Burgess Owens

Republican · UT-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Clarence Burgess Owens is an American politician and former professional football player. Since 2021, he has served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 4th congressional district.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 280 of 437 by time served
Age: 75

District offices

West Jordan, UT · 801-999-9801

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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

2019

−$59k

2020

−$59k

2021

−$59k

2022

−$158k

2023

−$150k

2024

−$159k

Most recent filing (2024)

Assets: $2k – $30k
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: −$248k – −$70k
Since 2019: −$100k

Largest holdings in the 2024 filing · 3 assets reported

Chase Bank Account$1k – $15k

Mountain American Credit Union$1k – $15k

Book Royalites$1 – $200

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+0.79

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.84

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.81

Defense & Veterans

R+0.63

Economy & Labor

R+0.70

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.76

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.21

Education

R+0.96

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

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

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

91%Closest

63%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Burgess Owens (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 Owenssits 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

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Owens'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.