Janelle S. Bynum

Democrat · OR-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Janelle Sojourner Bynum is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 5th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2017 to 2025.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 414 of 437 by time served
Age: 51

District offices

Oregon City, OR · 503-387-8651

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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

2024

$15.2M

2025

$762k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $871k – $3.6M
Liabilities: $950k – $2.0M
Net worth: −$1.1M – $2.7M
Since 2024: −$14.4M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 81 assets reported

Ivory Coast Management LLC$100k – $1.0M

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$100k – $250k

Embold CU Savings$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF (DFAU)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$50k – $100k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Performance Trust Total Return Bond $50k – $100k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Schwab Treasury Obligations Money Fu$50k – $100k

Oregon Savings Growth Plan ⇒ Lifepath 2035 Fund$50k – $100k

Boeing Employees' Credit Union Savings 43$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ BlackRock Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund Institutional Class$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund $15k – $50k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (AVUS)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Baird Aggregate Bond Fund Institutional Class (BAGIX)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ BlackRock Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund Institutional Class (B$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund Ins$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Guggenheim Limited Duration Fund- Institutional Class (GILHX)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF (JCPB)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ SPDR Series Trust SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF (SPYG)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS)$15k – $50k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Charles Schwab Bank$15k – $50k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Dimensional US Core Equity Market ET$15k – $50k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF (JCPB)$15k – $50k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$15k – $50k

Ivory Coast Management ⇒ Charles Schwab - Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI$15k – $50k

Boeing Employees' Credit Union Checking 51$1k – $15k

Embold Savings JSB$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo - Checking$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo - Checking DC1$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo - Checking DC2$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo - Savings DC1$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo - Savings DC4$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Allspring Short-Term High Income Fund I (STYIX)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (AVUS)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Baird Aggregate Bond Fd Investor Class (BAGSX)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Charles Schwab Bank$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ FPA New Income Institutional Class (FPNIX)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab - Simple IRA ⇒ Guggenheim Limited Duration Fund- Institutional Class (GILHX$1k – $15k

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

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.55

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.52

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.68

Crime & Policing

D+0.35

Defense & Veterans

D+0.61

Economy & Labor

D+0.52

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.33

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.97

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.55

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.33

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

Janelle S. Bynum's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

83%

Libertarian Party

59%

Republican Party

33%

On the political map

Janelle S. Bynum (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Bynumsits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Capital Markets Housing and Insurance

Most and least aligned members

Treating Bynum'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.