Question 1

Who is McDowell, Addison P.?

Accepted Answer

McDowell, Addison P. is a republican us house · nc-6 representing NC (district 6). Their congressional record is published on Congress.gov at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M001240.

Question 2

What is McDowell, Addison P.'s Conflict Score on Politique?

Accepted Answer

The Conflict Score is a 0–99 percentile-normalized measure of how often McDowell, Addison P.'s roll-call votes align with the industries that funded their campaign, computed from FEC contributions and Congress.gov roll-call votes.

Question 3

Where does Politique source McDowell, Addison P.'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 McDowell, Addison P. 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.