Mark E. Amodei
Republican · NV-2 · U.S. House
NV-2 — U.S. House
Lean R 85%Mark E. Amodei is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Teresa Benitez-Thompson vs. David Flippo.
Bio
Mark Eugene Amodei is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district since 2011. Previously, Amodei served in the Nevada Assembly from 1997 to 1999 and in the Nevada Senate from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party, chairing the Nevada Republican Party from 2010 to 2011.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 95 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Reno, NV · 775-686-5760
- Elko, NV · 775-777-7705
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
- $266k – $565k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $16k – $465k
- Since 2019
- +$225k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 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
Mark E. Amodei's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Amodeisits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Amodei'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
GOP candidate accused of repeatedly inflating his military record, joining an unfortunate clubWith Republican Rep. Mark Amodei retiring in Nevada, his party has rallied behind David Flippo as his successor. The outgoing incumbent, however, has said he will “absolutely not” support the GOP nominee. “The guy is a fraud,” Amodei said this week, referring…
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Raw Story · August 24, 2026
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Raw Story · August 21, 2026
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Raw Story · June 25, 2026
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