Adrian Smith
Republican · NE-3 · U.S. House
NE-3 — U.S. House
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Bio
Adrian Michael Smith is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 48th district in the Nebraska Legislature from 1999 to 2007. Smith is the dean of Nebraska's congressional delegation since 2022 following Jeff Fortenberry's resignation.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 62 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 55
- Grand Island, NE · 308-384-3900
- Scottsbluff, NE · 308-633-6333
- Nebraska City, NE · 402-874-6050
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
- $1.1M – $2.6M
- Liabilities
- $1.6M – $6.3M
- Net worth
- −$5.2M – $1000k
- Since 2019
- −$2.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 22 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
Adrian Smith'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
Adrian Smith (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 Smithsits 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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Smith'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
WH Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christopher Phelan, Presidential adviser Peter Navarro, FERC Chair Laura Swett, Sens. Rounds and Gallego, Southern Company CEO Chris Womack, Reps. Adrian Smith, Beth Van Duyne, April Delaney, Bill Foster, and Janelle Bynum, ExIm's John Jovanovic and more to headline American Growth Summit tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29 in Washington, D.C.WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A powerhouse lineup of leaders from the administration, US Congress, and American business and civil society will speak at a day-long convening on the evolving topography of America's economic interests hosted by Wid…
PRNewswire · September 28, 2026
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture warIn November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abo…
Raw Story · September 24, 2026
Top GOP state election official ‘baffled’ by RNC lawsuit against citizens votingLINCOLN — Outgoing Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said he’s baffled by a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate a provision in state law that allows U.S. citizens who’ve never lived in the country to vote in Nebraska elections.Republican National Committee su…
Raw Story · July 6, 2026
APhA and Nebraska Pharmacists Association (NPA) Applaud Rep. Adrian Smith for Advancing Legislation to Improve Seniors' Access to CareWASHINGTON and LINCOLN, Neb., May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the Nebraska Pharmacists Association (NPA) today applauded U.S. Representative Adrian Smith (NE-3) for his leadership in advancing H.R. 3164, the Main S…
PRNewswire · May 21, 2026
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