Mike Carey

Republican · OH-15 · U.S. House

Bio

Michael Todd Whitaker Carey is an American politician and former coal lobbyist serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Carey was first elected in a 2021 special election.

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Record of service

In office: 4.8 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 289 of 437 by time served
Age: 55

District offices

Columbus, OH · 614-927-6902

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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

2021

$1.0M

2022

$1.1M

2023

$1.2M

2024

$1.2M

2025

$1.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $909k – $2.6M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $909k – $2.6M
Since 2021: +$760k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 67 assets reported

New York Life Securities$250k – $500k

Vanguard Institutional Target Retirement 2035$250k – $500k

City Park Interior, LLC, 100% Interest$100k – $250k

Rea Wealth Management$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF (IUSV)$50k – $100k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Columbia Dividend Income Fund Class I (GSFTX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund -Class I (ESII$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund: Class I (FAGCX)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund Ins$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Putnam Focused Large Cap Value ETF (PVAL)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (USIG)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)$15k – $50k

Merrill Lynch SEP Account ⇒ Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF (VTWO)$15k – $50k

Fifth Third Bank Account$1k – $15k

Huntington National Bank$1k – $15k

Conrad UTMA ⇒ iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT)$1k – $15k

Conrad UTMA ⇒ State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF (CWI)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch ETF Account ⇒ iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch ETF Account ⇒ State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF (CWI)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch ETF Account ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Allspring Core Plus Bond Fund Class Institutional (WIPIX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Columbia Dividend Income Fund Class I (GSFTX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Columbia Research Enhanced Core ETF (RECS)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund -Class I (ESIIX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund Class I$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor Investment Grade Bond Fund: Class I (FGBPX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Growth Fund Institutional Shares (FT$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund Institutio$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ NYLI FTSE International Equity Currency Neutral ETF (HFXI)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ PGIM Absolute Return Bond Fund Class Z (PADZX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch IRA ⇒ Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (VBR)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Allspring Core Plus Bond Fund Inst Class (WIPIX)$1k – $15k

Merrill Lynch MA Account ⇒ Columbia Research Enhanced Core ETF (RECS)$1k – $15k

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+0.76

Healthcare

R+0.89

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.81

Crime & Policing

R+0.89

Defense & Veterans

R+0.76

Economy & Labor

R+0.74

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.81

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.16

Education

R+0.98

Government & Democracy

R+0.88

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

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

88%Closest

63%

28%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

14%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Mike Carey (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 Careysits 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 Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on House Administrationright · 12 members
Modernization and Innovation
House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Work and Welfare Social Security
Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Carey'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.