Russell Fry

Republican · SC-7 · U.S. House

Bio

Russell William Fry is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district since 2023.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 345 of 437 by time served
Age: 41

District offices

Florence, SC · 843-799-6880
Surfside Beach, SC · 843-353-5377

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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

2023

−$710k

2024

−$694k

2025

−$909k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $6k – $90k
Liabilities: $615k – $1.3M
Net worth: −$1.3M – −$525k
Since 2023: −$200k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported

ML Bank Accounts$1k – $15k

ML - IRA ⇒ Dimensional Emerging Core Equity Market ETF (DFAE)$1k – $15k

ML - IRA ⇒ Dimensional ETF Trust Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF (DFAC)$1k – $15k

ML - IRA ⇒ Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF (DFAI)$1k – $15k

ML - IRA ⇒ Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP)$1k – $15k

ML - IRA ⇒ Schwab US Aggregate Bond ETF (SCHZ)$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+0.75

Healthcare

R+0.89

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.99

Defense & Veterans

R+0.52

Economy & Labor

R+0.74

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.82

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.37

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

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

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

89%Closest

61%

26%

16%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

12%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Russell Fry (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 Frysits 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 Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Communications and Technology Energy
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fry'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.