Michael Lawler
Republican · NY-17 · U.S. House
NY-17 — U.S. House
Lean D 69%Michael Lawler is on the ballot. Cait Conley vs. Mike Lawler.
Bio
Michael Vincent Lawler is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 17th congressional district since 2023. The district includes all of Rockland County and Putnam County, as well as most of Northern Westchester County, and portions of southern Dutchess County. Previously, he was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 97th district from 2021 to 2022. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 334 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 40
- Mahopac, NY · 845-743-7130
- Pearl River, NY · 845-201-2060
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
- $112k – $430k
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$388k – $180k
- Since 2023
- +$151k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 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
Michael Lawler'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
Michael Lawler (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 Lawlersits 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
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Lawler'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
'Oh wow': 'Rattled' MAGA lawmaker gets 'laughed at' by crowd after foe's swift fact checkRep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) has been running on his record on the state and local tax deduction. His Democratic challenger turned that record against him at a candidate forum this week, causing audience laughter and a "sit down" order.A clip of the exchange bet…
Raw Story · October 9, 2026
Republican congressman tries to outrun a potential blue wave in New York toss-up seatRep. Mike Lawler, R-NY, is in a tight race for re-election in a toss-up district that could help determine control of Congress in November.
NPR · October 9, 2026
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026- Bruce Blakeman vows to end NY sanctuary policies as Mike Lawler drops F-bombs in attack on Gov. Kathy Hochul
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman vowed Tuesday to end New York’s sanctuary state policies on his first day in office — as Rep. Mike Lawler unleashed a profanity-laced attack on Gov. Kathy Hochul. The Republicans gathered in Chappaqua alongside the fam…
Freerepublic.com · October 7, 2026
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