
Dan Newhouse
Republican · WA-4 · U.S. House
Bio
Daniel Milton Newhouse is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 4th congressional district. The district covers much of the central third of the state, including Yakima and the Tri-Cities. Before his election to Congress, Newhouse served as director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture and as a member of the Washington House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 148 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Richland, WA · 509-713-7374
- Yakima, WA · 509-452-3243
- Grand Coulee, WA · 509-433-7760
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
- $6.8M – $30.7M
- Liabilities
- $1.5M – $6.1M
- Net worth
- $775k – $29.1M
- Since 2019
- +$16.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 143 assets reported
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)
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
Dan Newhouse'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
Dan Newhouse (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Newhousesits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Newhouse'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
For Republicans planning post-Trump future, one race in Washington is worth watchingThe primary to replace Rep. Dan Newhouse is a rare opportunity for Washington's Republicans to seek federal office. Candidates representing different wings of the party are testing Trump's influence.
NPR · August 3, 2026- House GOP leaders prep for farm bill floor fight ahead - Politico
House GOP leaders prep for farm bill floor fight aheadPolitico IDFA Joins More Than 330 Ag Groups in Letter to Urge Advancement of Farm Bill 2.0idfa.org Op-ed: Rural America is in trouble. Congress needs to pass the farm bill.Congressman Dan Newhouse (.gov) G…
Slashdot.org · April 21, 2026
Six Republicans Rebuke Trump’s Canada Tariffs—and One Democrat Doesn’tDonald Trump got a rare rebuke from the House Wednesday night as six Republicans joined all but one Democrat to vote against his tariffs against Canada. Representatives Don Bacon of Nebraska, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Kevin Kiley of California, Thomas Massi…
The New Republic · February 12, 2026
Slog AM: The President Yells at Us, Power Outage in Snohomish County, Rep. Dan Newhouse Won’t Seek ReelectionThe Stranger's morning news roundup. by Micah Yip Lights Out: 400,000 residents lost power in yesterday’s high winds, and nearly 50,000 remain in the dark. The Snohomish Public Utilities District said it could take multiple days for power to be rest…
TheStranger.com · December 18, 2025
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