Mike Flood
Republican · NE-1 · U.S. House
NE-1 — U.S. House
Lean R 84%Mike Flood is on the ballot. Chris Backemeyer vs. Mike Flood.
D +16 points of win probability since May.
Bio
Michael John Flood is an American attorney, businessman, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 1st congressional district since July 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served two terms as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 19th district, from 2005 to 2013 and 2021 to 2022. He served as speaker of the legislature from 2007 to 2013.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 4.2 years
- First took office
- 2022 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 290 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 51
- Lincoln, NE · 402-438-1598
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
- $1.5M – $6.4M
- Liabilities
- $550k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- $434k – $5.8M
- Since 2022
- −$213k
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
Mike Flood'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
Mike Flood (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 Floodsits 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 Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Flood'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
Nebraska Democrat looks to oust GOP congressman as Iran war crosses 6 monthsChris Backemeyer, the Democrat looking to unseat Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.), joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the Iran war's impact on the U.S. economy and...
Yahoo Entertainment · August 28, 2026
Tommy Tuberville Brags He Talks to ChatGPT as Congress Ramps Up AI UseMembers of Congress are outsourcing their work to artificial intelligence without much, if any, oversight or limits. Staffers and legislators are using AI chatbots to write speeches and news releases, manage mail from constituents, draft questions for congres…
The New Republic · August 13, 2026- Angry crowd confronts Republican Rep. Mike Flood at Nebraska town hallYahoo Entertainment · July 8, 2026
GOP Rep Discovers His Constituents Can Read The Bill He Voted ForA Nebraska Republican ran into an angry crowd when he tried to gaslight his constituents on Trump's megabill. At a Tuesday town hall, Rep. Mike Flood got an earful of boos while attempting to defend the "One Big Beautiful Bill" — and stumbled badly when a con…
Crooksandliars.com · July 8, 2026
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