Derrick Van Orden
Republican · WI-3 · U.S. House
Bio
Derrick Francis Van Orden is an American politician, actor, and retired United States Navy SEAL who is the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district, since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 357 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 56
- La Crosse, WI · 608-782-2558
- Eau Claire, WI · 715-831-9214
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
- $53k – $145k
- Liabilities
- $110k – $265k
- Net worth
- −$212k – $35k
- Since 2021
- −$180k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
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)
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
Derrick Van Orden'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
Derrick Van Orden (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 Ordensits 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 Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 24 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Orden'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
Why Democrats Must Embrace a “Mom Populist” Education AgendaPease Elementary in downtown Austin, Texas, has sat empty since 2020. Formerly the oldest continuously operating school in Texas, Pease was shuttered by the Austin Independent School District to save money. On a steamy day this summer, the hulking structure p…
The New Republic · Today
Stunning Wisconsin Outcome Hands Dems a Surprise Weapon Against MAGABen Wikler, who heroically rebuilt the Wisconsin Democratic Party as its chair from 2019 to 2025, is fond of describing our election system as akin to an “electric grid.” The idea is that local elections are interconnected in obscure ways. Just as losing one …
The New Republic · August 12, 2026
Dems eye pick-up in Wisconsin swing district as Rep Van Orden set for rematch in key House raceRebecca Cooke won Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary, setting up a rematch with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden this fall.
Fox News · August 12, 2026
Transcript: How Trump Wrecked 3 Traditional GOP Strengths All at OnceThe following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.With the midt…
The New Republic · July 27, 2026
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