Derrick Van Orden
Republican · WI-3 · U.S. House
WI-3 — U.S. House
Toss-up 53%Derrick Van Orden is on the ballot. Rebecca Cooke vs. Derrick Van Orden.
D +3 points of win probability since June.
Bio
Derrick Francis Van Orden is an American politician, actor, and retired United States Navy SEAL who has served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 357 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 57
- La Crosse, WI · 608-782-2558
- Eau Claire, WI · 715-831-9214
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
- $53k – $145k
- Liabilities
- $110k – $265k
- Net worth
- −$212k – $35k
- Since 2021
- −$180k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 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
Derrick Van Orden'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
Derrick Van Orden (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 Ordensits 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.
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 25 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Orden'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
MAGA lawmaker gets scathing warning about 'AI slop' ads: 'People deserve better'Wisconsin congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke's campaign has fired off a formal cease-and-desist letter accusing Rep. Derrick Van Orden of running attack ads built on fabricated AI-generated footage of her.The letter, sent by Ben Stafford of Elias Law Group…
Raw Story · September 30, 2026
MAGA rep claims a gay president is 'more likely' to be Republican — for a wild reasonRep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) said a gay president is more likely to be a Republican because Black voters are "not ready" to elect one.Van Orden made the remarks Thursday in an interview with TMZ outside the U.S. Capitol.Reporter Charlie Cotton asked the cong…
Raw Story · September 17, 2026
'I will punch someone in the face!' Republican goes berserk over Hegseth impeachment moveWASHINGTON — An embattled GOP congressman says he’s eager to brawl on Pete Hegseth’s behalf in the wake of his fellow Republican, Rep Thomas Massie (KY) dropping impeachment articles against the embattled defense secretary this week.“I will f------ punch some…
Raw Story · September 17, 2026
Trump ally in Wisconsin sticks close to the president as Democrats push to flip swing districtThe way Derrick Van Orden sees it, any Republicans in the U.S. House who distance themselves from President Donald Trump in this year's midterm election aren...
Yahoo Entertainment · September 12, 2026
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