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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)
House · Republican (most recent term) · LA-3 · in Congress 2017–present · Bioguide ID H001077
Party history: R 2017–present. Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.
Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)
| Estimate | Report year | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Estimated net worth before entering office (report year 2016) | 2016 | $1,001 | $8,000 | $15,000 |
| (b) Latest net worth estimate | 2019 | −$500,000 | −$375,000 | −$250,001 |
| (c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2016 → 2019 (3 years spanned) | 2016–2019 | −$515,000 | −$383,001 | −$251,002 |
Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.
Note: later annual report(s) for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 exist but could not be used for net worth.
Reliability flags (net worth): none for these two endpoints. Included in the recommended dollar-gain ranking.
Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)
| Report year | Assets (mid) | Liabilities (mid) | Net worth mid | Low … High | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 | $1,001 … $15,000 | computed |
| 2017 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 … $0 | computed |
| 2018 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 … $0 | computed |
| 2019 | $0 | $375,000 | −$375,000 | −$500,000 … −$250,001 | computed |
| 2020 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2021 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2022 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2023 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2024 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
| 2025 | not available | the selected filing lists no Schedule A assets ("None disclosed", a partial amendment, or unreadable), so a total cannot be estimated reliably | |||
- What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
- What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
- Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
- The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.
Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.
Insufficient data to rank. Only 0 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 10 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.
Estimated year-over-year change
Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.
| Year (t−1 → t) | Opening value (mid) | Closing value (mid) | Income (mid) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) | Est. gain | Same-position band | Strict envelope | Traced coverage | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016→2017 | $8,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | -100.0% | -100.0% … -100.0% | -187% … -13% | 100% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2017→2018 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2018→2019 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2019→2020 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2020→2021 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2021→2022 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2022→2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2023→2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2024→2025 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
Filings used
Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.
| Report year | Doc ID | Type | Filed | Schedule A rows | Rows with unparsed value | Source (official filing) / SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10018118 | House amendment | 7/13/2017 | 2 | 0 | 10018118.pdf11a3a23a1559f15ca53a3c8542dc085bdd9726313edbbda2a50434cc71c89830 |
| 2017 | 10021209 | House annual | 5/15/2018 | 2 | 0 | 10021209.pdf4b480cff4772baa5a33a0590323ce0efa87a3a6520a3a990c056fd850e035f89 |
| 2018 | 10026508 | House annual | 5/14/2019 | 2 | 0 | 10026508.pdf38743360f797738ff405de197f2be867441d870391c7bbe7445a326b214e1448 |
| 2019 | 10035537 | House annual | 8/13/2020 | 2 | 0 | 10035537.pdf467c694dd5b528692ad436880a4a4133db20e8bc0a8d82b341837a06c0da37da |
| 2020 | 10040372 | House annual | 8/9/2021 | 0 | 0 | 10040372.pdfe702cd8d69dcb62627f807df5705d2fd7f2bd7627c76e57954f412dbf3f36a96 |
| 2021 | 10048851 | House annual | 6/15/2022 | 0 | 0 | 10048851.pdfe247759bfa5b3f3d677b44b66cbf4af0cfdbd0a20fef6a0e1e3cbc1540722e20 |
| 2022 | 10051428 | House annual | 4/24/2023 | 0 | 0 | 10051428.pdfd7a3ccc821c55623fffe242e4cc7b1a716882ebcd7e9854282c528dfd5f247a3 |
| 2023 | 10057485 | House annual | 4/22/2024 | 0 | 0 | 10057485.pdf96963965b4591327cb8724bee48f0beb234aac363d65586cf39cedd10e0eab29 |
| 2024 | 10066898 | House annual | 4/29/2025 | 0 | 0 | 10066898.pdf1b8e9674a5685e3f6403c409a735eb4e7ce9df76a49733c8b1feca04e8bd606c |
| 2025 | 10076811 | House annual | 5/6/2026 | 0 | 0 | 10076811.pdf720d20f95068e277e0f33e28420d74b6b1545a01082b6c1581e6362637183961 |
Method (summary)
- Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
- Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
- Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
- A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).
Limitations
- Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
- Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
- Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
- Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
- The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
- Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).
Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).