Question 1

Who is Graves, Sam?

Accepted Answer

Graves, Sam is a republican us house · mo-6 representing MO (district 6). Their congressional record is published on Congress.gov at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000546.

Question 2

What is Graves, Sam's Conflict Score on Politique?

Accepted Answer

Graves, Sam has a Conflict Score of 68/99 (High) for the 119th Congress, computed over 14 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 Graves, Sam'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 Graves, Sam 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.