Ron Johnson
Republican · WI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold. Johnson defeated Feingold in a rematch in 2016, and defeated Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022. Before entering politics, he was chief executive officer of a plastics manufacturer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 43 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Milwaukee, WI · 414-276-7282
- Oshkosh, WI · 920-230-7250
- Madison, WI · 608-240-9629
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
- $26.7M – $131.4M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $26.7M – $131.4M
- Since 2018
- +$39.8M
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
Ron Johnson'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
Ron Johnson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Johnsonsits 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
- Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Johnson'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
'You are the problem': GOP senator hammered after complaining about national debtA GOP senator was hammered by critics on Thursday after he complained about the size of the national debt. This week, the national debt surpassed the $40 trillion mark, which stunned some political analysts. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) shared a post on X of a cha…
Raw Story · August 20, 2026
GOP Candidate Won't Say If He Wants Trump To Stump For HimWith the start of the general election, Wisconsin reporters are finally starting to ask Tom Tiffany questions that go beyond whether he likes Thanksgiving. Matt Smith of WISN-TV caught up with Tiffany and asked him a pointed question about whether he wanted T…
Crooksandliars.com · August 13, 2026
Ron Johnson Hints at Contempt of Congress Charges for Fauci, Urges States to Pursue Criminal ChargesWednesday on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed recently released text correspondence from Dr. Anthony Fauci regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine's potential impact on pregnant women. The post Ron Johnso…
Breitbart News · August 12, 2026
Senator Says HHS Staff Are Obstructing Kennedy’s Transparency Push as Fauci Texts ReleasedJohnson Accuses HHS Bureaucrats of Obstructing Kennedy Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said career employees at the Department of Health and Human Services are resisting transparency efforts led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a report published …
Naturalnews.com · August 12, 2026
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