I will investigate Chinese investment or donations tied to the CCP at colleges and universities.

Ryan Mackenzie · Pennsylvania · Republican

oversight impact 0.48 specificity 0.76 extraction confidence 93%

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

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Evidence

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The Department issued formal notifications to 30 domestic academic institutions directing immediate, comprehensive reviews of academic, financial, and research collaborations with foreign entities of concern, including organizations associated with rebranded Confucius Institutes. Universities must report findings and actions by August 31, 2026.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback-adjacent window, a federal agency ordered audits of university foreign-entity ties, directly matching the substance of the commitment, but the record does not identify Mackenzie as the actor leading the audits.

partial same_term

Department of War Orders Research Security Audits at 30 Academic Institutions
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

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House Roll Call Vote 83 on H.R.1048, the DETERRENT Act: on passage, the bill passed 241-169, and Ryan Mackenzie's member record lists his vote as Yea.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Mackenzie took a concrete same-term vote for the DETERRENT Act, a higher-education foreign gifts/contracts oversight bill that passed the House but remained referred in the Senate, so this is serious effort rather than full delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Ryan Mackenzie | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

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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 promised outcome was not fully delivered by Mackenzie: the record does not show that he personally led an investigation, sponsored an enacted investigation mandate, or otherwise controlled the agency audits. However, same-term federal action did order university reviews of foreign-entity ties including Confucius Institute-related entities, and Mackenzie voted for the DETERRENT Act, which would strengthen higher-education foreign gift and contract oversight but had not become law. That supports partial credit with credit for serious effort, not full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%