Mike Crapo
Republican · ID · U.S. Senate
Bio
Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho, a seat he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Crapo served from 1993 to 1999 as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 33.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 27.6y
- First took office
- 1993 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 10 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Boise, ID · 208-334-1776
- Idaho Falls, ID · 208-522-9779
- Lewiston, ID · 208-743-1492
- Pocatello, ID · 208-236-6775
- Twin Falls, ID · 208-734-2515
- Coeur d'Alene, ID · 208-664-5490
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
- $1.6M – $6.2M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $1.3M – $6.1M
- Since 2018
- +$2.8M
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
Mike Crapo'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
Mike Crapo (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Craposits 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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure (Ex Officio)Health Care (Ex Officio)International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness (Ex Officio)Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth (Ex Officio)Taxation and IRS Oversight (Ex Officio)Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy (Ex Officio)
Most and least aligned members
Treating Crapo'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
Senators Demand Apple Commit to Not Buying Chinese Memory ChipsU.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has teamed up with several of his Senate colleagues to demand Apple commit to not purchasing chips from Chinese companies ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) or Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC). [PDF] With memory shortage…
MacRumors · July 30, 2026
Republicans Kill Attempt to Stop Trump’s Corrupt IRS Immunity DealRepublicans apparently have no problem with President Trump protecting himself and his family from any tax investigations ever again. On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee voted down an amendment to a tax procedure bill that would have prevented the IRS f…
The New Republic · July 30, 2026
Exclusive: Senate Chairmen Jim Risch, Mike Crapo Press for Release of American Held in RussiaSens. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, marked 2026 Hostage Week by renewing calls for the release of Stephen Hubbard, the Idaho-connected American detained i…
Breitbart News · May 7, 2026
Republicans shrug as 'socialist' Trump accusations flyWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has overseen an unprecedented melding of the private sector with the federal government — so much so that critics say it smells of socialism.Since Trump re-entered the White House, America has taken a stake in at least 10 p…
Raw Story · April 9, 2026
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