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Steve Daines (R) voted YEA on 5 of 5 bills classified as favoring their donor sectors — #4 rate in the Senate
Senator Daines voted in favor of all five bills classified by an AI system as benefiting his top donor sectors—Securities & Investment and Retail & Consumer—placing him among the Senate's highest rates at 100%. On the two bills classified as limiting those same sectors, he also voted in favor, including voting YEA on HJRES25-119, a resolution of disapproval regarding a Securities & Investment rule.
SEC
Securities & Investment
top funded sector
gave $919K
3 sectors involved
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Steve Daines
R-MT · Senate
voted YEA 5 of 5
100% aligned
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BILL
5 bills
classified as favoring their sectors
EXAMPLE VOTES BEHIND THE NUMBER
✓ YEA
HJRES25-119 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule
✓ YEA
SJRES49-119 — A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.
✓ YEA
HR6644-119 — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
100%
YEA rate on bills classified as favoring their donor sectors
5/5
sector-favoring bills they voted YEA on
#4
highest rate of 88 Senate members with enough such votes
2/2
YEA on bills classified as LIMITING those sectors
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◈ Ask the Analyst about Steve Daines →How we built this: a statistical pattern surfaced from public records — FEC campaign finance, Senate/House Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, and Congress.gov. The donor concentration and the legislative action are concurrent facts; this does not imply contributions caused the action, that the member acted improperly, or that the bill specifically benefits the named sector. Generated September 7, 2026 · internal signal score 86/100.