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Dean Heller

Former

Republican · NV · U.S. Senate

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.80
Healthcare
R+0.49
Immigration & Border
R+1.00
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+1.00
Environment & Energy
R+0.71
Crime & Policing
D+0.88
Defense & Veterans
R+0.81
Economy & Labor
R+0.86
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.24
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.49
Education
R+1.00
Government & Democracy
R+0.33
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.65

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

Dean Heller'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

Dean Heller (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Heller'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

YEA
Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
2018-11-28 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
2018-11-28 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Michelle Bowman, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2006
2018-11-14 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018
2018-11-13 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Government & Democracy
YEA
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Thomas S. Kleeh, of West Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
David James Porter, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Richard J. Sullivan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Richard J. Sullivan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
William M. Ray II, of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations

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