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RepublicanClay Higgins
U.S. Representative · Louisiana
Louisiana's 3rd district
U.S. Representative from Louisiana
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How they won their seat
Clay Higgins won the 2024 U.S. House election in Louisiana (District 3) with 70.6% of the vote (226,279 votes).
- Clay Higgins · Republican70.6%226,279
- Priscilla Gonzalez · Democrat18.7%59,834
- Sadi Summerlin · Democrat6.6%21,323
- \"\\"\"Xan\\"\" John\" · Republican4.1%13,246
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Clay Higgins' record shows a concentration on issues related to law enforcement, regulatory oversight, and national security. Notable sponsored bills include the 'CATCH Fentanyl Act' and the 'Law Enforcement Protection and Privacy Act of 2025', which relate to public safety and law enforcement. His committee memberships, particularly in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on Armed Services, are relevant to governmental oversight and military matters. Focus areas (from the record): Law Enforcement · Regulatory Oversight · National Security · Public Safety · Economic Growth Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Higgins' legislative activities and voting patterns. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities; There is no information on the effectiveness of his sponsored bills; The record does not reveal any potential unlogged work or informal influence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Clay Higgins has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2025. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Clay Higgins has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$35K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$557K62%
- PAC / committee$306K34%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Federal Law EnforcementOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — ReadinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Seapower and Projection ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021On record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
155 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $668,394, spent $457,460, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9725: To amend title 5, United States Code, to abolish the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9643: Comment Integrity and Management Act ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9115: To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes. ↗Jun 3, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8656: Ballistic Armor Made in America Act of 2026 ↗May 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8512: To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through April 20, 2029, and for other purposes. ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8131: To authorize the creation of a service ribbon to be awarded to a member of the National Guard who performs homeland defense duty. ↗Mar 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7996: Linemen Legacy Act ↗Mar 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7874: Mail Ballot Integrity Act ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6963: To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic". ↗Jan 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 5581: Uniform Standards Protection Act of 2025 ↗Sep 26, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5143: District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025 ↗Sep 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4800: Fisheries Modernization Act of 2025 ↗Jul 29, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 155 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 471
- Nay
- 166
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 18
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Nay
- S32Nay
- S307Nay
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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