Josh Gottheimer

Democrat · NJ-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Joshua S. Gottheimer is an American politician, attorney, writer, and public policy adviser serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, his district stretches along the northern border of the state from New York City's densely populated metropolitan suburbs in Bergen County northwest through exurban and rural territory in northern Passaic and Sussex Counties.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 174 of 437 by time served
Age: 51

District offices

Newton, NJ · 973-940-1117
Ringwood, NJ · 973-814-4076
Hackensack, NJ · 973-814-4076
Vernon Township, NJ · 973-814-4076
Fort Lee, NJ · 973-814-4076
Fair Lawn, NJ · 201-389-1100
Englewood, NJ · 973-814-4076

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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

2019

$7.1M

2020

$23.9M

2021

$44.6M

2022

$28.5M

2023

$43.7M

2024

$32.1M

2025

$34.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $14.9M – $60.8M
Liabilities: $1.0M – $5.0M
Net worth: $9.9M – $59.8M
Since 2019: +$27.7M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 352 assets reported

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$5.0M – $25.0M

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$1.0M – $5.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$1.0M – $5.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Comm$1.0M – $5.0M

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$500k – $1.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Comm$500k – $1.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Comm$100k – $1.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Comm$500k – $1.0M

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management Active Assets Account ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Comm$100k – $1.0M

JANA STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS BENCHMARK FUND, LP$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 1 ⇒ Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 1 ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A (META)$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley - Traditional Inherited IRA ⇒ ACAP Strategic Fund (XCAPX)$250k – $500k

Tusk Strategies 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan ⇒ Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)$250k – $500k

SP None Tax-Deferred Tusk Strategies 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan ⇒ Vanguard Target Retireme$250k – $500k

Tusk Venture Partners I GP, LLC$100k – $250k

Microsoft 401(k) ⇒ BTC LifePath$100k – $250k

Microsoft 401(k) ⇒ Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fd Insti Cl (VRNIX)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ Global X Funds Global X U.S. Infrastructure Develo$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ iShares U.S. Technology ETF (IYW)$100k – $250k

Wells Fargo - SEP IRA ⇒ Fidelity Asset Manager 85% (FAMRX)$100k – $250k

WPP - Vanguard - The Savings & Investment Plan ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 TR$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 1 ⇒ SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 2 ⇒ Circle Internet Group, Inc. Class A Common Sto$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 3 ⇒ United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (UAL)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Active Asset Account # 4 ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF (IJH)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Portfolio Management ⇒ Morgan Stanley Insti Liquidity Fds, Government Por$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Select UMA Account # 1 ⇒ Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Select UMA Account # 1 ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Select UMA Account # 1 ⇒ Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Select UMA Account # 1 ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - SEP / Traditional IRA ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$50k – $100k

Morgan Stanley - Traditional IRA ⇒ U.S. Strategic Equity Fund Class S (RSESX)$50k – $100k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.34

Healthcare

D+0.52

Immigration & Border

D+0.39

Guns

D+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.71

Crime & Policing

R+0.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.05

Economy & Labor

D+0.30

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.23

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.83

Education

D+0.34

Government & Democracy

D+0.52

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

Josh Gottheimer's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

86%Closest

Green Party

77%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

74%

Communist Party USA

73%

Libertarian Party

58%

Republican Party

43%

On the political map

Josh Gottheimer (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Gottheimersits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Blue Dog Coalitionleft · 10 members
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Gottheimer'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.