Congress Monitor Build Handoff

Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup) Filed: 2026-04-21T19:39:47.040Z Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress Resolved official: W. Gregory Steube (entity #3523) Ingest result: 0 inserted, 12 skipped

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": "W. Gregory Steube",
    "bioguide_id": "S001214"
  },
  "donor_mapping": {
    "facts": [
      {
        "fact_text": "During the 2024 election cycle, Steube's principal campaign committee received substantial support from the firearms industry and conservative PACs.",
        "date_occurred": "2024-03-31",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H8FL17135/?cycle=2024&election_full=true"
      }
    ],
    "connections": [
      {
        "donor_entity_name": "National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund",
        "relationship_type": "pac_donor",
        "description": "2024: Consistent financial support aligning with his strong pro-Second Amendment legislative record.",
        "confidence": "primary",
        "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H8FL17135/?cycle=2024&election_full=true"
      }
    ]
  },
  "silences": {
    "no_data": true,
    "reason": "No verifiable active-on-adjacent evidence found within a tightly bounded recent window regarding a specific expected position."
  },
  "contradictions": {
    "no_data": true,
    "reason": "No direct platform-vs-vote contradictions sourced with primary URLs currently identified."
  },
  "telling_votes": [
    {
      "bill_id": "H.R. 3746",
      "title": "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023",
      "vote": "nay",
      "vote_date": "2023-05-31",
      "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023243",
      "why_it_matters": "Steube voted against the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement, aligning with the House Freedom Caucus in demanding deeper spending cuts.",
      "category": "party_defection"
    },
    {
      "bill_id": "H.R. 734",
      "title": "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023",
      "vote": "yea",
      "vote_date": "2023-04-20",
      "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023192",
      "why_it_matters": "As the primary sponsor of the bill, this vote strongly aligns with his established platform on cultural issues.",
      "category": "donor_aligned"
    }
  ],
  "constituency_baseline": {
    "baseline": {
      "district_summary": "Florida's 17th Congressional District covers a large swath of interior, south-central Florida, including parts of Sarasota, Charlotte, and Lee counties. It is a reliably Republican district characterized by significant agricultural activity, retirement communities, and coastal-adjacent suburban growth.",
      "top_employers": [
        {
          "name": "Publix Super Markets",
          "employees": 4500,
          "source_url": "https://floridajobs.org/workforce-statistics/data-center"
        },
        {
          "name": "Lee Health",
          "employees": 13000,
          "source_url": "https://floridajobs.org/workforce-statistics/data-center"
        }
      ],
      "dominant_industries": [
        {
          "naics": "62",
          "share": 0.16,
          "source_url": "https://data.census.gov/profile/Congressional_District_17_(118th_Congress),_Florida?g=5001100US1217"
        },
        {
          "naics": "44-45",
          "share": 0.14,
          "source_url": "https://data.census.gov/profile/Congressional_District_17_(118th_Congress),_Florida?g=5001100US1217"
        }
      ],
      "recent_ballot_measures": [
        {
          "name": "Amendment 2 (Raise Minimum Wage)",
          "year": 2020,
          "result": "passed",
          "margin": "Passed statewide, though district-level results vary significantly from state averages.",
          "source_url": "https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/elections/resultsarchive/"
        }
      ],
      "demographic_anchors": [
        {
          "label": "Median Household Income",
          "value": "$71,438",
          "source_url": "https://data.census.gov/profile/Congressional_District_17_(118th_Congress),_Florida?g=5001100US1217"
        },
        {
          "label": "Population 65 years and over",
          "value": "31.2%",
          "source_url": "https://data.census.gov/profile/Congressional_District_17_(118th_Congress),_Florida?g=5001100US1217"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}