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US Representative - District 8 — Indiana
1208 Longworth House Office Building
Computed from STOCK Act filings, roll-call records, annual financial disclosures, and FEC receipts. Every component links to its source and can be reproduced from the bulk data export.
Disclosure compliance measured from public filings. Not a rating of this official's politics or job performance.
86
Mostly compliant
Voted on 632 of 645 recorded roll calls (13 missed).
Source: Congress.gov / House Clerk / Senate roll-call records view
Most recent annual disclosure on file is for 2024; 2025 filing not found (1 year behind).
Source: House Clerk / Senate Public Records annual PFD filings view
Top 10 donors account for 17% of 166 itemized receipts.
Source: FEC itemized receipts (Schedule A) view
Not scored — no records
These components carry no weight for this official. Absent records are not counted as failures — the remaining weights are rescaled to 100%.
Counts from the roll-call and sponsorship record. No composite score and no ideology rating — just the underlying numbers, each with what it is measured against.
Votes cast
632
of 645 roll calls · 2% missed
Bills sponsored
15
210 cosponsored
Committees
3
standing committees
In office
1.6
years, this term
Party unity
99%
Mark B. Messmer sided with the majority of Republicans on 623 of 629 votes where their party took a clear position, breaking ranks 6 times.
Counts Yea and Nay only. “Present” takes no side, so counting it as breaking ranks would penalize something that isn't. Roll calls where the member's party split evenly are excluded — there is no majority to agree with. This measures voting alongside one's party, which is not the same as ideology, and it is not comparable to DW-NOMINATE. See the methodology.
Salary: public record. Net worth: midpoint estimate from financial-disclosure asset brackets (range shown below it; not exact). Campaign totals: FEC filings.
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Transactions disclosed under the STOCK Act via Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) filed with the House Clerk. Source. Senate data coming soon.
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