Andy Barr
Republican · KY-6 · U.S. House
KY-6 — U.S. House
Lean R 76%Andy Barr is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Zach Dembo vs. Ralph Alvarado.
Bio
Garland Hale "Andy" Barr IV is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district since 2013. Previously, he served in the administration of Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 107 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Lexington, KY · 859-219-1366
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
- $953k – $2.7M
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$47k – $2.2M
- Since 2020
- −$6k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 56 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
Andy Barr'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
Andy Barr (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 Barrsits 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 Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Barr'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
The Race to Replace Mitch McConnell: Latest Polls, Odds as Senator ReturnsKentucky Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate this week following a months-long absence, as Democrat Charles Booker seeks to defeat Republican Representative Andy Barr to flip the seat in the traditionally conservative state. McConnell suffered a fa…
Biztoc.com · September 15, 2026
McConnell Returns to Congress—After 3 Months of Paid Leave With Taxpayer-Subsidized HealthcareFormer US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally came back to the Capitol on Monday after a three-month absence that fueled calls for the Kentucky Republican's resignation and widespread speculation over whether he was even still alive. The 84-year-ol…
Common Dreams · September 14, 2026
Republican who wanted to rename highway after Trump caught erasing him off campaign siteAnother Republican who spent his primary wrapping himself in Donald Trump has quietly peeled the president off his campaign website, this time in a red-leaning Florida seat.Casey Askar, the GOP nominee in Florida's redrawn 22nd Congressional District, ran the…
Raw Story · September 11, 2026
Charles Booker's Chances of Flipping Kentucky Seat Amid McConnell AbsenceDemocratic Senate nominee Charles Booker is running behind Republican Andy Barr in Kentucky's open Senate race, according to the latest available polling, even as the seat's incumbent, retiring Senator Mitch McConnell, remains absent from Washington amid unre…
Biztoc.com · September 9, 2026
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