Addison P. McDowell

Republican · NC-6 · U.S. House

Bio

Addison Parker McDowell is an American politician and lobbyist serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, McDowell was first elected in 2024.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 399 of 437 by time served
Age: 32

District offices

Lexington, NC · 336-333-5005

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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

2025

−$180k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1k – $15k
Liabilities: $110k – $265k
Net worth: −$264k – −$95k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 assets reported

State Employees' Credit Union Checking Account$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+0.86

Healthcare

R+0.84

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.99

Economy & Labor

R+0.73

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.98

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.16

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

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

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

87%Closest

60%

24%

15%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

11%

Communist Party USA

On the political map

Addison P. McDowell (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 McDowellsits 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

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Indian and Insular Affairs
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Highways and Transit

Most and least aligned members

Treating McDowell'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.