John Boozman
Republican · AR · U.S. Senate
Bio
John Nichols Boozman is an American politician and former optometrist serving as the senior United States senator from Arkansas, a seat he has held since 2011. From 2001 to 2011, he served as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Boozman has been the dean of Arkansas's congressional delegation since 2013.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 24.8 years
- Chambers
- House 9.1y, Senate 15.7y
- First took office
- 2001 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 19 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- El Dorado, AR · 870-863-4641
- Fort Smith, AR · 479-573-0189
- Jonesboro, AR · 870-268-6925
- Little Rock, AR · 501-372-7153
- Lowell, AR · 479-725-0400
- Mountain Home, AR · 870-424-0129
- Stuttgart, AR · 870-672-6941
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
- $2.2M – $5.8M
- Liabilities
- $450k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- $1.2M – $5.3M
- Since 2023
- +$587k
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
John Boozman'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
John Boozman (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 Boozmansits 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
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europecenter · 9 members
- Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade (Ex Officio)Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology (Ex Officio)Rural Development, Energy, and Credit (Ex Officio)Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research (Ex Officio)Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 membersFinancial Services and General GovernmentDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (Chairman)State, Foreign Operations, and Related ProgramsTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 18 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Boozman'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
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The New Republic · September 17, 2026
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The New Republic · September 17, 2026
Shock as Mitch McConnell changes vote after GOP colleague's whispers: 'So ridiculous'An aloof Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was seen changing his vote after Republicans sitting next to him told him to do so.McConnell returned to the Senate earlier this week, and on Wednesday, he was seen following the advice of other Republicans in the Senate A…
Raw Story · September 16, 2026
Vital empty Senate chair hands Dems knife to gut GOP's biggest bill: analysisCongressional Democrats are playing hardball on the farm bill, and with the midterms approaching, they appear to see little reason to fold.The clearest sign came at an Aug. 6 markup, where Democrats blocked the bill from advancing in the Senate Agriculture Co…
Raw Story · August 24, 2026
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