Tim Burchett

Republican · TN-2 · U.S. House

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TN-2 — U.S. House

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Bio

Timothy Floyd Burchett is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district, based in Knoxville, serving since 2019.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 226 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Knoxville, TN · 865-523-3772
Maryville, TN · 865-984-5464

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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

2019

$147k

2020

−$2.9M

2021

−$2.9M

2022

−$343k

2023

−$717k

2024

−$742k

2025

−$776k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $6k – $31k
Liabilities: $525k – $1.1M
Net worth: −$1.1M – −$494k
Since 2019: −$923k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

First Century Bank$1k – $15k

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$5k – $15k

American Funds New Economy Fund A (ANEFX)$201 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.58

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+0.93

Guns

R+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.77

Defense & Veterans

R+0.28

Economy & Labor

R+0.69

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.61

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.32

Education

R+0.66

Government & Democracy

R+0.82

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.86

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

Tim Burchett's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

66%

32%

23%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

19%

Communist Party USA

18%

On the political map

Tim Burchett (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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Caucuses & committees

Where Burchettsits 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

House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Middle East and North Africa South and Central Asia
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Government Operations Delivering on Government Efficiency (Chairman)
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Highways and Transit Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials

Most and least aligned members

Treating Burchett'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.