Question 1

Who is Carter, John R.?

Accepted Answer

Carter, John R. is a republican us house · tx-31 representing TX (district 31). Their congressional record is published on Congress.gov at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C001051.

Question 2

What is Carter, John R.'s Conflict Score on Politique?

Accepted Answer

Carter, John R. has a Conflict Score of 99/99 (Critical) for the 119th Congress, computed over 13 donor-relevant roll-call votes. The Conflict Score is a 0–99 percentile-normalized measure of how often roll-call votes align with the industries that funded the campaign, from FEC contributions and Congress.gov roll-call votes.

Question 3

Where does Politique source Carter, John R.'s data?

Accepted Answer

Voting records, sponsored bills, and committee assignments come from the official Congress.gov API. Campaign finance data comes from the Federal Election Commission. Ideology scores come from VoteView (DW-NOMINATE). Data is refreshed nightly.

Question 4

How is the Politique AI Report Card for Carter, John R. generated?

Accepted Answer

Report Cards are narratives generated by Anthropic's Claude over the legislator's voting record, sponsorships, speeches, and donor data. Generation uses prompt caching at the system-prompt layer for consistency across legislators, and is regenerated after each ETL run.