Jason Smith

Republican · MO-8 · U.S. House

Bio

Jason Thomas Smith is an American businessman and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district since 2013. The district comprises 30 counties, covering just under 20,000 square miles of southeastern and southern Missouri.

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Record of service

In office: 13.2 years
First took office: 2013 (7 terms)
Seniority: 121 of 437 by time served
Age: 46

District offices

Cape Girardeau, MO · 573-335-0101
Farmington, MO · 573-756-9755
Poplar Bluff, MO · 573-609-2996
Rolla, MO · 573-364-2455
West Plains, MO · 417-255-1515

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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

−$395k

2020

−$442k

2021

$255k

2022

$204k

2023

$69k

2024

$813k

2025

$837k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.4M – $2.9M
Liabilities: $815k – $1.8M
Net worth: −$417k – $2.1M
Since 2019: +$1.2M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 20 assets reported

PSP Land Development LLC$500k – $1.0M

Smith Land & Cattle Company LLC ⇒ Smith Land & Cattle Company, 100% Interest$500k – $1.0M

Smith Land & Cattle Company LLC ⇒ Smith Land & Cattle Company$250k – $500k

JT Smith Farms$100k – $250k

Victory Fund for Income - Class A (IPFIX)$15k – $50k

Smith & Parker Enterprises, LLC ⇒ Smith and Parker Enterprises LLC$15k – $50k

Pioneer Modified Whole Life Policy$1k – $15k

Missouri 2045 Fund ⇒ Missouri 2045 Fund$1k – $15k

Smith & Parker Enterprises, LLC ⇒ Smith and Parker Enterprises LLC$1k – $15k

BTC: Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF$1 – $1k

Defiance Quantum ETF (QTUM)$1 – $1k

First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF (FTXL)$1 – $1k

IBIT: iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF$1 – $1k

Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$1 – $1k

ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ)$1 – $1k

Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS)$1 – $1k

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD)$1 – $1k

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$1 – $1k

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS)$1 – $1k

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+0.77

Healthcare

R+0.68

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.94

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.70

Economy & Labor

R+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.11

Education

R+0.72

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

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

91%Closest

65%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Jason Smith (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 Smithsits 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

House Committee on Ways and MeansChaircenter · 45 members
Joint Committee on TaxationVice Chairmancenter · 10 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Smith'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.