Steny H. Hoyer
Democrat · MD-5 · U.S. House
Bio
Steny Hamilton Hoyer is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. From 2003 to 2023, Hoyer was the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Nancy Pelosi. He served twice as House Majority Leader, from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 45.6 years
- First took office
- 1981 (23 terms)
- Seniority
- 1 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 87
- House Minority Whip · 2003–2007
- House Minority Whip · 2011–2019
- House Majority Leader · 2019–2023
- Greenbelt, MD · 301-474-0119
- White Plains, MD · 301-843-1577
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
- $1.6M – $6.3M
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $1.5M – $6.2M
- Since 2019
- +$3.8M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 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
Steny H. Hoyer'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
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Caucuses & committees
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Most and least aligned members
Treating Hoyer'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
Bernie Sanders’ Influence Is Stronger Than Ever“Joe Biden, 83, is largely out of the conversation. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 86, is retiring this Congress, as is Rep. Steny Hoyer, 87,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is 84. And the independent who caucuses with the Democrats look…
Politicalwire.com · June 29, 2026
Adrian Boafo Wins Democratic Primary To Succeed 45-Year Maryland Rep. Steny HoyerBoafo, a 32-year-old state delegate, benefited from the longtime congressman endorsing his campaign — and from lots of dark money.
HuffPost · June 24, 2026
A January 6 Hero Runs For Congress | Harry Dunn On AMPED UPHarry Dunn was a Capitol Police officer who stood his ground January 6—earning the Presidential Citizens Medal. Then he got death threats because he told the truth about that day. Now he’s running for Congress in the 5th District of Maryland for the open seat…
Crooksandliars.com · June 18, 2026
Why Are Crypto Billionaires and AIPAC Spending $8+ Million to Elect Adrian Boafo?Every election tells us something about who holds power in America.In Maryland's 5th Congressional District—the Democratic primary race to replace former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer—that lesson is arriving in the form of an avalanche of outside money. A…
Common Dreams · June 14, 2026
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