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Lamar Alexander

Former

Republican · TN · U.S. Senate

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2017
$9.2M
2018
$10.3M
2019
$10.8M
Most recent filing (2019)
Assets
$8.8M$33.1M
Liabilities
$3.8M$16.6M
Net worth
−$7.8M$29.4M
Since 2017
+$1.6M

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.76
Healthcare
R+0.45
Immigration & Border
R+0.91
Guns
R+0.14
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.90
Environment & Energy
R+0.74
Crime & Policing
D+0.33
Defense & Veterans
R+0.65
Economy & Labor
R+0.95
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.14
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.77
Education
R+0.22
Government & Democracy
R+0.54
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.88

Each issue runs left right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Lamar Alexander's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

On the political map

Lamar Alexander (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightAlexander

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Alexander's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.

Recent notable votes

YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2021-01-01 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Defense & Veterans, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2021-01-01 · Veto Overridden · Defense & Veterans, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Thomas L. Kirsch II, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit
2020-12-14 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-11 · Conference Report Agreed to · Defense & Veterans, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-11 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Defense & Veterans, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Allen Dickerson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2025
2020-12-09 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Shana M. Broussard, of Louisiana, to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2023
2020-12-09 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Sean J. Cooksey, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2021
2020-12-09 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Government & Democracy
YEA
Nathan A. Simington, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2019
2020-12-08 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Stephen Sidney Schwartz, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years
2020-12-08 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Nathan A. Simington, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2019
2020-12-08 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Taylor B. McNeel, of Mississippi, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi
2020-12-01 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations

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