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Nick Langworthy
RepublicanU.S. House · NY · District 23
U.S. House New York District 23
U.S. House · NY · District 23
Niagara University—Bachelor's degree in political science and government
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Nick Langworthy is a Republican member of the U.S. House representing New York's 23rd Congressional District; he assumed office on January 3, 2023. His career experience includes working as president of Liberty Opinion Research and as a congressional staffer, and he served as chairman of the New York Republican State Committee and the Erie County Republican Party. His official House biography says he began his career in former Congressman Tom Reynolds' district office and later chaired the New York Republican State Committee.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Committee on Energy and Commerce · Health · Energy · Environment · Committee on Rules · Legislative and Budget Process, Chair
Nick Langworthy emphasizes market-oriented health care reforms focused on lowering costs through transparency, competition, biosimilar access, and clearer billing. His recent health care record includes sponsoring bills on price transparency, biosimilars, newborn care, and dietary supplement regulation, plus co-sponsoring measures to expand access to diabetes foot care and other services.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy proposed legislation to increase health care price transparency, require clearer explanations of benefits and itemized bills, and strengthen oversight of PBMs, TPAs, and other health care middlemen.
SourceLangworthy proposed a health care bill aimed at improving access to and affordability of biosimilar medicines.
SourceLangworthy proposed legislation categorized under health policy and focused on newborn health care needs.
SourceLangworthy proposed legislation to accelerate access to biosimilar treatments as part of a broader affordability and competition agenda in health care.
SourceLangworthy co-sponsored legislation addressing access to diabetes-related foot health care services.
SourceNick Langworthy frames his Economy & Jobs agenda around lowering inflation and cost of living, cutting taxes and regulation, reducing federal spending, expanding U.S. manufacturing, and lowering energy costs through domestic production. His relevant legislative record includes support for franchising, TSA pay protections, federal workforce restructuring, and procedural measures tied to tax policy and anti-fraud fiscal reforms.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy co-sponsored legislation categorized under Labor and Employment, aligning with a pro-business and job-creation approach through support for the franchise sector.
SourceLangworthy proposed legislation related to Transportation and Public Works that would address pay for Transportation Security Administration workers, a federal workforce compensation issue.
SourceLangworthy proposed legislation concerning federal workforce early separation incentives, reflecting an approach to restructuring government employment and operations.
SourceLangworthy proposed a House rule providing for consideration of a resolution expressing support for tax policies that support working families.
SourceLangworthy’s campaign platform says he supports curbing wasteful government spending, increasing take-home pay, creating good-paying jobs through pro-growth tax and deregulatory policies, expanding U.S. manufacturing, and moving supply chains away from China.
SourceNick Langworthy’s immigration stance emphasizes stricter enforcement, increased border and ICE/DHS resources, opposition to sanctuary policies and New York’s Green Light Law, and ending catch-and-release and work/welfare incentives for undocumented immigrants. He frames immigration primarily as a public-safety and national-security issue, including cartel trafficking, criminal deportations, visa vetting, and northern-border security.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy’s campaign says he supports fully funding border enforcement strategies, infrastructure, and technology to prevent illegal crossings and trafficking by cartels.
SourceLangworthy’s campaign platform calls for ending catch-and-release loopholes, requiring legal status to get a job, and eliminating welfare incentives tied to illegal immigration.
SourceLangworthy said New York sanctuary policies are dangerous and called the Green Light Law egregious, arguing it should be repealed because it restricts DMV data sharing with federal law enforcement.
SourceLangworthy publicly supported legislation to restrict immigration parole for high-risk individuals, strengthen vetting, and block people tied to terrorism, espionage, or foreign criminal networks from entering the United States.
SourceLangworthy proposed a House rules resolution that included consideration of legislation to enhance efforts to combat the trafficking of children.
SourceNick Langworthy emphasizes expanding American energy production, faster permitting, consumer energy choice, and lower gas and utility costs. His relevant sponsored record includes energy reliability, water infrastructure, recycling/materials attribution, school bus emissions, and the West Valley nuclear cleanup demonstration project.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy proposed energy legislation focused on federal infrastructure reliability.
SourceLangworthy proposed environmental protection legislation related to buses, mapped to Climate & Energy.
SourceLangworthy proposed environmental protection legislation concerning recycled-materials attribution, mapped to Climate & Energy.
SourceLangworthy's campaign says he supports maximizing reliable American-made energy production and cutting permitting-process time in half to reduce foreign reliance, prevent blackouts, and lower gas and utility costs.
SourceNick Langworthy’s education platform emphasizes parental control, school choice, and addressing learning loss from school closures. He also publicly highlights federal funding for workforce-oriented higher education and early childhood education projects in his district.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy supports advancing a Parents’ Bill of Rights to give parents a stronger voice in education decisions.
SourceLangworthy supports efforts to recover learning lost during school closures.
SourceLangworthy supports expanding parental choice so more students can receive the education their parents believe is best.
SourceLangworthy announced nearly $3 million in federal funding for Alfred State College to modernize skilled-trades education and prepare students for in-demand careers.
