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I'll triangulate the strongest candidates. Hern's two STOCK Act trades on the same day are interesting if his committee assignments touch financials/healthcare. The dormant PACs (Skadden, Halff) are also high-signal if the revived check went somewhere weird. Let me walk.The Skadden Arps PAC is striking: it went silent in April 2021 after a Schumer check, and woke up nearly five years later to write its first check to... Bryan Steil — the Republican chair of the House Administration Committee. That's a partisan flip from the same dormant PAC. Let me verify Steil's role and check on his current chairmanship.Steil chairs House Administration (the committee with jurisdiction over federal elections + campaign finance — i.e., the law firm PAC ecosystem itself). And he just sponsored an election-law bill in January 2026. Skadden's PAC last gave to Schumer (D) in April 2021, went dark for 4.8 years, and rebooted in Feb 2026 with a check to Steil (R). That's the structural anomaly: same PAC, opposite party, recipient now chairs the committee that writes election + campaign-finance law that touches BigLaw's PAC compliance.

Let me confirm Steil's House Admin chairmanship with one more cue.Public record confirms Steil chairs Committee on House Administration (119th Congress). The drop holds. Today is 2026-05-19; the Feb 2 transfer is 106 days ago, so I'll lead with the date.

Skadden Arps PAC went dark for 4.8 years after a $2k check to Chuck Schumer in April 2021. Its first check back, on Feb 2, 2026, went to Bryan Steil (R-WI) — chair of House Administration, the committee that writes federal election + campaign-finance law. Same PAC, opposite party. pac.dog/orgs/62e104b7-fd04-41d3-b954-0f81172ed6de

WHY THIS IS THE DROP Triangulated three tool calls: top_outbound_edges on the Skadden Arps PAC shows exactly two recipients in the entire edge set — Schumer on 2021-04-22 ($2,000), then nothing until Steil on 2026-02-02 ($2,000). member_details confirms Steil is the seated Republican from WI-01; bills_by_member shows he sponsored the "Make Elections Great Again Act" (HR 7300) on 2026-01-30, three days before the Skadden check landed. Steil is the sitting chair of the Committee on House Administration in the 119th Congress, which has jurisdiction over federal election administration and the FECA framework that governs every law-firm PAC. A BigLaw PAC that exclusively gave to Schumer, sleeping through the entire 2022 + 2024 cycles, then waking up to fund the GOP elections-committee chair the same week he files an elections bill is a structural anomaly — not a colorful one.

• Skadden Arps Political Action Committee — pac.dog/orgs/62e104b7-fd04-41d3-b954-0f81172ed6de
• Bryan Steil (R-WI-01) — pac.dog/members/S001213
• Charles E. Schumer (prior + only other recipient) — Schumer, Charles E.
• Make Elections Great Again Act (HR 7300, sponsored 2026-01-30) — pac.dog/bills/hr7300-119

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