Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democrat · DE · U.S. Senate
Bio
Lisa LaTrelle Blunt Rochester is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Delaware since 2025. Previously, she served as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman and first African American to represent Delaware in both chambers of Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- Chambers
- House 8y, Senate 1.6y
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 69 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Georgetown, DE · 302-856-7690
- Dover, DE · 302-674-3308
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
- $4.4M – $12.4M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $3.9M – $12.2M
- Since 2019
- −$321k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 36 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
Lisa Blunt Rochester'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
Lisa Blunt Rochester (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.
Do you vote like Rochester?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Rochestersits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Rochester'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
Dem senator presses OpenAI, Anthropic for answers in AI hacking probeRevelations of OpenAI and Anthropic artificial intelligence agents hacking third parties has drawn the "serious concern" of Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., who is now seeking answers from the two businesses incorporated as public benefit companies (PBC) in…
Biztoc.com · August 6, 2026
Dem senator presses OpenAI, Anthropic for answers in AI hacking probeSen. Lisa Blunt Rochester demands security logs and transcripts from OpenAI and Anthropic after AI agents allegedly hacked third parties during testing.
Fox News · August 6, 2026- Senate Democrat avoids answering where socialism has been ‘beneficial’ after far-left candidates win in NYC
Delaware Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester avoided answering where socialism has been “beneficial” when giving her thoughts on the recent New York primary elections. **SNIP** Rather than comment on what impact this could have on the broader Democratic Party, Blunt Ro…
Freerepublic.com · June 25, 2026 
Senate Democrat avoids answering where socialism has been 'beneficial' after far-left candidates win in NYCDelaware Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester avoided answering where socialism has ever worked when asked about socialist wins in the New York primary elections.
Fox News · June 24, 2026
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