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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 · 2 signals
- StrongBroke with Republicans on 39 of 343 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 39 of the 343 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (11%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 18 of 219 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 2403 Retire through Ownership Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2140 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4219 National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species Strike Team Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 3276 Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2026
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6500 Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027
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 1601–1650 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1136DETERRENCE ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 43
| Middle |
| S. 1316Strong Communities Act of 2025 |