Eric Schmitt
Republican · MO · U.S. Senate
Bio
Eric Stephen Schmitt is an American attorney and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, Schmitt served as the 46th state treasurer of Missouri from 2017 to 2019 and as the 43rd Missouri attorney general from 2019 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 89 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 51
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- St. Louis, MO · 314-230-7263
- Columbia, MO · 573-514-8680
- Springfield, MO · 417-290-5000
- Kansas City, MO · 816-849-6234
- Cape Girardeau, MO · 573-388-8340
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
- Assets
- $594k – $1.6M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $94k – $1.4M
- Since 2022
- +$346k
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)
Issue profile
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
Eric Schmitt's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Eric Schmitt (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schmittsits 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
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schmitt'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Computerworld · August 11, 2026- US Senate adds Missouri to the list of teams with a claim to college football's 1960 national title
Four teams had claims to the 1960 national championship in college football. The U.S. Senate is adding Missouri to that list. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., introduced a resolution during a meeting Thursday recognizing the Tigers for a claim to the national title.
Yahoo Entertainment · August 7, 2026 
Is Mizzou football the 1960 national champion? Yes, says the U.S. SenateU.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, introduced a Senate resolution that recognizes Mizzou’s 1960 football team “for its undefeated regular season, Orange Bowl victory and claim to the 1960 national championship.”
STLtoday.com · August 6, 2026
Senator Eric Schmitt joins Dakich, fires back against Senator Hawley over Title IX claimsSen. Eric Schmitt says the Protect College Sports Act does not preempt Title IX, pushing back on concerns raised by Riley Gaines and Josh Hawley.
Fox News · August 6, 2026
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