Steven Horsford
Democrat · NV-4 · U.S. House
Bio
Steven Alexzander Horsford is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 4th congressional district since 2019, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2015. He also served as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 2023 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Nevada State Senate, representing the 4th district, in Clark County, from 2005 to 2013. Horsford was the first African American to serve as Majority Leader (2009–2013) and the first African American to represent Nevada in Congress. He lost to Republican nominee Cresent Hardy in 2014.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years · not continuous, returned 2019
- First took office
- 2013 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 182 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 53
- North Las Vegas, NV · 702-963-9360
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
- $15k – $50k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- −$235k – −$50k
- Since 2019
- +$1.4M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 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
Steven Horsford'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
Steven Horsford (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Horsfordsits 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
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Horsford'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
- Washington Takes Fresh Aim At Crypto Taxes With New IRS Review Bill
Kraken sent 56 million tax forms to the Internal Revenue Service last year. Nearly a third covered transactions worth less than a dollar. More than 75% were for trades under $50. Those numbers, cited by the crypto exchange last month, have added weight to a g…
newsBTC · May 21, 2026 
Rep. Steven Horsford pitches PARITY Act as 'durable floor' for crypto tax at Consensus MiamiThe Nevada Democrat told Professor Yesha Yadav that incremental, bipartisan reform is the path forward as Senate negotiations on the CLARITY Act stall.
CoinDesk · May 5, 2026
Congress proposes removal of widely used Bitcoin tax loophole and giving it to regulated stablecoinsCongress has introduced the Digital Asset PARITY Act, a bipartisan discussion draft introduced by Reps. Steven Horsford and Max Miller, who would rewrite Section 1091 to cover “specified assets.” The category explicitly includes actively traded digital assets…
CryptoSlate · March 29, 2026
Bitcoin Omitted From PARITY Act’s Tax Relief, BPI Urges Inclusion Of MinersUS lawmakers on Friday unveiled the Digital Asset PARITY Act — a wide‑ranging draft bill that would reshape tax and regulatory treatment for digital assets while drawing immediate criticism for excluding Bitcoin (BTC). Introduced by Representatives Max Mille…
newsBTC · March 27, 2026
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