Ruben Gallego
Democrat · AZ · U.S. Senate
Bio
Rubén Marinelarena Gallego is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States Senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2011 to 2014 as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives and from 2015 to 2025 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- Chambers
- House 10y, Senate 1.6y
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 61 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 46
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Phoenix, AZ · 480-697-3600
- Tucson, AZ · 520-777-0400
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
- $32k – $133k
- Liabilities
- $1.0M – $2.0M
- Net worth
- −$2.0M – −$882k
- Since 2019
- −$1.3M
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 7 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
Ruben Gallego'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
Ruben Gallego (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 Gallegosits 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 Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Committees
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europecenter · 9 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gallego'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
Congress can still ‘land this plane’ on crypto bill as ethics talks stall, says Democratic Sen. GallegoSen. Ruben Gallego says Congress can still "land this plane," referring to the Clarity Act crypto bill, as concerns grow over an unfinished ethics deal.
Biztoc.com · August 19, 2026
Families of Sailors Detail Horrific Conditions as Iran War Drags OnFamilies are coming forward with reports about poor conditions their relatives are facing on U.S. military ships after the Trump administration tried to downplay initial reports from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. One mother told journalist Jim Aco…
The New Republic · August 14, 2026
Sen. Ruben Gallego on handling of USS Lincoln conditions: 'That's not proper leadership'Lawmakers want answers from the Pentagon chief and the U.S. Navy about living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona.
NPR · August 14, 2026
Lawmakers seek answers about crew living conditions aboard the USS LincolnLawmakers want answers from the Pentagon chief and U.S. Navy about living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona.
NPR · August 14, 2026
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