Yvette D. Clarke
Democrat · NY-9 · U.S. House
Bio
Yvette Diane Clarke is an American politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. She represented New York's 11th congressional district until 2013, and then New York's 9th congressional district after redistricting. Previously, Clarke represented the 40th district in Brooklyn on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2006. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 57 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Brooklyn, NY · 718-287-1142
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
- $230k – $600k
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$770k – $100k
- Since 2019
- −$543k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 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
Yvette D. Clarke'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
Yvette D. Clarke (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Clarkesits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Clarke'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
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