John R. Moolenaar
Republican · MI-2 · U.S. House
MI-2 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%John R. Moolenaar is on the ballot. Ben Ambrose vs. John Moolenaar.
Bio
John Robert Moolenaar is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2015, representing the 4th district from 2015 to 2023 and the 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008 and the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2014.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.7 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 138 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 65
- Clare, MI · 989-802-6040
- Caledonia, MI · 616-528-7100
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
- $406k – $1.0M
- Liabilities
- $110k – $265k
- Net worth
- $141k – $907k
- Since 2019
- +$146k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 19 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 R. Moolenaar'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 R. Moolenaar (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.
Do you vote like Moolenaar?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Moolenaarsits 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 Appropriationscenter · 63 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Moolenaar'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
Rep. John Moolenaar says U.S. has "responsibility to help Taiwan defend itself" before Xi visitAccording to a Reuters exclusive, Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to urge President Trump to halt all arms sales to Taiwan, which Beijing views as its own territory. Republican Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, chairman of the House Select Committee on Chin…
CBS News · September 23, 2026
'Incomprehensible': Congress Condemns Ford Deal Allowing Chinese EVs to Be Built in Its FactoryRep. John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, on Thursday criticized Ford Motor Company for partnering with Chinese automaker Geely to produce electric vehicles…
Breitbart News · July 24, 2026
Michigan GOPers Put Canada on Blast Over Wildfire SmokeFour House Republicans from Michigan say their neighbors to the north aren't doing enough to keep their fires—and their smoke—at home. In a sharply worded letter to Canada's prime minister, the BBC reports that John James, John Moolenaar, Jack Bergman, and Li…
Newser · July 17, 2026- Shaheen, Risch, Colleagues Statement on China's Ethnic Unity Law
Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, alongside Senators John Curtis (R-UT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Ted Budd (R-NC), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Tammy Du…
Globalsecurity.org · July 1, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.