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Dean Heller

Former

Republican · NV · U.S. Senate

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

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.74
Healthcare
R+0.42
Immigration & Border
R+1.00
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+1.00
Environment & Energy
R+0.63
Crime & Policing
D+0.43
Defense & Veterans
R+0.65
Economy & Labor
R+0.90
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.42
Civil Rights & Social
R+0.15
Education
R+0.78
Government & Democracy
R+0.37
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.65

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

Dean Heller'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

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

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Heller'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

YEA
Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2018-12-19 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2018-12-19 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2018-12-19 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2018-12-19 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
2018-12-11 · Conference Report Agreed to · Economy & Labor, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
2018-12-11 · Conference Report Agreed to · Economy & Labor, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Justin George Muzinich, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
2018-12-10 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor
YEA
Bernard L. McNamee, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 30, 2020
2018-12-06 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Kathleen Laura Kraninger, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection for a term of five years
2018-12-06 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Economy & Labor
YEA
Bernard L. McNamee, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of the term expiring June 30, 2020
2018-12-05 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Environment & Energy
YEA
Jonathan A. Kobes, of South Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit
2018-11-29 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Kathleen Laura Kraninger, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection for a term of five years
2018-11-29 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Economy & Labor

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