Eric Burlison
Republican · MO-7 · U.S. House
MO-7 — U.S. House
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Bio
Eric Wayne Burlison is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district since 2023. He previously served as the representative for District 133 in the Missouri House of Representatives. A Republican, Burlison was elected to the Missouri House in 2008 and left office at the end of 2016. In 2018, he was elected to the Missouri Senate, representing District 20. He was reelected for a second term in the U.S House of Representatives in 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 324 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 50
- Joplin, MO · 417-781-1041
- Springfield, MO · 417-889-1800
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
- $523k – $1.4M
- Liabilities
- $560k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$592k – $860k
- Since 2023
- +$82k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 21 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
Eric Burlison'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
Eric Burlison (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Burlisonsits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Burlison'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
US intelligence witnesses to 2025 UFO orb incident could testify before CongressUS intelligence officials who witnessed a bizarre parade of orange orbs -- including smaller objects that allegedly emerged from a giant “mothership” orb -- could be called to testify before Congress, Rep. Eric Burlison told The Post.
New York Post · October 10, 2026
Eric Schmitt suffers new embarrassment as aide blames 'software error' for donor messIn December 2023, a woman living in a small community near Austin, Texas, made a $78.08 contribution through WinRed. A few weeks later, she made another.Then came four more contributions in January 2024.Those were the first six entries under her name in Feder…
Raw Story · October 3, 2026
Flock Cameras Face Removal Nationwide Under New BillFederally-funded flock cameras could face removal under a new bill proposed by two Republican lawmakers amid widespread concerns about privacy and police abuse. Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Eric Burlison of Missouri introduced the “Flock-Off Act” on We…
Biztoc.com · September 3, 2026
Would-be UFO whistleblower died of accidental drug overdose after agreeing to testify to CongressThe mysterious death is of "grave concern" to Rep. Eric Burlison, who referred the matter for investigation to the FBI due to "implications for national security."
New York Post · April 25, 2026
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