
Daniel Webster
Republican · FL-11 · U.S. House
Bio
Daniel Alan Webster is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 11th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2011. He represented Florida's 10th congressional district from 2011 to 2017. Before his congressional service, he served 28 years in the Florida legislature. He was the first Republican Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 90 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 77
- The Villages, FL · 352-383-3552
- Clermont, FL · 352-241-9220
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
- $751k – $1.8M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $751k – $1.8M
- Since 2019
- +$624k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 15 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
Daniel Webster'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
Daniel Webster (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Webstersits 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 Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Webster'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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The New Republic · May 6, 2026
House Republican from Florida announces he won't seek re-election this yearRepublican Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida, who has served in the House since 2011, announces he will not run for re-election this year.
Fox News · April 29, 2026
Webster Announces Retirement (United States Congressman Daniel Webster)United States Congressman Daniel Webster: Webster Announces Retirement — Architect of Florida's Republican Majority — Grandfather of Home Education and School Choice in Florida — Recognized Leader in Transportation Policy — Washington, DC - Congressma…
Memeorandum.com · April 28, 2026
Florida Rep. Daniel Webster announces retirement (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico: Florida Rep. Daniel Webster announces retirement — Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday he will not seek reelection in November, joining dozens of lawmakers who have announced their retirement ahead of this year's m…
Memeorandum.com · April 28, 2026
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