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U.S. Representative · Louisiana 3rd District
Clay Higgins
RepublicanDistrict R+22119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score52#141 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Clay Higgins’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office572 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1803
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- WeakBacks 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 5109.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.631 (party median +0.530; rank 158 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: LA-3 is R+22LA-3 has a partisan lean of R+22 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Bill-specific inputs
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 9.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 23rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Readiness
- Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMajority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs
- Subcommittee on Federal Law EnforcementChairman
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Higgins← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.631 is 0.10 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2294To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 57
| Middle |
| H.R. 2316Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025 |