Steve Scalise
Republican · LA-1 · U.S. House
LA-1 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Steve Scalise is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Lauren Jewett vs. Republican nominee TBD. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who has been the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, he was the House majority whip from 2014 to 2019 and the House minority whip 2019 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 18.4 years
- First took office
- 2008 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 66 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 61
- House Majority Whip · 2014–2019
- House Minority Whip · 2019–2023
- House Majority Leader · 2023–present
- Mandeville, LA · 985-893-9064
- Metairie, LA · 504-837-1259
- Ponchatoula, LA · 985-340-2185
- Raceland, LA · 985-879-2300
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
- $0 – $0
- Liabilities
- $115k – $300k
- Net worth
- −$300k – −$115k
- Since 2019
- +$268k
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
Steve Scalise'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
Steve Scalise (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Scalisesits 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
Most and least aligned members
Treating Scalise'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
- Bolsheviks? The DSA is only cosplaying revolution.
The Democratic Party is not in the grip of a “Bolshevik revolution,” as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) claimed from the stage of the GOP’s midterm convention last week in Dallas. Nor is it true, as President Donald Trump declared, that “it’…
Freerepublic.com · September 17, 2026 
‘AMERICA FIRST AGENDA AT STAKE’: House Majority Leader Rallies Republicans to Protect Trump Successes in MidtermsHouse Majority Leader Steve Scalise urged Republicans to turn out in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, warning them that a Democrat victory would bring in a kind of “crazy” reminiscent of the Joe Biden years. “President Trump’s America First agenda is at stake,” …
Daily Signal · September 9, 2026
Trump's DHS Is Preparing To Engage In Voter Suppression and IntimidationOn September 1, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could be deployed to polling sites across the country. He remarked, “The only reason why we would be at polling places is…
Common Dreams · September 6, 2026
Rotten Trump's sick lie smeared a child's once-in-a-lifetime momentYesterday at the White House, Trump held a photo op with a 16-year-old lifeguard, Ryder Williams, who’d pulled a drowning 10-year-old out of a dangerous surf in Santa Cruz. For any other president, it would have been a sweet, feel-good moment. Trump, though, …
Raw Story · August 18, 2026
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