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Karen Bass

Former

Democrat · CA-37 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2019
−$1.1M
2020
−$500k
2021
−$500k
Most recent filing (2021)
Assets
$400k$850k
Liabilities
$750k$1.5M
Net worth
−$1.1M$100k
Since 2019
+$593k
Largest holdings in the 2021 filing · 3 assets reported
TIAA CREF ⇒ TIAA CREF-CREF Stock$250k$500k
TIAA CREF ⇒ TIAA Traditional Account$100k$250k
USC Retirement Savings ⇒ USC Retirement Savings 401(a) - Fidelity Magellan$50k$100k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.63
Healthcare
D+0.77
Immigration & Border
D+0.89
Guns
D+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.98
Environment & Energy
D+0.88
Crime & Policing
D+0.38
Defense & Veterans
D+0.40
Economy & Labor
D+0.61
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.41
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.95
Education
D+0.53
Government & Democracy
D+0.84
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+1.00

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

Karen Bass'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

Karen Bass (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightBass

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Bass'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

YEA
Veteran Service Recognition Act of 2022
2022-12-06 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
YEA
Uyghur Policy Act of 2021
2022-12-01 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Civil Rights & Social
YEA
POWER 2.0 Act
2022-12-01 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
PFAS Act
2022-12-01 · Passed · Healthcare, Government & Democracy
YEA
DOULA for VA Act of 2022
2022-12-01 · Passed · Healthcare, Defense & Veterans
YEA
PFAS Act
2022-12-01 · Passed · Healthcare, Government & Democracy
YEA
One Stop Shop Community Reentry Program Act of 2022
2022-12-01 · Passed · Crime & Policing
YEA
DOULA for VA Act of 2022
2022-12-01 · Passed · Healthcare, Defense & Veterans
YEA
PFAS Act
2022-12-01 · Passed · Healthcare, Government & Democracy
YEA
Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100.
2022-11-30 · Passed
YEA
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3372) to authorize implementation grants to community-based nonprofits to operate one-stop reentry centers; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6878) to address the health needs of incarcerated women related to pregnancy and childbirth,and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8876) to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 100) to provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees; and for other purposes.
2022-11-30 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
To provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.
2022-11-30 · Passed · Economy & Labor

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