Kathy Castor

Democrat · FL-14 · U.S. House

Bio

Katherine Anne Castor is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 14th congressional district since 2007. The district, based in Tampa, was numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served on the Hillsborough County Commission from 2002 to 2006.

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Record of service

In office: 19.6 years
First took office: 2007 (10 terms)
Seniority: 56 of 437 by time served
Age: 60

District offices

Tampa, FL · 813-871-2817
St. Petersburg, FL · 727-369-0201

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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

2019

$7.0M

2020

$9.2M

2021

$11.1M

2022

$9.3M

2023

$13.6M

2024

$14.6M

2025

$19.9M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $8.0M – $31.9M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $8.0M – $31.9M
Since 2019: +$12.9M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 65 assets reported

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ Franklin California High Yield Muni Fd Advisor Class$1.0M – $5.0M

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ Franklin Income Fund Advisor Class (FRIAX)$1.0M – $5.0M

SP None Tax-Deferred Spouse 401K ⇒ Galliard Stable Return Fund C$1.0M – $5.0M

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Fund Admiral Shares (VWALX)$1.0M – $5.0M

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Municipal Money Market Fund (VMSXX)$1.0M – $5.0M

IRA ⇒ US Treasury Money Fund$500k – $1.0M

Spouse 401K ⇒ Lord Abbett Short Duration Income Class R5 (LDLTX)$500k – $1.0M

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Municipal Money Market Fund (VMSXX)$250k – $500k

Spouse 401K ⇒ BlackRock Inflation Protected Bond Portfolio - Institutional (BPRIX)$250k – $500k

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New (BRK.B)$250k – $500k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (DIVO)$100k – $250k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Global X Funds Global X Dow 30 Covered Call ETF$100k – $250k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund (VUSXX)$100k – $250k

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ Franklin High Yield Tax-Free Income Fund Advisor Cla$100k – $250k

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ Mutual Global Discovery Fund Class Z (MDISX)$100k – $250k

IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Cash Reserves Fund (TSCXX)$100k – $250k

Spouse 401K ⇒ Principal Global Investors LargeCap S&P 500 Index (-)$100k – $250k

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund$100k – $250k

Bank of America Checking$50k – $100k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fd (PTEXX)$50k – $100k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Money Market Reserves Federal Money Market Fund (VMFX$50k – $100k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD)$15k – $50k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF (XYLD)$15k – $50k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund - I Class (PDGIX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Global Growth Stock Fund (RPGEX)$15k – $50k

IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Value Fund - I Class (TRPIX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ CIT: MFS International Equity Fund Fee Class U (GAACWX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund R6 (JLGMX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ JPMorgan Mid Cap Value Fund-R6 (JMVYX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ MFS Value Fund Class R3 (MEIHX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc. International Equity Index Institutional Class (PIDIX)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ Principal US Property Sep Acct (-)$15k – $50k

Spouse 401K ⇒ T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund - I Class (TIDDX)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Joint Retirement ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$15k – $50k

Bank of America Savings$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage Account ⇒ E*Trade Savings$1k – $15k

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ FIST Equity Income Fund - Advisor Class (FEIFX)$1k – $15k

Franklin Templeton Joint Retirement ⇒ Franklin California Intermediate-Term Tax Free Incom$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+0.50

Healthcare

D+0.75

Immigration & Border

D+0.80

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.37

Defense & Veterans

R+0.08

Economy & Labor

D+0.54

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.16

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.78

Government & Democracy

D+0.76

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

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

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

83%

Communist Party USA

82%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

33%

On the political map

Kathy Castor (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 Castorsits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Communications and Technology Energy (Ranking Member)
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Partycenter · 23 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Castor'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.