Cliff Bentz

Republican · OR-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Cliff Stewart Bentz is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 2nd congressional district since 2021. He previously served in the Oregon Senate from 2018 to 2020 and in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2008 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 271 of 437 by time served
Age: 74

District offices

Medford, OR · 541-776-4646
Ontario, OR · 541-709-2040

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2020

$5.1M

2021

$5.4M

2022

$5.7M

2023

$5.7M

2024

$6.1M

2025

$6.3M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $3.9M – $9.4M
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: $3.4M – $9.1M
Since 2020: +$1.2M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 91 assets reported

Moonriver LLC ⇒ 2nd St., Ontario, OR$500k – $1.0M

The Bentz Farm ⇒ 71 acre farm - Ontario, Oregon$500k – $1.0M

Building, SW Fourth St. Ontario, OR$250k – $500k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$250k – $500k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard 500 Index Fd Admiral Shs (VFIAX)$250k – $500k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth Index Fd Admiral Shs (VIGAX)$250k – $500k

RB2EH Enterprises$100k – $250k

Rental home - Morgan Ave$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Dodge & Cox Income Fund - Class I (DODIX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ PIMCO Income Fund Insti Class (PIMIX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Small Cap Index Fd Admiral Shs (VSMAX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Amgen Inc. (AMGN)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Home Depot, Inc. (HD)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Oracle Corporation (ORCL)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$100k – $250k

SP None Tax-Deferred Moonriver II LLC ⇒ 253 Morgan Ave$100k – $250k

Moonriver LLC ⇒ 22 Acre Field, Ontario, OR$100k – $250k

Moonriver LLC ⇒ NE 2nd Street$100k – $250k

The Bentz Farm ⇒ 42 acres, Morgan Ave, Ontario, OR$100k – $250k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Baird Core Plus Bond Fund Institutional Class (BCOIX)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF (IQLT)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Ishares MSCI USA Min Vol FCTR ETF$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Mid Cap Index$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares (VIMAX)$50k – $100k

Moonriver LLC ⇒ 2nd St.,Ontario, Oregon$50k – $100k

Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab SEP-IRA ⇒ Cash Sweep$15k – $50k

Moonriver LLC ⇒ 1st Ave, Ontario, OK$15k – $50k

AbbVie Inc. Common Stock (ABBV)$1k – $15k

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Common Stock (APD)$1k – $15k

Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN)$1k – $15k

American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP)$1k – $15k

American Express Company Common Stock (AXP)$1k – $15k

Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL)$1k – $15k

AstraZeneca PLC - American Depositary Shares (AZN)$1k – $15k

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. - Common Stock (ADP)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

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

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.90

Healthcare

R+0.93

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.84

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.76

Economy & Labor

R+0.74

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.77

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.42

Education

R+0.97

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

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

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

90%Closest

61%

25%

16%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

12%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

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

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Bentzsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Energy Health
House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Federal Lands Water, Wildlife and Fisheries

Most and least aligned members

Treating Bentz'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.