James A. Himes

Democrat · CT-4 · U.S. House

Bio

James Andrew Himes is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. Himes is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Record of service

In office: 17.6 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 69 of 437 by time served
Age: 60

District offices

Stamford, CT · 203-353-9400
Bridgeport, CT · 203-333-6600

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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

$6.8M

2020

$8.6M

2021

$10.9M

2022

$7.8M

2023

$8.4M

2024

$12.9M

2025

$13.3M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $6.1M – $22.4M
Liabilities: $610k – $1.3M
Net worth: $4.8M – $21.8M
Since 2019: +$6.6M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 28 assets reported

American Express Savings$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Total Mkt Index FID Advantage$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ IShares S&P 500$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Government Money Market$500k – $1.0M

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Information Technology ETF$100k – $1.0M

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity 2022 Private Equity Multi Strategy$250k – $500k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Capital Appreciation$250k – $500k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity International Discovery$250k – $500k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Intl Cap Appreciation$250k – $500k

Fidelity Rollover IRA ⇒ Fidelity Total Mkt Index FID Advantage$250k – $500k

Chase Workplace Checking$100k – $250k

Empower Aggressive Profile Fund$100k – $250k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Columbia Contrarian Core Fund$100k – $250k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity International Small Cap$100k – $250k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ GS Small Cap Value$100k – $250k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Rollover IRA ⇒ Fidelity Blue Chip Value$100k – $250k

Fidelity Rollover IRA ⇒ Fidelity Intl Cap Appreciation$100k – $250k

Spouse IRA ⇒ Fidelity Magellan$100k – $250k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Pacific Basin$50k – $100k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Private Equity Multi-Strategy Fund III$50k – $100k

Fidelity Rollover IRA ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond$50k – $100k

Fidelity Rollover IRA ⇒ Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Inv$50k – $100k

Fidelity Self-Employed 401(k) ⇒ Columbia Select Large Cap Equity$50k – $100k

Fidelity Self-Employed 401(k) ⇒ Fidelity Cash Reserves$50k – $100k

Chase Savings Account$15k – $50k

Principal Bank Safe Harbor IRA$1k – $15k

Fidelity Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Intl Real Estate Fund$1k – $3k

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+0.53

Healthcare

D+0.70

Immigration & Border

D+0.67

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.79

Crime & Policing

D+0.28

Defense & Veterans

D+0.03

Economy & Labor

D+0.46

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.26

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.73

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.67

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

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

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

82%

Communist Party USA

81%

Libertarian Party

56%

Republican Party

35%

On the political map

James A. Himes (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 Himessits 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
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceRanking Membercenter · 27 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Himes'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.