André Carson
Democrat · IN-7 · U.S. House
Bio
André Darryl Carson is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 7th congressional district since 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes the northern four-fifths of Indianapolis, including Downtown Indianapolis. He became the dean of Indiana's congressional delegation after fellow Democrat Pete Visclosky retired in 2021.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 18.4 years
- First took office
- 2008 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 65 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 51
- grandson of Julia Carson
- Indianapolis, IN · 317-283-6516
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
- $15k – $50k
- Liabilities
- $300k – $600k
- Net worth
- −$585k – −$250k
- Since 2019
- −$43k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 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
André Carson'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
André Carson (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 Carsonsits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Carson'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
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Common Dreams · May 5, 2026
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The New Republic · December 5, 2025
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Common Dreams · November 15, 2025
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