Gary J. Palmer

Republican · AL-6 · U.S. House

Bio

Gary James Palmer is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district since 2015. His district includes the wealthier parts of Birmingham, as well as most of its suburbs. Before becoming an elected official, Palmer co-founded and served as the longtime president of the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.

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Record of service

In office: 11.6 years
First took office: 2015 (6 terms)
Seniority: 126 of 437 by time served
Age: 72

Leadership

House Republican Policy Committee Chair · 2019–2023
House Republican Policy Committee Chair · 2021–2025

District offices

Birmingham, AL · 205-968-1290

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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

$1.3M

2020

$1.3M

2021

$1.2M

2022

$1.1M

2023

$3.2M

2024

$1.8M

2025

$2.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.6M – $3.6M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $1.6M – $3.6M
Since 2019: +$1.3M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 31 assets reported

Canaan LLC$250k – $500k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$250k – $500k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$250k – $500k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$250k – $500k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Core Plus Bond ETF (OACP)$100k – $250k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent International Equity ETF (OAIM)$50k – $100k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Large Cap Core ETF (OALC)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab ⇒ OneAscent Core Plus Bond ETF (OACP)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab ⇒ OneAscent Large Cap Core ETF (OALC)$50k – $100k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Core Plus Bond ETF (OACP)$50k – $100k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Large Cap Core ETF (OALC)$50k – $100k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Emerging Markets ETF (OAEM)$15k – $50k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Enhanced Small and Mid Cap ETF (OASC)$15k – $50k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Quaker Investment Trust CCM Affordable Housing MBS ETF (OWNS)$15k – $50k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Strategy Shares Eventide High Dividend ETF (ELCV)$15k – $50k

Ann Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab ⇒ OneAscent Enhanced Small and Mid Cap ETF (OASC)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab ⇒ OneAscent International Equity ETF (OAIM)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Strategy Shares Eventide High Dividend ETF (ELCV)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT)$15k – $50k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Enhanced Small and Mid Cap ETF (OASC)$15k – $50k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent International Equity ETF (OAIM)$15k – $50k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Strategy Shares Eventide High Dividend ETF (ELCV)$15k – $50k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab ⇒ OneAscent Emerging Markets ETF (OAEM)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab ⇒ Quaker Investment Trust CCM Affordable Housing MBS ETF (OWNS)$1k – $15k

Gary & Ann Palmer JT Schwab Accounts ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares $1k – $15k

Gary & Ann Palmer JT Schwab Accounts ⇒ Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. - Series A Common Stoc$1k – $15k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ OneAscent Emerging Markets ETF (OAEM)$1k – $15k

Gary Palmer Schwab IRA ⇒ Quaker Investment Trust CCM Affordable Housing MBS ETF (OWNS)$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+0.76

Healthcare

R+0.71

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.84

Defense & Veterans

R+0.72

Economy & Labor

R+0.80

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.73

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.26

Education

R+0.70

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

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

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

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Gary J. Palmer (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 Palmersits 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 Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Government Operations Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs
House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Energy Oversight and Investigations Environment (Chair)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Palmer'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.