Never use his congressional seat to line his own pockets.

Rudy Yakym III · Indiana · Republican

rhetoric_only impact 0.35 specificity 0.72 extraction confidence 83%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

When Hoosiers sent me to Congress, I promised I’d never use this seat to line my own pockets, and I’ve kept that promise every day since.

Yakym repeated a personal ethics pledge not to use his office for personal financial gain while discussing his vote to ban congressional stock trading.

Yakym Votes to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.5

Evidence

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Rep. Yakym's official office said he voted for the Stop Insider Trading Act, described as prohibiting Members, spouses, and dependent children from purchasing publicly traded stocks and requiring advance public notice before covered stock sales. The statement also says Yakym framed the vote as proof of his promise not to use the seat to line his own pockets.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is concrete same-term action on congressional self-enrichment risk, but it is a member press release and the bill had not by itself completed enactment, so it supports partial progress rather than full delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Yakym Votes to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

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The House Clerk recorded Roll Call 280 on July 22, 2026, for H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act. The vote question was On Passage, status Passed, 232 yea to 198 nay, and the member list records Yakym, Republican, Indiana, as Yea.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official roll call independently verifies Yakym supported House passage of an anti-congressional-stock-trading bill. Because this proves a vote, not enactment or the absence of self-dealing, it supports partial progress.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 280 | Bill Number: H. R. 7008 | Stop Insider Trading Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

The promise is an ongoing personal-conduct pledge about not using federal office for self-enrichment, which cannot be fully verified from the provided record. Yakym did take same-term congressional action consistent with the pledge by voting for House passage of H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, and publicly tied that vote to the promise. However, the evidence shows a vote and advocacy, not enacted law or comprehensive proof that he never personally benefited from the office, so this supports partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%