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Paul Cook

Former

Republican · CA-8 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2019
$1.1M
Most recent filing (2019)
Assets
$629k – $1.5M
Liabilities
$0 – $0
Net worth
$629k – $1.5M
Largest holdings in the 2019 filing · 16 assets reported
Parcel #058901178$15k – $50k

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+0.80
Healthcare
R+0.68
Immigration & Border
R+0.70
Guns
R+0.99
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.85
Environment & Energy
R+0.74
Crime & Policing
R+0.90
Defense & Veterans
R+0.78
Economy & Labor
R+0.87
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.33
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.09
Education
R+0.31
Government & Democracy
R+0.81
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+1.00

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

Paul Cook'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

Paul Cook (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightCook

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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Most and least aligned members

Treating Cook'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

NAY
National Apprenticeship Act of 2020
2020-11-20 · Passed · Education, Economy & Labor
YEA
Improving Safety and Security for Veterans Act of 2019
2020-11-16 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
NAY
Condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent.
2020-10-02 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social
NAY
The Heroes Act
2020-10-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
The Heroes Act
2020-10-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1153) condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent, and providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1154) condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes.
2020-10-01 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social, Government & Democracy
NAY
The Heroes Act
2020-10-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1153) condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent, and providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1154) condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes.
2020-10-01 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social, Government & Democracy
NAY
The Heroes Act
2020-10-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 925) to extend the authorization of appropriations for allocation to carry out approved wetlands conservation projects under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through fiscal year 2024.
2020-09-30 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 925) to extend the authorization of appropriations for allocation to carry out approved wetlands conservation projects under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through fiscal year 2024.
2020-09-30 · Passed · Environment & Energy
YEA
Reaffirming the House of Representatives' commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.
2020-09-29 · Passed · Government & Democracy

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