Congress Monitor Build Handoff

Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup) Filed: 2026-04-21T15:12:13.232Z Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress Resolved official: Zachary Nunn (entity #3355) Ingest result: 18 facts · 17 sources · 2 voting_records

Briefing Sent

Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.

Result

{
  "target_official": { "name": "Zachary Nunn", "bioguide_id": "N000193" },
  "donor_mapping": {
    "facts": [
      {
        "fact_text": "Nunn's principal campaign committee is IOWANS FOR ZACH NUNN (FEC ID C00784389), registered July 13, 2021. His FEC candidate ID is H2IA03119.",
        "date_occurred": "2021-07-13",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00784389/"
      },
      {
        "fact_text": "Nunn operates a joint fundraising committee, 'Team Nunn,' and a leadership PAC, 'Call to Service PAC,' alongside his principal campaign committee.",
        "date_occurred": "2025-03-31",
        "confidence": "secondary",
        "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2IA03119/"
      },
      {
        "fact_text": "In the 2023–2024 election cycle, Nunn ranked among the top national recipients from the Agricultural Services industry (#2) and the Renewable Energy industry (#5) — both directly tied to Iowa's farm and biofuels economy and to the jurisdiction of his House Agriculture Committee seat.",
        "date_occurred": "2025-02-06",
        "confidence": "secondary",
        "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/zach-nunn/industries?cid=N00048870&cycle=2024"
      },
      {
        "fact_text": "Roughly 70% of itemized contributions to Nunn's 2024 campaign committee came from out-of-state donors, with about 30% from Iowa — atypical concentration for a sitting House member and reflective of the race's nationalized, toss-up status.",
        "date_occurred": "2024-10-31",
        "confidence": "secondary",
        "source_url": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2024-10-31/2024-election-campaign-fundraising-spending-money-1st-3rd-house-races"
      },
      {
        "fact_text": "Nunn raised over $2.6 million through IOWANS FOR ZACH NUNN in calendar year 2025 (Jan 1 – Dec 31), building a 2026 cycle war chest in an IA-03 rematch rated competitive by Cook Political Report.",
        "date_occurred": "2025-12-31",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00784389/"
      }
    ],
    "connections": []
  },
  "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No topic identified for which primary-source-grade evidence establishes both a defined window of absent position and contemporaneous adjacent-topic activity proving active engagement." },
  "contradictions": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No pair of directly-sourced claims (vote vs. official release, disclosure, or transcript) met the 'two direct primary URLs, not competing interpretations of one statement' bar in this pass." },
  "telling_votes": [
    {
      "bill_id": "H.R. 1",
      "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (reconciliation package: TCJA extension, SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, immigration enforcement funding, IRA green-credit rollback)",
      "vote": "yea",
      "vote_date": "2025-07-03",
      "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190",
      "why_it_matters": "Nunn voted Yea on a 218–214 party-line reconciliation bill CBO estimated would cause ~11.8 million people to lose health coverage via Medicaid and ACA changes — in an IA-03 district rated a toss-up (Cook) with 21 counties heavily reliant on rural hospital and Medicaid funding, a material tension with the 'moderate/bipartisan' brand his campaign messages.",
      "category": "against_constituent"
    },
    {
      "bill_id": "H.R. 3633",
      "title": "CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — crypto market structure bill dividing SEC/CFTC jurisdiction)",
      "vote": "yea",
      "vote_date": "2025-07-17",
      "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025199",
      "why_it_matters": "Nunn voted Yea on the industry-favored market-structure bill while serving as Vice Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, and as a member of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence — the jurisdictional seat that shapes crypto-industry rules.",
      "category": "donor_aligned"
    }
  ],
  "constituency_baseline": {
    "baseline": {
      "district_summary": "Iowa's 3rd Congressional District is a 21-county, roughly 10,673 sq-mi district in south-central and southwestern Iowa, anchored by the Des Moines metropolitan area (Polk, Warren, Dallas, Madison) and extending south through agricultural counties (including Ottumwa, Centerville, Atlantic) to the Missouri border. It mixes suburban Des Moines precincts with rural farming communities, and has been one of the Midwest's most competitive U.S. House districts for multiple cycles; in 2024, Nunn won re-election over Lanon Baccam roughly 52%–48%, carrying 20 of 21 counties while losing Polk County. ACS 2024 1-year estimates put the population at ~838,000, with a median household income near $80,000, 38% bachelor's-or-higher educational attainment, and 5.3% veteran population.",
      "top_employers": [],
      "dominant_industries": [],
      "recent_ballot_measures": [],
      "demographic_anchors": [
        { "label": "Total population (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "837,909", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Median household income (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "$80,284", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Per capita income (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "$43,693", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Persons below poverty line (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "9.9%", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Bachelor's degree or higher, age 25+ (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "38.2%", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Foreign-born population (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "8.6%", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Median owner-occupied home value (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "$262,600", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Veteran population share (ACS 2024 1-yr)", "value": "5.3%", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "Land area", "value": "10,673 sq mi", "source_url": "http://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US1903-congressional-district-3-ia/" },
        { "label": "2024 general election margin (Nunn R vs. Baccam D)", "value": "~52% – 48%", "source_url": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/political-news/2024-11-05/2024-election-candidates-3rd-congressional-district-nunn-baccam" }
      ]
    }
  }
}