Brian Kevin Fitzpatrick (born December 17, 1973) is an American politician, attorney, and former FBI agent serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. His district in Pennsylvania, which was numbered the 8th district during his first term and the 1st district since 2019, includes all of Bucks County, a mostly suburban county north of Philadelphia, as well as a sliver of Montgomery County. A Republican, Fitzpatrick was first elected to Congress in 2016. He won re-election to a fifth term in 2024.

Early life and education Brian Kevin Fitzpatrick was born on December 17, 1973, in Philadelphia and was raised in nearby Levittown, Pennsylvania. Fitzpatrick graduated from Bishop Egan High School in Fairless Hills in 1992. He graduated from La Salle University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in business administration. In 2001, Fitzpatrick completed both a Master of Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and a Juris Doctor from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

Career Fitzpatrick is a former special assistant United States attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisory special agent in California. At the FBI, he served as a national supervisor for the Bureau's Public Corruption Unit, and led the agency's Campaign Finance and Election Crimes Enforcement program. During his time in the FBI, he spent time in Kyiv, Ukraine; Mosul, Iraq; and Washington, D.C. He was embedded with U.S. Special Forces as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

U.S. House of Representatives Elections 2016

In 2016, Fitzpatrick ran for the open U.S. House seat of his brother Mike Fitzpatrick, who retired from Congress to uphold a promise to limit himself to four terms. In the April 26, 2016, Republican primary, Fitzpatrick received 78.4% of the vote, defeating Andy Warren and Marc Duome. State representative Steve Santarsiero defeated Shaughnessy Naughton for the Democratic nomination, 59.8% to 40.2%. Fitzpatrick won the general election with 54.4% of the vote to Santarsiero's 45.6%.

2018

After a court-ordered redistricting, Fitzpatrick's district was renumbered the 1st district. It remained largely unchanged from the old 8th, but absorbed a larger slice of central Montgomery County. According to Nate Cohn of The New York Times, "the old 8th had been one of the more regularly drawn districts in a map that had been thrown out as an unconstitutional partisan Republican gerrymander. The new 1st was slightly more Democratic than its predecessor. Had it existed in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have carried it with 49% of the vote to Donald Trump's 47%.Presidential results by congressional district for districts used in 2018, from Daily Kos In contrast, Clinton and Trump finished almost tied in the old 8th, with Trump winning by 0.2 percentage points."Presidential results by congressional district for districts used in 2016, from Daily Kos

In the Republican primary on May 15, 2018, Fitzpatrick defeated Dean Malik, 68.85% to 31.15%. Scott Wallace, the director of a charitable foundation, won the Democratic primary with 55.97% of the vote. In the general election, Fitzpatrick defeated Wallace, 51.3% to 48.7%. He carried Bucks County by 12,000 votes, more than his overall margin of 8,300 votes. Fitzpatrick thus became one of only three Republican U.S. representatives to survive during the 2018 U.S. House elections in congressional districts that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton carried in 2016, along with John Katko and Will Hurd.

2020 Fitzpatrick ran for a third term in 2020. In the Republican primary, he defeated Andrew Meehan, who ran as a more conservative candidate and a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump. The Democratic nominee was Ivyland Borough councilwoman Christina Finello. Fitzpatrick was considered potentially vulnerable because his district had voted for Clinton in 2016, but he was reelected by a margin of 13 percentage points even as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won Pennsylvania and carried the district by 6 points. He was one of nine House Republicans to win in a district carried by Biden.

2022

In 2022, Fitzpatrick defeated Alex Entin in the Republican primary. In the general election, Fitzpatrick defeated Democratic candidate Ashley Ehasz.

2024

In 2024, Fitzpatrick defeated Mark Houck in the Republican primary. Fitzpatrick defeated Ashley Ehasz again in the general election in 2024. He is one of three Republicans to represent a district in which 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris won.

Tenure In the 115th Congress, Fitzpatrick was ranked the second most bipartisan member of the House of Representatives by the Bipartisan Index, a metric created by the Lugar Center and Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy to assess congressional bipartisanship. In the 116th United States Congress, 117th Congress, and first session of the 118th Congress, Fitzpatrick was ranked first by the Bipartisan Index. For the first session of the 117th Congress, GovTrack noted that Fitzpatrick ranked in the 61st percentile for the most bills introduced. Additionally, they noted that he cosponsored the second most bills compared to all House of Representatives at 1333, and that of these, 80% were introduced by a non-Republican legislator; joining bipartisan bills the most out of all Representatives. Fitzpatrick was ranked the most bipartisan legislator again in 2024, his fifth straight year.

