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Steve Watkins

Former

Republican · KS-2 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2019
$860k
Most recent filing (2019)
Assets
$830k$2.1M
Liabilities
$365k$800k
Net worth
$30k$1.7M
Largest holdings in the 2019 filing · 34 assets reported
WF 401(k) ⇒ WF/T Rowe Price Inst LCG Mgd CIT$1k$15k

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

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.24
Healthcare
R+0.68
Immigration & Border
R+0.75
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Environment & Energy
R+0.52
Crime & Policing
R+0.69
Defense & Veterans
R+0.74
Economy & Labor
R+0.87
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.41
Civil Rights & Social
R+0.02
Education
R+0.13
Government & Democracy
R+0.56
Judicial & Executive Nominations

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 Watkins'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

Steve Watkins (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightWatkins

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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Most and least aligned members

Treating Watkins'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

NAY
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 133) to promote economic partnership and cooperation between the United States and Mexico; providing for disposition of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 1520) to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the publication of a list of licensed biological products, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
2020-12-21 · Passed · Government & Democracy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 133) to promote economic partnership and cooperation between the United States and Mexico; providing for disposition of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 1520) to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the publication of a list of licensed biological products, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
2020-12-21 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
2020-12-21 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor
YEA
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
2020-12-21 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor
NAY
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 133) to promote economic partnership and cooperation between the United States and Mexico; providing for disposition of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 1520) to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the publication of a list of licensed biological products, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
2020-12-21 · Passed · Government & Democracy
NAY
Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021
2020-12-20 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal
NAY
Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021
2020-12-20 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
TEAM Veteran Caregivers Act
2020-12-16 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
TEAM Veteran Caregivers Act
2020-12-16 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and Other Extensions Act
2020-12-09 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-08 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
2020-12-08 · Passed · Defense & Veterans

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