Tammy Duckworth
Democrat · IL · U.S. Senate
Bio
Ladda Tammy Duckworth is an American politician and Army National Guard veteran serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- Chambers
- House 4y, Senate 9.6y
- First took office
- 2013 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 56 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 58
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- Belleville, IL · 618-722-7070
- Carbondale, IL · 618-677-7000
- Chicago, IL · 312-886-3506
- Rock Island, IL · 309-606-7060
- Springfield, IL · 217-528-6124
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
- $674k – $2.5M
- Liabilities
- $1.1M – $5.2M
- Net worth
- −$4.5M – $1.5M
- Since 2016
- −$2.0M
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
Tammy Duckworth'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
Tammy Duckworth (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Do you vote like Duckworth?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Duckworthsits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Duckworth'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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