John Boozman

26 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2001

• Senator AR 2011–present
• Representative AR-3 2001–2011

• background Born December 10, 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana; raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas
• background A former optometrist who co-founded a private optometry clinic in 1977 and volunteered treating low-income families
• background Played football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and graduated from the Southern College of Optometry
• role A Republican; U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 3rd district from 2001 to 2011
• role Senior U.S. Senator from Arkansas since 2011 (elected 2010 over incumbent Blanche Lincoln, reelected 2016 and 2022); dean of the state's delegation since 2013
• achievement Only the second Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Arkansas since Reconstruction

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $140,550 · 98 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

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• 96.7%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 24
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 257 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 24 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 11 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 20
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for John Boozman. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairman
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chairman
• Appropriations Committee
• Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety Subcommittee Subcommittee
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission)
• Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Ex Officio · oversees Energy, Technology
• Department of Defense Subcommittee
• Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Environment and Public Works Committee · oversees Energy
• Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · oversees Finance
• Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee
• Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Rules and Administration Committee
• Rural Development, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Ex Officio · oversees Energy
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee
• Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee
• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Veterans' Affairs Committee
• Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research Subcommittee Ex Officio

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseFull support from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyFull support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Boozman most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Boozman connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov