Andy Harris
Republican · MD-1 · U.S. House
MD-1 — U.S. House
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Bio
Andrew Peter Harris is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore, as well as several eastern exurbs of Baltimore County. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 83 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 69
- Bel Air, MD · 410-588-5670
- Salisbury, MD · 443-944-8624
- Cambridge, MD
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
- $2.4M – $8.1M
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $2.3M – $8.0M
- Since 2019
- +$3.4M
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
Andy Harris'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 Harris (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 Harrissits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Harris'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
Rage as Trump's 'bizarre' rain-tax ruling roils waters on Chesapeake BayJust months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states in December to renew their pledge to restore the nation’s largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive order that called for federal leadership in the ef…
Raw Story · September 18, 2026
Maryland's lone congressional Republican blasts Moore's redistricting push as alleged 2028 White House playRep. Andy Harris claims Gov. Wes Moore is pushing a Maryland ballot amendment to eliminate his district in furtherance of presidential ambitions.
Fox News · August 7, 2026
'He knows he's a loser': GOP fans flames as Dems shoot down Trump's primetime addressWASHINGTON — The 2020 election just won’t go away, and not just because of President Donald Trump and his primetime address Thursday evening.Some of the president’s prominent allies on Capitol Hill are eagerly fanning the flames ahead of this year’s midterm e…
Raw Story · July 16, 2026
Four Democrats Help Republicans Take Food Aid From Women and ChildrenHouse Republicans, joined by four Democrats, voted Thursday to cut food aid for pregnant women and children.The House passed a bill 213–210 that reduced funding for the Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies. The bill includes a $141 million cut…
The New Republic · June 5, 2026
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