Institutional context

This member's profile: HIGH — 1.2% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; 100% on pinned Israel/aid votes since 2024.

Robert Menendez

Rep. NJ-8

HIGH

PAC dependency

1.2%

Share of PAC dollars from tagged committees (2024 cycle).

Tagged / total PAC

$26,349 / $2,240,292

Numerator and denominator for the dependency ratio — every line links to FEC.

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 58% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
NORPAC	C00247403	$14,048	Receipts · Committee
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$12,301	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Margin test

Tagged PAC $26,349 · 2024 general margin 48,282 votes (0.55×)

Post–Oct 7 delta

PAC dependency ratio before vs after 7 Oct 2023 (PAS2 transaction dates, 2024 cycle).

0.0%

Pre–Oct 7

1.4%

Post–Oct 7

+1.4pp

Change

Influence stack

Layer toggles

Default ON: direct PAC + documented IE. LDA and FARA live in separate sections — we never merge buckets.

Direct PACOn
Objective
FEC committee → candidate contributions (PAS2 bulk). Default ON.
LDA lobbying
Fuzzy match
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings — confidence-scored member links. Separate bucket.
Open →
FARA foreign gov
Separate tab
Foreign-agent registration spend — never merged with domestic PAC totals.
Open →

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/M001226.svg

PAC dependency1

Pinned vote alignment100

Influence Mixer

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Live composite

HIGH

Fuzzy overlap from lda.gov filing text — separate legal bucket from PAC $. Not LD-203 conduit data.

Severity is an editorial composite from public records.See the math →