Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: EO Voting Record Analysis (eo_voting_analysis)
Filed: 2026-04-20T08:30:00.389Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress
Resolved official: Aaron Bean (entity #3413)
Ingest result: 0 inserted
For an elected official, identify the most-explanatory votes: votes against constituent interest, donor-aligned votes, position reversals, and party-defection votes. The goal is a digestible 'most telling 10 votes' list, not a vote dump.
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