The district is twelve of Michigan's fifteen Upper Peninsula counties: Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, and Schoolcraft.
[2] From January 2011 to 2016, McBroom was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives; he was not eligible to seek reelection due to term limits.
[2] In 2015, McBroom was the chairman of the special House committee that considered disciplinary proceedings against state Representatives Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser.
Fish and Wildlife Service had violated the Endangered Species Act by removing protections for wolf populations in the Midwest and parts of the West without adequate grounds.
[16] McBroom also opposed the Menominee Indian Tribe's proposal to add some lands on the decommissioned Sawyer Air Force Base, near the Menominee River, to the National Register of Historic Places, saying that he believed that listing on the register could halt the Back Forty Mine project, which McBroom supports.
[17] In 2023, McBroom signed a letter in support of the proposal to build the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac.
[19] In 2023, McBroom voted against legislation to expand the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to protect against discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; in a floor speech against the bill, McBroom contended that it would "create impossible-to-resolve conflicts for churches, individuals, employers and employees.
"[20] In 2020, McBroom sponsored legislation that allowed most one-time DUI offenders to obtain expungement of their criminal record from a judge.