Fitzpatrick voted in line with Joe Biden's stated position 70% of the time during the 117th Congress, the highest rate of any member in the Republican conference. On February 4, 2021, Fitzpatrick joined 10 other Republican House members voting with all voting Democrats to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her Education and Labor Committee and Budget Committee assignments in response to controversial political statements she had made. On November 5, 2021, Fitzpatrick was among the 13 House Republicans who broke with their party and voted with a majority of Democrats for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill.

Fitzpatrick was the primary sponsor of three bills that Congress enacted. In 2025, Fitzpatrick was one of two Republicans who voted against the Senate-approved version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He originally supported the House version of the bill, but opposed the larger cuts to SNAP and Medicaid the Senate passed. Fitzpatrick also voted against a subsequent bill cutting funding for public broadcasting.

Abortion Fitzpatrick has often but not always aligned with anti-abortion stances. While abortion is not mentioned on his website, he co-signed a letter to President Donald Trump in 2019 that requested Trump veto any efforts to weaken anti-abortion policies. In 2017, he voted for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would prohibit abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in situations of incest or rape. Fitzpatrick voted against the Women's Health Protection Act of 2021, which aimed to protect health-care professionals by establishing a statutory right for them to provide abortions.

After the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, allowing states to ban abortion, Fitzpatrick said in a statement to state legislatures, "Any legislative consideration must always seek to achieve bipartisan consensus that both respects a woman’s privacy and autonomy, and also respects the sanctity of human life. These principles are not mutually exclusive; both can and must be achieved."

Fitzpatrick was one of three Republicans to vote for H.R. 8297: Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022. Fitzpatrick also voted for H.R. 8373: The Right to Contraception Act. This bill was designed "to protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception".

Animal welfare Fitzpatrick co-chairs the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus. In 2024, he received a 100+ rating from Humane World Action Fund's legislative scorecard. The organization named Fitzpatrick a Legislator of the Year in 2022 and 2023, as well as a Humane Champion in 2024—in each case, the highest available award on offer.

Fitzpatrick co-led a letter opposing the inclusion of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act in the Farm Bill, which would have overturned state animal welfare laws. This action received praise from animal advocacy groups. With U.S. representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Fitzpatrick introduced the Captive Primate Safety Act in 2024, which would prohibit the private ownership of chimpanzees and other primates as pets. This proposed legislation was endorsed by law enforcement associations and animal welfare.

Antitrust In 2022, Fitzpatrick was one of 39 Republicans to vote for the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an antitrust package that would crack down on corporations for anti-competitive behavior.

Climate change At a September 2018 forum hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and The Hill, Fitzpatrick highlighted man-made climate change as a serious issue, saying that Republicans must "acknowledge reality and [not] deny it." He is a member of the bipartisan congressional Climate Solutions Caucus and cointroduced the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018, which would impose a carbon tax with net revenue returned to households as a rebate. He did not sponsor the 2019 version of the bill.

As of 2022, Fitzpatrick has a lifetime score of 74% on the National Environmental Scorecard of the League of Conservation Voters, and is ranked as the most environmentally friendly Republican member of the House, rating higher than three Democrats. In March 2023, Fitzpatrick was the only Republican House member to vote against H.R. 1, Lower Energy Costs Act, which passed the House by a vote of 225–204, with four Democrats voting for it. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said the bill was "a giveaway to Big Oil pretending to be an energy package" and would roll back regulations for fossil fuel production.

Foreign policy

In March 2024, Fitzpatrick filed a discharge petition for the bipartisan Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act, which would have granted 47.7 billion dollars to Ukraine, 10.4 billion dollars to Israel, and 4.9 billion dollars to the United States's Indo-Pacific allies, while also limiting federal funding for the transfer of migrants and require asylum seekers remain in Mexico awaiting their court dates.

Israel Fitzpatrick voted to provide Israel with support following the October 7 attack on Israel. Fitzpatrick has received donations from Pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.

Iran war Fitzpatrick initially voted against a March 2026 war powers resolution that would have limited the 2026 Iran war, stating that it was "irresponsibly drafted and dangerously overbroad". He introduced his own war powers resolution in April 2026 to withdraw the military from the Iran war. In May, June, and July 2026, he voted for similar bills proposed to limit the Iran war. About his vote, Fitzpatrick said it was consistent with a legal requirement, per the War Powers Act of 1973, that "within 60 days of hostilities … the matter be approved by Congress".

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