Tammy Baldwin
Democrat · WI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, she has also served as the secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017. Baldwin has been the dean of the United States congressional delegation from Wisconsin since 2023, when Representative Ron Kind retired.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 27.6 years
- Chambers
- House 14y, Senate 13.6y
- First took office
- 1999 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 16 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Senate Democratic Conference Secretary · 2021–present
- Eau Claire, WI · 715-832-8424
- Madison, WI · 608-264-5338
- Milwaukee, WI · 414-297-4451
- Green Bay, WI · 920-498-2668
- La Crosse, WI · 608-796-0045
- Ladysmith, WI · 715-832-8424
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $601k – $1.3M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $101k – $1.0M
- Since 2018
- +$210k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Tammy Baldwin's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Tammy Baldwin (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Baldwinsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersEnergy and Water DevelopmentDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (Ranking Member)Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Baldwin's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Transcript: What AOC’s ‘Woke” Comments Say About Her and the LeftThis is a lightly edited transcript of the August 17 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: Good morning. This is Perry Bacon from Right Now on The New Republic. We ha…
The New Republic · August 18, 2026
Why Sen. Tammy Baldwin Wants The Pentagon To Release The Kuwait Attack ReportSenator Tammy Baldwin has urged the Pentagon to publicly release its investigation into the Iranian attack on a U.S. military command post in Kuwait that killed six American service members and injured dozens. According to the report, Baldwin requested that …
Biztoc.com · August 5, 2026
It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.Coming into Election Day, Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary was widely expected. A blowout seemed possible. Instead, his victory margin will likely be less than two percentage points. (NBC News declared him the winner early Wedn…
The New Republic · August 5, 2026
Transcript: Why Insurgent Candidates Are Thriving in the MidwestThis is a lightly edited transcript of the August 3 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: We’re going to talk about these big primaries that are happening—I guess tomo…
The New Republic · August 4, 2026
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