Michael Baumgartner
Republican · WA-5 · U.S. House
Bio
Michael James Baumgartner is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the U.S. representative from Washington's 5th congressional district since 2025. Previously, he served as the 28th Spokane County treasurer from 2019 to 2025 and as a member of the Washington State Senate from 2011 to 2019, representing the 6th district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 426 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 50
- Spokane, WA · 509-353-2374
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
- Assets
- $952k – $2.1M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $702k – $2.0M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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
Michael Baumgartner'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
Michael Baumgartner (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Baumgartnersits 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
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Baumgartner'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
Latest news
Calls for Guardrails Grow as OpenAI Discloses 'Unprecedented' Autonomous Cyber AttackIn a striking incident that highlights the growing risks of unchecked advanced artificial intelligence development, ChatGPT maker OpenAI admitted Tuesday that one of its AI models autonomously breached the systems of the prominent open-source platform Hugging…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2026- Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment
WASHINGTON – Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA‑05) introduced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, a bipartisan bill designed to...
House.gov · April 19, 2026 
‘Listen here!’ MAGA eviscerates GOP lawmaker complaining about working lateRep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) took to social media Friday night to complain about having to work late and miss his child’s basketball game – and was subsequently dogpiled by a swath of MAGA supporters.The House worked late Friday night to pass its own ver…
Raw Story · March 28, 2026
'Malign' foreign adversaries may be infiltrating US colleges: Senate lawmakersWASHINGTON — Members of a U.S. Senate panel expressed bipartisan consensus Thursday that the country should be cautious of “malign” foreign dollars flowing to American colleges and universities, with some Democrats also arguing recent funding cuts undermine t…
Raw Story · March 13, 2026
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