Brett Guthrie

Republican · KY-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Steven Brett Guthrie is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 2nd congressional district since 2009. The district is in central Kentucky and includes Fort Knox, Owensboro, Bowling Green, and a portion of eastern Louisville. Guthrie previously served as a Republican member of the Kentucky Senate.

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Record of service

In office: 17.6 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 68 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Bowling Green, KY · 270-842-9896
Owensboro, KY
Radcliff, KY

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.78

Healthcare

R+0.70

Immigration & Border

R+0.98

Guns

R+0.92

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.82

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.80

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.67

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.17

Education

R+0.76

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

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

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Brett Guthrie (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 Guthriesits 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 Energy and CommerceChaircenter · 54 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Guthrie'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.