1:510:TX:CRUZ Scored vote row Senate vote #510
vote deviation medium score 10 Under review $334 in contributions came from Agriculture & Food, Government Operations — areas with no matching votes. votes appear in Defense & Security, Social Policy without matching funding.
Source Record Rationale Link fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829742 Contribution row used in funding profile FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829741 Contribution row used in funding profile FEC receipt 40501202… fec_contributions fec_contribution:sub:4050120261498829743 Contribution row used in funding profile FEC receipt 40501202…
Generated by Cooked on July 9, 2026. Data sourced from FEC.gov, Congress.gov, and LDA Senate public records.