Steve Scalise

Republican · LA-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who has been the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, he was the House majority whip from 2014 to 2019 and the House minority whip 2019 to 2023.

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Record of service

In office: 18.3 years
First took office: 2008 (10 terms)
Seniority: 66 of 437 by time served
Age: 60

Leadership

House Majority Whip · 2014–2019
House Minority Whip · 2019–2023
House Majority Leader · 2023–present

District offices

Mandeville, LA · 985-893-9064
Metairie, LA · 504-837-1259
Ponchatoula, LA · 985-340-2185
Raceland, LA · 985-879-2300

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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

−$475k

2020

−$508k

2021

−$375k

2022

−$375k

2023

−$375k

2024

−$400k

2025

−$208k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $0 – $0
Liabilities: $115k – $300k
Net worth: −$300k – −$115k
Since 2019: +$268k

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+0.77

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+0.98

Guns

R+0.92

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.84

Defense & Veterans

R+0.78

Economy & Labor

R+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.21

Education

R+0.75

Government & Democracy

R+0.88

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

Steve Scalise'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

13%

On the political map

Steve Scalise (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 Scalisesits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Scalise'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.