Veronica Escobar
Democrat · TX-16 · U.S. House
Bio
Veronica Escobar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district, based in El Paso, since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as an El Paso County commissioner from 2007 to 2011 and the El Paso county judge from 2011 until 2017.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 231 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 56
- El Paso, TX · 915-541-1400
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
- $302k – $630k
- Liabilities
- $195k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$198k – $435k
- Since 2019
- +$237k
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
Veronica Escobar'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
Veronica Escobar (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 Escobarsits 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 Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
- House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Escobar'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
'Devastating to Watch': Texas Democrats Condemn Destruction of Big Bend for Trump Border WallThe arrival of bulldozers at Big Bend National Park along the US-Mexico border in Texas to clear native vegetation for an access road for President Donald Trump's border wall was more than enough to send outrage through the state Democratic Party and advocacy…
Common Dreams · August 10, 2026
What Dems Really Think About the NYT’s DNC ReportEditor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist: Our focus will be strictly on Democrats, liberal and progressive groups, and the fight to take back power and save …
The New Republic · July 28, 2026- Rep. Veronica Escobar tells CNN audience that Trump “was found guilty [of rape] by a jury of his peers." The last person to tell this lie was sued for $15 million.
Lawsuit incoming! Lawsuit incoming! Watch the "journalists" at CNN freak out when one of their guests, Veronica Escobar of El Paso, says a verifiably false thing that CNN knows will get them sued into oblivion. VIDEO AT LINK.................. He was found gui…
Freerepublic.com · June 8, 2026 
Susan Collins getting reelected is bigger concern than Graham Platner allegations, Texas Democrat claimsRep. Veronica Escobar claimed Maine Sen. Susan Collins concerns her more than Graham Platner's scandals after the latest controversial report against him.
Fox News · June 8, 2026
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