Fulcher is the representative for Idaho’s 1st congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Fulcher is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 49 years old.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Fulcher was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Fulcher joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Fulcher voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Russ Fulcher [R-ID1]](/static/legislator-photos/412773-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Fulcher.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Fulcher is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Fulcher has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 27, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Russ Fulcher sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Fulcher sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Energy (38%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (31%) Science, Technology, Communications (15%) Agriculture and Food (15%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Fulcher recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1700: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Bureau of …
- H.R. 1575: Pregnancy Center Security Act
- H.R. 1576: FILM Act
- H.R. 1449: CLEAN Act
- H.R. 1450: Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act
- H.R. 784: Internet Application I.D. Act
- H.R. 9193 (117th): To amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to increase the frequency …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Mar 2023, Fulcher missed 64 of 2,118 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is worse than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
