Roger Williams
Republican · TX-25 · U.S. House
TX-25 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Roger Williams is on the ballot. Dione Sims vs. Roger Williams. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
John Roger Williams is an American businessman and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Texas's 25th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he served as secretary of state of Texas from 2004 to 2007.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 117 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 77
- Cleburne, TX · 682-218-5965
- Arlington, TX · 682-218-5965
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
- $25.1M – $122.6M
- Liabilities
- $3.3M – $12.5M
- Net worth
- $12.6M – $119.4M
- Since 2019
- +$43.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 52 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
Roger Williams'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
Roger Williams (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 Williamssits 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 Williams'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
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WATCH: Animals predicting the Super BowlA tree kangaroo at the Roger Williams Zoo in Rhode Island picked the Patriots, while Puerto Rican crested toads in Texas and a tarantula at Brookfield Zoo chose the Seahawks.
ABC News · February 7, 2026
MAGA’s Crackdown on Dissent Started With Pro-Palestinian Activists. It Didn’t End There.Two days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, Rep. Roger Williams issued an ultimatum to the Trump administration’s critics in Minnesota and beyond. “People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law …
Mother Jones · January 11, 2026
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