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H. Morgan Griffith

Republican · VA-9 · U.S. House

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Bio

Howard Morgan Griffith is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, his district covers the majority of rural Southwest Virginia, including the New River Valley and the Virginia side of the Tri-Cities.

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Record of service

In office
15.7 years
First took office
2011 (8 terms)
Seniority
82 of 439 by time served
Age
68
District offices
  • Abingdon, VA · 276-525-1405
  • Christiansburg, VA · 540-381-5671

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

2019
−$190k
2020
−$158k
2021
−$145k
2022
−$125k
2023
$325k
2024
−$217k
2025
−$80k
Most recent filing (2025)
Assets
$366k – $815k
Liabilities
$425k – $915k
Net worth
−$549k – $390k
Since 2019
+$111k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Pulaski property$250k – $500k
VRS-HYBRID$100k – $250k
Stonegate Swim Club$15k – $50k
Vanguard 500 Index Fd Admiral Shs (VFIAX)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.74
Healthcare
R+0.63
Immigration & Border
R+0.91
Guns
R+0.99
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.92
Environment & Energy
R+0.77
Crime & Policing
R+0.73
Defense & Veterans
R+0.43
Economy & Labor
R+0.78
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.49
Civil Rights & Social
R+0.25
Education
R+0.64
Government & Democracy
R+0.78
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.14

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

H. Morgan Griffith'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

H. Morgan Griffith (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightGriffith

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Caucuses & committees

Where Griffithsits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Griffith'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

YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Retire through Ownership Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Ratepayer Protection Act
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Water Resources Development Act of 2026
2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Crime & Policing
YEA
GUARD Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Economy & Labor
YEA
Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act
2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025
2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy
NAY
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
2026-09-15 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans, Government & Democracy

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