Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
Republican · AR-1 · U.S. House
Bio
Eric Alan "Rick" Crawford is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 78 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Cabot, AR · 501-843-3043
- Dumas, AR · 870-377-5571
- Jonesboro, AR · 870-203-0540
- Mountain Home, AR · 870-424-2075
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
- $0 – $0
- Liabilities
- $530k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$1.1M – −$530k
- Since 2020
- −$440k
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
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford'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
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Crawfordsits 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
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Crawford'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
- Chairman Crawford Hosts Additional Roundtable Event to Discuss CCP Counterintelligence Threats in Tampa, Florida
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) and House Intelligence Committee Member Representative Greg Steube (FL-17) hosted a roundtable discussion at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, with federal, state…
Globalsecurity.org · May 8, 2026 - Why SNAP Adding Hot Rotisserie Chicken Is More Important Than You Might Think
Congress is close to approving historic changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which serves millions of Americans. Since the 1970s, recipients have been barred from using the government-provided funds to purchase hot foods. Now, that…
The Root · May 2, 2026 
House Intelligence Chair Calls Bernie Sanders A 'Threat To National Security'The man entrusted with overseeing U.S. intelligence thinks Bernie Sanders — a sitting senator who has won election after election in Vermont for decades — is a "threat to national security." The irony, of course, is that the Chair of the House Intelligence Co…
Crooksandliars.com · April 29, 2026
Disbelief as Trump demands extension of spy tool he once called a 'witch hunt'The internet mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he advocated for a surveillance tool and bill that he claimed he "was a victim of."Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, citing that the military was concerned over the legislatio…
Raw Story · April 14, 2026
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