
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.
Republican · PA-8 · U.S. House
Bio
Robert Paul Bresnahan Jr. is an American politician and businessman serving as the United States representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district since 2025. 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
- 416 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 36
- Scotrun, PA · 570-534-6220
- Forty-Fort, PA · 570-763-6120
- Hazleton, PA · 570-710-6830
- Scranton, PA · 570-906-6850
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
- $19.7M – $75.3M
- Liabilities
- $3.8M – $16.6M
- Net worth
- $3.1M – $71.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 614 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
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.'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
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits 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
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'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
GOP congressman's hot pink stiletto workout leaks as allies hammer Democrat over drag queen picPennsylvania Republican Rob Bresnahan is finding himself at the center of an increasingly colorful political fight as Democrats seize on footage of him trying on a pair of hot-pink high heels.
Dailymail.com · Yesterday
In Pennsylvania House race, it’s pink heels vs. drag queensThe News A fight over drag has broken out in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Democratic Mayor Paige Cognetti is running for Congress against Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan. It began with a photo of the mayor and a drag queen at the city’s 2025 Pride flag raising…
Biztoc.com · August 21, 2026
Pennsylvania Democrat targets data centers in drive to oust Republican from House seatDemocrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying "we're not for sale" in a new TV ad.
Biztoc.com · July 28, 2026
‘We’re not for sale’: Pennsylvania Democrat spotlights data-center fury in campaign adsDemocrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying “we’re not for sale” in a new TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania congressional district where communities are fighti…
Biztoc.com · July 28, 2026
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