John James
Republican · MI-10 · U.S. House
MI-10 — U.S. House
Toss-up 54%John James is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Christina Hines vs. Mike Bouchard.
R +3 points of win probability since August.
Bio
John Edward James is an American politician, businessman, and former military officer serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 10th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018 and 2020.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 321 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 45
- Warren, MI · 586-498-7122
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
- $11.7M – $51.1M
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- $10.7M – $50.6M
- Since 2022
- +$26.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 37 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
John James'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 James (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 Jamessits 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
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating James'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
Michigan Congressman Proposes Using Tariff Revenue for Tariff Relief FundRep. John James admits that Trump's tariffs are hurting Michigan businesses. His solution? Make them fill out more paperwork.
Reason · Yesterday
Trump-Endorsed Candidate Says on CNN That ‘President is Not Correct’ About EconomyRep. John James (R-MI) flat-out said President Trump "is not correct" about the economy "booming" as he highlighted just how bad things are in Michigan. The post Trump-Endorsed Candidate Says on CNN That ‘President is Not Correct’ About Economy first appeared…
Mediaite · October 9, 2026
MAGA candidate gets more than he bargained for in tense exchange with CNN's Dana BashCNN’s Dana Bash confronted a Republican congressman running for Michigan governor on Friday after he compared a Democratic Senate candidate to the extremists he fought during the Iraq War.MAGA Rep. John James, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, came u…
Raw Story · October 9, 2026
Republican John James seeks some distance from Trump in Michigan governor debateRepublican Rep. John James on Tuesday sought to put some daylight between himself and President Donald Trump as he debated his opponent in the Michigan governor’s race.
NBC News · October 7, 2026
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