Ron Johnson
Republican · WI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold. Johnson defeated Feingold in a rematch in 2016, and defeated Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022. Before entering politics, he was chief executive officer of a plastics manufacturer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- First took office
- 2011 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 43 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Milwaukee, WI · 414-276-7282
- Oshkosh, WI · 920-230-7250
- Madison, WI · 608-240-9629
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
- $26.7M – $131.4M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $26.7M – $131.4M
- Since 2018
- +$39.8M
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
Ron Johnson'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
Ron Johnson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Johnsonsits 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.
Committees
- Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Johnson'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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Mercola.com · October 10, 2026
Ron Johnson blocks vote to stop Trump’s funding cancellationsSen. Ron Johnson blocked the Senate from passing a bill Wednesday to restore $810 million in federal funding President Donald Trump nixed Friday without Congress’ consent and stop him from using the controversial budget tactic again. Democratic Sens. Jeff Mer…
Biztoc.com · September 30, 2026
The GOP's 3-Step Scam: Break the Country, Blame Others, Then Claim Only We Can Fix ItIt’s not working any more, this scam Republicans have been running for 45 years, although Trump and many others are trying their best to revive it. Their strategy has always been simple: break things here in America, create chaos and a mess, hurt working clas…
Common Dreams · September 28, 2026
Collins decries Trump admin's 'problematic' Obamacare move as colleague says 'good start'WASHINGTON — Embattled Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins isn’t happy that Vice President JD Vance announced the Trump administration is booting close to 760,000 Americans off Obamacare exchanges about 40 days before this fall’s midterm elections. “Are yo…
Raw Story · September 23, 2026
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