
Lloyd Doggett
Democrat · TX-37 · U.S. House
Bio
Lloyd Alton Doggett II is an American lawyer and politician serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Doggett was a member of the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985 and a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1989 to 1994. Doggett represents the same district President Lyndon B. Johnson once represented from 1937 until 1949.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 31.6 years
- First took office
- 1995 (16 terms)
- Seniority
- 19 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 79
- Austin, TX · 512-916-5921
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
- $25.8M – $92.3M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $25.3M – $92.1M
- Since 2019
- +$27.7M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 71 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
Lloyd Doggett'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
Lloyd Doggett (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 Doggettsits 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
Committees
- House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Doggett'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
Will Congress Save the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”?In March, I reported on a tour conducted by the General Services Administration, the executive branch’s real estate arm, of the remarkable New Deal murals and sculptures in Washington’s Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which the Trump administration had desi…
The New Republic · July 15, 2026
Medicare Update: List of Lawmakers Pushing for Major Changes via New BillA group of House Democrats has introduced legislation that would make some of the most significant changes to Medicare Advantage in years. The Save MEDICARE Act of 2026 (H.R. 9544), introduced by Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett, is looking to tighten overs…
Biztoc.com · July 7, 2026
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Common Dreams · June 25, 2026
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The New Republic · June 15, 2026
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