Tim Burchett
Republican · TN-2 · U.S. House
TN-2 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Tim Burchett is on the ballot. Michaela Barnett vs. Tim Burchett. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 226 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Knoxville, TN · 865-523-3772
- Maryville, TN · 865-984-5464
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
- $6k – $31k
- Liabilities
- $525k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$1.1M – −$494k
- Since 2019
- −$923k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 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
Tim Burchett'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
Tim Burchett (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 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.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Burchett Plans to Block Socialist Chevalier from Congress over Flag Desecration PostRep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said he plans to block New York Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier from being seated in Congress if she wins the Nov. 3 election, citing a resurfaced post in which she said she wiped her hand on an American flag. The post …
Breitbart News · October 4, 2026- Rep. Burchett planning to block NYC socialist Chevalier from Congress after she claimed to use American flag as napkin
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) plans to try to block Democratic nominee and New York socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier from taking her seat in Congress if she wins the Nov. 3 election — over her saying she used the American flag as a napkin. Burchett told The …
Freerepublic.com · October 3, 2026 
Rep. Burchett planning to block NYC socialist Chevalier from Congress after she claimed to use American flag as napkinRep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) plans to try to block Democratic nominee and New York socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier from taking her seat in Congress if she wins the Nov. 3 election -- over her saying she used the American flag as a napkin.
New York Post · October 3, 2026
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture warIn November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abo…
Raw Story · September 24, 2026
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