Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.
Republican · PA-8 · U.S. House
PA-8 — U.S. House
Toss-up 62%Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. is on the ballot. Paige Cognetti vs. Rob Bresnahan.
D +1 points of win probability since June.
Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 416 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 36
- Scotrun, PA · 570-534-6220
- Forty-Fort, PA · 570-763-6120
- Hazleton, PA · 570-710-6830
- Scranton, PA · 570-906-6850
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
- $19.7M – $75.3M
- Liabilities
- $3.8M – $16.6M
- Net worth
- $3.1M – $71.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 614 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
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.'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
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits 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 Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 26 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'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
Johnson Sees An Unusual Force Driving Midterm VotersBy VIRGINIA GRACE MCKINNON, The Daily Signal | October 07, 2026 While campaigning for Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson compared the 2026 midterms to the election that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks and s…
Biztoc.com · October 8, 2026
Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Bresnahan Calls Out Paige Cognetti for Firing Teachers, Pushing to Disarm Police: 'Cognetti and Her Allies Are Full of Baloney'Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) released a campaign ad slamming Scranton mayor and Pennsylvania Democrat congressional candidate Paige Cognetti over her record, stating that she "and her allies are full of baloney." The post Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Bresnahan Calls Ou…
Breitbart News · October 4, 2026
Rage as Trump's 'bizarre' rain-tax ruling roils waters on Chesapeake BayJust months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states in December to renew their pledge to restore the nation’s largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive order that called for federal leadership in the ef…
Raw Story · September 18, 2026
Pennsylvania 8: Paige Cognetti takes aim at a Republican seat in Trump countryPennsylvania’s 8th District is a Republican-held seat in northeastern Pennsylvania that Democrats hope to make competitive. Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan is defending the district against Democrat Paige Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton. The race is closely tie…
The Times of India · September 18, 2026
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