Vern Buchanan
Republican · FL-16 · U.S. House
FL-16 — U.S. House
Likely R 87%Vern Buchanan is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Kelly Kirschner vs. Sydney Gruters. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Vernon Gale Buchanan is an American businessman, politician, and Air Force National Guard veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 16th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2007, representing Florida's 13th congressional district until redistricting. His district is anchored by Bradenton. On January 27, 2026, Buchanan announced he would not run for re-election in 2026.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 55 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Brandon, FL · 813-657-1013
- Bradenton, FL · 941-951-6643
- Longboat Key, FL · 941-951-6643
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
- $80.6M – $312.0M
- Liabilities
- $6.0M – $30.0M
- Net worth
- $50.6M – $306.0M
- Since 2019
- +$57.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 72 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
Vern Buchanan'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
Vern Buchanan (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 Buchanansits 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 Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Buchanan'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
Every House Member Who’s Still Not at Work After a Five-Week VacationThe House of Representatives has returned from its five-week summer vacation, but for more than three dozen members that extended break apparently wasn’t enough.According to the House clerk, 46 lawmakers failed to make it back to Washington in time for the fi…
The New Republic · September 1, 2026
House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving TimeThe House voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and end the twice-yearly clock change. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, "where one G.O.P. leader said it was unclear wheth…
Slashdot.org · July 15, 2026
Daylight Savings Map Shows New Sunset, Sunrise Times in US if Bill PassesAmericans in most states will see their winter clocks stay one hour later than usual if Congress passes a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent, ending the twice-yearly ritual of changing clocks. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, sponsored by Rep…
Biztoc.com · July 14, 2026- JUST IN: House Sets Vote To End America’s Twice-Yearly Clock Changes
Congress is finally putting America’s twice-a-year clock ritual on the floor. The House will vote Tuesday, July 14, on legislation that would stop the spring-forward, fall-back cycle and make daylight saving time permanent across most of the country. For mill…
Freerepublic.com · July 14, 2026
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