Michael Lawler

Republican · NY-17 · U.S. House

Bio

Michael Vincent Lawler is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 17th congressional district since 2023. The district includes all of Rockland County and Putnam County, as well as most of Northern Westchester County, and portions of southern Dutchess County. Previously, he was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 97th district from 2021 to 2022. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 334 of 437 by time served
Age: 39

District offices

Mahopac, NY · 845-743-7130
Pearl River, NY · 845-201-2060

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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

2023

−$254k

2024

−$179k

2025

−$104k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $112k – $430k
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: −$388k – $180k
Since 2023: +$151k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 assets reported

Checkmate Strategies$100k – $250k

Chase Bank$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ Amplify ETF Trust Amplify Online Retail ETF (IBUY)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ First Trust Developed Markets Ex-US AlphaDEX Fund (FDT)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ First Trust Financials AlphaDEX (FXO)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ First Trust Water ETF (FIW)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ iShares S&P 500 Value ETF (IVE)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ Renaissance IPO ETF (IPO)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (VBK)$1k – $15k

CS IRA ⇒ VistaShares Artificial Intelligence Supercycle ETF (AIS)$1k – $15k

CS Roth IRA ⇒ First Trust Amex Biotech Index Fund (FBT)$1k – $15k

CS Roth IRA ⇒ First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF (FTXN)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.75

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.88

Crime & Policing

R+0.95

Defense & Veterans

R+0.99

Economy & Labor

R+0.74

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.88

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.33

Education

R+0.89

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.82

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

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

89%Closest

61%

26%

16%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

12%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Michael Lawler (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 Lawlersits 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

Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Capital Markets Housing and Insurance
House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Middle East and North Africa (Chair)Western Hemisphere

Most and least aligned members

Treating Lawler'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.