Institutional context

This member's profile: HIGH — 0.8% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; 100% on pinned Israel/aid votes since 2024.

Ben Ray Luján

Sen. NM

HIGH

PAC dependency

0.8%

Share of PAC dollars from tagged committees (2024 cycle).

Tagged / total PAC

$2,500 / $309,090

Numerator and denominator for the dependency ratio — every line links to FEC.

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 80% of Senate colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
JStreetPAC	C00441949	$2,500	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Tagged PAC Schedule B disbursements to this member

Itemized spender-side ledger from tagged committees (2024 cycle) — complements PAS2 contribution totals above.All PAC spending →

Date	Amount	Committee	Payee / recipient	Employer / occupation	Address	Type	Candidate	FEC
2024-09-18	$2,500	JStreetPACC00441949	PEOPLE FOR BENCAMPAIGN COMMITTEECONDUIT CONTRIBUTIONMemo: EARMARKED BY DAVID GOODFRIEND	—	PO BOX 31129 · SANTA FE, NM, 875941129	CONTRIBUTION MADE TO NON-AFFILIATED	LUJAN, BEN R.S0NM00058	PDF

Post–Oct 7 delta

PAC dependency ratio before vs after 7 Oct 2023 (PAS2 transaction dates, 2024 cycle).

0.0%

Pre–Oct 7

1.6%

Post–Oct 7

+1.6pp

Change

Influence stack

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Default ON: direct PAC + documented IE. LDA and FARA live in separate sections — we never merge buckets.

Direct PACOn
Objective
FEC committee → candidate contributions (PAS2 bulk). Default ON.
LDA lobbying
Fuzzy match
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings — confidence-scored member links. Separate bucket.
Open →
FARA foreign gov
Separate tab
Foreign-agent registration spend — never merged with domestic PAC totals.
Open →

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Influence breakdown

PAC dependency1

Pinned vote alignment100

Influence Mixer

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Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Ben Ray Luján. Facts do not change — only the formula mix. Top-level split stays 55% electoral / 45% legislative.

Electoral — PAC dependencyElectoral — primary / IE pressureLegislative — pinned vote alignmentLegislative — committee / arms relevance

Live composite

HIGH

Pinned votes

H.R. 815 Israel supplemental — SenateYeaRoll call →
H.R. 815 cloture — SenateYeaRoll call →
NDAA FY2024 conference — SenateYeaRoll call →
Consolidated Approps FY2024 — SenateYeaRoll call →
Further Consolidated Approps — SenateYeaRoll call →

LDA — bills you voted on that registrants lobbied

Fuzzy overlap from lda.gov filing text — separate legal bucket from PAC $. Not LD-203 conduit data.

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE lobbied on H.R. 815lda.gov →
J STREET lobbied on H.R. 815lda.gov →

Severity is an editorial composite from public records.See the math →