
Rudy Yakym III
Republican · IN-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Rudolph Chester Yakym III is an American politician and businessman who is the member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Indiana's 2nd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.8 years
- First took office
- 2022 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 293 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 42
- Mishawaka, IN · 574-204-2645
- Rochester, IN · 574-223-4373
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
- $6.1M – $22.2M
- Liabilities
- $3.9M – $13.9M
- Net worth
- −$7.8M – $18.3M
- Since 2022
- +$2.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 74 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
Rudy Yakym III'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
Rudy Yakym III (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where IIIsits 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 Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating III'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
Congressman aims to revamp $150 billion in grants to programs proven to workRep. Rudy Yakym is introducing bipartisan legislation aimed at revamping the roughly $150 billion spent each year in federal grants and is mounting a separate effort to push Congress to address Uncle Sam's roughly $2.8 trillion in improper spending since 2003.
New York Post · January 15, 2026
Mark Peterson to Retire from WNDU After 40 YearsIndiana 2nd District Rep. Rudy Yakym celebrated Mark’s career accomplishments in an address to Congress.
Adweek · June 13, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Introduces Bill To Protect U.S. Infrastructure From Chinese ThreatsRepublican Indiana Rep. Rudy Yakym unveiled legislation Monday afternoon to deter U.S. adversaries from cutting submarine cables.
The Daily Caller · May 19, 2025
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