Russ Fulcher
Republican · ID-1 · U.S. House
ID-1 — U.S. House
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Bio
Russell Mark Fulcher is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2019. Previously, he served in the Idaho Senate from 2005 to 2014. A member of the Republican Party, Fulcher previously sought the party's nomination in the 2014 Idaho gubernatorial election, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Butch Otter in the primary.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 201 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Lewiston, ID · 208-743-1388
- Meridian, ID · 208-888-3188
- Coeur d'Alene, ID · 208-667-0127
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
- $218k – $495k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $218k – $495k
- Since 2019
- +$386k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 8 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
Russ Fulcher'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
Russ Fulcher (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 Fulchersits 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
- Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Fulcher'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
This Republican hero would be appalled by GOP's moral decayImagine the shock, dismay and disgust Abraham Lincoln might feel about the state and national leadership of his beloved Republican Party, if he were to return to life today. He would find a leadership of the Grand Old Party dedicated to white nationalism, nat…
Raw Story · March 5, 2026
These Republican cowards won't call out Trump even as he decimates their stateThere was a time in the distant past when Idaho elected officials had moral compasses and were dedicated to serving the interests of the Gem State. Since agriculture is so important to the Idaho economy, they were constantly on guard against federal plans and…
Raw Story · October 29, 2025
GOP congressman to reintroduce bill to eliminate taxes on overtime payA Republican congressman is reintroducing legislation Wednesday that would eliminate taxes on overtime pay, an idea that has gained momentum among some lawmakers after President-elect Trump touted it on the campaign trail. Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) is set t…
Biztoc.com · January 15, 2025- These 38 Republicans voted against the Trump-backed spending bill
Thirty-eight House Republican lawmakers voted against the President-elect Trump-backed government spending bill that failed to clear the lower chamber with just more than a day before the shutdown. These GOP representatives voted Thursday against the measure …
Freerepublic.com · December 20, 2024
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