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Richard Burr

Former

Republican · NC · U.S. Senate

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

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.74
Healthcare
R+0.34
Immigration & Border
R+1.00
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+1.00
Environment & Energy
R+0.32
Crime & Policing
R+0.29
Defense & Veterans
R+0.82
Economy & Labor
R+0.76
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.17
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.51
Education
D+0.01
Government & Democracy
R+0.53
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.57

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

Richard Burr'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

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

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Burr'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
Musetta Tia Johnson, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces for a term of fifteen years to expire on the date prescribed by law
2022-12-15 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Dana M. Douglas, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit
2022-12-13 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Jay Curtis Shambaugh, of Maryland, to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury
2022-12-13 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2022-12-12 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2022-12-08 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
2022-12-07 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
2022-12-07 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
John Frank Murphy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
2022-12-07 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Jeffery Paul Hopkins, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
2022-12-07 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Jerry W. Blackwell, of Minnesota, to be United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota
2022-12-07 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Maria del R. Antongiorgi-Jordan, of Puerto Rico, to be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico
2022-11-15 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the "Montreal Protocol"), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (the "Kigali Amendment")
2022-09-21 · Resolution of Ratification Agreed to · Environment & Energy, Foreign Policy & Trade

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