Tim Walberg
Republican · MI-5 · U.S. House
MI-5 — U.S. House
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Bio
Timothy Lee Walberg is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2011, representing the state's 5th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented the 7th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2023 as the longest tenured member from Michigan.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.7 years · not continuous, returned 2011
- First took office
- 2007 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 67 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Jackson, MI · 517-780-9075
- Niles, MI · 269-479-3115
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
- $345k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $345k – $1.1M
- Since 2019
- +$330k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 23 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 Walberg'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 Walberg (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 Walbergsits 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 Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Walberg'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
- Husted co-sponsors bill to limit international student-athletes
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, joined U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, on Tuesday in introducing the Training and Education for American Members in University Sports and Athletics Act. The bill would protect opportunities for American student-at…
LimaOhio.com · September 16, 2026 
New House Republican attack will spur 'pain and suffering' for students: lawmakerWASHINGTON — A major legislative package that would put into law President Donald Trump’s push to greatly reduce the responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Education advanced out of a U.S. House panel on Wednesday.The U.S. House Committee on Education and…
Raw Story · July 16, 2026
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US GovernmentYesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg. The suit is also against various actors i…
Lithub.com · July 14, 2026
'MAGA's Weird Obsession' Continues as House Passes Bill Forcing Schools to 'Out' Trans KidsThe Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that critics warn would force public schools receiving federal funding to "out" transgender students to their parents without or without their consent, a policy that advocat…
Common Dreams · May 21, 2026
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