H. Morgan Griffith
Republican · VA-9 · U.S. House
Bio
Howard Morgan Griffith is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since 2011. The district covers most of rural Southwest Virginia, including the New River Valley and the Virginia side of the Tri-Cities. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Freedom Caucus.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 82 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Abingdon, VA · 276-525-1405
- Christiansburg, VA · 540-381-5671
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
- Assets
- $366k – $815k
- Liabilities
- $425k – $915k
- Net worth
- −$549k – $390k
- Since 2019
- +$111k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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
H. Morgan Griffith's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
H. Morgan Griffith (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Griffithsits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
Committees
- House Committee on House Administrationright · 12 members
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
- House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Griffith'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights As Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESAAfter failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territ…
Democracy Now! · July 24, 2026
Exclusive – Rep. Morgan Griffith: VA Gov. Spanberger Said She Had No Plans to Redistrict But It's the First Bill She SignedVirginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is not a centrist and was not truthful about plans on redistricting, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. The post Exclusive – Rep. Morgan Griffith: VA Gov. Spanberger Said She Had…
Breitbart News · May 1, 2026
Republicans Prove Irony Is Dead With Vote Condemning FascismAmerican politics has come a long way since World War II.More than 250,000 Americans lost their lives fighting fascism in the European theater between 1942 and 1945, but decades later, that fervor to reject the destructive ideology seems to have died amongst …
The New Republic · November 18, 2025
Democrats Erupt as Mike Johnson Calls Recess Despite Looming ShutdownHouse Democrats decried Republican leadership at a Tuesday protest against Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to keep the body out of session as a government shutdown looms.Democratic lawmakers decided to show up en masse to a pro forma session of the House on T…
The New Republic · September 30, 2025
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