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133 members of Congress were measured in oil & gas. 30 of them are above their own peer group — same chamber, same party, same third of the party by DW-NOMINATE — on both the share of their money that comes from this industry and how often they vote its way. They are ranked below by the index, the geometric mean of those two residuals. Members measured here with no such alignment, and members below the coverage floor, are not listed; neither is a zero.

Read the dollars and the roll-call count beside each figure, not just the index: some pairs clear the floor on small sums or few votes.

Measured alignments, ranked

Residuals are standard deviations from the peer-group mean.

#MemberSeat IndexMoney VotesDirect PAC $ Roll callsPeers
1 Wesley Hunt House · TX · R 2.48 +6.07 +1.02 $37,000 16 50
2 Dan Crenshaw House · TX · R 2.09 +4.24 +1.03 $55,500 22 51
3 Clay Higgins House · LA · R 1.66 +2.36 +1.17 $21,000 24 32
4 Gabe Evans House · CO · R 1.56 +2.19 +1.11 $69,000 24 51
5 Harriet M. Hageman House · WY · R 1.50 +1.92 +1.17 $60,000 24 32
6 Julia Letlow House · LA · R 1.31 +0.90 +1.90 $77,000 21 51
7 Michael Cloud House · TX · R 1.08 +1.01 +1.17 $19,500 24 32
8 Nicholas A. Langworthy House · NY · R 1.01 +1.07 +0.95 $52,000 24 51
9 Guy Reschenthaler House · PA · R 0.79 +0.30 +2.08 $46,500 24 51
10 Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann House · TN · R 0.78 +1.25 +0.48 $32,000 24 51
11 Morgan Luttrell House · TX · R 0.76 +1.60 +0.36 $11,000 24 50
12 Tom Cole House · OK · R 0.73 +1.10 +0.48 $80,500 24 51
13 Pete Stauber House · MN · R 0.72 +1.63 +0.32 $60,500 24 51
14 Celeste Maloy House · UT · R 0.67 +0.93 +0.48 $24,500 24 51
15 Michael A. Rulli House · OH · R 0.54 +0.36 +0.79 $29,000 19 51
16 Jodey C. Arrington House · TX · R 0.53 +0.78 +0.36 $44,500 24 32
17 Josh Brecheen House · OK · R 0.50 +0.22 +1.17 $5,000 24 32
18 Steve Scalise House · LA · R 0.49 +0.12 +1.99 $77,500 23 50
19 Mike Johnson House · LA · R 0.47 +0.20 +1.10 $95,000 18 50
20 Robert E. Latta House · OH · R 0.44 +0.83 +0.23 $58,000 24 50
21 James Comer House · KY · R 0.36 +0.58 +0.23 $25,000 24 50
22 Jeff Hurd House · CO · R 0.36 +0.27 +0.48 $19,000 24 51
23 Gary J. Palmer House · AL · R 0.36 +0.17 +0.76 $20,500 24 32
24 Keith Self House · TX · R 0.26 +0.06 +1.17 $8,500 24 32
25 Troy Balderson House · OH · R 0.26 +0.30 +0.23 $50,500 24 50
26 Sam Graves House · MO · R 0.23 +0.23 +0.23 $40,000 24 50
27 Scott Perry House · PA · R 0.13 +0.01 +1.17 $8,000 24 32
28 Ken Calvert House · CA · R 0.11 +0.03 +0.48 $15,000 24 51
29 Monica De La Cruz House · TX · R 0.08 +0.07 +0.09 $22,000 22 50
30 John Joyce House · PA · R 0.07 +0.02 +0.23 $43,000 24 50

What this does not mean

It is a statistical association between contributions received and votes cast, relative to comparable legislators. It is not a finding of corruption, bribery, or any other crime, and this site makes no such allegation about any person named on it. Accepting lawful contributions from an industry whose position you already hold is ordinary politics: a legislator from a farm state who votes for farm programmes and takes agribusiness money may simply be representing their constituents. Causation cannot be read off this data in either direction. A high index is a reason to look more closely at a relationship, and nothing more than that.

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Sources: FEC bulk filings, Voteview roll calls, govinfo BILLSTATUS. Updated 2026-10-12.