Michael K. Simpson

Republican · ID-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Michael Keith Simpson is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district since 1999. The district covers most of the eastern portion of the state, including Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Sun Valley, Twin Falls and the northern two-thirds of Boise. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 27.6 years
First took office: 1999 (14 terms)
Seniority: 30 of 437 by time served
Age: 75

District offices

Boise, ID · 208-334-1953
Twin Falls, ID · 208-734-7219
Idaho Falls, ID · 208-523-6701

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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

$2.4M

2020

$2.6M

2021

$2.6M

2022

$2.3M

2023

$2.4M

2024

$1.2M

2025

$2.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.6M – $3.3M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $1.6M – $3.3M
Since 2019: +$76k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported

D.A. Davidson/Stifel ⇒ Stifel Financial Corporation Common Stock (SF)$500k – $1.0M

American Estate & Trust (Accuplan) ⇒ American Estate & Trust$250k – $500k

Precious MetalsNot Applicable American Estate & Trust (Accuplan) ⇒ American Estate & Trust$250k – $500k

D.A. Davidson/Stifel ⇒ D.A.Davidson/Stifel$15k – $50k

D.A. Davidson/Stifel ⇒ First Trust Value Line 100 Fund (FVL)$15k – $50k

D.A. Davidson/Stifel ⇒ Stifel Financial Corporation Common Stock (SF)$15k – $50k

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+0.80

Healthcare

R+0.65

Immigration & Border

R+0.84

Guns

R+0.92

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.97

Environment & Energy

R+0.73

Crime & Policing

R+0.72

Defense & Veterans

R+0.85

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.72

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.13

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.81

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

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

92%Closest

66%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

17%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Michael K. Simpson (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 Simpsonsits 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 Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (Chair)Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Most and least aligned members

Treating Simpson'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.