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Susan W. Brooks

Former

Republican · IN-5 · U.S. House

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

Reported net worth

2019
$2.8M
Most recent filing (2019)
Assets
$1.7M$4.8M
Liabilities
$315k$650k
Net worth
$1.1M$4.5M
Largest holdings in the 2019 filing · 33 assets reported
Other assets ⇒ O'DaY LaNDMaN LLC - MINERaL RIGHTS$15k$50k
IRa ⇒ Eaton Vance Income Fund of Boston Class I (EIBIX)$1k$15k
LOCaTION: aRLINGTON, TX, USDESCRIPTION: INVESTMENTOther assets ⇒ BROOKS KOCH & SORG$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

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.75
Healthcare
R+0.59
Immigration & Border
R+0.81
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.98
Environment & Energy
R+0.80
Crime & Policing
R+0.71
Defense & Veterans
R+0.81
Economy & Labor
R+0.83
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.40
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.53
Education
R+0.50
Government & Democracy
R+0.84
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

Susan W. Brooks'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

Susan W. Brooks (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightBrooks

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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Most and least aligned members

Treating Brooks'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
2020-12-28 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
CASH Act of 2020
2020-12-28 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-28 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
CASH Act of 2020
2020-12-28 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-28 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act
2020-12-10 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act
2020-12-10 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and Other Extensions Act
2020-12-09 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Ceiling Fan Improvement Act of 2020
2020-12-09 · Passed · Economy & Labor
YEA
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and Other Extensions Act
2020-12-09 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-08 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
Servicemembers and Veterans Initiative Act of 2020
2020-12-08 · Passed · Defense & Veterans

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