Ben Cline

Republican · VA-6 · U.S. House

Bio

Benjamin Lee Cline is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 24th district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 234 of 437 by time served
Age: 54

District offices

Harrisonburg, VA · 540-432-2391
Roanoke, VA · 540-857-2672
Staunton, VA · 540-885-3861
Winchester, VA · 540-546-0876

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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

2019

$679k

2020

$716k

2021

$716k

2022

$891k

2023

$683k

2024

$703k

2025

$960k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $559k – $1.4M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $559k – $1.4M
Since 2019: +$281k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 16 assets reported

Bank of Botetourt CD$250k – $500k

Wells Fargo Bank Accounts$100k – $250k

Vanguard ⇒ Emerging Markets Fund Class A (REMAX)$50k – $100k

Vanguard ⇒ Federated Hermes Institutional High Yield Bond Fund Institutional Shares (FIHBX$50k – $100k

Edward Jones Roth IRA ⇒ American Funds Growth Fund Class A$15k – $50k

Vanguard ⇒ First Eagle Global Funds Class I$15k – $50k

Vanguard ⇒ Janus Henderson European Focus I$15k – $50k

Vanguard ⇒ PIMCO Income Fund Class I-2 (PONPX)$15k – $50k

Vanguard ⇒ Vanguard Windsor II Fund (VWNFX)$15k – $50k

Vanguard ⇒ Virtus Duff & Phelps Real Estate Sec 1$15k – $50k

Virginia Retirement System ⇒ VRS Account$15k – $50k

Congressional Credit Union Accounts$1k – $15k

Edward Jones Roth IRA ⇒ American Funds Fundamental Investors Fund Class A$1k – $15k

Edward Jones Roth IRA ⇒ American Funds New Perspective Fund Class A$1k – $15k

Edward Jones Roth IRA ⇒ American Funds Smallcap World Funds Class A$1k – $15k

Vanguard ⇒ Vanguard Cash Reserves Federal Money Market Inv$1 – $1k

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

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.66

Healthcare

R+0.70

Immigration & Border

R+0.91

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.92

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.54

Economy & Labor

R+0.73

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.67

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.52

Education

R+0.72

Government & Democracy

R+0.81

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

Ben Cline's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

93%Closest

64%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Ben Cline (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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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Caucuses & committees

Where Clinesits 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 Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
National Security Agency and Cyber Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust

Most and least aligned members

Treating Cline'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.