Russ Fulcher

Republican · ID-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Russell Mark Fulcher is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2019. Previously, he served in the Idaho Senate from 2005 to 2014. A member of the Republican Party, Fulcher previously sought the party's nomination in the 2014 Idaho gubernatorial election, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Butch Otter in the primary.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 201 of 437 by time served
Age: 64

District offices

Lewiston, ID · 208-743-1388
Meridian, ID · 208-888-3188
Coeur d'Alene, ID · 208-667-0127

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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

−$29k

2020

−$7k

2021

$22k

2022

$64k

2023

$107k

2024

$381k

2025

$357k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $218k – $495k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $218k – $495k
Since 2019: +$386k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 8 assets reported

NWML Whole Life Insurance$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo Bank Account$50k – $100k

SEP IRA ⇒ Vanguard Value$50k – $100k

Stifel Brokerage Account ⇒ Stifel Smart Rate B&T$50k – $100k

SEP IRA ⇒ Stifel Sweep Account$15k – $50k

ID San Travasa, LLC$1k – $15k

Mountain West Bank Accounts$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+0.63

Healthcare

R+0.78

Immigration & Border

R+0.91

Guns

R+0.84

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.87

Defense & Veterans

R+0.48

Economy & Labor

R+0.77

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.50

Education

R+0.71

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

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

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

92%Closest

63%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Russ Fulcher (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 Fulchersits 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
Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (Vice Chair)Communications and Technology Oversight and Investigations
House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Energy and Mineral Resources Federal Lands

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fulcher'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.