Tim Burchett

Background and career

Timothy Floyd Burchett ( BUR-chit; born August 25, 1964) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district, based in Knoxville, serving since 2019. A Republican, Burchett was formerly mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee General Assembly, first in the Tennessee House of Representatives, in which he represented Tennessee's 18th district.

Education

Memberships and affiliations

• Sigma Chi (fraternity) source

Citizenship

citizen by birth in the United States.

Religion

Presbyterian (self-reported in Pew survey of Congress)

Name history and family

Birth name: Timothy Floyd Burchett · Children: 1 · Marriages: 2 · Counts reflect publicly documented information; a missing count means not documented, not zero.

Marital status: Not listed

Previously held offices

• mayor (2010–2018)
• member of the State Senate of Tennessee
• member of the Tennessee House of Representatives

Campaign fundraising

Raised $1,238,070 in the 2024 cycle and $2,428,734 so far in the 2026 cycle (partial).

Top individual donors, 2024

847 other donors gave a total of $601,980.

Top individual donors, 2026 (partial)

1,695 other donors gave a total of $712,131.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2024

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2026 (partial)

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

Outside money

2024

Leadership PAC: VOLUNTEER ISSUES PAC INC. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee TRANSPORTATION TRUST FUND: $2,380 allocated to the member across 1 transfers.

2026 (partial)

Leadership PAC: VOLUNTEER ISSUES PAC INC. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee BURCHETT LUNA VICTORY FUND: $19,441 allocated to the member across 1 transfers.

Independent expenditures are reported to the FEC by the spending committee, not the member's campaign. A committee is marked single-candidate when 80% or more of its cycle independent-expenditure dollars concern one candidate. Donors are named only at $50,000 or more to a super PAC or joint fundraising committee. For leadership PACs, individuals are named at $50,000 or more; organizations and PACs at $5,000 or more. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Amounts are each donor's net total of itemized contributions across the cycle (primary, general, and runoff elections combined), after subtracting refunds, not single gifts. Receipts marked as received in error, returned, or refunded are excluded, and refunds to the donor are subtracted. Joint-fundraising shares are included: the member committee's itemized share of joint-fundraising proceeds (FEC transaction type 15J) counts toward the donor's total, while the joint fundraising committee's own transfers are not counted separately. Donors are named only when their net cycle total is $1,000 or more; smaller donors appear only in the aggregate count and total below each table. Where a returned receipt of $10,000 or more affects a total, it is noted below the table. Lists cover itemized individual gifts to the member's principal campaign committee only. Employer and occupation are self-reported. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Donor figures are net of refunds from the FEC individual-contribution bulk files (2024 and 2026 cycles, each itemization taken at its latest amended version before any exclusion), rebuilt and reconciled row by row against the previous release on 2026-10-02; see methodology for the method and the reconciliation counts.

Money and finances

Estimated net worth

at least -$1,063,999 (Annual Report for CY 2025 (filed 08/12/2026)). Earliest on record (2025): at least -$1,063,999. disclosure

Estimates are summed from ranges reported on financial disclosures, so they are approximate. Ranges are wide by design.

Stock trades (last 12 months)

Trade data not retrieved for this member.

Top assets

Earmark requests (FY2026)

Total requested: $180,332,400

Requests are not necessarily funded. Amounts shown are requested, not awarded.

Influence in Congress

Legislative effectiveness

1.25 on the 118th Legislative Effectiveness Score (House). thelawmakers.org

Bipartisanship

Lugar Bipartisan Index: 0.04, ranked #122 (118th (first session, 2023)) Lugar Center

Ideology

DW-NOMINATE first dimension: 0.664 (conservative end of the scale), chamber rank #392 of the 119th Congress. Voteview

Interest group ratings

Bills enacted

0 sponsored bills enacted into law in the 119th Congress.

2026 election

District lean

Cook Partisan Voting Index (2025): R+17. Last election margin: 38.52 points (2024). Cook PVI

2026 election

No notable challenger declared.

Notable family

Notable relatives found through systematic public-records searches (~2 queries per member). Absence of a listing means nothing notable was found under this methodology, not that no notable family exists.

Voting record (2026)

314 roll-call votes in 2026 · missed 1.3% · party unity 83.2

Legislation

Sponsored 65 bills and cosponsored 209 bills in the 119th Congress.

Latest statements

• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DOGE Hearing Achieves Results September 18, 2026
  Following the DOGE hearing on fraud in federally funded homelessness services, LA Mayor Karen Bass resigned from the LAHSA Commission and DOJ charged multiple individuals tied to LAHSA contractors.
• For Immediate Release: Congressman Burchett Introduces Bill to Improve SNAP Trafficking Data July 14, 2026
  Rep. Burchett introduced the Stop Retail Food Store SNAP Trafficking Act to improve SNAP trafficking data collection and raise penalties from $100,000 to $250,000.

Latest official press releases and statements from the member's official site. This section requires periodic refresh; always check the source site for the newest items.

Social following

Office total: 212K · Personal total: 519K · Combined: 731K

Collected 2026-09-29. Office accounts are the member's official congressional accounts; personal accounts are their own campaign/personal accounts. Totals sum only accounts with a retrieved count and are never zero-filled. X counts are approximate (logged-out page variance). A missing account means none was verified, not that none exists.

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

• Republican Study Committee

Only documented caucus memberships are listed; memberships are never inferred.

Staff

Chief of staff

Jennifer L Linginfelter · (202) 225-5435

• District Director/Communications Director at Rep. Tim Burchett (2020) source
• Deputy Director of Communications at Knox County source

Communications director

William L. Garrett · (202) 225-5435

Staff data from House and Senate payroll filings; roles can change and filings can lag.

Offices

Washington, D.C. office

1122 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5435

District/state offices

Connections

Connections are derived from documented public records: family ties, shared schools, shared employers, fraternities and sororities, and staff career histories. Committee ties are excluded here and shown on committee pages.

Official links

Official website · Wikipedia