Clay Higgins
Republican · LA-3 · U.S. House
Bio
Glen Clay Higgins is an American politician and reserve law enforcement officer from the state of Louisiana. A Republican, Higgins is the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. The district, which contains much of the territory once represented by former governor Edwin Edwards and former U.S. senator John Breaux, is in the southwestern corner of the state and includes Lafayette, Lake Charles, and New Iberia. Higgins won the runoff election on December 10, 2016, defeating fellow Republican Scott Angelle.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 169 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 65
- Lafayette, LA · 337-703-6105
- Lake Charles, LA · 337-656-2833
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
- $0 – $0
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$500k – −$250k
- Since 2019
- +$0
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
Clay Higgins'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
Clay Higgins (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Higgins?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Higginssits 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 Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Higgins'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
James Carville warns 'earthquake' in red state runoff could determine Trump's fateVeteran political strategist James Carville flagged an upcoming runoff as a potential "earthquake" on Trump's grip on his base.During an episode of the Politics War Room, Carville said that the June 27 runoff for a Senate seat in his home state of Louisiana "…
Raw Story · June 24, 2026- the FBI stage(d) January 6 five months before it happened while the DNC planned to overthrow the United States government if Trump won, “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.”
DL H repostedIam Breitbart@JacSarobahs·3hFORMERLY HIDDEN FBI DOCUMENTS WERE JUST RELEASED BY KASH @Real_RobNThis doc-drop by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRMS:Not only did the FBI stage January 6 five months before it happened while the DNC planned to overthrow the U…
Freerepublic.com · May 26, 2026 
Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans DrownIn the coming decades, New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability. It finds that the city has already passed a “point of no return.” The authors recommend taking immediate action to s…
The New Republic · May 7, 2026
Republicans Cave and End DHS Shutdown—Without Funding ICERepublicans in Congress voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security Thursday, effectively ending the 76-day shutdown of the department. The bill, passed by a voice vote in the House, is a win for Democrats, as it still includes no money for ICE or Borde…
The New Republic · April 30, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.