
Suzanne Bonamici
Democrat · OR-1 · U.S. House
Bio
Suzanne Marie Bonamici is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district, a seat she was first elected to in a 2012 special election. The district includes most of Portland west of the Willamette River, along with most of Portland's western suburbs such as Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, and Lake Oswego.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 14.5 years
- First took office
- 2012 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 96 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Beaverton, OR · 503-469-6010
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
- $5.1M – $16.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $5.1M – $16.9M
- Since 2019
- +$4.9M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 30 assets reported
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)
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
Suzanne Bonamici'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
Suzanne Bonamici (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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Caucuses & committees
Where Bonamicisits 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.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Bonamici'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
MAGA dupes broke their brains when this epic fury detonatedIt’s just so exhausting to live in the dumbest timeline in global history. I could give you a decade’s worth of examples of MAGA stupidity, and we could spend the next 1,000 words debating over which is the dumbest of the dupes deployed by Dumb Donald’s Deplo…
Raw Story · July 25, 2026
New House Republican attack will spur 'pain and suffering' for students: lawmakerWASHINGTON — A major legislative package that would put into law President Donald Trump’s push to greatly reduce the responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Education advanced out of a U.S. House panel on Wednesday.The U.S. House Committee on Education and…
Raw Story · July 16, 2026
Oregon Has Civil Rights Problems in Education. This Congresswoman Is Trying to Distract Voters.Education Secretary Linda McMahon is downsizing an ineffective government bureaucracy, so, naturally, progressive lawmakers are howling. The latest theatrics come from Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., who introduced articles of impeachment against McMahon last …
Daily Signal · June 29, 2026
Democrat Lobs Longshot Impeachment Attack On Trump’s Education SecretaryDemocratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon announced a long-shot plan to impeach U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
The Daily Caller · June 18, 2026
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