SourceLangworthy announced a $1,373,892 federal grant for Schuyler Head Start to support early childhood education services for children and families in Schuyler County.
SourceNick Langworthy frames public safety around stronger law enforcement capacity, fentanyl interdiction, border enforcement, aviation security, and closing jurisdictional gaps that he says criminals exploit. His record includes proposing legislation on Seneca Nation law-enforcement jurisdiction and TSA pay, while publicly supporting police resources and tougher anti-fentanyl enforcement.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Langworthy proposed legislation to address overlapping federal, state, and tribal law-enforcement authority on Seneca Nation lands, describing it as a way to improve coordination and reduce opportunities for drug trafficking and other criminal activity.
SourceLangworthy proposed legislation concerning TSA pay, a transportation-security workforce issue tied to airport and aviation safety operations.
SourceLangworthy proposed a House rule providing for consideration of legislation to modernize federal firearms laws to account for technological advances and less-than-lethal weapons.
SourceLangworthy proposed a House rule providing for consideration of legislation to enhance efforts to combat trafficking of children.
SourceLangworthy publicly supported the HALT Fentanyl Act and said it would give law enforcement tools to pursue traffickers and criminal networks flooding communities with fentanyl.
SourceBallotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/Nicholas_A._LangworthyFetched: biography, education, professional background, committee assignments
Congressman Nick Langworthy
https://langworthy.house.gov/aboutFetched: biography, professional background, committee assignments, location
National Pork Producers Council congressional profile PDF
https://nppc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Print-Final-New-York.pdfFetched: age, location, biography
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H2NY23228/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
OpenWatchdog
https://www.openwatchdog.com/member/L000600Fetched: partyAlignment, missedVotes, keyVotes
OpenSecrets via Large Versus Small Individual Donations
https://ltnr.ca/morty/?mortyurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opensecrets.org%2Felections-overview%2Flarge-vs-small-donationsFetched: campaignFinance
NY-23 Accountability Tracker citing OpenSecrets
https://langworthywatch.org/campaign-finance/Fetched: campaignFinance
WNY News Now
https://wnynewsnow.com/2024/02/21/congressman-nick-langworthy-unanimously-endorsed-by-the-erie-county-republican-committee/Fetched: endorsements
The Hornell Sun
https://hornellsun.com/2024/03/05/congressman-nick-langworthy-unanimously-endorsed-for-re-election-by-the-steuben-county-republican-party/Fetched: endorsements
The Hornell Sun
https://hornellsun.com/2026/08/11/carpenters-local-276-union-endorses-congressman-nick-langworthy-for-re-election/Fetched: endorsements
FingerLakes1
https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2026/08/27/new-york-teamsters-endorse-rep-nick-langworthy-for-reelection/Fetched: endorsements
Club for Growth Foundation
https://clubforgrowthfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/05/2024-Congressional-Scorecard-FINAL.pdfFetched: ratings
League of Conservation Voters
https://scorecard.lcv.org/sites/scorecard.lcv.org/files/2023-LCV-National-Environmental-Scorecard-ENG.pdfFetched: ratings
The John Birch Society Freedom Index
https://thefreedomindex.org/legislator/l000600/votes/scorecard-118-4/pdf/scb/Fetched: ratings
Congressman Nick Langworthy official issues page
https://langworthy.house.gov/issuesFetched: issuePositions
Congressman Nick Langworthy press release on CHECK Act
https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-langworthy-introduces-check-actFetched: issuePositions
OpenCampaign issue positions for Nick Langworthy
https://www.opencampaign.com/politicians-in-united-states/192491/nick-langworthy/issue-positionsFetched: issuePositions
Spectrum News 1
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2026/10/23/ny23-candidates-nick-langworthy-and-aaron-gies-highlight-a-preview-of-the-race-Fetched: issuePositions
WSKG
https://www.wskg.org/regional-news/2025-02-06/langworthy-says-new-yorks-immigration-laws-are-dangerousFetched: issuePositions
Congressman Nick Langworthy
https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressmembers-langworthy-and-stefanik-introduce-safer-border-act-blockFetched: issuePositions
Congress.gov
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/951Fetched: issuePositions
OpenCampaign
https://www.opencampaign.com/politicians-in-united-states/192491/nick-langworthy/issue-positionsFetched: issuePositions
Democracy Test Kitchen
https://www.democracytestkitchen.com/new-york/2026-general/candidates/nick-langworthy-f4cbd4f86499Fetched: issuePositions
Congressman Nick Langworthy
https://langworthy.house.gov/issues/grant-announcementsFetched: issuePositions
Congressman Nick Langworthy
https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-langworthy-introduces-seneca-nation-law-enforcement-efficiency-actFetched: issuePositions
Dunkirk Observer
https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=%7BB0557F98-0000-C511-AF10-A111CFD1FE48%7D&DocTitle=Dunkirk+Observer+FINALFetched: issuePositions
AM 1480 WLEA News
https://wlea.net/langworthy-and-tenneys-statements-on-supporting-police/?amp=1Fetched: issuePositions